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Show mVm, THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE MONDAY, JANUARY 10, unless you want horrible service, late books and a bad trip online. is si) 1 BRIAN MURRAY Thrnnirlo Director I HANK GOD WE ALL D!D- n't blow up at that dramatic stoke of midnight. If we had, then we wouldn't have to worry about school, though. The hassles of shopping for supplies and books and shelling out lots of dough for tuition wouldn't even exist. We, however, also wouldn't exist. We're still here, and that means we must endure yet another semester at the University of Utah. However, it doesn't mean that it needs to be a bumpy ride. The latest. Internet craze is alive and well: ordering textbooks online. plethora of online book stores these offer discounts, and lots of goodies to please college students with little money in their pockets. Buying anything online is risky. No one really knows what to expect when he or she gets a big box from an online retailer. Sure, it can be more convenient sitting at a computer in only a pair of underwear and ordering textbooks online. However, when something does go wrong, there's unfortunately more to it than just taking a book back to the store. In order to truly find out how convenient these bookstores were, I purchased a different book from three of them last semester. I also recently did a check to see whether 's or not each site offered Louis A has opened; free delivery Poj-man- Ethical Theory. out of 5 rating: bigwords.com is the winner in the race for the best college bookstore online. This particular company has decided to sell books to college students by using a colorful site display and incorporating If you are just starting to buy your books online, or anything online for that matter, ecampus.com is the place to go. ecampus.com actually goes beyond just selling so it has a more difficult time per- suading its customers to send back their books at the end of the semester. However, J look forward to seeing ecCfTipus.com grow in the future. ecGmpiiS.com only had a new ver- sion of Louis Pojman's Ethical ory, at a cost of $53.16. see WEB 3ITC-ihG- free & discount tickets available for U of U Students - .... 1 'grpb? ffi a j 4 ' . In the search for Pojman's Ethi- cal Theory, bigwords.com came up with a used price of $50.96, and a new price of $63.19. bigwords.com h. offers a three-wee- k book buyback with the original receipt . After that, it's 50 of the original price. www.textboe??s.com out of 5 rating: textbooks.com hasn't quite found the niche it needs in order to keep up with its fellow online bookstore competitors. I ordered The Bridegroom from textbooks.com, only to receive it five weeks after my order date, even though it was guaranteed to arrive two weeks after the initial order. After calling and complain-in- g to a voicemaii box for about ten minutes, I received an email with a coupon. To say the least, I wasn't impressed. The company advertisten-doll- mum hmiimm V The Cripple JANUARY r, seven-day-a-we- tomer service on its Web site. That simply wasn't true. No one was there to answer my call at 3 a.m. textbooks.com did not carry Ethical Theory. It did have a retail price for the book, but for some reason had chosen not to make it available this coming semester. I would highly recommend staying away from textbooks.com, that Inishmaan r iin mm nW' STUDENT TICKETS ojcJASUU Mi' l.. ihmhh! 22. 5009 j Martin M c D o n a gh U of U students can rcehre: FREE TICKETS to preview night performances FREE TICKETS to in the second balcony on opening night $4 TICKETS Opening night or on the 1 st Thursday $4 TSCKETS to any show one halt hour before curtain HALF PRICE nCXETSuMonduy - Thursdays jond Saturday Matinee in cus- ek miii TO JANUARY After paying an annual $S praccrssing fee, ar 24-hou- S tin hi IK OUSHT TO YOU advance IT Wl PIONEER fiUrrcnTcof?" Uhf Lt SmI L. UM rA V" IN Y VISA. MAISTftCAID, AMIX ACCITfD. 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Calculus arrived in three days because I emailed the company to tell it I had the class in a week. The shipping was free (ail shipping is free), and the price of the book beat the University Bookstore's by & rating: out of 5 textbooks. It sells all sorts of college merchandise and offers an online auction center for those who want to unload some of their worldly goods for some quick and easy cash. The only problem light now with ecampus.com is that it doesn't books. used offer many ecafTipus.com is somewhat new in comparison with its big brothers, 2000 582-600- 1 WC !MK We MKg To OR Urn.: One couoon per customers per vi.it. Offer i not good in combination with ony orhftr offer Good only at the Unh'onity of Utah location. Expiras 4JUW j j hop to Near from you! Get in the game! volunteer or for more information, calf, visit, or e-m- ail us. |
