ThriftBooks

I pre-ordered a book two months before production. Now we're well past the production date and it's on backorder for 90 days, but in stock everywhere else in the world. This company is a waste of time!

I always assume that books will be more expensive and take longer to arrive than on Amazon, but Thriftbooks orders always arrive sooner than they say the will, within a few days, and have consistently low prices. Also, I've been able to get new book releases before they even come out on Amazon. I can also find older out of print books way more easily. It's awesome to have a more ethical shopping option that doesn't have any trade off for me.

Did you know if you order *******@ThriftBooks and a package is lost *******@UPS before they hand it off *******@USPS for final delivery no one will track it? It is simply gone. Vanished. Poof. Never existed. Reconsider *******@ThriftBooks I want to *******@amazon but alas I had to use them.

I purchased what was supposed to be a signed edition with boxed cover in good condition. What I received was an unsigned, broken spine, bent pages, bent cover and the book looked as if heavier books had been piled on top of it for a long while as the book didn't lay correctly. Fortunately, I got my money back. When I received the book, it was shipped in a plastic shipping bag which, I'm sure was the cause of some of the damage. When they emailed me the label to return the book, I was instructed to BOX it! Let's just say that I took more care in shipping that book back to them than they did sending a $177.00 book to ME! Terrible service but Justin was helpful in getting my refund.

I've recently purchased books with their earned book reward so they were $7 or less.
All sold in good condition. THEY'RE NOT. They are water stained. Torn pages. Badly marked up. These should have been in the trash. Buy only books that are New or Very Good or Like new or ex library.
They will NOT replace the books for men or refund my shipping costs. Caveat emptor

Be careful when ordering from this website. Often your last address you had your items shipped too is the not the default address like most modern online websites. If you have multiple address listed the one selected by the website may not be the current one. It is annoying and not entirely clear when placing orders thru the google app or online. Every other website uses your last shipping address so you expect that this would be automatically selected but it is not. I lost out on $48 dollars in used books.

I really like my books to look nice on my shelf so I go out of my way to buy the highest quality books even if it costs me a little extra. I only received my great condition book (out of several orders where I chose the highest quality option) one time. After a fourth sorely disappointing order I just stopped ordering there altogether. I was paying extra money and still getting poor quality items time after time. If it had been a one time thing, an accident, that would have been totally fine. But this just kept happening.

Over the years I have had books here and there that have arrived slightly damaged and I was OK with that. Lately, they have allowed too many terrible copies to be shipped out. This is the second in a month I have received (Before The Darkness Falls) with the cover almost completely detached. I seriously doubt I'll be using their services anymore after this mess.

I ordered a total of 6 hardcovered books, all very good or like new in quality. Only 3 books fit that description. One book arrived as a severely water damaged paperback (order summary conveniently doesn't state if what I purchased was hardcover or paperback), another 'very good' book arrived without its dust cover and instead had 2 very distinct water rings on the front cover! The final book has never arrived. I submitted 2 claims. One reply they said I'll get a new copy and the other said they were out and I'll get a refund instead since they no longer have the book. But I have no idea which book will be replaced and which will be refunded. They also left previous price tags on one book, showing that they bought the book from value village and then sold it to me for 70 cents more. Not my idea of a great gift that I thought I was getting.