Don’t buy your books…

Rent them on Chegg!

I don’t know why I haven’t heard about this site until now. Or why I dropped $300 on books (13 books on Amazon. Used. Can you believe that?!)

But the gist of it is, you pay a pretty low price to use your books for the semester. From what I can tell too, the savings are pretty hefty. Then at the end of the semeter, you send them back for free. Chegg takes care of the shipping and their site promises to be really fast.

I was curious how much money I could have saved this semester had I found out about Chegg a few weeks ago. My most expensive book, “Law of Public Communication” cost me $100 (including shipping) because I had to buy the 2010 version. But on Chegg, it would have cost me $66.22. I’m guessing that when I try to resell this book on Amazon, I’m probably not going to get more than $50 if I’m lucky.

But for some of my books this semester, renting on Chegg wouldn’t have made that much difference. My “European Politics in Transition” book cost me $50 and on Chegg it would have been about $47 to rent. It’s definitely worth buying and reselling on this one.

Moral of the story: next semester, I’m Chegging.

Posted September 4, 2009 at 3:48 pm by Libby | Share on Facebook
Categories: Saving, Shopping, Uncategorized

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