{"id":175,"date":"2007-04-19T16:43:05","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T16:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=175"},"modified":"2007-04-19T16:43:05","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T16:43:05","slug":"savemoneydontsellyourbookstothebookstore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/savemoneydontsellyourbookstothebookstore\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Money &#8211; Don&#039;t Sell Your Books to the Bookstore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/brian\/Bookstore.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThough many seasoned college students may know already this, the campus book store rips you off while both buying and selling your books. &#8220;Half.com&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.half.com\">www.half.com<\/a> and &#8220;Amazon&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\">www.amazon.com<\/a> are the two most popular book sites. However, these sites can be limited and typically more expensive than sites like &#8220;campus books&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.campusbooks.com\/,\">http:\/\/www.campusbooks.com\/,<\/a> where you&#8217;ll save an average of 61% when purchasing books. When it comes to selling, I\u2019ve personally got 10-15% more than what the book store offers. With the &#8220;cost of college&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegeboard.com\/press\/releases\/150634.html\">http:\/\/www.collegeboard.com\/press\/releases\/150634.html<\/a>  being as high as it is (and &#8220;rising&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegeboard.com\/prod_downloads\/press\/cost06\/trends_college_pricing_06.pdf),\">http:\/\/www.collegeboard.com\/prod_downloads\/press\/cost06\/trends_college_pricing_06.pdf),<\/a> every little bit helps. By cutting out the middle man, students get more for less during your purchase and sale. Everybody wins, except of course the bandits at the bookstore.<br \/>\nWhlie you&#8217;re at it, here are &#8220;118 other ways&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholarships-ar-us.org\/student-living\/save-money.htm\">http:\/\/www.scholarships-ar-us.org\/student-living\/save-money.htm<\/a> to save money at college,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though many seasoned college students may know already this, the campus book store rips you off while both buying and selling your books. &#8220;Half.com&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.half.com\">www.half.com<\/a> and &#8220;Amazon&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\">www.amazon.com<\/a> are the two most popular book sites. However, these sites can be limited and typically more expensive than sites like &#8220;campus books&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.campusbooks.com\/,\">http:\/\/www.campusbooks.com\/,<\/a> where you&#8217;ll save an average of 61% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[54,58,240],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-books","tag-business","tag-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}