1, Report:
#1460973
Posted Date:
Sep 15 2018
Half Price Books North Austin Location, Parmer Crossing Would not honor their same as cash voucher, for sold DVD's/Bluerays Austin Texas
Half Price Books, (North Austin) location Parmer Lane, would not honor a cash receipt voucher, credit for several movies I had sold the location at an earlier visit to the store, I had sold several high end Criterion Blue Rays, approx. 6, and several good regular DVD movies they gav...
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Half Price Books
Categories: Retail Re-set Mechandisung
2, Report:
#1456956
Posted Date:
Aug 17 2018
Half Price Books Half Price Books - National Chain of Con Artists Clive Iowa
I took 842 pounds of items to the Clive (Des Moines) Iowa store:
1. Brand new unread new magazines. I receive dozens of free subscriptions from various magazine publishers for several businesses I run. All magazines are new and unread. Any magazines that were dinged or tore due to t...
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Half Price Books
Categories: Books, Books, Records & Videos
3, Report:
#1436088
Posted Date:
Mar 27 2018
Half Price Books 1002 West port Rd Kansas City Mo 64111 hpb.com Half Price Books Under Paying Customers For New And Expensive Books They Are Ripping People Off Kansas City Missouri
This review is for Half Price Books on West-port Kansas City Mo. I went in there to sell some books, movies and games. The books were Distributional Justice Theory and Measurement; Regional Anesthesia Analgesia and Pain Management; Malpractice and Medical Liability; 5 brand new pape...
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Half Price Books
Categories: Books, Books, Records & Videos
4, Report:
#1404295
Posted Date:
Oct 05 2017
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Half Price Books Don't Be a Sucker Des Moines Iowa
Visited Des Moines, IA, store on 10/3/17 for the purpose of testing this chain store. I have seen multiple bad reviews of this chain and wanted to test them myself to see if the bad reviews were are true. Unfortunately, the bad reviews are true, if not a major understatement. I...
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Half Price Books
Categories: Books, Records & Videos
5, Report:
#1341870
Posted Date:
Dec 28 2016
Summer Institute for the Gifted SIG, Barbara Swicord Theft, Deceptive Practices Stamford CT Connecticut
My child attended SIG two year in a row and each year there have been many petty problems with this camp but I draw the line at paying $4,000 for three weeks of instruction and being told my child the teacher was replaced and they never even used the books we were requir...
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Summer Institute for the Gifted
Categories: Teachers
6, Report:
#1263120
Posted Date:
Oct 23 2015
Half Price Books Rip off deluxe! Oklahoma City Oklahoma
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Half Price Books
Categories: Book Stores
7, Report:
#1255587
Posted Date:
Sep 25 2015
Half Price Books Sugar Land TX Half Price Books Racial Profiling Racism Sugar Land Texas
I contacted Half Price Books corporate office two years ago regarding racial profiling and discrimination. I was assured then that I would not encounter this in the future. Unfortunately things have not changed. Today I was followed and watched as I shopped. The staff is unapologe...
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Half Price Books Sugar Land TX
Categories: Book Stores
8, Report:
#1146981
Posted Date:
May 15 2014
Half Price Books Dropped our recycling services with no explanation and thank you. Louisville Kentucky
We are a local recycler and bookseller. We had been picking up the recycle cans from Half Price Books for over 5 years with another partner. In the middle of March 2014, we received a phone call from Half Price telling us that our services were no longer needed. No...
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Half Price Books
Categories: Unusual Rip-Off
9, Report:
#1138364
Posted Date:
Apr 12 2014
Half Price Books Insulting Buyback Offers Beavercreek Ohio
Two bags and two crates of books and magazines, with retail value well over $500, was reduced to $12. The excuse was age of magazines (well, duh, that usually happens with periodicals) and underlining in texts (the pages and binding were still in excellent condition).
This is comp...
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Half Price Books
Categories: Book Stores
10, Report:
#1106935
Posted Date:
Dec 14 2013
Half Price Books Employers do not know how to buy back books from customers. Better training should be enforced! Dallas Texas
I used to be an employee of Half Price Books in the last few years and can state that the training an employee goes through in order to learn to buy back books from customers is in need of serious repair. When I was trained to buy back books, I was given a few ancient video's to wat...
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Half Price Books
Categories: Books, Records & Videos
11, Report:
#1090293
Posted Date:
Oct 08 2013
half price books half price ripoff Columbus Ohio
I went in with an xbox 360 rare wired guitar that cost 169 dollars in Amazon right now 44 used
And some pretty current expensive video games half price tried to give me only
5 dollars for everything.the guy at the counter looked at the guitar and said he had a bunch of them in the...
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half price books
Categories: Questionable Activities
12, Report:
#1076328
Posted Date:
Aug 16 2013
HALF PRICE BOOKS UNENTICAL BUSINESS PRACTICES - UNFAIR TREATMENT AND MONEY PAID FOR BOOKS PITTSBURGH Pennsylvania
8/10 my husband and I(in our 60's) packed up 470 books (65 hard cover - 405 paperbacks) and took them to half price books to sell. These were ALL new within the past 2 years, all large print books and only read once - excellent condition. Girl working the sell your books here counte...
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HALF PRICE BOOKS
Categories: Books, Records & Videos
13, Report:
#1073964
Posted Date:
Aug 08 2013
Half Price Books Rip off my father rip off your reputation houston Texas
I sent my father to go sell a hefty amount of books and was expecting at least twenty. Because thats what they usually give me. And a reciept but today when my father came home, he handed me a measily $7. I've gotten more for 4 small manga, I wouldn't have gave $15 a second glanc...
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Half Price Books
Categories: Unusual Rip-Off
14, Report:
#456550
Posted Date:
Jan 23 2013
Half Price Books drug testing needed Dallas Texas
I've been an employee of Half Price Books and am just now quitting due to a desire to move up to bigger and better things. Something needs to be done about the employee drug use in that company. Working with individuals who come to work high is not something I've enjoyed. I've not d...
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Half Price Books
Categories: Books, Records & Videos
15, Report:
#956978
Posted Date:
Oct 19 2012
Half Price Books Half price rip off Screwing the consumer Internet
They sold my friend and I bought access codes for Nutrition and You , my diet for Nursing . The codes were no good for pearson and the codes never worked . Pearson when contacted said the codes were no good. They were contact at http://www.hpbmarketplace.com/ and all the requi...
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Half Price Books
Categories: Colleges and Universities
16, Report:
#225459
Posted Date:
Dec 29 2011
Half Price Books Records Magazines Tried to give me 50 cents for two boxes of autographed, first edition books Austin Texas
After a close relative passed away, we were settling the estate and since the relative used to be a mental health professional, there were many books in that field from Freud, Jung, Adler, you name it, that were CLASSICS in the field and still remain benchmarks to this day.
My r...
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Half Price Books Records Magazines
Categories: Books, Records & Videos
17, Report:
#812338
Posted Date:
Dec 21 2011
half price books scam artists lawrence ks, Kansas
I've gone in three off four times to the Lawrence Kansas store to sell books. Each time I bring about 20 books or more and one time 15 old time cds. Every time, no matter how many I bring in, the last time I brought in 40 or 50 books, I get five dollars or less. The books are in gre...
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half price books
Categories: Book Stores
18, Report:
#294913
Posted Date:
Jun 21 2011
Half-Price Books Basically I was falslely accused of vadalizing the store's bathroom and I was banned from the store, but no cops were called and I didn't get anything in writing Phoenix Arizona
I was in this store one day to sell some of my movies. They held my movies up front while they tried to figure out how much they were gonna give me, I continued to look around the store.
I had to use the restroom while I was waiting so I asked them where it was and they said tha...
Entity
Half-Price Books
Categories: Book Stores
19, Report:
#144944
Posted Date:
Dec 31 2010
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Half Price Books Ripoff unfair pricing for books and software several times below fair market value Fort Worth Texas
I have been a patron of half-price books for several years. Many books and CD's that I have owned have been sold to you and put into your inventory so that I would be able to have a little bit of money when I was in a tight spot. Recently, I went to your store on Hulen in Fort Wor...
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Half Price Books
Categories: Books, Records & Videos
20, Report:
#663795
Posted Date:
Dec 31 2010
Half Price Books, Mesky discrimination, uncivilized, rude, dishonest, and stinky Dallas, Texas
Have you noticed how Half Price Books rarely if ever hires Latinos or Hispanics? Isn't that pitiful!? This complaint is against the Half Price Books in Dallas, Texas located on 13388 Preston road. I believe that this store has a lot of problems due to their really uncivilized store ...
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Half Price Books, Mesky
Categories: Adult Book Stores
21, Report:
#674113
Posted Date:
Dec 31 2010
Half Price Books Financially Rapes Sellers - Beware - Steer Clear!! Dallas, Texas
Half Price Books financially rapes sellers - beware! The last 2 times I've taken books to them to sell (recent hardbacks in excellent condition) they offered me $7.50 - can you believe it ?!?! This is beyond ridiculous and insulting. From now on I will sell my used books online - ne...
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Half Price Books
Categories: Book Stores
22, Report:
#547613
Posted Date:
Sep 22 2010
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HALF-PRICE BOOKS Creating database of Driver License numbers on customers Fort Worth, Texas
No return or exchange unless you produce your Drivers License so Half Price Books can create a database entry on you to track your returns based on your Drivers License Number. This is an unnecessary violation of personal information, exposing you to identity thief. ...
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HALF-PRICE BOOKS
Categories: Questionable Activities
23, Report:
#525622
Posted Date:
Sep 22 2010
Half Price Books Banned from store out of spite! Mayfield Heights, Ohio
I see, that I am not alone. Many people have already filed a complaint about Half Price Books' rude employees. It goes a lot farther than that in my case. I have been shopping at Half Price books for many years. This does not faze them at all though.
Everytime I have tried to retu...
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Half Price Books
Categories: Books, Records & Videos
24, Report:
#68424
Posted Date:
Sep 19 2010
Steve Reid, Owner, 75% Off Books unethical ripoff. I was banned, kicked out, threatened and shocked. All I did was buy his books. Plano Texas
Recently, I had a rather interesting experience [to say the least] at a local bookstore, and I'd like to warn others about this store and its unethical business practices (this is putting it lightly until you read what really happened!).
One day, I was browsing around in 75% Off ...
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75% Off Books
Categories: Book Stores
25, Report:
#456941
Posted Date:
Sep 15 2010
Half Price Books Took in 50 Hardback Perfect Condition Books - Price Offered Obscene!!! Garland Texas
I took 50 hardback books that were in perfect condition, most unread to this store. 3/4 were former best sellers which I know they get a lot of and the others were high dollar art, photography, misc. The Buy Guy's FAQ from their website made it sound so easy. I had to load them o...
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Half Price Books
Categories: Book Stores