Students: Know Your Textbook Rights!
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When it comes to selling your textbooks, you have rights. Even when your bookstore has a monopoly in your town, this Bill of Buyback Rights holds true. Print it off and take it with you!
The Bill of Buyback Rights
You have the right to fair treatment.
Your school exists to serve YOU, the student. If they are not treating you fairly at buyback time, they have failed in their main objective.You have the right to use your books for exams…
…and not have to worry about selling them before the bookstore hits their quota and drops their prices. Campus bookstores say to sell early to get the best prices, but your school (of all places) should care for your academic needs by holding the high prices until after your exams. Don’t be pressured to sell a book you need to study.You have the right to something better than wholesale prices.
When your campus bookstore hits their quota for the year (which usually happens on the first day of buyback), they drop to “wholesale prices,” which are insultingly low. You don’t have to take it!You have the right to a second opinion.
This is why BookFool exists and fights against monopolies for you.You have the right to shop around.
Any bookstore that refuses to let you compare prices does not have your best interests at heart.You have the right to think about an offer before accepting it.
If someone tries to pressure you to sell quickly, tell them to back off. You have a right to think about it.You have the right to walk away.
You can do anything with a book you own. You can throw it away, give it away, sell it online, whatever! And you never have to accept an offer that you don’t like.
Don’t get pushed around by textbook monopolies any more. Stand up for your rights!
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