The (not so) Dreadful Textbook List

Just like Brian, I called up my booklist online only to find that I had one textbook to buy.  It was a far cry from Brian’s $500 punch in the stomach - how much, you ask? $110.  And just because Brian would love to only pay $110 doesn’t mean I’m going to pay full price for mine.  At the Cornell Book Store they sell it used for $82.50, but I thought I could do better. 
   
I took the online suggestions and the best deal I found for the book was on Amazon.  There is also a store in Ithaca called Kraftees that sells used textbooks and buys back books that the Cornell Store won’t at the end of each semester.  I checked there and their prices were way better than the Cornell Store, but Amazon still couldn’t be beat. 

        Final savings:  $110(Original Price) – $65.98(My Price)= $44.02

Huge savings on the original price, but I went further and saved an additional $16.52 on the Cornell Store used book price.  I’d say good bargain hunting to that.      

A good website is cheapesttextbooks.com - it shows all the prices on a certain textbook from most textbook websites and highlights the cheapest.  Also be sure to sell unwanted textbooks back to a bookstore, or better yet on amazon.com at the end of each semester to recoup most of your costs.