1st Place: CollegeBookRenter.com
CollegeBookRenter.com
Renting college books saves money, but choosing the right company for your rentals requires some research. Collegebookrenter.com, one of several online rental services, is one such company with a proven track record of fulfilling students’ textbook needs. Its service is similar to the other well known rental companies, including Chegg.com and Bookrenter.com.
How it works
The site provides a straight forward interface for finding and ordering the books you need.
1) Search the textbooks available by title, author, ISBN or subject.
2) After selecting the book you need, choose your rental period – 60, 90 and 130 rentals are available.
3) Add the book to your cart and proceed to checkout, or keep shopping for the remaining books on your list.
4) Once you have all the texts you need selected, proceed to checkout where you can pay for your order and choose shipping options. Your books will be in your hands shortly.
Service Details
Collegebookrenter.com offers free shipping, unlike Chegg.com and other leading competitors. This saves you cash upfront. While Chegg.com and Bookrenter.com have 21 day refund policies – which comes in handy if a class is canceled or if you have to drop it – CollegeBbookRenter has a more limited refund policy. The period for a refund varies between 15 and 20 days depending on the initial rental period you selected. The site also has several low-cost shipping options, from standard shipping to priority overnight shipping to get your last minute order to you in time for class. Return shipping is always free, comparable to most of the major textbook rental services.
College textbook rental sites like Collegebookrenter.com save you up to 50 percent, and sometimes more, over purchasing the same textbooks at the campus book shop. Their wide selection of textbooks makes them a useful tool when assembling your school books for the upcoming term.