# Ever bought books from textbooks.com?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 20, 2006, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-bought-books-from-textbooks-com/373382 "2006-09-20T05:40:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-bought-books-from-textbooks-com/373382/1 "2006-09-20T05:40:10Z")

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We need to buy my wife’s law school textbooks and we’re suffering sticker shock. Having run across [textbooks.com](http://www.textbooks.com/HomeA.php), where the prices are better, we’re interested but wonder if it’s reputable, trustworthy, etc. Who knows, maybe everyone & their siblings are using it these days…we’ve been out of college awhile.

Any experiences you can relate, good or bad, would be welcome.

Thanks in advance,  
E.

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**Author:** ![Arien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arien)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-bought-books-from-textbooks-com/373382/2 "2006-09-20T15:32:42Z")

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[QUOTE=E. Thorp]  
We need to buy my wife’s law school textbooks and we’re suffering sticker shock. Having run across [textbooks.com](http://www.textbooks.com/HomeA.php), where the prices are better, we’re interested but wonder if it’s reputable, trustworthy, etc. Who knows, maybe everyone & their siblings are using it these days…we’ve been out of college awhile.

Any experiences you can relate, good or bad, would be welcome.

Thanks in advance,  
E.  
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I haven’t used that particular site but I buy textbooks online all the time. I wish I started earlier. The site [www.bigwords.com](http://www.bigwords.com) will search for your book at several different bookseller websites and give you the best price. Usually the cheapest are at [half.com](http://half.com). I’ve never had a problem with receiving the wrong book or no book. I hope that helped.

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**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-bought-books-from-textbooks-com/373382/3 "2006-09-20T15:41:31Z")

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I’ve always bought and sold books through [Books 4 Exchange](http://www.books4exchange.com/) for years and never had problems yet. Often, I’ll buy or sell to someone local so I can just meet downtown for the exchange, but I’ve shipped to Vancouver before, and most people do ship if you don’t mind paying for it.

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**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-bought-books-from-textbooks-com/373382/4 "2006-09-20T15:43:35Z")

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I used [textbooks.com](http://textbooks.com) to get my behavioral genetics text. They had the book, for a good price. The only complaint I have is that I thought they sent out my book the next day (Saturday), but they didn’t ship it until the following Monday. The book was later than I expected, but everything else was good.

I’d use them again.