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Ordered 3 books, second hand but good condition and great service and delivery. Highly recommend.
A physical book is best.

Date of experience: April 3, 2022
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Horrible company
January 4, 2020

Advertised a book as being in Very Good condition. Pages were literally falling out of it - not attached to the spine at all and the cover was beaten up and somewhat folded, so even if they hadn't noticed the loose paged it shouldn't have been listed as Very Good.

I contacted them about it, and they said they'd give me a refund if I shipped it back, despite me giving them a picture of the pages separated from the book. Why do they need the book back? Presumably to try to scam another customer with it.

Finally, they agreed to refund me 25%, which I accepted to avoid the PITA of returning the book and to avoid them using it to scam yet someone else, which they clearly intended to do else why would they want an unsaleable book back?

Further, they told me "Please remove the return request, so we may refund you correctly" which is the height of scamming. No, I won't abandon the only protections I have prior to getting the refund.

Avoid this company. They lie in their product descriptions, send you worthless junk, and have abyssmal customer service.

Date of experience: January 4, 2020
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Always help full and send my purchase of books with in the time limit stated on the invoice. Great value for money, new or second hand books.

Date of experience: November 16, 2021
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Good not great
November 14, 2021

Overall good enough to use again. Condition of books varies quite a bit but service & delivery are good.

Date of experience: November 13, 2021
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September 27, 2022

Excellent, as always; in terms of quality and value for money. This is a necessary website for avid readers.

Date of experience: September 26, 2022
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Wallace
May 20, 2022

Great company to deal with. Excellent service. Great amount of books available in all categories at good competitive prices

Date of experience: May 20, 2022
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Good service
April 10, 2022

Easy website to negotiate, prompt delivery, just as stated, excellent book condition. As used on TV by Michael Portillo.

Date of experience: April 10, 2022
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Great for random books
January 5, 2022

Got a list of books for Christmas Secret Santa, found most of them here. Recipient well chuffed. Happy result!

Date of experience: January 3, 2022
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Great service
July 4, 2023

As with several purchases this one has been dealt with in a fast and efficient manner thank you again

Date of experience: July 3, 2023
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Luciano
January 9, 2022

Very pleased with the cd will recommend you to others for quality of service and cost and speedy post

Date of experience: January 9, 2022
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Service
February 28, 2023

Superb customer service as usual. Products exactly as described, delivered earlier than expected. Highly recommended. Very satisfied all round.

Date of experience: September 19, 2022
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Highly Recommend
April 30, 2022

Excellent, fast delivery and books in very good condition. I am happy with my purchase. I will shop again.

Date of experience: April 29, 2022
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Fast service.
May 25, 2023

Ordered book and it arrived in 2 days. Described as good condition but was like new. Good prices too.

Date of experience: May 25, 2023
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Excellent service
June 1, 2022

Frequent user. Orders always promptly auctioned and dispatched. Never without a book to read. Best selection to choose from.

Date of experience: May 30, 2022
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Excellent service.
March 11, 2022

Books are as stated... we have always had books in good condition and at a sensible price. Delivered promptly

Date of experience: March 11, 2022
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Excellent value
December 5, 2021

Excellent value. Good quality and very Clean books. I don't get books from anywhere else now. Have bought books for all the family.

Date of experience: December 5, 2021
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Great find!
June 23, 2023

Excellent delivery and choice. Great value too. Very pleased with my books will be back again. The books were all very good condition.

Date of experience: June 22, 2023
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over a year old

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Book arrived at last
April 11, 2023

The book I ordered has arrived at last, I think it' was because of the Easter holidays
Anyway, it's here now and in new condition I'm very pleased to have received it

Date of experience: April 11, 2023
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This is a review of the paperback edition, published March 2010.
The setting for this book is the Government Code & Cypher School, better known as Bletchley Park. 'Colossus' describes Bletchley's success against a more advanced and more secure German cypher machine than Enigma, which Bletchley codenamed 'Tunny'. The production of this book was only made possible after British Intelligence declassified a crucial 500 page wartime report in June 2000.

From 1942 Hitler and the German High Command in Berlin relied increasingly on Tunny to protect their communications with Army Group Commands across Europe. And Colossus? This was the world's first large scale electronic computer built in 1943, whose function was central to Bletchley's attack on Tunny. The name was apt; it weighed approximately a ton, was the size of a small room, and by the end of the war in Europe in May 1945 ten more of these Colossi had been built.

This book is a veritable goldmine of information, with the thoughts of 31 contributors distilled into 26 chapters, and for those wishing to dig deeper there are also 12 technical appendices. I was pleased to see that the contribution of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) and the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) to Bletchley's war effort has been duly recognised in this book.

Date of experience: May 13, 2023
World of Books C. Wob Rep
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Great find
June 8, 2022

Every book or cd I wanted to find is here, quality brilliant, delivery 1st class and the ability to sell back is a really good idea

Date of experience: June 8, 2022
World of Books C. Wob Rep
over a year old

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Overview

Wob has a rating of 2.7 stars from 1,390 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Wob most frequently mention customer service, tracking number and full refund. Wob ranks 42nd among Books sites.

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