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Alibris has a rating of 4.7 stars from 93,829 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Alibris most frequently mention great prices, good price, and shopping experience. Alibris ranks 1st among Used Books sites.
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Date of experience: July 13, 2024
Good description on book. Easy process for transaction. Thanks!
Price and book condition.
Date of experience: July 13, 2024
Very easily accomplished have never had a problem with shopping at this site
Ease of buying
Date of experience: July 13, 2024
Have used Alibris for quite some time. Very happy.
Date of experience: February 7, 2024
Date of experience: August 27, 2023
Very easy transaction. Very concise.
Excellent sellers and prices.
Date of experience: May 28, 2023
Like the way the website is set up
Date of experience: February 9, 2023
Easily accessible, excellent prices by sellers.
Date of experience: February 22, 2022
Very easy to use checkout svcs. Tells you all you need to know.
Previous customer; like the price. Easy to use
Date of experience: August 14, 2021
Generally, very quick delivery, and the books are as described
Great selection, great prices
Date of experience: July 13, 2024
Generally, can get great quality new/very good books for $6-7 with quick delivery!
Easy to order, great selection of books
Date of experience: May 10, 2024
Generally, can get great quality new/very good books for $6-7 with quick delivery!
Date of experience: February 15, 2024
Easy to use. My go=to for used books
Return customer
Date of experience: May 3, 2021
I've used Alibris for many years. It's a great place to find rare or out of print books.
I loathe Amazon
Date of experience: July 13, 2024
Easy Purchase, quick shipping. I received the book within a few days of purchasing
I prefer paper books over audio or ebooks and this book arrived in great condition
Date of experience: July 13, 2024
Everything went well, seller's communication, price was okay etc
Only place that had the books I wanted.
Date of experience: July 13, 2024
There should be a way to quickly find free shipping items under a single word or two, instead of having to go through each page. Say I am looking for origami books I should be able to type in origami, "Eligible for Free Shipping" and all the origami books that are "Eligible for Free Shipping". The rest of the service is fine.
I had a coupon that's going to expire.
Date of experience: June 28, 2024
Didn't find the books in as good of condition on other sites.
Date of experience: March 7, 2024
Looking for items, cheaper than I found them or items I couldn't find anywhere else. Basically, your my last choice since it's so hard to find free shipping items.
* Alibris attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond
Date of experience: February 8, 2024
It's easy to find books I want. However, I am looking for the other books in the same series and didn't find them. That's disappointing.
To see if you had all the books in the book series. You had 3 of the books in the 6 book series. They were cheaper and better condition than at other places.
Date of experience: June 16, 2022
Alibris has a very user-friendly process to find and purchase items.
Because it's a great, reasonably-priced site that I often used in the past to find old or out-of print books. Been recommending you all for years!
Date of experience: July 13, 2024
There's not a lot of books avaiable in the store and the prices of the ones avaiable goes up very quickly.
Because I always buy here some of the books I need at a really cheap price with good quality
Date of experience: June 16, 2024
Thanks for carrying a copy of this old Christian book. I am a man of few words who rarely uses all of the characters available to reply.
Result of a FireFox search for this author's book.
Date of experience: May 27, 2024
I couldn't go back once at the pay page to get the discount. Additionally, both books were coming from the same store, shipping shouldn't have been that much.
Date of experience: January 9, 2023
Soooooo easy to find what I need, check out, and feel good that I'm sticking it to Amazon by continuing to support bibliophiles in local communities. Thank you.
I like to learn by reading and support small businesses.
Date of experience: March 23, 2022
Because you're the antithesis of Amazon
Date of experience: December 2, 2021
You just make it easy - very few clicks to get my book, thanks.
I love Alibris - unlike Amazon, it is obvious you support educated booksellers in brick and mortar stores within interesting neighborhoods cultivating networks of culture.
Date of experience: August 9, 2021
Found site by searching for a specific book on DuckDuckGoc.com
The optimized cart... fantastic idea... never saw anything like it before! Saved about 10% on the order. Schnazzzzy!
I do everything I can not to support the Evil Empire (AKA Amazon). Found you when searching for a specific book on DuckDuckGo.com.
Then aaaaaaaaaaallmost didn't enter the store b/c of the captcha.
Makes you wonder how many orders / how much money the captcha is costing Alibris. :-\
Date of experience: December 18, 2021
By far the best selection of out of print books and easy way to order them.
Best way to order out of print books.
Date of experience: July 4, 2024
Date of experience: January 27, 2024
I previously ordered a book through Alibris in July of this year and made full payment for that ordered book at the price and under the terms set out in the Alibris Website listing. Alibris, however, was uncooperative in requiring the listing bookseller, Wilmington Books, to comply with its book listing on Alibris's Website, and Alibris did so in despite evidence and proof that Wilmington Books retained possession of multiple copies of the ordered book and was still offering those individual copies for sale (albeit at a higher price than Wilmington Books had originally listed the book in that listing to which I had responded and to which offer I had accepted and paid for in full). Although my payment was fully refunded, Wilmington Books wilfully refused to fulfill the paid book order. I am unhappy that Alibris made no demonstrable effort to hold Wilmington Books accountable for compliance with and fulfillment of its book listing on the Alibris Website.
Price and availability of the desired book for which I was looking.
Date of experience: November 20, 2023
I was going to pay in CDN, but was told I couldn't use Paypal for that. I was told my order would only be processed in USD, and that Paypal wouldn't work with CDN. In this case, please add instructions on how to change currency to USD, because I am glad I was able to use Paypal, as I prefer it. Many thanks for a wonderful transaction! Stay awesome :)
Date of experience: October 12, 2022
Very pleased with the quality and condition of the book I purchased for what it cost.
Date of experience: July 4, 2024
You guys are easier to work with than the other outfits beginning with the letter "A"!
You have the books I want.
Date of experience: July 12, 2024
It was confusing. I ordered 2, then 1 more book and did not receive free shipping. It wasn't until later that your site suggested the best way to get most of the books free of shipping charges.
I have been a long time customer
Date of experience: December 6, 2023
Needed a few books
Date of experience: March 15, 2023
It was trouble-free and the right item. I like easy when it comes to finding and acquiring books.
Had the book and at a reasonable price, and the edition that I wanted. French-language books are not always easy to get, the by way.
Date of experience: July 11, 2024
Good price, have traded there before
Date of experience: March 2, 2024
Date of experience: October 17, 2023
Date of experience: December 3, 2022
As a first time visitor (and buyer) to you web site, most everything was user friendly. It would be nice if when you click n a book it would give you a few more pictures. I was specifically searching for postcard books, I went to the internet to look the book up to find more facts, like are the postcard really usable to mail and pictures to see if the postcards are what I am expecting. Covers can be deceiving. I also had issues with the "Order Summary" page, it showed my coupon but it also had est. Shipping cost. I was leary of proceeding to payment, but since I was paying with PayPal I figured I could cancel if it did in fact charge my account for shipping. One other item was on your "Contact Us" Customer heading it says to go to "contact Customer Service" When you go to this link it asks you to file out the form, BUT at the bottom of the form it says contact us by phone. I didn't read the rest of the information in the right column, my eyes jumped right to the phone number thinking that I could get a quick response to my shipping question. Oh I did look under shipping, but it gave no information that pertained to my question. Any way, these are small things, but they would clarify things for a new comer to your website. Even a blurb under shipping that stated that shipping charges would be removed prior to final payment step. I REALLY dislike that I can not submit this review to you without clicking that I agree to have this published..
Google search showed that your price on one of the postcard book I was looking for was the least expensive. I ship out a lot of postcards. I belong to Posscrossing.com,
Date of experience: May 28, 2021
I've been using ALibris for 20 years (I know this because I can see old shipping addresses in my profile that go back that far). I simply feel really ripped off by the shipping charges. $4.95 to ship a paperback just feels too high. It puts the total price too close to just buying the books new from online-bookseller-who-shall-not-be-named. I really want to support used bookstores, so I went ahead and paid to use ALibris, but I felt ripped off. // I would add to this that it's really difficult to search among multiple copies of the book in the same condition. The edition I wanted covered 50 pages of items, and I wanted Very Good quality. I did a sort by "Condition" but that grouped so many pages of "New" at the top that I had to hunt and peck around until I found the Very Goods. // So if the shipping cost were cheaper, I wouldn't mind the hunting and pecking. Alternately, if finding the copy I wanted in the condition I wanted were a breeze, I might have more easily been able to find a high-quality "Good" copy that could have met my needs, and I wouldn't have minded the shipping so much. // So, just overall, a somewhat demoralizing experience.
Long history of doing business with them, only needed a used (not new) book, and wanting to very much support used bookstores.
* Alibris attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond
Date of experience: December 12, 2021
Found 3 books in excellent condition at an excellent price - books I've been unable to find at my public library and neighborhood bookstores.
A+ Transaction from beginning to end!
I always find what I'm looking for at Alibris!
Date of experience: November 23, 2023
Ease of website and checkout. Excellent selection of books. Thank you
You had a hardback cover in very good condition at a very good price.
Date of experience: July 12, 2024
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Site seemed reliable
Date of experience: January 13, 2025
We love browsing books, drinking coffee, and talking with people who love good stories.
Born from Interloc, a database for proffesional booksellers, Alibris has spent over two decades connecting book lovers to book sellers. It's the premier marketplace for textbooks, used books and rare, out-of-print books and supports countless small booksellers across the country. With over 270 million books, Alibris has something for you.
