Half Price BooksReviews of hpb.com

These scammers are disgusting and revolting. They scam the living crap out of your books. I brought in 24 books, some being textbooks, mint condition and are hella expensive. Plus other prime eduction books. They gave me only $31.It is a scam.

Don’t look in there four dumpsters or Skip on the side of the McKnight road Store. There are more books thrown out Then in there store. Four full dumpsters.. There employee 5’5 skinny brown hair glasses threatening to call the police for Looking in the skip or dumpster.. The books were not damaged and in good shape.. vintage books.. the kind you do not discard.. they are book burners .. As for the employee he should be fired.. it is not a crime in PA to take from a dumpster.. they had no signs on the four over loaded dumpsters. Do not take your books there to be sold.. they will under bid you then throw them out.. I will not shop there again ..

Always disappointing. They list products they don't have. Put holds on your bank cards for them and then resist returning the funds.

Brought a large box of unread books to store in Copperfield area. They only offered $3.75 for everything. Took the offer but from now on we will just throw the books into the trash. Most books of the ones I brought were bought for over $10.00. Store and Half-price books is a total rip-off and waste of gas and money. THROW BOOKS AWAY OR GIVE TO GOODWILL.

They posted a book on abebooks.com as being in "very good" condition. When it arrives, it was bent and scribbled in all over the place by the previous owner in bright pink ink and marker. When I contacted them, they said I would have to send it back (at my inconvenience because the closest post office is three miles away) at my expense for a "possible refund".

1) I took approx 20 like-new Technical books to sell. They have some on their shelf for more than $30. They gave me $7 for all. 2) CD prices are stupid high. They had their "just arrived" table at front of store. Some of these USED CDs were over $25. Not the HPBs I used to visit.

My daughter just brought in 17 books and was NOT able to purchase 1 book with the price they gave her for her 17 books. I understand they are a business and need a profit but that is not right. I will not sell or purchase from them again.

This review is for buying books online from this business. In a nutshell: it's a bad experience. The books are expensive and definitely don't feel like it's half priced. Price wouldn't be that bad if it wasn't for the fact the books are in awful condition. I only buy "very good" to "like new" used books and everytime I get a book from HPB, it's filed with scrabbling throughout the pages, has a beat up and soiled exterior, very creased spines and a bunch of stickers (from previous owners) that are impossible to remove. They routinely hide the defects and damages of the book and then have the audacity to charge a pretty penny for it. The customer service is awful. I contacted them over my recent book looking like it was meant to be recycled yet claimed it was in "very good" condition but I didn't get a response until a week later. They basically told me to get over it or pay to return it. The customer service is awful plus the return/refund policy they have is clearly meant to punish the customer. Do not buy books from them online! Avoid at all costs.