dvds4u

I visited Amazon.com this morning and buying used on there, I saved about $150...since most people start right around now, I was wondering if there is another place to buy them...cheap.
Thanks in advance

BigPete

Did you try 'sharing the love' with classmates? That might work well for new books ...

JT_97Neon

Checkout www.allbookstores.com. It is a book store price search engine and will give you the prices for a bunch of stores all at once.

Later,

JT

WiccanPagan

half.com their prices are comparable to amazon.com's used section and there are coupons ($5 off $10, $5 off $25, and $15 off $50) for "new" users. check out the half.com coupon thread in dvd bargains for how to be new all the time.

tlwizard

www.addall.com is also a good source of information.

i've gotten a lot of my film books for about 1/4th the normal cost and they're all new not used.

barnes and noble is also good when combined with a coupon, free shipping, and discover card cash back bonus.

TheBigCheese

Try Addall . That's the best search engine for book prices. They include tax and shipping in ranking the various stores.

bothanspy

I have had great success with bigwords.com which is also a search engline. it also searches amazon auctions, yahoo, and half.com, figures out your cheapest shipping package combination, and applies available coupons that it knows about. Very sweet. They beat my "used" prices at the college bookstore by about 40%

SPY

HeftyP

I've saved a ton using addall.com

matrixrok9

Same over here. I ordered my books last Thursday though and I only received one of the five. School starts this Tuesday but teachers won't require it probably till the week after. Most of them are from England that's why they're taking so long. Oh yeah when searching your book on addall.com search by isbn. What u do is go the bookstore, write down the isbn, which is by the upc code and search it that way on addall.com . This was a tip from someone at fatwallet. I just want to share the savings to other college students! Good luck.

angryyoungman

buy.com tends to have lower prices on new books than Amazon. I've never found a textbook cheaper at Amazon than at buy.com or half.com. I'll have to try add all, but pricegrabber.com is also a good price comparison site. They also add in shipping.

Don't forget to sell your books, I'd suggest on half.com, after the semester. You'll probably make most of the money you spent back (instead of getting practically nothing from your campus bookstore).

fender69

my campus book store doesn't open untill the 22nd and class starts on the 27th. i wonder if this is a tactic to force the students to buy from their store?

bothanspy

Usually your campus store will have the next semester's books out before the 22nd. But if thats a problem, most of the seller's offer epedited shipping which still works out cheaper than campus bookstores.

Also, I belive there is a 15 off 50 coupon for half.com

SPY

zak52

I just checked addall.com and I could have saved $30 on the book for my class this semester. Why do college bookstores charge so much?

wildcatlh

To defend college bookstores...

I worked at the bookstore at my college for 2 years. Our margins on textbooks weren't much of anything (20%).... so if any overcharging is going on, it's on the publisher side, especially when you consider that once you factor in expedited shipping for large book orders (when professors turn in book orders two days before classes start and expect them to be there by the time classes start),

Now where the bookstore makes its money is the clothing.

dollfins1

you could also save alot by going to half.com. i listed my computer schoolbooks for like 1/10 of their price to try to get rid of them. you could really save some green.

Daniel-A

Best bet. Someone else who took the class. Rent their book for the semester. Ive gotten away with a $10 rental and many free ones for semesters. Nothing beats free.

kayak99

(other than the renting post above - great idea by the way) Ebay, Half.com and on campus bulletin boards seem to be the cheapest!

DavidMP

Amazon used really does give a great price, and is easy to search.

suziq999

another vote for addall.com

jonw9

Bumping this thread for the Fall term.

I see some deals at addall.com, but what has been the experience with international editions. It says the content is the same, but black and white and thinner paper softcover.

Is the paper way thin? And I am assuming no color charts and graphs.. I was wondering if it it worth a few dollars saved to buy an inferior book...

SFranke

I haven't bought many international editions, but each one I did buy was a quality product that experienced as much damage as any other softcover textbook.

ruk

i like bestbookbuys.com

jonw9

Well, I can save about $130 buying my books online from addall, but they are all paperback international, and I am still torn. I mean on one hand I save some money, but would it be enough to off set any money I would get from selling them back?

ChiTownAbs, Inc

China.

Many publishers have 'Chinese' versions of the same book at 1/10 the cost.

Pages are a lot thinner from my understanding, but it's the same book.

atari2600

bookbyte was good - ordered a couple used textbooks that were basically new. never used it seemed like. good deal.