Most everyone who has stepped onto a college campus has probably wandered into the campus bookstore, to either look at the over priced propaganda or to help someone buy books for an upcoming semester. Anyhow, the bookstore at Temple is a wreck. I wont mention who we are affiliated with, but if you insist on knowing Google would do the trick. So, I drove down to campus two days ago to get my books, with the hope of trying to beat the beginning of semester rush that is just oh-so fun. I was looking for a book for my intro accounting class; a book that, I was told, should only cost $79 brand new, all access codes included and all that jazz. I was told this by email by the prof teaching the class, with confirmation from both a manager of the bookstore and by the distributor of said textbook.
Take a guess what happened next. Yep, more than 3 fine TU bookstore employees showed me where the book should have been. Not only was it NOT new, no access codes were there, nor anything else that should have been attached. And the price wasnt $79, either.
I despise the bookstore. The managers have gotta be in the back laughing the whole way to the bank as they see kids like me shelling out $500 a semester for books that, frankly, I probably will never read. (Note to self, if you want to start a business, open a bookstore on a college campus. Knock down the prices of the other bookstore just a tad, and bingo, you're golden). In our bookstore, books that should cost $60 cost $90. When you want to sell them back, you'll be lucky to get $20 back for the same book you paid $90 just three months ago. The bookstore, in turn, will sell your book for at least $50 in profit to some sucker next semester.