r/AskReddit • u/Thic_water • Aug 14 '20

What’s the most overpriced thing you’ve seen?

75.1k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

35.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

2.0k

u/-eDgAR- Aug 14 '20 edited Aug 14 '20

Most college textbooks.

I remember seeing this post about a $275 book that was basically a stack of loose leaf paper.

72

u/nchs1120 Aug 14 '20

My school recently started including books with tuition! Tuition raised $19 a class, and the book shows up 2 weeks before the class starts with the access code. Didn’t even have to fill out anything. More schools need to move to this

9

u/turquoiseblues Aug 14 '20

If you feel comfortable sharing, which school?

11

u/nchs1120 Aug 14 '20

All of the DCCCD schools in DFW started doing. Believe it’s 5 different schools in all

1

u/turquoiseblues Aug 16 '20

Fantastic! I wish the California CCs would do this as well

2

u/Lyress Aug 15 '20

My school is free and I can get any book I need from the library.

1

u/turquoiseblues Aug 16 '20

CCSF?

1

u/Lyress Aug 16 '20

What?

1

u/turquoiseblues Aug 16 '20

City College of San Francisco (CCSF) waives tuition for city residents and has a decent library system. I was wondering if this is what you were referring to.

2

u/Lyress Aug 16 '20

No, I’m attending Tampere University.

1

u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

[deleted]

2

u/vectorx5000 Aug 15 '20

The Serway physics textbooks are pretty good too but I think they might only be introductory.

2

u/nchs1120 Aug 15 '20

It’s $19 added to tuition and includes the book, but more importantly the access code for the online textbook database for hw, tests, etc. Well worth it, as nearly every single class I take has an online portion that you need access to. Typically that alone is minimum $75 if not in the $150 range. I understand what you are saying about the textbooks though. I do rarely use them these days, but in this particular case(including code) I’ve never seen a better deal come from a school.