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Was looking for a cheap place to purchase my law textbook and ran across Chegg.com featured on BigWords.com where you can rent your textbooks for the semester or college quarter. Included in the price of shipping is a prepaid label to ship the book back to them at the end of the semester (125 days).
My book was $128 list price, Chegg had it for "rent" for $46.08. They offer regular and express shipping and source their books from several sources all across the US. Mine was sourced from Amazon.com. I chose express shipping- 2-6 day ($7.98) and my book will be here Tuesday (2-day shipping from Amazon).
No worries about reselling it, just ship it back at their expense. That's what appealed to me. They will also allow you to highlight in the book without penalty.
Oh yeah, for what it's worth, they plant a tree for every book you rent.
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Arrrggghhh! The book I just bought yesterday for $52 could have been rented for $22.36. Renting textbooks is a great idea. I wish I'd thought of it first.
I used to buy my books from TextbookX.com and then sell them at the same site after. Alot of times I got back 60-80% of what I paid and I bought them used for a big discount.
Chegg used to be good when they had large sales on items. Renting books? It's at the same price as if you bought a new or used one off of half.com or eBay! That's outrageous! Hmm... rent or own for the same price? Seems like a no-brainer there.
In my case, the textbook that I needed was just published in October '07. Consequently, there are no used books on the market and there are even vendors selling them above the suggested list price. So, renting the textbook was an excellent option for me.
Plus, I don't want the darn thing after the semeseter is over so I don't have to worry about trying to sell it. Although, considering it is a brand new (newest edition) law book, I probably wouldn't have any trouble getting rid of it.
The school I went to had a rental system for books that they planned on using for a few years. They charged $5 per credit hour so those huge, expensive science books only cost $25 to rent. It was a great system.
captainbozo said:The school I went to had a rental system for books that they planned on using for a few years. They charged $5 per credit hour so those huge, expensive science books only cost $25 to rent. It was a great system.
farang said:captainbozo said:The school I went to had a rental system for books that they planned on using for a few years. They charged $5 per credit hour so those huge, expensive science books only cost $25 to rent. It was a great system.
What school was that??
Missouri Southern State University. I see they've raised it to $7/hour since I left.
Thank you I will have to remember this for next semester. It sill pisses me off when I buy a $100 book to use it once but we are "required" to have it all the time. I swear that they get a kick back for telling their students to buy XYZ's books.
As previous posters stated, used books are about the same price.
Second, if your book is new (as in OP's case), it should be exactly why you don't want to rent from chegg! It is because since it is a new book, your book will definitely be used next semester and that means you can sell it used to someone on your campus, craigslist, online, etc. You can recuperate about 80% of your book purchase, so you are only spending about 20% for books that semester. With renting from chegg, you have to pay 50% of the MSRP and then lose it afterwards????? Geez, most bookstores don't even sell MSRP, so you are losing more! Geez.... I feel my stomach churning thinking about the people who rented from chegg...
I'm getting my MBA right now, and over the last five semesters I've probably broken even on textbooks. Buy from the cheapest site, then sell it on Amazon when you're done. Most of the time, you'll be within $20 of your original buying price, and I even made money on a few of them. Renting a $100+ textbook for $40? Why not buy it, use it, and resell it for $100?
rt80639 said:I'm getting my MBA right now, and over the last five semesters I've probably broken even on textbooks. Buy from the cheapest site, then sell it on Amazon when you're done. Most of the time, you'll be within $20 of your original buying price, and I even made money on a few of them. Renting a $100+ textbook for $40? Why not buy it, use it, and resell it for $100?
It depends. Some obscure textbooks on oddball subjects have no resale value. It's probably better to rent them.
Don't the libraries have any copies of the textbooks you can borrow?
In Ottawa the university library had at least 2 copies of every text and you could borrow them overnight for free
Also many of the city libraries have a lot of the textbooks too- even the obscure ones.
I took some poltics courses and english also and there were at least 20 copies of each book and no one borrowed them exept me...you can check the book status online and even borrow from libraries in other cities for free....
I usually don't like to pay for books and that includes even books to read for fun.
The university profs, they usually get a couple copies of the books from the publishers and many other free books....I doubt they get any actual money out of it...
I know my aunt is a university teacher as are other family members.
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Renting textbooks is a great idea. I wish I'd thought of it first.
