Half Price BooksReviews of hpb.com

Mislead the buyer: the good condition of a used book to be torn out.

Once again the incompetent faux booksellers at HalfPrice sent me a book that was inaccurately described. This, of course, is a mark of commodity aestheticism, bookselling incompetence, and outright fraud. The book was ex-library though this was, of course, not noted, as is HalfPrice's tendency since they are to lazy to do anything other than cut and paste descriptions. Since I don't have a printer I can't print the return label and I can't copy it and send it to someone to do it for me. The incompentents at HalfPrince, of course, want me to pay a dollar for a prepaid return label so I can return a book I would never have bought if It had been accurately described. I will no longer be buying books at Half Price something I have done since the 1980s. Up yours HalfPrice and good riddance. I will be reporting you to the NY AG. Have a pollyanna happy faced day.

I was a Security Contractor there at the Tacoma store and endured ENDLESS harasment based on my Religion and political leanings. Im a Hetero Christian Man. Particularly from a cashier called "mimi" she regularly derided my faith and ultimately had me fired maliciously. Management was also unsupportive and possibly envious of my physique and heterosexuality.

Don't sell your books here... They will buy your book very cheap... even though it is in a very well condition like new. Sell it by yourself thru ebay or fb market.

This could have been a 5-star review. Great staff. Very good selection. But the company’s trade practices are unacceptable. Today I took in ten books and was given four dollars and some change for them. I was told, “The system pays what it pays.” Then I was told they don’t buy Book of the Month Club books because BOTM members don’t pay full price for the book but usually want full price for trade. Excuse me? You can’t set the system to account for an entire category of books? Additionally, the shelves are FULL of BOTM club books. They are marked at half price of the full hardback price. So customers cannot get credit for them because they aren’t bought at full price, but the company can sell them that way? This is worse than a double standard. It is disadvantageous to customers. Maybe set the book prices at $7.50 (since membership is $15) and then buy accordingly. Not a hard solution. Never mind the other books I took in were by Stephen King, Toni Morrison, and John Grisham. These books all sold for $4-$15 a piece on the shelves. They took all of them for $4. Then I saw a “nostalgic paperback” of a novel that was printed in the UK in 2019. Because it was mass market by Toni Morrison I guess you can trick people. Seriously will not be back to this store ever again. Absolutely terrible company policies.

I took 5 collectable books & 5 hardback books. Offered me $1.00 for all. I said I would throw them away first. Ridiculous. Of course they offered to "recycle" them for me. I told the very rude clerk that now I understand. They insult you with the price then get them free. No. I will never go back. Been shopping there over 20 years. Have always spent way more than they gave me on any books. Just a sleepy joint now. Don't need them.

HPB is ok to buy, but do not pay much when you sell.

I went to the store to get a book that I saw in Amazon, I though the price of the book was going to be half price but it was 3 dollars less then the one from amazon. I am not sure why they call them self Half price. For sure was not half price.