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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nikkinurse 10
Online!! More money student look on ebay!!
Cumbe 3
It's all about getting your hands on a pdf file of the book, I save close to a thousand dollars by doing that every year in University. You won't always find a pdf of the same book you are looking for... but you can find a previous edition of it which still helps.
OhhKristin 11
that's weird. did you not take good care of them or something?
BriskIsRisky 2
If I where to have to sell it for that much I would have kept them
sobeowns 2
shoulda sold em online bro... there's some desperate students out there
neonberries 15
Try Amazon/EBay next time...
Ameel_fml 19
Or even advertising them on the school/university bulletin board. Most new students will jump at the prospect of buying second-hand books for a fraction of the price. OP got majorly ripped off. I don't even understand why they would have accepted such a pathetic offer.
HeyHeyFishFillet 34
Try renting your textbooks next semester, or sell your used textbooks to a person through Craigslist or something of that manner.
teresa96706 29
I don't really understand this FML, does he mean he gotten paid the money he spent plus $3.50 or does he mean he literally only received that amount for all of his textbooks?
CharresBarkrey 15
$3.50 is all he received for the books.
katties 27
Sorry, but YDI. There are many people that would've paid more, even if the books are old - you only need to find them. There are many sites students use to look for books. I've sold many of my books, with a lot of writings and still easily got paid half of what I paid. It's not like they the people in the used book store forced you to sell them after telling you how much they would give. Selling them for that amount was YOUR choice. BTW: when you're selling them to a book store like that THEY make money of your books hat YOU could've made.
sesor 7
eBay?