Today, I went to the local used books store to sell all my college textbooks. I spent several hundred dollars on them in total. I ended up walking out of the shop a pathetic $3.50 richer. FML
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Today, I bought my very first college textbook. I received a stack of hole-punched papers. My $195 "book" isn’t even bound together. FML
Today, I discovered that my parents rooted through our house looking for junk to sell at a garage sale. They sold all of my books from my bookshelf. When I freaked, out my mom said 'well you never read them'. There was about $300 hidden between the pages of those books. They made $60. FML
Today, I started at a new college. I bought my textbooks and went to my first class only to find out that they changed my schedule without telling me. I'd already opened the book. I could not get $200 back. FML
Today, I was at work when my mother called. She gave me great news that she had finally cleaned out my room and all those "old and useless" books that I had in there. Those "useless" books that she had just trashed were all antiques and worth about $500 each. There were 27 books in there. FML
Today, I had to listen to fellow classmates whine about selling one of their many houses, while I can barely afford to pay for a $100 textbook. FML
Today, I left for college. I spent hundreds of dollars on clothes, bedding and other things. After packing my entire closet and everything else I needed, I left only to have to head back home. My dad forgot to pay the first semesters tuition. He said "Oh well, you would have failed out anyway." FML
Today, I lost a book. I'd used my credit card as a bookmark. FML
Today, I had to spend all of my money on textbooks even though my refrigerator is empty. Starving and frustrated, I called home to ask for money for groceries. My mom told me I could afford to skip a few meals. FML
Today, I was mugged while on my way to the bookstore. I'd saved up for months to make a mega-purchase of study materials for my major, only for it to be taken away in a few seconds by some lowlife thug. FML
Today, I bought a textbook for my college class. Not only is the £150 book only sold by our teacher, it turned out to be a piece of shit that he obviously wrote, printed, and stapled together at home. When I went to the faculty about it, I was told it's all perfectly legal, and to drop it. FML
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Markg1994 0
You should have asked to clarify whether she said "$350" or "3.50".
saksxalmo 20
This is why you always buy textbooks secondhand... I learned that the hard way.
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Monkcoon 7
Find out how much they sell for now in bookstores, price them 10 bucks under that and put up flyers at your college. students will buy
Squirrel1256 15
Oh yes, textbook stores only exist to rip you off, I agree with the people saying to sell online.
Squirrel1256 15
Nothing to see here... Seriously though, I imagine he was enjoying it when be thought it was the cat.
qwerty___89 6
You should have sold them online, would have made more than 3.50. I know that for sure
MEM0817 18
You still got almost double what OP got and off of only one book. So realistically, OP has the right to whine with your story in comparison.
chottu 16
I don't understand, why did you accept so little? I buy most of my books (with the exception of recently updated ones) second hand and then sell those books online after the semester for roughly the same amount I bought them for! So essentially I break even after the semester (or on occasion it's possible to make profit if you pick them up cheap enough). I would keep these comments in mind next semester :)
SilentRhapsody 13
Seriously, take this advice. It's how you should do things.
lowshadows 21
people use textbooks and their supposedly written by people experience in the field not some rich smartass. they should be worth more, hate those *******.
SillyGirl4602 23
What???
Frustrated78 11
You could have made way more money if you had sold them on Ebay or Amazon. Also look on those sites for books you need to buy. Never buy new if you can help it.
Kaerunoutof 3
It ls useful for you to have the textbook.
SilentRhapsody 13
You, my friend, just got taken for a ride. You could have sold those on the internet for much, much, much more than 3.50. Text book sellers are notorious lowballers.