02-25-2011, 11:58 AM
irnbru Wrote:After paying for the last two courses with Excelsior I looked at the required textbook. $237.50 How much? Two hundred dollars? Buy second hand for $178.00, save $59.50!
Right, no. Ordered the international edition. It's exactly the same textbook, content in English, printed on slightly lower quality paper with a different title.
$35.50, including postage. When it finally arrived, price tag on the back stated 63 Yuan; so, about $9.50. Obviously I had no problem with the reseller markup considering it saved me two hundred dollars.
Education can be such a business so it definitely pays to shop around. Provided you purchase based on the ISBN it's highly recommended.
Glad to hear that another person has had success with the international edition. Textbooks have always been expensive, but I seriously don't remember them costing more than 150 back in 1993... they really have gone up in price.
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ISSA Certified Nutritionist
COSC BS, Business Admin
My BS Credits:
Spanish 80 | Humanities 67 | A & I Lit 72 | Sub Abuse 452 | Bus Ethics 445 | Tech Writ 62 | Math 53 | HTYH 454 | Am. Govt 65 | Env & Humanity 64 | Marketing 65 | Micro 61| Mgmt 63| Org Behavior 65| MIS 446|Computing 432 | BL II 61 | M&B 50 | Finance 411 | Supervision 437| Intro Bus. 439| Law Enforcement 63| SL: Accounting I B | Accounting II C+| Macro A | ECE: Labor Relations A | Capstone: A| FEMA PDS Cert
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