Depressed - my kid's backpack was stolen

Dinmor
Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:36:18 +0000

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Yep–I’d notify the bookstore manager ASAP to ask staff to be on the lookout for a midterm effort to sell the book back (thieves can be stupid). The mgr. doesn’t want this to be easy to do; s/he’d much rather sell brand new books for $200!

For future, a little something to prove ownership: I always put my surname in BIG bright color marker letters on the top, side and bottom edges of my closed “keeper” textbooks to make them a little less attractive to potential thieves. If I planned to sell a book, I would just put my name on the bottom edge, which I would then “cross out” with the same color before resale. It had no effect on the books’ resale value or usefulness, and made it possible to hide my name in plain sight.