Highway Robbery

[Boston&Maine]

I just payed over 630 dollars today for textbooks for four of my classes... That is flippin' redonkulous! Two of them were brand new editions so I could not find any used ones (or cheap new ones for that matter) anywhere online... Another one was a special package that can only be bought through my school... The last one I could not find any used books anywhere (who knows why because it is not new) and the ones online were only like $20 of MSRP...

Sorry, I just needed to vent somewhere :mad:

If I wanted to be an optimist I could focus on the money I will get for selling them come May, but I am a pessimist :mad:

[Southern]

If you don't blow off some steam the boiler will blow!

[shaygetz]

Sadly, far too many of these school book sales are a captive market for the professors who write them. Comfort yourself in knowing that you paid for his meerschaum pipe and tweed jacket...:D

[Boston&Maine]

Sadly, far too many of these school book sales are a captive market for the professors who write them. Comfort yourself in knowing that you paid for his meerschaum pipe and tweed jacket...:D
Yea, that is why they come out with a new edition like every month, and when they do they only change like one typo from the previous version... Ugh :rolleyes:

[stationmaster]

Ah, the price of being edjumacated. Really sucks don't it. You can't afford to get smarts and it costs even more to stay stupid. Such is life.

[stationmaster]

Just a bit of a dig here, how many trains could you have bought for $630? Maybe that dream engine?

Ya know 30 years ago I couldn't even spell injunear. Now I are won.

[T-Man]

You would think that information would be on CD. They say our school system is progressive.:rolleyes:

[Boston&Maine]

Just a bit of a dig here, how many trains could you have bought for $630? Maybe that dream engine?

Hahaha, that is one of the first things that came into my mind... I could have bought a nice steamer, or around 18 pieces of rolling stock :eek:

[train4myboys]

Just wait till grad school. 10 years ago I was spending $1,000 per semester for law school. The biggest change to the new edition is usually moving one chapter from the front of the book to the back. Then the next year they move it back. Kinda makes you want to get into publishing, eh?

[mikeintoronto]

If these are 2nd, 3rd, ... editions the profs can help you find the correct chapters in earlier editions. Old editions are cheaper, both new and especially used.

[Boston&Maine]

But they also change the questions in the back of the chapters :mad: