UBC Bookstore & Chapters

Well, the time has come that I am required to buy my reading materials and textbooks for my upcoming courses. I've decided to get four of my books off of the Chapters website, paid generously by christmas gift cards and the rest I'll order online at the UBC Bookstore.
I had expected getting my books would be fairly easy and it kind of has been. The biggest trouble has been figuring out WHAT books to get. I've looked at the UBC SSC under required books but no luck, under all of my courses it just said, "information for the books required in this section is unavailable."So, I went onto the UBC Bookstore website and clicked shop, Vancouver campus and it said to enter my student number which I did, but for some reason my books still didn't come up and now I assume they are just over-loaded. So, alternatively, I had to look my courses up one by one and voila! four out of five of my first term courses have required reading material. My ARTH100 course however, isn't listed and neither are any of my second term courses. Four out of five isn't bad but you may wonder how much these books cost and I am quite surprised...
To start I'd like to say that I expected my books to cost thousands upon thousands of dollars and it actually isn't too bad but I think that's only because I'm taking mostly faculty of arts courses. The total cost between using the UBC Bookstore and Chapters, which had cheaper deals on a few books, is about $390. My FREN111 book is the most expensive at $132.
I will be interested to know what the process is like once I go to pick up my books at UBC, whether I'll have any problems or anything... hopefully not!
All in all, I am impressed that at the bookstore you have the option to get used books at a discount however, I would like to point out I only had that option for one of my novels for ENGL100.
In general, it's been smooth sailing this far for all of my books. I guess I will just have to wait and see what delivering/pick-up and all that jazz is like and I definitely recommend checking out Chapters for discounted and used books online!