I have also used Half.com and had similar experiences. I use Half.com when
price is the determining factoring and not speed of delivery. Normally, a
used book at Half.com is in new condition.
Overall, I use www.bestbookbuys.com. Searches over twenty new and used book
sites for the best price.
Recently, my wife needed to get a College Psychology book not available at
the campus book store. We found a great price on a used book from
www.bestbookbuys.com which found the best price at Half.com.
"Through Complexity there is Simplicity,
Through Simplicity there is Complexity"
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""Chuck Larrieu"" wrote in message
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> Based on my first experience with this means of purchasing books, I have
the
> following observations:
>
> 1) price is great
>
> 2) service / delivery sucks
>
> Don't be in a hurry when you use this subsidiary of e-bay. from the
postmark
> to my hands was about a week, but the postmark is two weeks after I placed
> the order and the order was accepted.
>
> you have no choice for shipping. media mail ( "media" is apparently Eskimo
> for "dog sled via the north pole" ) is the only option.
>
> reading the site, I see that comments from other customers are all over
the
> board. about equal good and bad. the bad all revolve around turnaround
time.
>
> I chose half.com because they claimed to have the book in stock at the
time
> I was ordering. Other places stated no availability. I suspect a part of
the
> problem with the particular book I ordered is that is it is newly
released,
> and the seller ( some small shop in New Jersey ) accepted my bid thinking
> they could get the book through distribution and found they had to wait
for
> the release.
>
> for my money, bookpool is still the way to go.
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