Powell's BooksReviews of powells.com

For me, selling books to Powell's via online is unbelievably difficult and their "standards" for book acceptance is vague, at best, on their website. I usually sell to WOB but I sent Powell's a small batch of eight books just to see what they would accept. I check my books carefully, having a 97.3 percentage acceptance rate with WOB. The books I sent were all in Very Good to Like New condition. 1) they discounted one book by one-third because the dust jacket wasn't perfect, 2) they rejected two others due to "water damage" and "loose spine", 3) then rejected another stating "filled in". None of the assessments made by Powell's were accurate nor is there any kind of disclosure on their website that specifically identifies their standards for acceptance. Fortunately I am only out three dollars. Never again.

Sent over 30 books they rejected all but 3 the three they kept was in the worse condition paid less then 70 cents each and refuses to send the rest back.Should have gotten paid 32.50 I'm a single mom I should have just put them in my ecom site but needed fast money for my car payment now have no books and no payment all my books in good condition with jackets and most are 1st edition

Powell's just simply ripped me off as a bookseller I am a bookseller. Powell's just simply ripped me off on my last buyback orders. After receiving my books they kept my packages at the facility for more than 2 weeks. After that, I received much less than estimated. According to them, some of my books have disappeared from the package miraculously..... Very bad communication. They do not respond to emails at all.

I have just finished This Rescue Thing, a new book by Penny Allen. I love this book. It is a a female bro-adventure involving unfamiliar countries and interesting characters. Penny Allen has roots in Portland and has written an engaging book.

Their on line shopping cart is not accepting Paypal, after I meticulously filled in every box of info, I clicked paypal button and blank page appears stateing "missing token" nothing else..dead..stuck So I set up an account, put in all my address info in have everything in my shopping cart (1 new and 4 used books) select paypal then press continue and nothing happens except continue button turns grey.. no useful help options or FAQS about this either, extremely lame! Using a Dell PC, Windows 10 and current Firefox -no problems with any other on line vendors accepting Paypal

This was my first time ordering from this company and it will be my last. Sent me email saying my books had shipped on the 27 of November it's been three weeks and still no books. I want be ordering from this company ever again I've been tracking my books and the books are still sitting in same spot and haven't moved I don't know if I'm ever going to receive the books that I order.

Was very disappointed. I ordered a book that was time sensitive and paid for next-day delivery. Two days later, I received an email saying my order was canceled due to no inventory. While I could have procured the book elsewhere in time, it is now too late.

Ordered a book by James Fenimore Cooper and 5 days later the said they "discovered" that they do not have the book after all and the order is now closed. I suspect they realized they may have listed the book too cheaply and it will mysteriously as appear later ar a much higher price. I will not do business with this company ever again.