Teams
Forum List
Toggle sidebar

Ordering Textbooks

LeSchmick

LeSchmick

Well-Known Member
Dec 14, 2008
2,022
83
48
35
Urbandale
I'm just starting to get in the mode of ordering textbooks for the fall. I usually go to the UBS website, get my isbn's, and then order them somewhere else. What does everyone else do?
 
You pretty much covered what I do.

I have no friggin clue why, but they get irate if you go in the bookstore and take pictures of the book descriptions under each book. Last year I did it and some old lady about had a stroke over it. :no:
 
Considering you can go to dealoz.com or other sites and just type in the isbn's, I really questioned why I ever bought from the bookstore. I mean, it's great for the university $$wise, but not great when you're already paying outstate tuition...
 
LeSchmick said:
I'm just starting to get in the mode of ordering textbooks for the fall. I usually go to the UBS website, get my isbn's, and then order them somewhere else. What does everyone else do?
Click to expand...

It is amazing the options you have as a student these days. When I was attending ISU nearly 20 years ago, the UBS and the other book store across Lincoln Way were pretty much it. There were no other options. Now, you can order books from all kinds of sources over the internet. In some cases, you can even buy ebooks. It's pretty amazing. I'd call you guys lucky, except you guys are also living in a day with 20% (or more) per year inflation of student tuition and fees.
 
I did the same thing the OP does, then go through match.com Saved me a ton of money, and always had success.
 
IcSyU said:
You pretty much covered what I do.

I have no friggin clue why, but they get irate if you go in the bookstore and take pictures of the book descriptions under each book. Last year I did it and some old lady about had a stroke over it. :no:
Click to expand...

Lol, its cuz you're taking advantage of the system, which, it sounds like everyone does.
 
Cyclone42 said:
It is amazing the options you have as a student these days. When I was attending ISU nearly 20 years ago, the UBS and the other book store across Lincoln Way were pretty much it. There were no other options. Now, you can order books from all kinds of sources over the internet. In some cases, you can even buy ebooks. It's pretty amazing. I'd call you guys lucky, except you guys are also living in a day with 20% (or more) per year inflation of student tuition and fees.
Click to expand...

I would gladly pay full price in books if I got the tuition rates from back in the day...
 
Id wait until the first day, because you never know when the professor is going to say 'you can get this if you want, but you dont really need it', and then order online, usually off of amazon or similar.
Also, with that many books and shipping, it may make sense to pay for amazon prime. I did that once, and then for the rest of the year since i could get 2 day shipping for free, a lot of things i didnt need that moment and could wait a couple days for id just order off of there and get it for a lot cheaper.
 
cstrunk said:
The dating website??? :confused:
Click to expand...
He was taking "How to Impress Women 204" that semester.

I did the same thing, except some of my books were really hard to find online, or were the same price as the ones in the book stores. I always wrote down the ISBN's and the prices they were asking for them. I would also check both stores (CBS and UBS) because their prices were never the same.
 
I'm in 4 classes that require books and just in those 4 alone I am supposed to buy upwards of 20 books. I will probably wait until the first day of class, see what the reading load looks like then order on amazon from there.
 
see if you can rent your textbooks. i see some bookstores have set up a rental program on textbooks.
 
Clone5 said:
I'm in 4 classes that require books and just in those 4 alone I am supposed to buy upwards of 20 books. I will probably wait until the first day of class, see what the reading load looks like then order on amazon from there.
Click to expand...

Thats rough.

I am going to wait until after the first day and then probably just get them at UBS.
 
Clone5 said:
I'm in 4 classes that require books and just in those 4 alone I am supposed to buy upwards of 20 books. I will probably wait until the first day of class, see what the reading load looks like then order on amazon from there.
Click to expand...
Jeez louise, that sounds like me. I had one class that had 6 required books. Freaking lit classes.
 
I used to work at UBS in the textbooks department. Once I knew which books were being required for the individual sections, I just went to half.com and bought them there. Only buy from the bookstore if you can get the books used. At UBS we always tried to get as many used books as possible and the manager in charge of buying textbooks would try to convince departments to stick with older editions as long as possible to keep the costs down to students. But half.com is usually filled with other students trying to offload their previous books and not get completely screwed by the cheapass store buybacks. Just get the ISBN's from the bookstores and type it in to half.com and you'll be happy.
 
Wanted to warn people not to go to www.Ecampus.com, I bought a book that was $55.00 and a half hour later my dad's credit card company calls and says the company is a fraud and he had a charge of 375.00 on his account. Charge said it came from Miami Flordia. He got his money back, but be careful, they are shisters.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.

Help Support Us

Become a patron
Top Bottom