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College Marketplace is the student-only buy and sell app for Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. Every account is verified with a @providence.edu email address, so you're only ever trading with other Friars — not strangers from Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist.

Where Friars buy and sell

Freshmen, sophomores and juniors are all required to live on campus at PC, so three full classes are furnishing rooms every year. First-years are in Aquinas, Meagher, McDermott, McVinney, Raymond, and St. Joseph. Upperclass students move into Guzman, Shanley, McCarthy, Koffler, or Sullivan, or into apartment-style living at Bedford, Davis, Cunningham, DiTraglia, or Mal Brown. Friars post mini fridges, futons, storage bins, desk lamps, monitors, bikes, and gently used textbooks every semester — usually for a fraction of retail. Seniors living off campus around Eaton Street use it too. Same rule applies: verified students only, and the person on the other end is someone you'd pass on the way to class.

Air conditioning splits the campus in two

This is the single most useful thing to know before you buy at PC. Bedford, Cunningham, Davis, DiTraglia, Koffler, Mal Brown, McCarthy, Shanley, and Sullivan have central air conditioning. St. Joseph and most Guzman rooms can take a window unit. The traditional first-year halls generally can't. If you're headed into a first-year hall, a good fan is the first thing to buy in August — and worth listing in May rather than throwing out, because next year's freshmen will want it.

Moving from a dorm room to an apartment

The sophomore and junior transitions change what you need. Bedford, Cunningham, Davis, DiTraglia and Mal Brown are apartment-style with a kitchen shared among four to six roommates; Guzman, Koffler, Shanley and St. Joseph have community kitchens. Moving into one means suddenly needing pots, pans, a kitchen table, and seating that a traditional double never called for — most of which the class ahead of you is selling in May.

Meeting up on campus

Handoffs happen at landmarks everybody already knows. The Slavin Center is the hub and connects directly to the Peterson Recreation Center and the Concannon Fitness Center, with Phillips Memorial Library a short walk away. Meagher sits centrally between Slavin, Phillips and the science buildings, so that corner works from most of campus. No shipping labels, no delivery fees, no driving across Providence to meet someone off Craigslist.

Textbooks without the bookstore markup

Course materials for business, the sciences, and nursing run into the hundreds of dollars a semester, and the same editions circulate through campus year after year. Buying from the Friar who took the class last term beats the bookstore buyback spread on both ends — the seller gets more than the buyback price, and the buyer pays less than retail.

Popular categories at Providence College: textbooks and course materials · fans and cooling · dorm and apartment furniture · kitchen gear and small appliances · mini fridges and microwaves · winter gear · bikes · PC apparel and game day gear · storage bins and organizers