The Place to Buy Books. Have been buying through abebooks since at least 2002. In over a hundred orders I have never had a problem. A time or two, I have wished that a particular bookseller had packed the books more carefully, but that is the exception. Some of the bad reviews posted here would be avoided if buyers would learn to read the listing. There are a number of large national booksellers that list on abe. That is fine, and their prices can be very competitive. However, their descriptions are often general and not specific to the copy that you may be interested in. In those cases, expect the condition to be on the lower end, and hope to be pleasantly surprised (it happens). Also, many books are listed with a stock photo, not the actual book that is for sale. If it is labeled "stock photo", pay attention. That is not the book that you are buying. If you are in doubt, contact the seller. Their response will be a clue as to whether you want to deal with them.

A once Wonderful Bookseller No More. I had been buying hard-to-find books, books out of print, and books published by certain publishers. I was satisfied with the company. However, over several months, the quality of ABE Books has become abysmal. They have changed their GUI, and now it is impossible to contact anyone. They are painfully slow, and customer service has become nonexistent. They fail to vet their sellers like they once did; several sellers should be dismissed from the site. Evidently, I am in search of a quality book seller.

Would give Abebooks 0 stars if I could Would give Abebooks no stars if this were possible. Bought a book in January and it never arrived. No one replied to my emails and there is no way to contact them. Please do not try to buy anything from them as nothing will come.

I ordered 12 books from them I ordered 12 books from abebooks. Four of them never arrived after waiting over three weeks. And despite the sellers assurances that they would arrive by a certain date. Even now I can’t order the books from another seller because Abebooks is insisting on giving their irresponsible sellers another week to cure. I will never do business with abebooks again. They apparently have absolutely no concern for the quality of the booksellers they do business with or for the people that buy them.

Bait and switch This is a terrible way to get books. I have only used it twice and as it turns out the second time will also be a negative experience. First I ordered an out of print book . Cost over 50 $. What I received was a trashy romance novel, used, in poor shape and not the book about Nazis in LA. now I atemted to order Percival Everett's book I am not Sidney Portier but when the order was complete it gave me some other title I was neither looking for nor attemted to order. I am really irritated. Every time they replace a high price item with something of considerably less value. Will never use them again. Use thriftbooks instead Always a good experience.