Hi, We're Wildcat Textbooks!

I know that we probably have somewhere around 5-6 loyal readers of this blog. However, if anyone reading this article got here because they googled "cheap textbooks and witty banter", let me give you the down-low on the goings-on here at this bookstore. See, we are kind of small-time on U.K.'s campus, but we're looking to change that. In this article, I hope to explain what it is we do here, while giving examples of what befuddles the living hell out of me about this industry at the same time.


First, ever since I've graced the University of Kentucky with my presence, whether as a student or as a bookstore employee, all I've ever heard about is how expensive textbooks are. Now, this has become more interesting to me since I came to Wildcat Textbooks. The reason is we do everything we can to sell the cheapest textbooks on U.K.'s campus. As a matter of fact, only three times was our lowest price guarantee even in doubt and all three times we adjusted the one to two dollar difference to retain the title of "least expensive bookstore this side of the Mississippi".


None of that surprises me - it's fun to scrounge around for the cheapest books, even if it's more work. What does surprise me is the number of people who still go to the bookstore that's found in the student center even though their books are far, far more expensive than ours. This will all change as we enter our second and third years here at this company, but right now it's frustrating. For instance, if I have one more phone call where a person says "I've looked EVERYWHERE for this book - do you have it there " I'm going to crawl through the phone and give them an atomic wedgie. Why do you have to tell me you did everything you could to NOT call here and get the book? I have a dog, maybe you could come by the house and kick her.


Jesus.


My point is, if the prices are that damn important of an issue, then y'all best start coming here to get your books and stay away from the store with the wall to wall carpeting. Our books are so cheap it stinks to high heaven in our store every time it rains because our roof has holes in it the size of those found in JFK conspiracy theories. And we have no carpeting of any kind. So there.