Thursday, January 18, 2007

Textbook Trauma

I ordered a textbook from Half.com from a seller that has a very good rating. The book arrived very quickly and appeared to be in fine condition.

It wasn't until today when I went to do my Qualitative reading assignment this morning that I discovered that pages 81-128 are missing. For those of you not too adept at math, that is approximately 50 pages (encompassing an entire chapter and parts of two others) that are not in the book.

Astonishingly enough, that makes it slightly difficult for me to complete the assigned readings. Because I was lacking in pages, I was forced to pay an extra $2.50 to make copies from someone else's book, which is a considerable amount of money to someone with my financial standing. Additionally, the money that I had to fork over for copies severely diminishes my total savings from ordering my textbooks online. Textbook seller: please go crawl into an abandoned mine shaft and die.

Also to the seller of the book: FUCK YOU for not mentioning that minor detail in your book description. Next time, double check your product before dicking over your customers.


Note: I have sent the seller a message about this defect, so depending on the response, there may be an update to this post.

1 comment:

Gretchen Stull said...

So let's see...your book was missing 50 pages and although mine technically wasn't missing any pages in the physical sense, pages 33 to 87 were included twice, and pages 88 to 127 not at all. Wow, textbook publishers are smart.