Text messaging and college textbooks are in the list of largest retail mark ups

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/108729/americas-biggest-ripoffs

text messaging at 6,500%

Textbooks are pretty freakin ridiculous. No sense in college bookstores raping already broke college kids.

Text books fall into that category that (in many cases) has a third party payer that usually translates to higher costs. It's BS, and you are over a barrel.

first semester my books cost me $650, this semester, buying all my books on half.com they only cost $200

UA5straightin2008 wrote: first semester my books cost me $650, this semester, buying all my books on half.com they only cost $200

half.com and amazon are great sites if you're looking to save money. I can usually sell the books I bought online to the bookstores for more money then I originally paid.