Comments on: Review of www.bookdepository.co.uk

By: Khim

Khim — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:06:38 +0000

Hi Andrea,

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

Khim

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:24:16 +0000

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

By: Manu

Manu — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:28:57 +0000

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.

By: galarfr

galarfr — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:34:40 +0000

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

By: Khim

Khim — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:49:44 +0000

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.

By: Manic Mammy

Manic Mammy — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:30:17 +0000

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.

By: Igor

Igor — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:34:17 +0000

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…

By: manicmammy

manicmammy — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:27:27 +0000

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.

By: Karen Palmer

Karen Palmer — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:07:39 +0000

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.

By: obscure

obscure — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:41:43 +0000

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.