Buyback Summer 2014- Four Handy Reminders

Buyback for Summer 2014 begins today and lasts through Friday, July 25th, 8AM to 5PM, at the OTC Springfield campus. Here are some handy reminders to make the book-selling experience an easy one:

-OTC SmartCard required. We've been lenient about this in the past, but now it's very important that you bring along your OTC SmartCard so that we can verify your status as an OTC student. If you haven't registered for a SmartCard yet (shame shame!), please visit the bookstore at the OTC Springfield campus, or the main offices of any of our extended campuses in Richwood Valley, Lebanon, Waynesville, or Table Rock. If you've registered for your card and haven't received it yet, please bring in the pamphlet you were given upon registering for verification.

-Sell back early. Our buyback methodology hinges on one important phrase: supply and demand. Our need for textbooks is highest on the first day of buyback. Every semester we buy back a certain number of each book, depending on how many we need to have enough supply for all the students enrolled in the classes for that semester. Simply put, the more books we buy, the higher our supply becomes. The higher our supply becomes, the less demand we have for more. The less demand we have for more, the less money we pay out. Once the demand for more textbooks is gone, we quit purchasing them.

-Bring all supplemental materials. If your textbook comes as part of a package that includes multiple books, CDs, DVDs, or the like, please bring those with you. We may be still be able to buy the textbook back from you without the additional materials, but we'll often pay a decent sum more if they're included. Unfortunately, some books we are unable to accept without said materials.

-Please be understanding! Frankly, we wish we could buy back every book customers bring in to us. Unfortunately, from a financial standpoint, we simply can't. As has been said already, sometimes we're unable to buy a textbook because we either have all the supply we need or we can't resell the book without the supplemental materials. Sometimes the department that adopts the textbook you used last semester decides to switch to an updated edition or even a new book entirely. Sometimes the books brought in are damaged. For more information on why we may be unable to buy back your book, please refer to this blog post. Rest assured that we'll do whatever it takes to buy your books if we can!

With these pointers in mind, you're equipped with all the knowledge you need to be a successful book seller...backer.

We may need to come up with a better name for that.

'Twas the Workday Before Buyback (The Needlessly Wordy, Non-Rhyming Version)

‘Twas the workday before buyback, and all through the
store, not a creature was stirring...except for the management and employees getting everything ready so that the book buyback process would be a smooth procedure without any problems.

The power chord was hung from the ceiling with care…
...because if it wasn’t, then we wouldn’t have any power going to the computers, which is an integral aspect of being able to successfully conduct a buyback transaction.

The students will nestle, all snug in their beds…

...wondering if they will be able to sell back their books, because admittedly,
sometimes it varies whether or not we’re buying certain materials back.

From day in to day out there will be quite a clatter…
...because with this being the buyback season, we have a great deal more traffic than usual, and many students will be entering and leaving the store at any given time.

Their eyes-how they twinkle! Their dimples how merry!
…because being able to be rid of class materials that they no longer want whilst making a decent profit is an appealing prospect.

So happy buyback to all, and to all…
…please sell your books back to us, as good clientele is the lifeblood of a retail establishment, and without your patronage, we couldn’t stay in business and our employees would be out of work.

'Twas the Workday Before Buyback

(The person responsible for posting this blog was told to do so on Friday, which would have made this posting a bit more timely.., enjoy nonetheless.)

‘Twas the workday before buyback
And all through the store
Not a creature was stirring
But the managers four* 

*We actually have seven managers, but seven doesn’t rhyme with “store.” Sorry, I’m a blogger, not a poet.

 

The signs were hung from the ceiling with care
In the hopes that on Monday, students would be there
Lining up in droves to sell back their books
Even if we don’t buy them, we’ll at least take a look

Sell us your stuff! Your art books, your chemistry
How much will we pay? The prices are mysteries!
We take math books, geography, business and Spanish
Line your pockets with cash, feel your backpack weight vanish!

Arrive early as possible to beat all the lines
We open our doors an hour before nine 

Supply and demand's the order of the day 

The earlier you sell, the more money we pay

So be ready for buyback on Monday the third 

Do not forget the things you have heard!
The best prices are here. Do not doubt my word

Selling somewhere else?

Why, that’s just absurd!