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!

Life at Valore Books is getting more exciting each and every day! Much of the excitement surrounds our new partnership with Newegg Inc., ranked #12 in Internet Retailer’s Top 500 Guide.

Just in case you aren’t familiar with Newegg.com, the site features thousands of electronic gizmos and gadgets including PCs & laptops, computer hardware, cameras, home theater equipment, gaming equipment, and tons of other off-the-hook items.

What the Newegg/Valore Books Partnership Means to You

In a nutshell, now Newegg.com has added Newegg Books to its product offerings. Their enormous customer-base now has access to our extensive catalog of textbooks for sale. We are more than excited for their customers to join in and save hundreds (and even thousands) of dollars on textbooks.

Our partnership with Newegg will help us to massively increase our visibility in the online textbook marketplace. It will also help us to continually offer low pricing on textbooks for sale at savings of up to 90% off retail. This means more cash in students’ pockets!

On the flipside, our customers (i.e. you) can enjoy all of the amazing deals on electronics through Newegg.com. We encourage you to browse through the Website as you search for new and exciting technologies.

For more information on the partnership, please see the official press release at:

ValoreBooks.com & Newegg.com Partnership Press Release

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.

ValoreBooks.com, Z101, and Southwest Airlines teamed up to give one lucky student two round trip tickets to anywhere Southwest Airlines travels this holiday season.

Katie Enderle, a sophomore from the University of Buffalo was randomly selected from hundreds of students that entered the ValoreBooks “Escape the Cold” Sweepstakes. Every student that sold their textbooks back at one of the four ValoreBooks locations were given the opportunity to enter their name into the drawing. 

Pictured above from left to right:  John Garey from Z101 with the Southwest Vouchers, Katie Enderle (winner) and Gareth Leonard (ValoreBooks.com Director of Marketing).

We would like to thank everyone who entered the drawing and stopped by to sell their textbooks back this semester!