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Posted: Jan 08 2011 at 11:20am | IP Logged Quote seeker
What places do you like for ordering books? Dh has banned me from using Amazon. I placed an order with Barnes and Noble on the 26th and it still hasn't shipped! Every item (only 4) said "usually ships within 24 hours" so I'm becoming increasingly frustrated. I'm on hold now with customer service; we'll see how that goes. Pray for me to have patience with them... I can't find anything I'm looking for at Borders. Any other suggestions??
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Posted: Jan 08 2011 at 11:50am | IP Logged Quote jillian
Depends on what you are looking for. If I may ask what happened with Amazon?

I usually use Amazon, Half.com (ebay company and depending what you want you can find some good stuff on there), Barnes and Noble and/or Borders.
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Back on Nov 10-11, '10 they sold a Kindle book by a man named Phillip Greaves (I'm not even going to say the name of the book here). After a lot of controversy and boycott threats they removed it, but DH still wishes not to support them... so there we are.

After about 45 minutes (which, besides the long hold, went very pleasantly) on the phone with B&N, I found out that most of my order has shipped and I should receive it by the end of Friday. They were having some kind of issues... updating there system or something, I don't know, but I'm glad to know when I'll be getting my items...
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Posted: Jan 08 2011 at 1:13pm | IP Logged Quote JodieLyn
overstock.com has a lot of books and good shipping prices.

I go ahead and use amazon though.. I figure any company that sells many books likely would make unsavory books available.. most of the time we just don't know about it.

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Posted: Jan 08 2011 at 1:50pm | IP Logged Quote Erin
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I'm overseas and everytime I ask for a book from Amazon they tell me they won't ship to my address

Anyhow my favourite places;
Book Depository, based in England, very affordable and Free Shipping worldwide!! Excellent, excellent service.
Betterworld has become my new alltime favourite as they now also have Free Shipping worldwide, service is good although they take slightly longer to get here. (3weeks vs 2 ) They also sell 2nd hand books, so now with free shipping they are very cheap. Their brand new prices are great too, I always compare.
Abebooks I tend to use for my OOP books, harder ones to find. Occasionally they have free shipping for some books too.
Addall is good for finding OOP books and comparing prices. (HT Jen )

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Posted: Jan 08 2011 at 1:52pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
I look through bookfinder.com and Addall.com for different stores, and usually buy the best price through them. I buy a lot of used books instead of new. I do use Amazon mostly, though.

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