Summer rental list submissions are open now! Maximize the savings your store offers students and provide more options in 2025.
Summer rental list submissions are open now! Maximize the savings your store offers students and provide more options in 2025.
Topics: textbook rental, MBS Rental, student affordability
Spring rental list submissions are open now! Maximize the savings your store offers students and provide more options in 2025.
Fall list submissions are open now to get quotes for rentals and/or guaranteed buyback! This gives stores a great opportunity to get guaranteed rebate amounts and ensure your store can maximize the savings you offer to students. Guaranteed quotes are simple to get and provide a lot of value for stores.
Summer rental list submissions are open now! Maximize the savings your store offers students and provide more options in 2024.
Topics: MBS Rental, textbook buyback, campus book rentals
Spring rental list submissions are open now! Maximize the savings your store offers students and provide more options in 2024.
Fall list submissions are open now to get quotes for rentals and/or guaranteed buyback! This gives stores a great opportunity to get guaranteed rebate amounts and ensure your store can maximize the savings you offer to students. Guaranteed quotes are simple to get and provide a lot of value for stores.
Topics: MBS Rental, textbook buyback, course material trends
There are many different types of shipments you may need to send to MBS throughout the year. To help simplify shipping, we have consolidated the various shipping instructions you might need into one post that you can easily bookmark or print for future access and review.
Topics: MBS Risk-Free Rental, MBS Rental
The word “fad” exists for a reason.
Some retail phases come and go — selfie stick, anyone? — and just because something’s popular, doesn’t mean your store should jump on board. With rental you should just wait and see, right?
Wrong.
Rental has shaken up the textbook industry over the last five years, and the staying power of this trend indicates that it isn't going to lose traction any time soon. If your store doesn’t currently offer rentals, now is the time to seriously consider it.
Topics: buyback, textbook rental, college store stories, MBS Rental
We all know that price is essential to winning student business. And, convenience is the key to keeping it. In order to gain continued sales from any customer, you have to ensure that your store’s processes are simple and seamless for both your staff and your students; which is exactly why Stacy Elofir, director of University Store at Towson University, decided to create an after-hours drop off option for rental returns.
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