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http://forum.collegetimes.us/tags/money College Forum to discuss admissions, financial aid, SAT prep, Greek organizations, campus clubs, politics, etc. en-US Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:37:31 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 q http://forum.collegetimes.us/search.php http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/textbooks-for-rent-saving-students-cash#post-1716 Mon, 04 Oct 2010 02:40:34 +0000 Anonymous 1716@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>You can rent an apartment, a car or a DVD. Now add college textbooks to the list expensive items that people are renting because they are short on cash or looking for a better deal. </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/chance-to-win-25#post-1402 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:00:13 +0000 Anonymous 1402@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>Nice offer, thanks for giving this information . Even i want to share an excellent offer which i have recently come across . 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To enter, all you have to do is follow @collegethrive on Twitter. </p> <p>More details can be found [url=http://collegethrive.com/contest-follow-to-win-cash]here[/url] </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/textbooks-for-rent-saving-students-cash#post-1303 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:54:00 +0000 Anonymous 1303@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p><a href="http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20100123090937817" rel="nofollow">http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20100123090937817</a></p> <p>Leah Germain<br /> 24 January 2010<br /> Issue: 108 </p> <p>As any university graduate can attest, the process of getting a degree is often a pricey endeavour. Along with tuition fees, students find themselves shelling out for textbooks and course packs that can add up to a small fortune, an average of US$900 a year in America. But BookRenter, a web-based company in northern California, is offering students an alternative to purchasing their expensive textbooks: simply rent them.</p> <p>BookRenter says it can save users up to 75% when they rent their required textbooks through its online exchange. Among other guarantees, the company promises customers their textbooks are either brand new or slightly used; there are - its managers claim - millions of books available and delivery is free if the textbooks do not arrive on time.</p> <p>The United States Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) has released findings suggesting an American student can spend an average of US$900 a year on textbooks, which translates to roughly 20% of the tuition fees at a public community college. PIRG also stated that since 1994, the cost of textbooks had increased at four times the rate of inflation.</p> <p>BookRenter's website reports an overall growth of 300% following last September's start of the new academic year. With more than 40,000 students using the database from 5,000 campuses across the US, BookRenter has a firm grip on the US market.</p> <p>"We've experienced a record year of growth by focusing on what our customers really want - selection, affordable prices, high-quality books and reliable delivery," says Mehdi Maghsoodni, BookRenter's CEO.</p> <p>Launched in 2007, BookRenter has harnessed the power of new media to help communicate with its customers.</p> <p>"Consumers are surprised when they discover that the majority of our team is dedicated to working with customers online via Twitter, Facebook, email and chat. We view our customer support and community team as a core pillar of our business versus seeing it as a cost centre," says Maghsoodnia.</p> <p><a href="http://www.universityworldnews.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.universityworldnews.com/</a> </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/another-way-to-make-some-extra-cash-in-college#post-858 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:24:39 +0000 Anonymous 858@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>The problem is, they have the power, you don&#39;t. You can&#39;t threat going to another bookstore, they simply don&#39;t care, as long as they have customers, and because college will always exist, they will never care. </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/another-way-to-make-some-extra-cash-in-college#post-805 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:17:04 +0000 Anonymous 805@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>yup.<br /> School bookstores try and screw you from every angle possible.</p> <p>I wanted to see just for the heck of it, how much I would get for a brand new, never used still shrink-wrapped book. MSRP 150 dollars, they said 32 dollars.</p> <p>I was amazed, and started literally laughing. </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/another-way-to-make-some-extra-cash-in-college#post-799 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:52:01 +0000 Anonymous 799@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>I learned to stop selling my textbooks back to the school long ago. I turned in $200 of books and they handed me a twenty. I remained in front of the desk because I thought he was getting the rest of my money, and then he asked me if I needed anything else. Talk about a rip-off. I haven&#39;t sold back to the school since.</p> <p>I have all my books from first year and plan on just putting them up on Amazon. At least there you make discount bank instead of fractional prices from the school. </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/another-way-to-make-some-extra-cash-in-college#post-721 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:12:52 +0000 Anonymous 721@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>Best way to make cash in college is... school &quot;experimental&quot; programs! Kmon guys, I can&#39;t believe no one has mentioned this! In my college, every now and then (very frequently, really) there are a handful of profesors doing projects and needed &quot;lab rats&quot; to practice on. Sure, some were a bit risky in the terms of taking their experimental drug BUT if you did have a reaction you wouldn&#39;t die (i think, hahaha).</p> <p>Anyway to the point, some professor pay from a &quot;crappy&quot; $100 to a couple of Gs.. Depending on how long the program is for and how much work you actually have to do. Other than that, who cares!? Money is money! </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/another-way-to-make-some-extra-cash-in-college#post-715 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:59:54 +0000 Anonymous 715@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>yup, u know someone&#39;s accountable at amazon.</p> <p>sometimes you need to threaten the seller at ebay to make them do what you need. </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/another-way-to-make-some-extra-cash-in-college#post-713 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:51:19 +0000 Anonymous 713@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>Yeah,Amazon is usually the most reliable to me,so that&#39;s where I go for books. </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/another-way-to-make-some-extra-cash-in-college#post-711 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:49:11 +0000 Anonymous 711@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>I use amazon, or ebay. Been using em for years, so i trust em. </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/another-way-to-make-some-extra-cash-in-college#post-693 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:03:43 +0000 Anonymous 693@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>To earn extra money, I tend to publish my assignments as blog posts for my website! How&#39;s that? </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/another-way-to-make-some-extra-cash-in-college#post-675 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:44:25 +0000 Anonymous 675@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>Nice to know.Good for you pal. :) </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/another-way-to-make-some-extra-cash-in-college#post-252 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:52:14 +0000 Anonymous 252@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>My school had one too, but it was more &#39;personal&#39;, you must do the job to sell it.</p> <p>@Bodgan<br /> I know it&#39;s hard to sell them, you want to keep them. Just in case if you need something in future and it&#39;s more fun to see what you have reached already, if you see the mega tower of books in front of you! :D </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/another-way-to-make-some-extra-cash-in-college#post-233 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:47:50 +0000 Anonymous 233@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>I know that bookstores need a profit, but that doesn&#39;t mean I should take a loss to help them :P Honestly, I&#39;m just finding the whole process to be a bit of a hassle. I found some books lying around in my attic from last year but I just don&#39;t feel like putting them up on eBay...</p> <p>I wish my school did a second hand book sale. That sounds like a neat idea! </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/another-way-to-make-some-extra-cash-in-college#post-227 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:55:32 +0000 Anonymous 227@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>At my current Uni, (Uni of Canterbury, NZ) we have a second hand book sale at the beginning of each semester. You give in your old books, and are given a ticket with a number assigned to your book. At the end of the 4-day sale, you go in and collect your money. The only problem is that your book sometime doesn&#39;t get sold, but I suppose a 4 day delay isn&#39;t too bad. </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/another-way-to-make-some-extra-cash-in-college#post-95 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:02:41 +0000 Anonymous 95@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>I wouldn&#39;t bother selling your book to the bookstore for only 25% of what you paid. That&#39;s horrible.</p> <p>To be honest though, I wouldn&#39;t try eBay either. There is just too much diversity there. Most people who want to buy a textbook will also want to see it in person to check out the condition and to make sure it&#39;s the right one (edition and whatnot).</p> <p>In Canada, RedFlagDeals.com is pretty good. Lots of students go on that site looking for a bargain. Since the site caters mostly to Canadians, you shouldn&#39;t have a problem finding someone local. Craigslist is another good option. Most schools will also have their own popular website for selling books. </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/another-way-to-make-some-extra-cash-in-college#post-57 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:16:20 +0000 Anonymous 57@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>A bookstore is big, they can&#39;t check every used book they receive. They also want to make some profit with your books. They aren&#39;t just &#39;kind&#39; to you. In high school there was a system where you could get a lot of your money back by selling them. I tried it too and it worked, not all my books where sold, but most them were.</p> <p>Best thing to do about selling is ebay. I&#39;m sure you&#39;ll get more then 25% of the value back. It stays expensive, buying books, no matter what you try... </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/another-way-to-make-some-extra-cash-in-college#post-53 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:27:14 +0000 Anonymous 53@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>I don&#39;t know. I just think it&#39;s a hassle to have to find a buyer. My bookstore gives back 25% of what you originally paid for the book, so it&#39;s not worth it there. Finding a student buyer is equally difficult because most people want you to just let them borrow your book for a semester... </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/another-way-to-make-some-extra-cash-in-college#post-50 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:16:15 +0000 Anonymous 50@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>Renting is also an option. But I think it&#39;s even more expensive. You don&#39;t own the books and still pay much. If you buy books and sell them again you can get about 70% back of your money. So you can say you&#39;ve basically to pay 30% of your schoolbooks. Not bad, I think.</p> <p>You can always ask people - who has finished their college - for their books. But afcours this is not always going to work. The more people you know, the greater the chance is you find somebody who will do that. It worked once for me though, that proves it&#39;s possible! </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/another-way-to-make-some-extra-cash-in-college#post-37 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:04:00 +0000 Anonymous 37@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>GetRoys looks a little sketchy in my opinion... I stick with eBay for anything I have to sell. </p> <p>However, instead of buying my books each semester and selling them back (usually at a loss), I rent them! Chegg.com is the best for doing so. The cover shipping/handling both ways and you pay about half price for your book! </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/another-way-to-make-some-extra-cash-in-college#post-25 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:06:24 +0000 Anonymous 25@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>The site doesn&#39;t seems realy trustable - but that&#39;s just my opinion. There is no structure or design in the whole site. Anyway this is all highly personal. Anyway if you have used it and it works, then it&#39;s good enough to use, I guess. Thanks for sharing it!</p> <p>If you want to have some extra coins. You can try selling your old books on ebay or to other students. With the money you can buy your new one without investing a lot. But be sure you don&#39;t need the books anymore. Look into the libaries if they have your book if you should need it again.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ecampus.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ecampus.com/</a> seems a good site for these things, though - to be honest - I never used it before. You can buy and sell your college books and receive some extra money. It&#39;s up to you.<br /> You can try some different sites and see what offers you the best value. </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/another-way-to-make-some-extra-cash-in-college#post-11 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:52:04 +0000 Anonymous 11@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>Last spring we used this site called GetRoys.com to sell some stuff and make a little extra cash. I sold some textbooks and a couch on GetRoys. Whats good about this site is you buy and sell to the students on your own college campus so it&#39;s really easy. Also the site is free, that&#39;s the best part. Anyone else tried this site? </p>