15 Responses to “Review of www.bookdepository.co.uk”

1. Deborah
   September 6th, 2007 @ 10:15 am

   I love this site! Use it all the time… it’s great how you can just order one book at a time too!

   Amazon is a disgrace. Their warehouse is now in Dublin, yet UK people get free shipping after 15 and we don’t!? It’s a disgrace and I’ve tried to get in touch with someone, but apparently no one in customer service can discuss shipping charges or put me in contact with someone who can. Ridiculous!!!

2. manicmammy
   September 6th, 2007 @ 7:35 pm

   Hey Deborah,
   Thats brutal customer service. Its obvious they dont really give a crap.
   Its been ages since I’ve bought anything off Amazon, too many half read books lying around the house at the moment. It would take a week away on my own to catch up.
   Needed to buy some travel guides and so was on bookdepository site. The books in question were much cheaper than on amazon. It reminded me why I like the site and so I wrote the review.

3. Fiona O'Neill
   September 10th, 2007 @ 10:57 am

   I’m a bit of an Amazon junkie (witness all my unread cookery books!), but I’ll definitely be checking this crowd out. Thanks.

4. manicmammy
   September 10th, 2007 @ 1:52 pm

   Do, you may want to follow the twitter feed too.
   http://twitter.com/bookdepository
   They recently had a book giveaway for bloggers too.

5. obscure
   September 26th, 2007 @ 4:41 pm

   I frequently use book depository, one thing I really like about them is that they bother to respond to support request generally the same working day.

6. Karen Palmer
   October 2nd, 2007 @ 10:07 am

   This is the only place I will buy books from off the internet. Cheap prices, excellent packaging and a company that I trust, they also don’t bombard you with 20 items of junk mai 4 times a week.
   I would also reccomend a website called http://www.readitswapit.co.uk – this is not to buy new books but you list all of the books that you have read (and more than likely won’t read again) and you swap them with other people. There is no charge to join and you just pay for P&P of the books.

7. manicmammy
   October 2nd, 2007 @ 11:27 am

   Hi Karen,
   Agree the lack of spam is also an advantage!
   Will look into that other website, up till now, have jsut been dumping all my read books at the local charity shop. Thanks.

8. Igor
   November 27th, 2007 @ 4:34 pm

   Dear all,

   just to let you know to be careful when ordering books from bookdepositoryco.uk. It has some cheep offers but you may never get your books even though your card will be be charged. In my case, after 3 months waiting and many mails I was simply ignored from them. Bad way to sell books.
   Best…

9. Manic Mammy
   November 28th, 2007 @ 10:30 am

   Sorry to hear you’d a bad experience with the bookdepository, Igor.

   Thankfully, all of my book purchases with them have gone smoothly and I’ve had no hassle whatsoever.

10. Khim
    August 20th, 2008 @ 5:49 pm

    I have very good experiences with the bookdepository. I got a book and it was in a very bad condition and I have sent them an e-mail and they have refund me in full and I got a new book for free! They have responded me in ten minutes after I have send them the e-mail. Delivery is very fast. I always have ordered my books by Amazon, but now it’s bookdepository.

11. galarfr
    February 15th, 2009 @ 8:34 am

    Avoid bookdepository now that they’ve changed their website (02/13/2009) while INCREASING their prices by 10-30% overnight!!!

12. Manu
    March 14th, 2009 @ 3:28 pm

    I can confirm the terrific escalation of prices in february 2009. I was a huge fan of bookdepository, but their prices are really outrageous now. As a result, I will back to Amazon.co.uk.

13. Andrea
    July 21st, 2009 @ 4:24 pm

    After reading reviews for The Book Depository in this blog and others websites I decided to take the risk and ordering from there. Although I had read some very bad reviews (and many good ones) my experience was EXCELLENT. I live in Chile (South America) and the books arrived in a little over a week which is a very decent time considering they came via regular mail.

    Three of the books I ordered were listed for shipping within 24-hour and the fourth one for dispatch within 72 hours. To avoid the latter from slowing the other 3 I placed a separate order for it. But although it was shipped later I’m happy to say that all the books arrived at the same time.

    Each book was packed separately in a bubble mailer and they arrived in perfect conditions (all of them were paperbacks). I admit that this kind packing could be too fragile for hardcovers or oversized book but for paperbacks worked fine.

    The only negative comment I have is that I never received an e-mail notifying me that my order had been placed or shipped. I had to check their website until my orders showed as “Dispatched”. Other than that, my experience was VERY SATISFACTORY.

    My advice for those hesitating to use this website is trying with one inexpensive book first and or separate your purchase in different orders.

    ANDREA

14. Khim
    July 22nd, 2009 @ 7:06 am

    Hi Andrea,

    They send the hardcovers in a good packing, not too fragile. That’s a good thing.

    Khim

15. Andrew
    August 10th, 2010 @ 4:51 am

    I love BookDepository’s free worldwide shipping. I used to buy from Amazon but when I paid for delivery to my country, the order price DOUBLED. Basically I had to look at book price and double it to see how much it would cost. BD saves me a lot of money

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