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I have just learned another cruel fact about these things besides their price, and that is their expiration date. I bought a brand new book for English class last semester, which ended in may. I had a screw up with financial aid, which I am still getting, but it won't be right away in time, so I have to cover some school expenses and books( its a CC so its cheap). So I decided to sell my old books to lower the damage on cost, and who would have though that two books from not even a year ago are "no longer in use". My anthropology book was pretty old so I could see that, but my English book was sold their brand new, Copyright 2008, not even a year ago, and the lady says they can't take it because it is no longer in use. Teachers their have always told us that they rearrange the contents of books and make new editions every so often to keep students buying new books but that was ridiculous. I was origional going to try to sell them on amazon, but this financial aid thing was unexpected and I need the money as fast as I could.
Would really suck if you signed up for a class and bought your books, had to hold off a year because of a major incident or something, decided to return next semester only to find out the same class requires a newer book, even though the old one was only a couple years old.
Lesson Learned: If you are going to sell text books back, do it ASAP, never know when they will pull the plug on one.
Now I am off to try to find some torrents for these books, if they exists, as I have till the 25th to return them for a full refund.
Would really suck if you signed up for a class and bought your books, had to hold off a year because of a major incident or something, decided to return next semester only to find out the same class requires a newer book, even though the old one was only a couple years old.
Lesson Learned: If you are going to sell text books back, do it ASAP, never know when they will pull the plug on one.
Now I am off to try to find some torrents for these books, if they exists, as I have till the 25th to return them for a full refund.