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The end of each semester brings with it certain stresses. From studying for finals to bidding your friends adieu for a month, there is one stress that always has received a large amount of attention from the student body: book buyback.
Over the years, students have repeatedly felt jipped and sometimes even ripped-off by the book buyback system. While this type of reaction isn’t necessarily common, it is frustrating to receive only 50 cents for something that cost you $12 — used. Well my fellow UMainer’s, there is another way now, thanks to Steven Milligan and Michael Grenier. Milligan and Grenier have created Undercutters. The web site is set up to connect book sellers with book buyers.
With a sigh of relief coming from your eased mouth, we recommend you take advantage of this great opportunity. This Web site is about as grassroots as it comes. The Maine Campus reports that Millgan saw a normal computer science web design project as a chance to start the dream.
Undercutters isn’t really a thorn in the Bookstore’s side either. While their may be some unspoken or implied animosity in each other’s organizations, it is great that students have a choice.
If the stress of the final week of classes wasn’t enough, you have the option of either selling your books back to the Bookstore or rolling the dice with the new and trendy Undercutters. Between deciding what final to study for first and when you’re going to book it off campus, keep in mind that you may be saving yourself some serious dough by taking a chance with Undercutters. Be warned though. Just because your books go up on Undercutters, doesn’t mean that they will put you in contact with someone that wants to buy them.
Undercutters only can get better with greater student participation — sign up and if it doesn’t work out, you can always sell you soul back to the Bookstore for $2.50.
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