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Rent Your College Books

Submitted by: Michael Coutts 01/27/2009 12:09 AM

Don't settle for the prices your university or college is asking for text books. I recently purchased $600 worth of text books from my school only to be surprised at the end of the semester they wouldn't buy some of them back. I ended up with $95 after all was said and done.

This semester I have spent only $125.00 by renting my text books from Chegg.com. This includes the cost of return shipping. Just make sure you order the correct version of the text book you need.

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Thanks 4 telling me. B/c prices 4 school books r crazy. I will be using Chegg 4 my next quarter of classes

Posted by Dicole on February 19, 2009 12:43 PM

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Before you rent and buy textbooks check out local and school libraries for the textbook you need. Also, for most science, history, and most other classes older editions work fine. As long as it the same author and publisher it is the same info with only an extra paragraph added to rip off students. If that fails you amazon is my favorite site to buy used books from! This semester I needed 15 textbooks for 5 classes (I am a history and political science major) and I only had to purchase 2 spending less then $50!

Posted by thriftycollegegal on April 08, 2009 1:38 AM

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I too get my books from the college library. This works great, just get to the library first, as the books sometimes are gone if you wait too long. You could also check local public libraries, and other university libraries.

Posted by anonymous on April 18, 2009 3:12 PM

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We love renting textbooks from Chegg.com! I have a promotional code that purchasers can use to get a discount on their order. They just put the code in when ordering and hit the "apply" button. For the next few weeks, the code will give an 11% discount off an order! After that, the code is good for a 5% discount. If students want to sell their used texts, the code will also give them an extra $5.

The code does not have an expiration date: CC123047

This might be useful for anyone wanting to save extra cash!

Posted by anonymous on February 11, 2010 10:02 AM

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