Abebooks.co.uk

fsdss · 4 October 2005 at 11:08PM

ordered a load of 2nd hand books for my course, at a much reduced price,which 2 retail at £27.99 new. (one cost me 52p + £2.50 p&p) and as described "second hand" (selling for well over a tenner on ebay +p&p), anyway first batch has just arrived, and very impressed, looks like they've never been opened!!! waiting for second batch to come. spent £31 just under, for 6 study books, one duplicated order and sold it to fellow student on mon for £5 (£4 profit and they still got a bargain!!)

hope this helps

https://www.abebooks.co.uk

pug_in_a_bed · 7 October 2005 at 11:46AM

abebooks is brilliant, I've been using them along with amazon for years.

lellie · 7 October 2005 at 5:32PM

see I find abebooks to be poor - I can rarely find a bargain for my course.. They're usually not very discounted (literally saving £1 on the RRP)..

Amazon is pretty good and academic book trade can be too.

JoseChungsDoomsday · 8 October 2005 at 11:40PM

I'll have to remember abebooks for my girlfriends, she just saved a fortune on amazon compared to her crappy uni book shop

flossy_splodge · 9 October 2005 at 1:01AM

My elderdaughter has used them for years for her course books and finds they often have harder to find items. Good facility.

pavlovs_dog · 10 October 2005 at 11:43AM

well it even has books for my course, and my course calls for the most obscure (usually out of print) books going, so im amazed!

eldbs · 10 October 2005 at 3:15PM

I use bookbutler.co.uk which searches Amazon, Amazon market place and ABEbooks and gives you the best price, have found it very useful.

Benj

fsdss · 10 October 2005 at 9:25PM

eldbs wrote:

I use bookbutler.co.uk which searches Amazon, Amazon market place and ABEbooks and gives you the best price, have found it very useful.

Benj

thanks for that, worth a save in my favourites

fbrj · 11 October 2005 at 5:58PM

In my view the best sites are:

Amazon (especially for new books and with free delivery if over £19); amazon marketplace quite good for 2nd hand books (but watch out for old editions - ie not most up todate) - but have £2.75p del costs...amazon discounted new with no postage is sometimes cheaper and latest edition !)
Bookbrain (especially for new books) - http://www.bookbrain.co.uk/
Bookbutler (especially for new books) - http://gb.bookbutler.info/Search.po;jsessionid=dwK6Slb-2Sjhphq4hZKl-5Zk
Abebooks - for 2nd hand books (but watch out for delivery costs) - http://www.abebooks.co.uk/
Bookfinder (especially for 2nd hand books) - http://www.bookfinder.com/
Alibris - (especially for 2nd hand books...but many US booksellers, so long delivery times and delivery can be expensive!) - http://www.alibris.com/

Hope this helps..........

Sooler · 11 October 2005 at 9:42PM

anyone used http://www.eunibooks.co.uk/ ?

Phonix · 11 October 2005 at 10:30PM

http://www.fetchbook.info/ is useful for searching/.

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