Word: coops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reply to Johanna M. Lessinger's letter to the editors of the CRIMSON concerning the Coop's textbook pricing (Oct. 9), I have checked the incident mentioned in the letter and find that our textbook department was entirely at fault...
...many years The Coop has had a standard method of buying and reselling textbooks. We believe that we are one of the few book stores handling secondhand books where both the buyer and seller know exactly what per cent of the list price the book is being either bought or sold at. A schedule of our policy is available for our customers at the buy-back counter. Quoting from the schedule dated April 1, 1963 for required and recommended titles, our policy is as follows: Buy Sell Excellent Condition 50% of retail 70% of retail Good Condition 40% of retail...
...Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall sponsored by the Law School Forum. Gordon will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Dunster House Common Room on "American Foreign Policy in Latin America." Tickets for Sir Patrick's speech sell at the door or at the Coop...
Today I went into the Coop Textbook Annex to buy a used sociology book. They had a shelf full of used books, all stamped $6.80, although most of the books still had their former prices stamped in the front too. The original selling prices ranged from $4.95 to $6.65. When we asked the book buyer why the book was selling, used, for a higher price than it had originally cost its first owner, he at first denied any knowledge of what the other numbers meant. He finally begain to claim that the book might have sold for less...
...finally bought the same book at Barnes and Noble for $6.10. Although I only saved two cents, counting the Coop's 10 per cent, it's the principle of the thing that counts. Johanna M. Lessinger...