Archives for January 2008
We heart NYU!
The Washington Square News at New York University wrote up a great story on our NYU launch… Students get free storefront.
Marc Beja, who wrote the piece, tracked down a great quote from NYU sophomore, Amy Armani, “Usually, I would just sell my textbooks back to the NYU bookstore for the pitiful 50 percent or […]
We’re big in Texas!
This week we launched at University of Texas at Austin and The Daily Texan ran a great piece introducing Uloop to the campus – Uloop offers textbook options via online sales.
Sabrina Vera interviewed our amazing UT reps, Linda and Nancy (pictured), as well as Skip and me. Sabrina was a pleasure to talk with […]
Student Textbook Exchange
Friends don’t let friends flush their money away at the bookstore.
I’m serious! Look at the math…
At a bookstore the average new textbook costs $102.44*. But with Uloop the average price is just $37! That’s $65 per book in savings just by using Uloop. Eat your heart out Amazon! Students win with Uloop.
Even when students sell […]
Happy Birthday Uloop!
That’s right! For a solid year now Uloop has been making it easier for students to buy and sell textbooks, find roommates, housing, and even jobs!
In the last year we’ve seen a lot of action on the site. Here are a few highlights:
10,299 textbooks listed – averaging 64% off of retail prices* with an estimated […]
