By NintyStar - 30/08/2016 20:15 - United States - Minneapolis

Today, I found out that my college textbooks, which I spent nearly $200 dollars on for the two of them, did not come with the codes they were advertised with. The codes are needed for online classwork that is required to pass the course. Each new code is $90 a piece. FML
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OP here: for clarification, these are the books for one course. The rest of my books for my first semester (I'm a college freshman) drove my textbook costs up to over $500. So having to pay nearly $200 more for my books that did not come as advertised is a bit of a shock, to say the least. For reference, I bought all of my books the week before move-in, and I've only just finished my first week of classes. Luckily, my professor is very understanding, and she just sent me the link to where I could buy the codes and know they were legitimate, and she said she'd just give me credit for what I've already missed. So, I guess you could say this story has a happy ending, more or less. I'll just be better about it when buying books for next semester.

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TheEpicKitten 20

I'd contact the retailer and ask if it was just a mishap that the codes were missing

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Nysha 17

They're defective and not as described then - return them and get them somewhere else

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hydronoxx 11

School books are soooo overpriced!

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wizardofozzy68 7

Check to make sure that it's not printed on a small slip of paper tucked into the pages. I work in a college bookstore and see that every now and then.

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kshaw18 7

I worked in a college bookstore, probably wont be getting your money back sorry to say.Email the professor or show up to syllabus day to see if you need codes next time . Most math classes now are using codes, so are accounting classes, and the computer technology classes

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kenzieiscarson 9

Tbh if you can handle not having the paper copy of the book just skip it. The code will typically come with an etext which is the entire textbook in an online format. It'll save you anywhere between $50-100.

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KayIsKiwi99 8

I worked for a textbook rental company for 4 years so I'm very experienced with the market of college books. Unless their policy agreement states something like "supplemental material not guaranteed" and the ISBN advertises with access code then you should contact them and explain that it's false advertising and they need to either provide the codes or refund the difference it will cost to get the code stand alone. For future reference, you can always look at finding the stand alone access cards and stand alone book, depending on the book and code the thing you're really paying for is the code and you can get a used or rental book way cheap

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BrotherPhil 35

It can also be worth looking online for free downloads - there are some older editions that publishers have made available free of charge - we had a choice of books for most of our biochem modules, and at least one of them the professor had listed a link to the download on the publishers website. College & uni book prices are criminal, but not all publishers are crooks.

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