Google Shopping
I’ve been using the Google shopping function more and more lately. The new trimester is starting again, and I was able to search for and find new copies of a book (woot for international editions!) for $54 when it was selling used at $99.
I am tempted to wait until class starts to order the books this trimester. Half of the books I bought before did not get used at all. Fortunately, I only buy used and international editions when I can help it, but that one IT book I got last time had to be new and cost $40 for a non-textbook small, thin, paperback.
By dmaduram, 4/24/2008 @ 10:33 pm
Ha, I also love using google when shopping for books, but most of the places that ship international editions tend to have ridiculous shipping costs. Are there any particular sites that you found useful?
By Kabitzin, 4/25/2008 @ 10:55 am
I haven’t hit the same store more than once, so I guess loyalty doesn’t pay off.
By Hung, 4/25/2008 @ 2:59 pm
I always wait for the first few weeks of a class to buy the books and mooch off of classmates in the meantime. And international editions FTW! I love my super-thin paged, monochrome algorithms book from India! You can read two pages at once, the pages are so thin!
By Kabitzin, 4/30/2008 @ 9:08 am
Ender, I accidentally deleted your comment about half.com and the fixed shipping rates. Anyway, I found something even better: lazy classmates and lazy teachers.
Exhibit 1: I was going to snag that awesome $54 book when the teacher mentioned that old edition was ok too. So I snagged a used $25 copy instead!
Exhibit 2: This book was about $131, but apparently the school store wasn’t buying back copies. A group member from one of my classes last trimester was too lazy to sell it himself, so he just gave me the book for free.