College Students: Save big, Before Buying Textbooks Consider Options
A guide to saving money when buying textbooks, music, DVDs and games for college and graduate students. This guide has suggestions for how to get the most out of using the Internet and Price Comparison Engines (PCEs).
Annapolis, MD (PRWEB) September 21, 2006 -- Heading into its 6th year of protecting the Universe from high textbook prices http://BIGWORDS.com presents a guide to buying textbooks, music, DVDs and Games for the beleaguered students.
Recently Federal watchdogs have concluded that college textbook prices in California and the rest of the country have increased at twice the rate of inflation over the past two decades and that publishers are largely responsible. Congress called for an independent study by the Federal Government Accountability Office regarding textbook pricing.
Separately, the GAO released a report saying that there is a growing practice by publishers of including expensive new supplements, which are rarely or never used by 65% of faculty, and limiting the opportunity for students to purchase used textbooks.
In this climate students need relief and the Internet is uniquely positioned to provide that relief. The Internet democratizes access to a National and International marketplace for both buying and selling books of which students should take advantage.
As the leading textbook price search engine (PCE) website BIGWORDS.com offers this guide to saving money using the Internet.
1) Use a price comparison engine (PCE) website to find the absolute lowest prices for your books and which takes into account the best combination of price, promotions and delivery. There are hundreds of online vendors, all competing wildly for your business. Turn competition in your favor by letting vendors compete for your business, instead of succumbing to the pseudo monopoly imposed by your local market bookstores and competing with your classmates for the relatively tiny pool of books available locally. Using BIGWORDS.com the average student saves $71, with many students saving over $100 per order, and that is taking into account any shipping costs.
2) Use a PCE website that takes into account, and uses, the latest and most cost saving coupons and promotions available. BIGWORDS.com knows about the very best promotions and coupons available, resulting in even more substantial savings, free shipping and other bonuses. Some of which are only available at BIGWORDS.com. And, BIGWORDS.com builds these offers into its search automatically. That means students get the benefit of coupons and promotions without wasting time searching through hundreds of coupon websites.
3) Use a PCE website that allows for multiple book price comparisons and orders. If students have to put each book in and search for it individually they are missing their chance to use the volume of books they order to gain even more savings. BIGWORDS.com allows students to search for all their books at once. BIGWORDS.com blazes through the multitude of permutations possible when buying multiple books from hundreds of vendors to find the very best combination. This saves a tremendous amount of time. As well, BIGWORDS.com tells students the best way to combine their purchases from various sellers in order to maximize their savings - taking into account the many promotions, coupons and deals that are built into BIGWORDS.com.
4) Use an impartial PCE website. BIGWORDS.com guarantees its impartiality. PCE websites make money when students buy their books from the vendors to which the PCE website sends them. Some vendors offer larger commissions than others, leading some PCE sites to skew their results in order to send students to the vendors which give larger commissions. BIGWORDS.com does not do this. BIGWORDS.com is totally dedicated to serving students.
"BIGWORDS.com will save students well over $3 Million this year. It makes us very happy and proud to be putting that money back in the hands of students through the savings we provide them," said Jeff Sherwood, CEO of BIGWORDS.com.
About BIGWORDS
BIGWORDS.com is a privately held price comparison engine web site where college students, and others, can get the lowest online prices on textbooks, school supplies, music, DVDs and games. The BIGWORDS brand is owned by BIGGER WORDS, Inc, Annapolis, MD. To find out more please visit www.BIGWORDS.com
*about the stats: The data used to provide the savings info was collected from our log files, and includes recent pricing data. The cost savings is calculated by taking the retail price of the books without shipping and comparing it to the best price BIGWORDS.com could find with shipping. As you can see, we could have shown even greater savings by adding shipping to the retail price but we figured, "Hey, you know what? That's good enough. If they went to their bookstore they wouldn't be paying shipping, so the retail price is what they'd probably wind up paying. Let's show the students, who we love and admire, how much they'll actually save, not some made up marketing hype mumbo jumbo 'if you buy seventeen of these and 4 of those from this special made up list that only exists in another dimension' kind of number that only marketing hype mumbo jumbo people can truly understand, and even that might be overstated.’" As such, the data is susceptible to error, and may not be statistically valid - but it's pretty darn good.
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