<p>Do people normally buy their textbooks at their school bookstore?</p>
<p>I heard its cheaper to buy it online like on amazon or something?</p>
<p>If its cheaper online, what websites do you guys buy it off?</p>
<p>Thanks:)</p>
<p>Half.com it always more then half the price for me.
or use Craigslist or uloop to find locals selling the books in your area.</p>
<p>i use ebay.com and usually find the best deals there.</p>
<p>I like amazon.com</p>
<p>Yeah eBay.com and half.com are the same company, but one is a listing and the other is an auction site. Ebay is a better place to find international editions of books for cheap.</p>
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<p>I buy anywhere cheap with decent ratings.</p>
<p>O ok thanks for the replys!</p>
<p>Can u also return online books at your schools bookstore?</p>
<p>^ You can sell them back.</p>
<p>I’ve sold books back to my bookstore for more then I have paid for them online.</p>
<p>Try emailing the professor or talking to former students to see if an older edition of the book would suffice. Generally older editions are dirt cheap, <$10</p>
<p>You’ll probably find books slightly cheaper on half since amazon charges more fees to sellers. Try to see if one of the books is on ebay since, from my experience, the price is cheaper than either of two. </p>
<p>Lastly, be careful to distinguish between the US editions and international editions when buying off sites.</p>
<p>I spoke to a former student at UCLA (she graduated 09) and she told me older editions are not ideal there. Perhaps that is major specific? I am a history major, and I already ordered my books for one class (from amazon, for $15 less than the UCLA bookstore including shipping). They were not textbooks, they were regular historical research books, and older editions didn’t even exist.</p>
<p>I order off of chegg.com because you rent them not buy them, so you don’t have to worry about selling back.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advise everyone:)</p>
<p>Are professors sensitive about using a different edition/publisher?</p>
<p>I’m an English major - I already have half the books required for this quarter, except that they’re different publishers (Ex: Penguin vs. Norton)</p>
<p>I doubt we’ll do close-reading in class. So no worries right?</p>