Usborne set at book people

plumpmouse

This is also a bargain

10 books for £10 including the Gruffalo, Room on a broom and Peace at last

spuds_2

No, I don't work for Usbourne, honest! I do like their books, though, but cannot bring myself to pay full price for them. My 7 year old boy loves their Puzzle books (Puzzle Town, Puzzle Mountain etc) - we had almost the full set, but it was cheaper to buy a set of 6 from Schoollink (also Book People) at £7 to get the 2 we didn't have than buy them at £5.99 each in WHSmiths. We gave the others out as birthday presents.
https://www.schoollink.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/productSearch_10201_21902_33046_100___10_SimpleSearch_2_1_2__basicSearch_puzzle

I buy most of my books from Book People/Redhouse/Schoollink now, with occasional sale purchases at WHSmiths or Tesco, or sometimes The Works. We never had many books when I was growing up as they were so expensive(remember the Net Book Agreement?) so it gives me great pleasure to see my kids surrounded by them.

My next planned purchase is 6 Moomintroll books for £7 at Schoollink. I just need a free P&P code....

plumpmouse

spuds wrote:

No, I don't work for Usbourne, honest! I do like their books, though, but cannot bring myself to pay full price for them. My 7 year old boy loves their Puzzle books (Puzzle Town, Puzzle Mountain etc) - we had almost the full set, but it was cheaper to buy a set of 6 from Schoollink (also Book People) at £7 to get the 2 we didn't have than buy them at £5.99 each in WHSmiths. We gave the others out as birthday presents.
https://www.schoollink.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/productSearch_10201_21902_33046_100___10_SimpleSearch_2_1_2__basicSearch_puzzle

I buy most of my books from Book People/Redhouse/Schoollink now, with occasional sale purchases at WHSmiths or Tesco, or sometimes The Works. We never had many books when I was growing up as they were so expensive(remember the Net Book Agreement?) so it gives me great pleasure to see my kids surrounded by them.

My next planned purchase is 6 Moomintroll books for £7 at Schoollink. I just need a free P&P code....

Never seen this website before

Do free p&p codes come available?

spuds_2

Schoollink is part of the Book People. You order books through your school - my kids come home with the catalogue. However, I assumed you could just order through the website - which you can (look under About Schoollink on top bar of the site), but if you order through a school they get 10% of the value of your order and delivery is free. Having realised this I will probably go through school for my stuff so they get the benefit. I haven't seen any free P&P codes for Schoollink but I'm sure there will be some at some point.

One annoying thing is that there are occasionally times when I want things from Book People and Redhouse, but not enough to get free P&P with either. You should be able to combine orders from the two sites to get free P&P - they are probably all coming from the same warehouse.

markcramer

With Red House, if you've got a child under 5, and tell them you're a Bookstart family, you get free p&p for life, because Red House is a sponsor of Bookstart. Unfortunately you can't get the free p&p when ordering over the web, only when you call their expensive 0870 order number . I can't remember for sure, but I think you can call until about 8pm, and save a fraction of the phone call cost.

jap200

I used to work as an 'Organiser' for Usborne Books at Home - you know, the party plan kind of thing.

I gave it up after a while as I think it is a real con because you buy the books from Usborne at a 24% discount (but still have to pay them postage) and sell them to customers at full price. If I was doing it properly I could spend all morning at a Mother and Toddler group and take orders/sales of around £80. The profit should have been £19, but after deducting costs (postage, petrol, platic bags, display equipment etc.) I would be lucky to make £5! for a whole morning!! - waste of time.

Of course you are supposed to make more money by recruiting other people etc. but I hated all of that pushy stuff - I just loved the books.

The trouble is, most people are used to buying books with a discount these days and I found that I could make more money by buying the books from the Book People at vastly reduced prices (like this Farmyard Tales set) and sell them on with around 25% discount. I know that it clearly states on the Book People website that the books are not for re-sale, but I did anyway. I have also ebayed them - buy when they have extra sale discounts, hold onto the books until they are out of stock and then sell them on for maximum profit.

artha

visited site and now out of stock

Is this offer definitely for 20 seperate books as the farmyard stories are available as a collection of 20 in one book for £12.99?

Sui_Generis

I posted this a couple of weeks back in the Book People thread.

They are great I have to read at least one before bedtime every night... errr not my bedtime you understand?

Keep checking back as they do restock I bought these over a year ago and they're worth their weight in gold.



@ artha
They are 20 separate books in a boxset.

Sui_Generis

rebl43 wrote:

SPUDS, do you work for Usborne by any chance?;)

I certainly don't and I think they have the best kids books on the market. All the ones I have are a comfortably large format with great illustrations and well considered and appropriate vocabulary for the age at which they're aimed.

fairylights_2

For a code for the school link site, try SCH06 - it's in our schoollink catalogue and says it's for on any order placed on the new website. it might be worth a go?

Cheeky request, if you do find it works, instead of thanks would you pm me for the schoollink code for my son's nursery school so they see some benefit too?!?

(for the record I am an Usborne organiser, and love the books too. You can buy from Usborne a bind-up of all 20 books for £12.99 ... but you can't split that to use as 20 separate party gifts!)