Hibbing Community College Bookstore

TEXTBOOK REFUND POLICY  
FALL 2009

REFUNDS: The last day for a full refund for FALL:  SEPTEMBER 4, 2009  The return period for FALL semester is the first 10 days of the term.  Texts for  classes meeting less than 5 weeks are usually non-refundable unless the class is  cancelled. No refunds are given for reference books. Reference books include:  study guides, lab manuals, workbooks and course books purchased by people  not enrolled in that course.  DO NOT open/unwrap book bundles until you are sure you are taking the class. ORIGINAL shrink-wrap must be in place for return.

Full refunds are given if:

1. You have your receipt.  This is REQUIRED.
2. Books must be returned within 10 days from the first day of the term.
3. Books must be in new condition. No marks, writing, hi-lighting, bent pages or corners.  Shrink-wrap must be in tact.  
4. Used books can not be returned beginning the first day of the semester.

Note:  You may be required to present your class schedule.

BUYBACK POLICY

• Book Buyback is held twice a year:  during finals at the end of fall and spring semesters.
• The next buyback dates are:  December 14-17, 2009  Fall
                                                       May 17-20, 2010 Spring

Prices are paid as follows:

1. If the text is needed by the bookstore for the upcoming semester, you will be paid 50% of the new price whether the book was purchased new or used, up to the limit needed for the next term.
2. If the text will not be used here for the next term, but is still a current edition, you will be paid the price set by the used book company.
3. Prices paid are always based on the bookstore’s need for resale.  Students get the most money for their books at the beginning of buyback, when the bookstore knows which books the instructors will be using for the upcoming term &  
   limits have not been met.

SELL YOUR BOOKS EARLY AS QUANTITIES OF BOOKS PURCHASED AT HALF PRICE MAY BE LIMITED.  Study guides, lab manuals and workbooks usually have no value.  Books replaced by a new edition usually have no value. The Bookstore may refuse to purchase any book because of its condition. 

Note:  Publishers determine the prices of books, not the bookstore.   Instructors select which books are required, not the bookstore.