Anonymous
map-marker Atlanta, Georgia

PrettyAngel01

I bought a book from phat campus for school and I paid for priority mail and never received the book in a two week time frame. However I finally received the book and asked that it be returned to sender. I then emailed Phat Campus to let them know this book was sent back to them and I would like a refund. After a week I didn't hear back from them. I emailed them again letting them know that book was sent back but and requested a refund. I still have not heard back from them. I will be emailing them again today or try locating a phone number to contact them for one last time. After that I will be contacting better business bureau.
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Anonymous
map-marker Pembroke Pines, Florida

Regarding Phatcampus

I will have to disagree with all of you. Phatcampus is a really good site. They sell books really cheap for a great price. What you guys don't notice is the description of the book; if it says ANNOTATED it obviously means the instructor's edition. Since some of you don't even know what it means you just purchase it because of the price. How is it their fault when you're actually being careless for your purchase? And upon ordering a book, why would you order a book at the last minute? For one books take up to 4-10 business days to arrive right? Depending the shipping method you choose of course but how can you blame them for shipping a book and then USPS loosing it in transit or claiming that they "delivered" it and it never arrived. Instead of blaming them why don't you just blame the postal service? Phatcampus is actually doing their job, all you guys want to do is blame the seller and not realize that it might not even be their fault. Think about it.
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Guest

No, they're really NOT doing their job. I just purchased a book from them through the Barnes & Noble Marketplace.

I received the wrong text, and the e-mail and phone number they provided B&N with was incorrect. I have no way of contacting this company to return the wrong textbook they sent to me. It was not an instructor's edition.

I ordered a book regarding healthcare reimbursement and was sent "Rules of Contract Law" whatever the *** that is. I have no way of receiving any money back from this company and will be contacting a lawyer.

Guest

Yeah me and my friend order some books from there and no problmz. Jest read b4 you buy. GO LONGHORNS!

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autumn a Qrw
map-marker Parkersburg, West Virginia

Eighteen days?!

So check it; i enrolled in online classes so i could focus on working, and not have to worry about heading to campus every day. i got my list of books and ordered two from amazon and one from a place called phatcampus. i ordered the book on the 19th of august and didn't get it until the 7th of october! my other two came within a week of ordering them, and it takes almost 3 weeks to get the one from phatcampus? Needless to say, i am way behind in my class, and am so pissed. Don't order your books from phatcampus if you need them right away. seriously. although the book was probably cheap, it wasn't worth it at all.
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Guest

I will have to disagree with all of you. Phatcampus is a really good site.

They sell books really cheap for a great price. What you guys don’t notice is the description of the book; if it says ANNOTATED it obviously means the instructor’s edition. Since some of you don’t even know what it means you just purchase it because of the price. How is it their fault when you’re actually being careless for your purchase?

And upon ordering a book, why would you order a book at the last minute? For one books take up to 4-10 business days to arrive right? Depending the shipping method you choose of course but how can you blame them for shipping a book and then USPS loosing it in transit or claiming that they "delivered" it and it never arrived. Instead of blaming them why don’t you just blame the postal service?

Phatcampus is actually doing their job, all you guys want to do is blame the seller and not realize that it might not even be their fault. Think about it.

Guest

Don't deliveries usually take at least 4-8 weeks. You ordered at the last minute.

Don't blame them if you ordered the books two weeks before classes start. For next year order them in June. You would not have been behind on your classes if you ordered it on time. You ordered it at the last minute looks like.

Next time take responsibility and order the books sooner. Also take responsibility for your late ordering instead of blaming them.

Guest

This is so funny, she actually considered what Jason wrote slandering. Slandering would be if Jason used her real first and last name and made false statements about her and posted it on the internet for everyone to see.

This person is a joke. I wonder why they left. I saw their posts and at first they came a few times, I guess when he/she found out that not everyone was supporting them they left. Well if you can take this to court perhaps Jason can take you to court for accusing him of being a whiny child, after all if he is not a child you are just slandering his character.

You are also calling him dumb, so in your view you are again slandering his character.

I hope your major is not law. If it I guess that we could say that you could not find the proper defination on slander since your law books did not come in. However it seems like since you wrote your last comment you had the books for a few days.

I don't know why all of a sudden you are not showing up to reply to your letters, is it because you are unhappy with what people are saying, or is it because you are studying. I hope it is the second of the two.

Guest

I must say that the person writing this letter is actually *** if they think they have an actual court case just because someone asked if they had PMS and made fun of their writing style.

Guest

I am just reading this and laughing at the childish comments being sent back from Jason and the letter writer. It is funny both are acting childish in their responses.

Both are accusing each other of acting childish(or implying it) however neither can admit that they too are acting childish. The way I see it is if the letter writer can't handle criticism than they should not be sharing the letter. Like another poster said this is the internet, you should expect both helpful and snide comments.

It is always funny when the person writing the letter comments on the letter towards to someone they don't know. It is fun to read their insults and they don't even realise that they are both being laughed at.

What is most funny is the person writing this letter actually thinks they have a lawsuit over something *** as having somoene post rude messages to them.

Guest

I am just reading this and laughing at the childish comments being sent back from Jason and the letter writer. It is funny both are acting childish in their responses.

Both are accusing each other of acting childish(or implying it) however neither can admit that they too are acting childish. The way I see it is if the letter writer can't handle criticism than they should not be sharing the letter. Like another poster said this is the internet, you should expect both helpful and snide comments.

It is always funny when the person writing the letter comments on the letter towards to someone they don't know. It is fun to read their insults and they don't even realise that they are both being laughed at.

What is most funny is the person writing this letter actually thinks they have a lawsuit over something *** as having somoene post rude messages to them.

Guest

I agree with Garry here, you can't really do anything with what Jason says except for report his posts to pissedconsumer staff. I myself am a police officer and in a case like Jason's if you were to come up to me and say this is going on I would adivce you to report it to the site admin.

The worst "consequence" that Jason would get is to be banned from the site. Like Garry said, Jason did not actually use your real name. You just used a username when you came on this site your real name. To take someone to court over something like this would be quite silly.

You would be wasting both your money and time. I admit Jason is being a ***, but just ignore the little brat. You would not even be able to take this as harassment since you are responding to him as he is to you.

If everyone tried to take a pre-teen/teen to court for writing something rude and disgusting the courts would be full with these complaints alone.

Jason I understand that you are trying to be "helpful" here, aqnd are concerned about the OP's wellbeing, however I don't think this person wants your help okay, so lay off her and be a gentleman and go be helpful somewhere else. Perhaps donate money to a food bank or something then you can feel sastisified by helping somoene in need.

Guest

One more thing, this may be informal but head's of businesses, schools read these messages, so if you want a professional responce you should post a professional letter to be taken seriously. Some of these letters are actually passed on to companies from the administrators.

Guest

Jason/Ama050, you are both acting like little children. The courts have better things to do than to track down people online.

Jason - Ama is not plagerising yes her letter is poorly written by somene who is supposed to be in college but that is just internet talk, that does not mean her English is poor in real life.

Ama050 - You calling Jason childish but you are behaving no better than him.(calling him dumb) Also note that once your letter is on the boards anyone can post and you can't ask people not to post on your letter. You may have some snide rude remarks from people, however you are doing the same thing. I wish there was a way to block those harassing you but there isn't. You are just going to have to either ignore it(as th older person or put up with it. This is the internet and it can be rough and run by trolls (Jason Tillo) Also he is not slandering your character. Technically he was just asking you some silly questions, which unfortunately is a typical male responce. however you have no case against him. If you tried taking this to a lawyer or police officer they would laugh at you and say they don't have a case. They are more considered of real things like online child preditors and online scammers. If he used your first and last name and said something false about you then you would have a case, however he is just commenting on your letter. Don't get silly over this.

Honestly the replies between the two of you are like the insults overheard in an elementary school playground.

Guest

Excuse me, dumb sir. Please leave me alone.

Go away. You're not stating a very good case against me, and I suggest until you get your FACTS correct, you cease from acting like a whiny child.

Being an accusatory is slandering one's character, and is a harsher punishment in our courts than plagiarism. Unless you have some CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM, I suggest you leave this conversation at once, or face the consequences.

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rebane
map-marker Bradenton, Florida

Careless Vendor

Phatcampus.com sells new and used textbookd and reference books to students and professionals. Be careful with these people, in dealing with me, they were careless, and are not willing to pay for their mistake. When you place an order, follow up immediately if things do not look right. I ordered a book for $76.38 -- it was shipped promptly, except it was the wrong book. They did not have the book in the description. Following their instructions, it cost me $9.83 to return the book for credit. They credited my plastic the $76.38 - I'm glad for that. I am out $9.83 and a lot of inconvenience due to their error.
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