If you’ve been wandering around campus today, maybe you’ve seen my buddy Ricky canvassing the quad and campus center with GetchaBooks.com swag. Maybe you talked to him and heard about how GetchaBooks can help you save up to and over 50% on your textbooks this year, without the hassle of the bookstore and with all the convenience. I hope you have, but if not, fear not, because W2FY sat down with the man himself and learned all there is to know about GetchaBooks. And, we’re so excited about it, we’ve gotten together with the GetchaBooks team to help you save even more with a $50 gift card to Amazon.com.
So what is GetchaBooks, exactly? Well during orientation as a freshman, Ricky found that getting books was a pain in the fucking ass (my words, not his). It was expensive, time consuming, and tedious. But being a freshman, he had no idea what to do.
Fastforward a year and half. Ricky is in a computer engineering class and finds himself teamed up with a good group of guys. They finish their project and think “hey, we should do something else together.” One of the kids realizes he can get the TU booklist from the Barnes and Noble website, and an idea is struck: we should figure out a way to cut into those fuckers at the bookstore! They overcharge for books, and shit, we shouldn’t have to pay that much for a shitty used copy of The Golden Ass! (Again, I’m paraphrasing, Ricky’s a much more mellow kid.)
Anyway, the team hacked together a pretty barebones, but very workable, site in the week before spring semester last year, printed some illegal flyers, and hoped for the best. Turns out, they had a pretty fucking fantastic idea! Kids loved the site, and GetchaBooks was solidified.
This summer Ricky and the GetchaBooks team tweaked the site, rewrote some code, and made the whole thing a hell of a lot easier. So easy, in fact, if you have your course schedule in front of you, you can get all your books in five minutes, at a cost far lower than the bookstore. Plus, you don’t have to deal with the hassle of carrying 50 lbs of books back to your room–instead, get them shipped right to mail services! (Or your house, if you’re ab upperclassman.)
So yeah, GetchaBooks is legit.
Now, you’re probably thinking, this is all good and shit, but how do I win a $50 Amazon card? Well, here’s how. Go to the special W2FY promo site on GetchaBooks (GetchaBooks.com/W2FY) and go through the process like normal. Order your books, and take a screenshot of your order confirmation screen. Send that to getchabooks@w2fy.com (blurring, of course, all your confidential info), and wait. At the end of the next week, we’ll pick one lucky winner to receive a $50 Amazon gift card, which they can then promptly spend on beer. You can buy that on Amazon, right?
If you have any questions, feel free to email us. And spread the word, because even if you don’t win the gift card, the more you and your friends save on books, the more you spend on getting hammered. Use the Share This button below to send things on Facebook and Twitter.
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