Deal Of The Week: Skype: Take 20 percent off all 12-month Skype subscriptions until Wednesday, Sept 16 here. It's a one-time only deal and doesn't work on one or three-month packages. Discount applied at check out.
Other Weekly Deals: Best Buy: Get free shipping on the latest iPods at Best Buy. These models have new and improved features, including a super-cool Multi-Touch for the nanohere.
Restaurant.com: Take 70% off $25 gift certificates from Restaurant.com with Consumer United's special code SPORK through Sunday, Sept. 19 here.
Priceline: Last-minute deals up to 50 percent off on flights, hotels, cars and vacation packages here.
CollegeBookRental.com: Heading back to college? Rent your books instead of buying them and save up to 85 percent on your textbooks using CollegeBookRenter.com
Deal Of The Week: Best Buy: Hit campus with the coolest new camera from Best Buy. Back-to-school shoppers will save 5 to 20 percent on select digital cameras, plus free shipping, until Saturday, Sept. 11 here.
Other Weekly Deals: Priceline: Last-minute deals up to 50 percent off on flights, hotels, cars and vacation packages here.
CollegeBookRental.com: Heading back to college? Rent your books instead of buying them and save up to 85 percent on your textbooks using CollegeBookRenter.com here.
Restaurant.com: Before heading back to school, take 70% off $25 gift certificates from Restaurant.com with Consumer United's special code SAVORY through Tuesday, Sept. 7 here.
GiftCards.com: With students heading back to school, save 25 percent on a slew of gift cards here.
Deal Of The Week: Best Buy: Score a hot deal on a new HDTV this football season. Best Buy has great values on TVs under $900, including name brands like Samsung, LG and Panasonic here until Saturday, Sept. 4. Plus, save big when they hook everything up with 5% - 15% off select home theater accessories here.
Other Weekly Deals: CollegeBookRental.com: Heading back to college? Rent your books instead of buying them and save up to 85 percent on your textbooks using CollegeBookRenter.com here.
Restaurant.com: Before heading back to school, take 80% off $25 gift certificates from Restaurant.com with Consumer United's special code CLEARANCE though Tuesday, Aug. 31 here.
GiftCards.com: With students heading back to school, save 25 percent on a slew of gift cards here.
Don't judge a book by its cover. Instead, save the criticism for the hefty sticker price traditional campus books stores charge for required texts.
On a budget? No problem.
With college students shelling out hundreds--sometimes thousands--of dollars on textbooks each year, the latest back-to-school savings rage is renting required texts. In fact. the college bookseller branch of Barnes & Noble recently announced that it expanded its multi-channel textbook rental program to hundreds of colleges and universities.
The program, which is offered through campus bookstores managed by Barnes & Noble, has already resulted in thousands of students renting their fall textbooks and, by the end of the back-to-school season, will provide millions of higher education students, and their families, significant savings off the high cost of college textbooks.
Along with delivering savings of more than 50 percent over the cost of purchasing a new, printed textbook, Barnes & Noble’s rental program contains the features higher education students want most, including:
* The convenience of renting their books either in the campus bookstore or from the bookstore’s Web site, eliminating the need to pay shipping costs or wait for their books to arrive in the mail * The choice to return their rental textbooks to the campus bookstore or via mail using free return shipping * The flexibility to use a wide variety of rental fee payment options, including financial aid and campus debit cards, as well as cash and credit cards * The ability to highlight and take notes in their rented books * The freedom to keep their books for up to ten days after the last day of finals * The comfort of getting automated, reminder emails alerting them that the rental period is ending and to return their books to the bookstore
Also, Consumer United has teamed up with CollegeBookRenter.com, an online alternative where students can rent or sell college textbooks. Renting online can save you as much as 85 percent on your textbook costs.
Click here for the lowdown on CollegeBookRenter.com.
Deal Of The Week: Best Buy: Too cool for school? Best Buy has everything college students need to feel at home this fall. They've got a back-to-school package which includes a laptop, HDTV, printer, headphones, backpack and Blu-ray movie. It's a full-campus solution
Other Weekly Deals: CollegeBookRental.com: Heading back to college? Rent your books instead of buying them and save up to 85 percent on your textbooks using CollegeBookRenter.com here.
Restaurant.com: Before heading back to school, take 80% off $25 gift certificates from Restaurant.com with Consumer United's special code CLEARANCE though Tuesday, Aug. 31 here.
GiftCards.com: With students heading back to school, save 25 percent on a slew of gift cards here.
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