Alibris UK has a rating of 4.61 stars from 8,163 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Alibris UK most frequently mention good price, excellent service, and shipping costs. Alibris UK ranks 2nd among Textbooks sites.
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Description of the book condition as simply "good" lacks more precise details.(e.g. Ex Library book? Dust jacket? Etc.) Otherwise, a fairly satisfactory experience.
The site has been poorly programmed. For example, I had to try several times to enter the details on my credit card, because the site requested the county rather than the state in the U.S. There were other electronic glitches as well. Eventually was able to place the order, but it was not easy and required a good bit of persistence.
Excellent... my only concern is that the £2.99 shipping from the USA to the UK (which is very reasonable) will either mean that I receive the book sometime in two years time, or else I will end up just getting a message next week saying "Sorry, we actually meant to meant to charge you £XX. XX". In addition, with buying something from so far away, until this book is in my hand I will almost certainly be worrying if my money will go missing!
Access to a reasonably priced second hand copy of a hard-to-find book
No probs at the website end of things - let's see if there are any delivery issues...
Serendipity led me to you! (A wander through Google!)
I found what I wanted, very easily, and at a great price. I enjoy your website, sometimes discovering new authors, and also, if I am not familiar with the author, being able to read a short summary/ precis of the book. Excellent.
I chose Alibris in order to read about an unfamiliar author and book before purchasing. Alibris always gives me enough information to influence me one way or the other, i.e. To buy or not to buy.
A wonderful selection of books... and I found some of my favourite authors.
I am in need of some new books to read and I chose not to spend too much money by purchasing new books.
Am very please to have found two books which I know I will enjoy. The website is easy to navigate, and the reviews/precis of each book are a good insight for the potential buyer
Great selection of books, reasonable prices, and a good way to discover what other books are out there
Enjoyed browsing, the short descriptions of each book are very useful in helping to decide. Terrific prices and a wonderful choice of books.
I was looking for a particular title and you had it available. I'm delighted! Thank you.
You’re my number one go-to site for books. I appreciate your range of stock, and you have the advantage of not being Amazon!
I found a title I'd been wanting, but didn't think I'd be able to obtain - thank you.
You’re my go - to book site. You have a good range of titles at reasonable prices, and I don’t like using Amazon. Delivery times could be better, but I can put up with that!
My understanding is that you support independent booksellers. You have a good range of titles, usually at reasonable prices, and usually with good service. I try to avoid Amazon, and you are my go-to choice. Thank you.
Description of the book condition as simply "good" lacks more precise details.(e.g. Ex Library book? Dust jacket? Etc.) Otherwise, a fairly satisfactory experience.
Used satisfactorily in the past.
Reliability and competitively priced.
Alibris has a huge offer of used books at a convenient price. I have found here several difficult-to-find or expensive book which are in good conditions and perfectly useful.
Just one suggestion. It would be convenient to expand the payment options with, for example, Paypal or other non-credit based options.
Because I fount the book I was looking for cheaper than in other bookshops.
As usual you have the book I want at a good price and the whole process is very straightforward.
I don't want to use Amazon or AbeBooks (owned by Amazon) so have been very pleased to find Alibris. As usual you have the book I want at a good price and the whole process is very straightforward; and I'm supporting UK booksellers.
Happy to find you have the books I want, and easy to find them, and good prices.
Good to be able to support booksellers who aren't Amazon; and you have what I want; and your customer service is excellent.
Because you have the German language title I was looking for. Having found you I will definitely be back.
I placed a book in my cart then went to checkout to pay for it. When logging in, I found that I needed to change my password first. I got my password changed successfully but in the process, the screen containing my cart with the book I wanted to buy had disappeared. I had to wait 12 hours for the book in the cart to be released and made available for me to place in a new cart for me to finally buy it. Not a good shopping experience! I think it would be good if you could fix this glitch on your website.
Good value books and good value postage.
Great! Thanks so much - appreciated.
Because it pays tax, unlike Amazon, and treats its employees with respect and dignity, unlike Amazon. In general I try to support ethical businesses and in particular I aim to back independent booksellers.
First time I've ever purchased anything from / off an international website - it was a very, unexpectedly, straightforward process.
I was looking to buy some US CDs that aren't easily purchased in the UK. Found Alibris on the Internet. The site was easy to navigate, well put together and (hopefully) appears reliable.
It was great, though you have to think outside the box and search on international versions of alibris to really be complete about scouring for good deals.
It's refreshing to find an outlet that isn't amazon!
I am so fed up with websites that change my 'Delivery' or 'Billing' information to something else AFTER I've entered it CORRECTLY. I had to enter details 3-4 times to get both categories (in different countries) to be how they needed to be. I AM so sick of taking over an hour to order 2 books. These glitches have happened largely at at Used Book bookstores! What is it? Driving me mad! Next time, I'll pay full price and give my business to Waterstones!
At 'World of Books' the issues noted above were even worse!
Always easy to find what you need and checkout is super simple.
Never had a bad experience with a seller either.
Range of buying options is way better than other sites.
Simply amazing, I wish I knew about this site in my first year of Uni not the last.:-)
So far so good, we'll see if the book actually arrives and hopefully it will be as described.
Found a book on google
Buying from you for 10+ years and never once found any of your vouchers relevant. Most 2nd book purchases are sub £10 so you really need to lower your voucher thresholds
Cheapest on bookfinder
Very few sellers on your website ever put photos which is annoying.
Also every voucher email I receive from alibris are very useful
Your vouchers always expire too quickly and have too high a limit on validity. Most books purchased are below $30!
Cheapest on bookfinder
Voucher threshold set too high most 2nd hand book purchases are £5-£10 not $30!
Cheapest site
Cheapest cost
As usual - shopping for used books at alibris is clear, simple, straight-forward - with choices and book conditions adequately described.
Great shop, I wish it was easy to put in several titles at once to see if can get from the same seller to save on shipping
I like it isn't apparently owned by Amazon but maybe it is
It's not (hopefully) owned by amazon
It's not amazon owned
Ordered many. Many book from Alibris. In my experience all the individual suppliers provide fast efficient service. Books are true to stated condition. A great site to find books not available elsewhere. Great fan.
Availability of wide array of books. Honest site.
Easy to navigate. Attractive interface. A book/film/music shop that doesn't flood your screen with garden furniture, electrical goods, clothing, groceries, DIY goods, bicycles and countless other things you weren't looking for when you're just browsing or searching for a book.
I'm escaping from Amazon but I also grew very concerned when I heard about Amazon's recent policy to ban certain books. It doesn't matter to me that I might not even be interested in those titles. The act of banning books is a heinous crime against freedom of speech AND thought. I do not want to support a bookseller that chooses my reading for me.
All good! But one star less because the website still doesn't have direct information about the stock situation like on bookdepository or other bookstores, so it is possible that after a week or more, the order gets canceled by the seller, making you waste time and/or maybe losing a better offer somewhere else
I checked the prices for those titles among different resellers using bookfincer.com as always; Alibris was the most convenient, and finally, shipping costs are reasonable now!
Great except a technical error with the website but that might be because i was inactive for too long
Generally very good. A little more clarity on shipping charges to my destination (UK) would be helpful. Using the term "Estimated shipping" at the point of checkout does not inspire confidence that that is what I will actually be charged.
Otherwise, all good. Thank you.
Alibris was the only place I could find this book advertised for sale in an acceptable condition.
All good apart from the confusing way that changing billing and shipping address options are presented and the lack of logical simplicity in how this can be achieved.
The book I wanted was listed on the Bookfinder website with a link that took me to Alibris.
Always brilliant. Everything on your web-site is clearly set out, I know exactly what I'm getting, and the book-dealers are uniformly excellent!
So far so good, although I haven't received my product yet! Alibris is an easy site to navigate and I found what I wanted without any problems. However, it appears slightly dated in interface design, which made me slightly wonder how secure it was. I then landed on the payment page, which also didn't install me with secure confidence. However, fingers crossed everything will be OK. But that's my feedback.:-)
I found alibis via Google. I particularly wanted this specific book to add to my collection and it was available at a good price.
I will put us more stars when arrived my book, because is the first time that I used this online library.
Was the causality, I find us researching in interned my book.