Uni Textbooks

[Morgs]

Hi all,

Ok, so I just got my final results for the final semester of my degree, i've officially passed - just got to graduate.

This leaves me with a piece of paper and 15k debt.. great :D

But what is really on my mind... is the 3 and a half years of textbooks for what.. 30 subjects? that I have accumulated... the pile is large. It could be valuable. What should I do with them?

Bonfire or sell on Ebay? Has anyone still got textbooks from uni/tafe/school hanging around? Are they any use ??

[SikS4]

my tip is dont buy them in the 1st place,
u neva use them, if u do u can borrow them from sum1 else or the library

i have 3 books in front of me now that are in mint condition, never been opened in 6 months and cost like 250 between them

worst comes to worst u can go buy it at the book shop wen u find out u need it

[hondaboy]

yeh morgs its fucked, i have a big stack of uni books under my desk doing fuck all, most in perfect condition.

i reckon i should have sold em after i finished my degree, cos now they are prob worth fuck all :(

[Shaolin242]

hahha try getting an E-Commerce Degree - books are obsolete after 3 months :( haha i rang up ATO and have to pay $17,500 in HECS debt....NONE of which I will be paying....EVER! hahaha go the legal loopholes! ;)


seriously tho im keepin my textbooks - esp all the marketing ones...u never know when u might need em...

[MissG]

I was lucky when i finished doing psych a friend of mine started so i managed to sell most of my books.

I suggest u sell them, alot of people tend to want second hand books. Or if their not too shabby try selling them to a second hand book store?

[Liana-]

yeah alot of the books probably wont be worth much... but ur best bet is to try 2nd hand bookstores or advertise on uni noticeboards/msg boards..

im keeping mine atm purely to the fact editions have changed.. ALREADY and lecturers and tutors are having a whinge over it even tho there are probably only two words different from edition to edition but oh well, yet another expense of uni :mad:

[TJ]

i went to uni once.

[doriae86]

i hate the fucking book companies that say, change one letter on page 234 and say it s anew edition, and force you to buy new and not used GRR

[hondaboy]

yeh those e-commerce books are notorious for being outdated after 1 semester, waste of fucking money.
add $1200 worth of books to an $18000 hecs bill at the end of it all... fucked! :(
ahh well at least i dont have to pay it off all at once.

[Shaolin242]

haha skip country man then u dont have to pay it off at all! its like theyre payin you $18K to move man...think of it that way,..

[doriae86]

haha what a twiested mind you have, i like it!

[CussCuss]

http://www.textbookexchange.com.au

ive got mine listed on there but only managed to sell 1 so far. Ugh it scares that i have a pile of paper that cost me over $1k

[Bugle]

I reckon some of mine will be useful in the future..
The rest bar a couple are outdated farkin better sell them quick.

[Liana-]

mmm
one of my lecturers today had a stack of our text books that he got straight from the publisher, was selling them for a fraction cheaper than uni bookshop,

what a nice man!

[TJ]

was he trying to chat you up

thats sexual harrassment

most uni lecturers are dirty peadophiles who think they own the world

on that note

i have some old books for sale!

:) haha nah im not selling them , rather burning them like all my high school shit