Chegg.com ~ The College Book Rental Service - General

I know it may seem a little bit late to start this thread but I thought, if I don't start it now, it may never get done. [img]http://theithacan.org/blogs/twocents/files/2009/09/chegg_logo_v3.png[/img] [b]What Is Chegg?!!?!1[/b] Chegg is a cheap college book rental service that lets you rent college books at a low rate by the semester. There are other time options like by the half-semester or just a week (but who wants a book for just a week). If you decide that you want the book, just go into your account and choose to buy it. They will sell the book to you at a used price that is cheaper than any bookstore. [b]But Onox...I already have my books.[/b] Wait for next semester then you fucking idiot. [b]Onox, this sounds a lot like one of those marketing ploys, kind of like lockerz.[/b] So it does. Well just to clarify, I got all of my books, four in fact, for $117. That's super fucking cheap. About a day before my first week of classes ended, I went to my bookstore and bought all of my books, which came out to around $450. Just my Art History book alone cost me $170. Fuck that. So I talked to my step-sister Amy and she recommended Chegg. [b]Onox, what do I do when I'm done with my books or the time is up?[/b] Silly rascal, you put them in the prepaid box and send them through your local post office. [b]That's it? Do I get any cool shit? [/b] Yes and no. It depends what your definition of cool is. When the package is shipped to you, the box that contains your book also contains a brochure, your books, an orange Chegg beanie, and a Chegg pen. Look at these sexy boxes, holy shit. [img]http://www.mnn.com/sites/default/files/user-1822/cheggpix.jpg[/img] [b]What if my books are shit and falling apart?[/b] Every book has a 30 day moneyback guarantee that if you aren't satisfied, you can return the book free of charge, and they will refund your money. [b]What if I need the other stuff, like the learning CD's that are contained or the cassette tapes that I need to listen to?[/b] Is this the 90's? No? Shit...Well it just so happens that Chegg puts forth an effort to provide the customer with the CD's contained in the books. :siren: This only applies to U.S. :siren: I'm currently trying to get a referral code for Facepunch so you guys can get 20% off your total rental. If it benefits me in any way, sweet, but if it doesn't, that 20% would still be awesome. :frogsiren: 10% off your first total purchase. :frogsiren: [highlight] You can even sell your books! [/highlight] [img]http://probargainhunter.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/chegg_students.JPG[/img] [url=www.chegg.com] Chegg - Cheap Book Rental Service [/url]

The commercials were very odd.

Totally bookmarking this and saving it for college. Seems pretty legit and I've heard about alot of websites trying to come up with innovative ideas for cheap textbooks. Thanks.

I thought this was all cool and good. Then I read 'America only'. Damn you.

[QUOTE=Pajama Sam;20295914]Totally bookmarking this and saving it for college. Seems pretty legit and I've heard about alot of websites trying to come up with innovative ideas for cheap textbooks. Thanks.[/QUOTE] College = :mad: Chegg = :downs:

[QUOTE=Pajama Sam;20295914]Totally bookmarking this and saving it for college. Seems pretty legit and I've heard about alot of websites trying to come up with innovative ideas for cheap textbooks. Thanks.[/QUOTE] This! Thanks for the information, I'm currently a senior in High School and this will be super helpful to me next year.

American?

What?

I just use bigwords.com, and I keep my textbooks. I end up paying probably like 30% more than I would with Chegg, but I get to keep the books. Bigwords has this cool thing where you add all your textbooks, then it finds the best combination of stores to use. It's nice, because I like to keep some of my textbooks, in case I have to look back on old material.

works great. i love it

I am considering using this. First, though, I need to find out which books are required for this semester. It's Thursday night tonight and I start school on Monday. shiiitttt

You know when you should have posted this? [b]BEFORE the semester began, unnghhh.[/b]

[QUOTE=.Cheezy.;20300720]I am considering using this. First, though, I need to find out which books are required for this semester. It's Thursday night tonight and I start school on Monday. shiiitttt[/QUOTE] The class materials should be listed with the class information, look it up on your schools site, if not, see if you can find the professors e-mail and ask them so you can get them in time or close enough.

I am against Chegg.com for a couple of reasons: 1st, you can get books cheap from Amazon and Half.com, and you don't have to send them back when you are done. 2nd, [B]you can't annotate or highlight the books from Chegg.com.[/B] There have been tons of studies about the connection between reading and annotating a text . . . and annotating the text helps with [B]long term retention[/B] of the material learned. Meaning, annotating = learning. Chegg doesn't let you annotate meaning you don't learn. [B]Why the fuck are you in college if you don't want to learn???[/B]

Only in America :911:

People highlight text?

om nom cheap college books

Ha, I'm half Native, so I get college paid by them. And I'm going into the Marines, so if the TRIBE can't pay it, the Marines will cover it. [editline]11:16AM[/editline] <-- Whitest Native in the world

Good deal of my friends just use Amazon. And give the books to their younger siblings/friends who buy it off them.

I figured now would be an opportune time to bump the thread considering that school is starting soon for a lot of students.

Wow this is actually pretty useful.

I buy and keep every college book I have had for the last 4 years. I am a chemistry major, so I have a shit load of different chemistry books. They are my treasure. Never selling them or whatever.

As someone with a non-wealthy background, this would be useful to me. Thank you.

That's what it's for.

Will save this thread for a couple years

Oh wow, thanks for posting. I'm considering giving this a try. Buying/selling textbooks every semester is a pain.

Since I'm majoring in Welding and getting an Associates in Art as well, I have tons of books I want to keep and others I couldn't care less to see burn. Seems like it'd be useful for my Associates instead of forking out a hundred bucks for a book I'm only going to use once, and then stick on a shelf because the college bookstore won't buy back at reasonable prices. Thanks, OP. [/thumbs up]

This is just silly. Sure you can a shiny new book to read from, but you can't notate and you get charges for damage done. You're really not even saving [i]that[/i] much money. My recommendation is BUY IT USED. A lot of used books don't even have annotation/that much annotation in them. Also, most of the time you'll find the books for under half price. Hell, if you're lucky you could get them really cheap. I was lucky enough to find a fifty dollar book for $3.75 + $3.99 shipping. Try half.com - I wouldn't guarantee it for all your books, but you can certainly find some great deals there. Also, if you're going to a halfway decent school there's a good chance they run some sort of book exchange program. I'm going to University of Illinois and some of the used copies are surprisingly cheap.

I like how their logo is like, a fucking egg.

Just used this yesterday, super excited. I went to eastern Illinois university for 3 years where they charged a flat fee on top of tuition and you got to rent books (like $150). When I moved to back to Chicago, my new university... Almost 600 for 4 classes.