Would you like to be featured in an upcoming email? Want to win a $50 CITI Gift Card for participating??

Valorebooks.com wants to extend students an invitation to participate in an our recent email initiative called “Real Students – Real Savings”!

We are going to feature 1 student per week showcasing the savings REAL Students got as a result of buying or renting cheap textbooks through the ValoreBooks.com textbook marketplace.

Therefore we want to hear from YOU, our REAL customers about how much you’ve saved with Valorebooks.com. The winning entry will be featured in an email blast to our customer base and will receive a $50 CITI GIFT CARD!

Requirements for entry:

1. Your Name, Last initial

2. A high resolution picture of You – SMILING - preferably in your college gear or in a collegiate setting. Keep in mind that the email will be sent to over 600,000 students.

3. The Name of your College, University

4. Your current enrollment status, ie: Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, or Senior

5. The amount you you’ve saved by buying or renting your books with us and which you posted to our Facebook Page Wall.

If you think you would like to participate, please post to our Facebook wall, tag @Valorebooks.com and email the 5 things above to: giveaways@valorebooks.com

We look forward to seeing all the great entries!

Want to know how you can save tons of money on text books, and a chance to win a gift card for $3,000 ($2,000 on electronics & 1,000 for furniture) to deck out your dorm room?

We at ValoreBooks.com , a dynamic online resource for saving college students major cash on college textbooks, have teamed up with www.Newegg.com, a leading online marketplace featuring more than 84,000 high-tech gadgets, for this off-the-hook contest that may change the landscape of your dorm room forever!

There are 4 steps to entering the ValoreBooks.com Ultimate College Makeover: Dorm Room Edition Contest:

1. Buy or Rent your college textbooks on www.ValoreBooks.com. We guarantee that you will be so thrilled at how much cash you save that you’ll want to tell the whole world! This leads to step two…
2. Visit the Valore Books Facebook page at www.facebook.com/valorebooks, “Like” us and post the amount of money you saved on our wall.
3. 1 Grand Prize winner will be chosen – Weekly prizes also drawn.
4. Increase your chances by posting a Video or Photos of your Room!

Our dream is for you win the makeover and to completely deck out your residence for the next year. The sky is the limit! Think of all the cool new things you can get when you have $3,000 in gift cards to spend on electronics and furniture.

For instance, with the $2,000 Newegg gift card you can get a new laptop or a tablet, an HD Television, a new gaming system, speakers, printer, and some new headphones. With Newegg’s selection, the possibilities to makeover your dorm are within reach! And to top it all of, you get a $1,000 gift card to load up on some furniture and some sweet bedding. How totally cool is that?

Wall Posts – Go the Extra Mile!

To help you stand out and increase your chances of winning, “Wow” us and let us know why we should pick you. Get our attention!! Snap a picture and send us the link or post it to our wall. Or if you are feeling really creative, make a short video of your current dorm room and upload the vid to YouTube. Using the title: ValoreBooks.com Ultimate College Dorm Makeover Contest, post the link on our Facebook page so we can check it out.

Contest Deadline: September 30, 2011…so get on it!!

In addition to this exciting sweepstakes, each week we will randomly give away gift cards. Don’t miss out on all the fun, and the definite savings you’ll gain by purchasing your books on ValoreBooks.com.

Since we are  the only major textbook site to offer free shipping for all textbook rental orders no matter the cost, we thought it only fitting to ship two customers to Spring Break as well!  Two winners will receive a pair of round-trip airline tickets to anywhere in the continental United States for their Spring Break 2011.

Individuals who rent textbooks from ValoreBooks.com between December 30, 2010 and February 18, 2011 are automatically entered. Those who don’t rent textbooks during that time period, but are past rental customers of the site can still enter the contest by posting how much they saved by using ValoreBooks on the company’s Facebook page.

More information and official rules are available at http://www.valorebooks.com/landing/promo153a

In May, we announced the winner of the “ValoreBooks.com Presents: Hear the Music, See the Money,” Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival ticket giveaway. Well, the festival is finally here, and our winner, Loyola New Orleans junior Olivia Taylor was kind enough to send us a picture right before she departed for her journey! We hope you have the time of your life, Olivia! We can’t wait to hear all about Bonnaroo! Bonnaroo takes place this weekend, July 10th-13th in Manchester, TN.

Shortly, we will be posting video from the festival. Bonnaroo fans who were unable to attend this year, stay tuned!

ValoreBooks.com is thrilled to finally announce the winner of the “Hear The Music, See The Money,” Bonnaroo Concert Ticket Giveaway! Congratulations to Olivia Taylor, a junior at Loyola University New Orleans-winner of 2 tickets to The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, held in Manchester, TN from June 10th-13th 2010. Along with the tickets, Olivia is also being awarded a Flip video camera so she can document her experience at Bonnaroo!

We asked Olivia how she felt after being notified that she was the winner. “I was so surprised! I entered the contest on a whim, and I never win anything, so hearing that I won was just so exciting! I was jumping around my house and started playing Dr. Dog and Regina Spektor really loudly,” said Olivia.

The team at ValoreBooks.com would like to extend a sincere thank you to all who participated in the giveaway! Stay tuned for future giveaways, promotions and contests!