CampusBookRentals @textbookrentals – See How I Saved $200 On Two Textbooks!

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I’m gearing up for another semester of college, which starts in the beginning of February. One of the Comm classes I am taking requires not one, but two, textbooks. Talk about throwing salt onto the wound! It would cost me almost $300 to buy two used textbooks! When I saw the price of the textbooks on the college website I was flabbergasted, as I seem to always be when I look at college bookstore prices. No matter how many times I see college bookstore pricing I still can’t believe it. If you’re a long term reader of Mom Knows It All you may even recall seeing me mention that before graduating with my Associates degree I actually wrote a big newspaper feature on college textbook pricing, and how expensive it is.

The college bookstore doesn’t offer any rentals except for ebook rentals. While I love ebooks for pleasure, I need real paper pages in my textbooks, pages in a full size format that I can highlight as I see fit. Fortunately for me I know about CampusBookRentals.com.

CampusBookRentals carries a HUGE selection of textbooks. All of the textbooks are US edition, meaning they’re the same textbooks you’d get from your college bookstore. Well they’re not exactly the same – they’re a lot cheaper! Students can save 40-90% off of bookstore prices by renting their texts from CampusBookRentals. Plus, CampusBookRentals offers free shipping both ways!

That’s right, you read those pictures right. By renting I will save over $200!!!!

Aside from the amount of money you can save by renting your textbooks from them, there are three more really important things to know about renting from CampusBookRentals.

• You can highlight in rented textbooks.
• You determine when your book is due back. If a suggested rental period doesn’t suit your needs, you set your own return date.
• CampusBookRentals donates to Operation Smile with each textbook rented. Operation Smile is an organization that performs life changing cleft lip surgeries on children whose families could not otherwise afford it.

Here’s a brief video that explains how renting textbooks from CampusBookRentals works.

Wait, there’s more! If you’re like me you already have some college textbooks that you purchased. You know which ones I mean. The textbooks that the college bookstore wouldn’t buy back. The textbooks that the college didn’t want to pay you more then a dollar or two for so you decided to keep them instead. Now you can actually do something with those textbooks besides use them as an expensive paperweight or bookend.

RentBack is a recently introduced program that allows students to rent the textbooks they own to other students. This service makes you the student money, on average it’s 2-4x more money compared to what you’d make through college bookstore buyback programs.

Here’s a brief video explaining how RentBack works.

If you or someone in your family is in need of college textbooks, CampusBookRentals should definitely be the first place you look.

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