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About Us

Planet Students’ mission is to help students to save money and connect to: roommates, housing, tutors, and each other. Having all been financially strained post-secondary students ourselves, we want to achieve our mission in a way that does not cost students any money.

Planet Students is actually the second incarnation of an idea that was first implemented in 2001 as the My Textbook Trader website. The MyTextbookTrader.org website outgrew its infrastructure quickly, so the founders had to go back to the drawing board to engineer a new solution to handle higher user volumes and to broaden the service offering. Planet Students was thus born and welcomed its first visitors in mid 2004.

Today, Planet Students provides free services to post secondary students at every school across North America. We help students save money by providing the means to buy and sell used textbooks, help locate housing and roommate arrangements, give students the means to find or become tutors, give students the means to buy and sell other items, provide forums in various topics including homework help, and bring students savings through printable coupons.

As of October 2006, we have provided students with 29,000 used textbook listings, 600 roommate listings, 1,100 housing listings, and 900 classified ads. Our best estimate of the amount that students have saved from selling and buying books on Planet Students is $195,000.

Planet Students was brought to you by some very hard working folks that have dedicated unending hours to build and run the website and company. If you want to learn more about the people behind Planet Students, click here to go to our management team page.

We hope that you find our services an essential part of your post-secondary years! If you do, please tell all your friends about us as you can expect, our ability to advertise is pretty limited since we don’t charge you to use any of our services. If you don’t find our offerings of value, we would like your comments so that we can continue to improve click here to go to our contacts page to give us feedback.