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How much did you get back from your books?

randomuser
edited December 2007 in General
I had seven texts this semester, so far Ive been able to sell 4, for 120 dollars, they rejected one, and I have two more Im going to try and peddle once Im done with them

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  • Student0667
    edited December 2007
    I sold two books back to the bookstore and I got $60 dollars back. I also sold two other books to a student and I got $15 back.
  • meeshmeesh
    edited December 2007
    hmm i sold two textbooks and got $150 back so far ($76 each). i was pretty surprised how much they gave back to me.

    have a couple more to sell but need them to study.
  • imelting
    edited December 2007
    $0

    2 of my courses this semester had textbooks, one of em is not offered next sem, and the other has a dif prof and a diff text is used (got offered 14 bucks for the one i had)
  • illicit
    edited December 2007
    doesn't look like you get back much of what you paid..

    might as well just save the textbooks, since working a couple hours will equal up to what they pay on a textbook..
  • randomuser
    edited December 2007
    I thought of that but then I thought do I really ever want to read these again? It seemed like in some courses they only want academic jounrals of sources rather than the specifically mentioned "textbooks for other classes"
  • flo-ra
    edited December 2007
    I did BuyBack for my first semester, and never did it again. They gave me $25 for my chem text (which I remember buying for at least $90) and $2 for each of my English novels. I don't know why I agreed to sell them for that little... it was right after my finals, I must've been totally brain dead =[. Since then I've only sold books to other students. It takes up a lot more time and energy, but SFU BuyBack rips you off! (imo)
  • meeshmeesh
    edited December 2007
    ^ that really sucks :(

    i use the buyback textbook search on my.sfu.ca to check out the buyback prices for my books and then i can see whether it's worth it for me to sell.

    for those who don't know you login into my.sfu.ca and there should be buyback search link on the right side. you just enter the isbn and if they are buying back the text for that class, they'll list the price and the quota and how much of the quota has been filled up.

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