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"A Student" Selling His Notes On eBay

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    #2
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    €40 per subject?!?


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    #3
    Healium
    Registered Users Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭Healium


    phasers wrote: »
    €40 per subject?!?
    Starting price ;)


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    Teferi
    Registered Users Posts: 6,320 ✭✭✭Teferi


    Enterprising bloke. Fair play to him.


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    #5
    RolandIRL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭RolandIRL


    anyone who buys this is extremely stupid. notes alone won't do it for you. it's just like having another book in front of you. unless you write the notes out yourself and properly understand them, you're just fooling yourself if you buy these.

    it's also piss poor preparation for college. you're not going to be able to buy notes in 3rd level. you're going to get a massive shock when you go to college, and have to fend for yourself.

    but it's their loss, anyone buys them. :/


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    #6
    Coeurdepirate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,576 ✭✭✭Coeurdepirate


    whiteman19 wrote: »
    anyone who buys this is extremely stupid. notes alone won't do it for you. it's just like having another book in front of you. unless you write the notes out yourself and properly understand them, you're just fooling yourself if you buy these.

    it's also piss poor preparation for college. you're not going to be able to buy notes in 3rd level. you're going to get a massive shock when you go to college, and have to fend for yourself.

    but it's their loss, anyone buys them. :/
    Isn't that the whole point? So that extremely stupid people can do well/ I can't see the extremely smart ones buying these :rolleyes:


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    gant0
    Registered Users Posts: 440 ✭✭gant0


    Hah whoever buys these and uses just them for their As' will surely be in for a shock come results day 2011.Thoe whole reason why notes are good is because you write them yourself and so you understand it an they stick in your head easier.It also makes it easier for revision cause you know where everything means and where it is.


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    TheReverend
    Registered Users Posts: 710 ✭✭✭TheReverend


    Smart chap, why wouldnt he sell them if people will buy them. Nice to have some money for freshers week :P


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    #9
    felic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 229 ✭✭felic


    why doesnt he photocopy em and make several copies and sell em? lol.
    Seriously though, good on him for trying it. Most people throw their leaving cert notes in the trash, stick em in the attic or just give them away.
    Not really sure why its making headlines though. So what like? Theres far stranger stuff for sale on Ebay!


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    #10
    Gardoggle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭Gardoggle


    notes are of limited use anyway. I get A grades but cant read my own notes a couple of hours after the lecture. its better to make sure you get the relevant reading done, no-one can do your work for you, even if you pay them..


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    #11
    UpTheSlashers
    Registered Users Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭UpTheSlashers


    Hell definitely get a bit of bob for them. It was mentioned on the radio, in the times, the indo and on boards, he couldnt have wished for better advertisment :pac:


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    theowen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭theowen


    Was wondering how to get rid of my notes...


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    #13
    salthillman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭salthillman


    I'd buy them, not for over €20 tho...


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    #14
    Healium
    Registered Users Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭Healium


    whiteman19 wrote: »
    anyone who buys this is extremely stupid. notes alone won't do it for you. it's just like having another book in front of you. unless you write the notes out yourself and properly understand them, you're just fooling yourself if you buy these.

    it's also piss poor preparation for college. you're not going to be able to buy notes in 3rd level. you're going to get a massive shock when you go to college, and have to fend for yourself.

    but it's their loss, anyone buys them. :/
    Exactly, you're much better off just writing out your own notes, in a way that YOU'LL understand them, not anyone else

    I'll be interested to see if anyone buys haha


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    #15
    Victoria.
    Registered Users Posts: 656 ✭✭✭Victoria.


    Hmm..
    I think that notes are a personal thing, for instance if you're an individual who is a visual learner your notes will be filled with spider diagrams and colourful maps. For somebody who prefers lists of information spider diagrams would be unsuitable and a waste of their time unless they could completely alter their way of studying. What works for someone won't work in the same way for the next. If someone could find a universally successful method they would be a billionaire but it is unlikely that it exists. I inherited notes from others but I always had to alter them and write them out in a way that my brain liked to look at and could absorb the information.

    I searched for them on ebay but couldn't find them, wonder what type of notes he used.


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    Glico Man
    Registered Users Posts: 8,280 ✭✭✭Glico Man


    Heres a Link for his maths notes

    €11 p&p?!?!


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    #17
    soccymonster
    Registered Users Posts: 9,553 ✭✭✭soccymonster


    He got bids on the irish, french and music notes anyways. Fair play :P

    His description of the product is very persuasive but the price, not so much!


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    EuropeanSon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭EuropeanSon


    Do people get their money back if they don't get these "guaranteed As" he promises? :P


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    #19
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    You gotta admire this chap, in a way!

    I have loads of Accounting sample questions done out - I'll offer €30 :p

    I'll probably just give the notes to some of my friends going into sixth year - I have no younger siblings and it would be a shame to waste them - although they aren't very good, I'm terrible at making notes.


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    Bucklesman
    Registered Users Posts: 636 ✭✭✭Bucklesman


    People are actually bidding! :eek:

    A fool and his money tbh. Or four of them.


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    #21
    Jayeire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 295 ✭✭Jayeire


    Must have been a slow day at the office, if this actually made the paper...

    Who cares! lol.


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    SDTimeout
    Registered Users Posts: 2,660 ✭✭✭SDTimeout


    Shows the flaws of the education system here in Ireland that you can learn it off and spit it out as opposed to students being rewarded for being enterprising and initiative.


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    #23
    theowen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭theowen


    Anyone think I can sell my institute notes online? Can give a similiar speech as yer man...they're the only reason I'm going to Trinity...etc:rolleyes:


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    #24
    loike
    Registered Users Posts: 333 ✭✭loike


    theowen wrote: »
    Anyone think I can sell my institute notes online? Can give a similiar speech as yer man...they're the only reason I'm going to Trinity...etc:rolleyes:

    i think they are copyrighted lol


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    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,322 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    The head on him. He looks about 40.


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    #26
    Fad
    Registered Users Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    Fair play to him tbh.

    Still trying to figure out why Gary Redmond was quoted in the article.....


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    #27
    theowen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭theowen


    loike wrote: »
    i think they are copyrighted lol
    Sooooo...:rolleyes:


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    randylonghorn
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 29,509 Mod ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    theowen wrote: »
    Sooooo...:rolleyes:
    It's called "illegal", Owen! :P


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    #29
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    Owen, you could give the institute notes to your friends for free - this wouldn't be illegal (afaik) and they would be glad of them, although I got a lend of some institute notes off one of my friends before and I didn't think much of them. Some swear by them though.


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    #30
    theowen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭theowen


    randylonghorn wrote: »
    It's called "illegal", Owen! :P
    I know I know I know. It's just if I sell them on ebay say, what could they do really? I'd never try it on here of course...:D


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    #31
    theowen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭theowen


    **Timbuk2** wrote: »
    Owen, you could give the institute notes to your friends for free - this wouldn't be illegal (afaik) and they would be glad of them, although I got a lend of some institute notes off one of my friends before and I didn't think much of them. Some swear by them though.
    I'm the youngest of my friends, literally know no one doing the LC at the mo:rolleyes:


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