<p>Hi guys!</p>
<p>People who have had experience buying textbooks on the site. If I buy all my books now, do people send them to me at home, or do you just meet the people on campus? How have "transactions" worked for you in the past, and do you recommend using the site as a middle man?</p>
<p>--Tara</p>
<p>Click buy, and the seller is notified. Seller will call/message you to meet up. You both meet up, exchange money for book.</p>
<p>comegetused is excellent for last minute buyers who want to save money on textbooks.</p>
<p>Lots of people have been used over the years. some like it, some don't</p>
<p>I like ComeGetUsed. I'm spending 20-30% of the list prices on nearly all of my books and so far, every transaction I've been through has gone reasonably smoothly. ComeGetUsed isn't appropriate for emergencies--in other words, you should be buying your books at least a week before class begins. Remember to check the "listing dates"...the longer ago a seller listed his/her book, the more likely it'll no longer be available.</p>
<p>Do I really have to get the latest edition?</p>
<p>"ComeGetUsed isn't appropriate for emergencies--in other words, you should be buying your books at least a week before class begins."</p>
<p>Not necessarily. I've been able to meet up on the same day or the next day for several transactions.</p>
<p>"ComeGetUsed isn't appropriate for emergencies--in other words, you should be buying your books at least a week before class begins."</p>
<p>Not really... you aren't expected to have your books on the first day of classes. Most professors (the non-lit related ones) don't follow texts closely enough to make them necessary right away. Just make sure you do your reading before the midterm. But for those classes that do close reading or discussion of texts, there's no way you can go through all of them right away, so some will be needed sooner than others.</p>
<p>Do you get to talk with the seller about the book before buying it - can you ask him queries about the book to make sure its the one you want? Also, after meeting up with the seller is it a done thing to look at the book and then decide you don't want it?</p>
<p>Yes, there's a "question" function on the site you can use to query the seller. When I sell the book using the system, I usually ask the buyer to look over it before exchanging money. I usually do the same when I'm buying, so it's not unaccepted practice to examine the product before finalizing the sale.</p>
<p>This is very interesting, and sort of inspirational. It seems like basically anybody can start a website and positively (or otherwise) influence the world. Youtube has been up for less than 9 months, MySpace has a ridiculous amount of users daily, as does facebook, and ComeGetUsed seems like it will change future practices of textbooks retail sellers. Go Berkeley graduates who change the world. It makes me want to restart the freaking professor rating site that Berkeley used to have. Anyone know how to program? :)</p>
<p>The prices at comegetused only undercut used book prices seen at amazon and other online booksites when it's 1-2 weeks into the semester. it</p>
<p>"This is very interesting, and sort of inspirational. It seems like basically anybody can start a website and positively (or otherwise) influence the world. Youtube has been up for less than 9 months, MySpace has a ridiculous amount of users daily, as does facebook, and ComeGetUsed seems like it will change future practices of textbooks retail sellers. Go Berkeley graduates who change the world. It makes me want to restart the freaking professor rating site that Berkeley used to have. Anyone know how to program?"</p>
<p>You should DRab :) </p>
<p>Myspace/RMP lack ratings for some of the professors I needed to get a feel for =</p>
<p>EDIT: I miss Sakky. Where is that guy?</p>
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<p>Not sure. He could probably program like nobody's business.</p>
<p>^I'm good at making livejournals, xangas, and facebook profiles. Want to go into business with me instead? :cool:</p>
<p>DRab, I know what you mean - I'm really this sort of stuff and was totally inspired by Facebook.. all it takes to make it big is an idea - once you have that, everything else just falls into place.. Infact Facebook is one of the main reasons I started my website - the fact that it appeals to a very, very, very small niche market out of the billions of internet browsers, and the fact that it receives around 1,458,426,358 times lesser traffic than Facebook ain't gonna discourage me! :)</p>
<p>caughtbehind, did you program it yourself?</p>
<p>Not quite.. I mean I know how to program in PHP and stuff which is what my website uses.. but ultimately it's a superblog - so I just used WordPress - saves a ton of time, but all the PHP editing and stuff - I had to do on my own.. So as an overall answer to your question, no I didn't <em>really</em>...</p>
<p>Anyways, you can check it out for yourself if you're interested (I don't expect the content of the website to really interest you though!) </p>
<p><a href="http://caughtbehind.com%5B/url%5D">http://caughtbehind.com</a>
<a href="http://btb.caughtbehind.com%5B/url%5D">http://btb.caughtbehind.com</a></p>
<p>Cheers!</p>