Half Price Books in Columbus
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Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, US
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Site: https://www.hpb.com/040?y_source...
- Monday:10AM–9PM
- Tuesday:10AM–9PM
- Wednesday:10AM–9PM
- Thursday:10AM–9PM
- Friday:10AM–9PM
- Saturday:10AM–9PM
- Sunday:10AM–9PM
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Superb. This is my go-to store for EVERY book I want to buy. They normally can always find what you’re looking for. They’re incredibly trustworthy to use a credit card with for orders over the phone. I prefer Half Price Books FAR more than Amazon, for security and personal reasons. I also find them far less expensive then Amazon as they have far lower ship cost than Amazon. I also shop HPB to KEEP Brick & Mortars ALIVE! Their staff is always AMAZING. Josh helped me today. They are professional, intelligent and I learned something new today: to find the specific book I wanted, Josh had me search for the “ISBN” number on the back. When is the last time a Librarian asked you THAT if you want to be sure you get the EXACT book you want!? Thank you, Josh! 😊. From a Happy Camper.✌️
Classic half price books are the most common and the only bad thing about this book has a lot more than just picked up and the company was able that is a great idea to get the best way in which item to get to buy and the price books are worth a little bit more than the price of that is it just a lot more to buy it took the more expensive and expensive and cheaper and my best bet
More like full priced books, and prepare to foot the bill while their employees are trained at your expense.I wanted to like Half Price Books because I do love book stores, but my experience at this location was anything but pleasant.Throughout the store I noticed them charging more for used items than I can pay to get them brand new nearly anywhere else. This ranged from blu-ray/DVD you could find new in the $5 bins at any of the mass retail stores, being sold used and marked up to $8-10. What didnt fit this description was being sold at the top value asked nearly anywhere else if the items were new. For an example they have the complete series of the Wire used and were asking $70-80—a quick Google search shows that the top price being asked online is exactly that much, if you purchased it new. The books, vinyl, board games, and basically everything else in the store was all priced at its top dollar, which is fine maybe if the store wasnt literally called half price books (records magazines).Regardless I still desired supporting my local book store instead of giving more business to one of the mass retail stores out there. With that in mind, I managed to find an assortment of impulse items I wanted. So complain about pricing all I want but I admittedly did make the decision to purchase them.When checking out is when any remaining hope of a normal shopping experience ended. The lady checking me out made a mistake after half of my order was already charged onto a prepaid Visa gift card. She needed to call the manager, whose solution was to refund it back to the gift card. This took 10-15 minutes and ultimately ended up in a large line forming over something that was completely their mistake; but it still turned me into the guy holding up the line for way too long. I ultimately had to use my gas money to pay for these impulse purchases I wouldve never purchased if not for that gift card, and this was 6-7 hours from home.Edit : At first I never actually received the refund, but after 10-14 days it eventually did come through.
Its a magical place to go. You can lose hours searching for books. Whether its the latest novel in your favorite series, a book you forgot about but now cant live without, a cookbook, a fitness magazine, or a 40 year old publication of the complete works of Shakespeare, youll find it here.The staff are friendly and the atmosphere is exactly what a book stores should be.
Honestly, I would avoid this store at all costs. I brought in a bunch of books to sell and most of them were unread. I get that that doesn’t happen everyday, but I have a shopping problem. I don’t buy expensive handbags or shoes, I buy books I tell myself I’m gonna read and then never get around to it. I apologized to the customer service rep at the desk profusely because I had so many books, and he was nice about it, but after all the books were counted, the manager on duty was incredibly rude. She interrogated me in the middle of the store and escorted me to the check out desk. She huffed and puffed to the cashier, yelling at her that the she’d have to get more money for the till. She accused me of stealing books for resale. Then she told me that if I ever came back to her store I’d need to bring a receipt for all the items I wanted to sell. Truthfully she doesn’t have to worry about me coming back to her store again or any other Half Price Book store for that matter after the way I was treated. What’s more, if she was so worried about me trying to resell stolen books I would have been more than happy to pull up the receipts on my phone at the store, but she didn’t bother to do anything but be rude and make accusations. I’ll be encouraging any friends and family that I know who shop at HPB to go elsewhere from now on and if you’re thinking about selling books to HPB, I’d encourage you to reconsider. Use eBay or another online service.
As always Half Price Books delivers. I called in looking for something thats been a little hard to find for me and they put it on hold for me. They were super wonderful on the phone and when you come in there your customer service is excellent. As it is at any Half Price books Ive ever been to.
I was overwhelmed with the selection of books, accessories, and stuff .. I so appreciated the human customer service today .. I forgot the nice mans name, anyway he truly was amazing at helping me find everything I did or didnt need .. I am so excited for the Harry Potter Selection as well .. Have a great and prosperous 2022 ..
Great location. Not necessarily the largest location, so the selection is on the smaller side. But still has some great finds, helpful staff, and the usual good prices. Also a pretty good location - I only swung in because my food from a walkable restaurant nearby took extra long, so a very pleasant way to pass the time.
This is a dying industry, and how sad that is but that makes this beautiful place that much more valuable… It has so much more than books as well, records and media, movies, anime, manage, knick knacks and gifts and all sorts of printed this and that’s and books and all the between. I hope it never goes away, I am fearful and sad even thinking of that prospect. Support this business! I have for decades, literally…
This place is so cool. Fair pricing on both trade-ins AND whats for sale. I frequently stop by here just to check out the random collectibles they always have. Today I picked up a Star Wars Monopoly from 1997 that lists online for 80 dollars. Its missing one player token and one card..but it was only 18 dollars!? So stoked.
Three full medium boxes of books and a full medium box of DVDs yielded $11...lol! That sale was not worth the drive and boxing the stuff. I guess the money doesn’t matter if you are donating them to this place, but I wouldn’t waste your time otherwise. Just recycle the stuff instead of spending the time boxing, driving, and then waiting a half an hour in the store. I gave an extra star because there are a few deals that can be found in there. I wouldn’t ever sell anything else again though.
A great place to lose yourself for a few hours looking through books and other media, great prices for sales. Dont go in expecting to sell your books for half the price though. If they sell the books for half the price you have to understand that theyre going to pay much less. Take it from me, I worked for half price books many many years ago, and their business model has not changed.
Ssssssooooo many books, not enough time. I need to spend Way more time in there just to even get through a quarter of the store. Made my day! Only reason for 4 stars not five, is because I couldnt get down some of the coves because of social distancing (totally not their fault but cant give 5 stars).
Wonderful as usual. Unfortunately the one on Lane Avenue (that is much closer to us) is closed indefinitely due to building renovations, so we had to go to Bethel road location & were pleasantly surprised with ease of parking, selection, helpful staff, brightness & special book displays! Loved our time there!
Decent selection, hit the back of the store for a huge selection of clearance books. Great prices on almost everything with exception of DVDs.. some are priced a bit high for used selections. Sign up for email for money saving coupons! Cant go wrong with a stop at Half Price Books.
Half Price Books has the best selection of used books of any store I have ever been in without having a used bookstore atmosphere. The staff at the Bethel location are friendly, helpful and approachable. I can often find deals here better than any online price and the content of their large clearance section changes daily. 10/10. I would highly recommend this to anyone. This is the only store I visit frequently.
This place has really sour people working here. Its a smaller half price books so if you want selection and better buying options go to the big store on lane ave.But the people that work here are terrible. Not once in the many years of shopping here have I ever been greeted, asked if I need help finding something etc. And if I have to ask someone a question I get treated like a second class citizen for bothering them.At my last visit they were handing out coupons at checkout for an upcoming sale and didnt offer me one, despite handing them to everyone that was in front of me. The cashier even started a conversation with another customer while I was checking out!I think after that blatant disrespect I’ll be spending my money elsewhere.
A good location, and always lots of items in stock. The staff is pretty friendly and helpful. They also have the book buyback program at this location, though theyre usually very swamped from the number of people bringing things in. Also dont expect to get much for your buybacks, but its better than tossing them, right?
I was very impressed with this place. I expected to walk into a second hand hunting expedition but the organization is phenomenal. Staff is friendly but not pushy and they dont eyeball you if you flip through the pages or spend too much time in an isle like some stores. Ill definitely be back.
My favorite half- price books! They have a great selection of many different genres. I prefer to peruse the clearance and the older books. Also great calendar and journal selection. The staff is friendly and very knowledgeable! A great help for the next reading find!
The staff is rude and disorganized. We will not visit this location anymore. They skipped my drop off at least 5 times because the guy told me to leave my tote in the floor. When I went back to inquire, he did apologize but said at first glance it didn’t look like much $$ so I may want to just donate them. Isn’t that what HPB does, donate the ones not worth resell?Once to the register, the next guy was upset he was moved to work a register and his coldness was obvious!
I am not much of a reader however over the last few months the board game selection at half price has grown. They are usually not used (like they have bought out a surplus store) so the prices are closer to what you would find at a regular retail. I hope the selection of older and used games grows over the next 6 months!
Live this place! One of my favorite places to go for books. The staff at this location is friendly and the store layout is pretty simple. You can have books shipped here from other stores too, if youre looking for something specific. This place has great deals on good quality books, games, and movies. You cant beat it.
Decent bookstore, a lot of variety and knowledgeable staff. For some reason whenever Ive tried to sell books here the wait is extremely long, bordering around 45 minutes sometimes. It gives me time to shop but in those cases it has been packed and moving freely around was a challenge.
Very interesting book store. They literally have everything. From board games to classic literature to fantasy and sci fi. The list goes on. The employees were very polite and helpful. The atmosphere was very relaxed and wasnt pretentious like some of the bigger stores. Check it out if you are in the area. Its worth it.
They had in error in the system where my college textbook was actually canceled and nobody even notified me I just kept calling to check on my textbook two days in a row and I finally got someone on the phone that was honest and told me that it was canceled they also was trying to give me less of what I paid when I ask for my money back want to take the risk and hope that they actually have my textbook the next time around so I gave up on them and said Ill just go with the colleges bookstore only that it is still close to the 23rd and classes already started its a bummer but thats why you stay communication with your professor so everything can actually work out but that was actually a very sad thing to know that I couldnt even get my book from somewhere that I actually thought it was accurate to get your books from
You can always find some hidden gem here. Everything from books, records, vhs, Lazer disc,games, video discs, cassette tapes, DVDs, game cartridges, games systems. If you are an avid reader this is no reason you should not go. The locations in Columbus just keep giving me rare books I search out.
Was looking for an older book for a family member and called the store on Lane Ave. They advised this store had it in stock so I called a day or so ahead. The staff put the book on hold and were willing to hold for better than 3 days. When I came in them process to retrieve the hold was seamless and the book was a great bargain.
Total reviews rating 4.6
199 Reviews for Half Price Books 2023:
Review №1
2022-05-18If you can easily visit another Half Price Books in town, I highly recommend doing so, especially if you’re selling books.This store pays less for books they purchase than the other Half Price Books in town and most of the staff at the buy desk act like they’re doing you the favor while they pay you pennies on the dollar for quality books.And, don’t expect your time to be valued by the staff at the counter. They will tend to other non-related tasks in the middle of handing your business… IF they can break up their own conversations to any work.
Review №2
2022-07-28Beyond being affordable, and helping re- home books, I get a couple bucks to pay towards my purchase. They are so efficient with their buy process that mountains of books are processed in the Blink of an eye. Checking out is super easy - AND THEY ARE BAG FREE! I mean if you ask, then they give you one. Great place for lovers of all media types!
Review №3
2022-08-05Outstanding selection as always, often with books you cant find in regular stores anymore. Prices are hit-and-miss depending on the market, because some of these are probably going for less elsewhere. But Im not really going to complain and well still happily shop here.
Review №4
2022-06-25Dropped off 4 large boxes (100s) of books -- excellent condition -- some classics, some biographies, novels, travel books, etc. The masked girl who waited on us was rude and inaudible. They gladly kept all the books and offered 7 dollars for everything. Wasnt worth our trouble. Do not recommend.
Review №5
2022-06-21Dont buy or sell here. This place throws away thousands of dollars every year in merchandise. Cds, dads, books (bibles) and games. They throw it right into their dumpster. People could use this stuff and instead of giving it away to people that could use it. They just toss it in their trash. I get some stuff being old or messed up but they throw away brand new things still wrapped in plastic. Not to mention that the people that work here are all extremely rude.
Review №6
2022-05-25It was okay. They had a few sets of rare/high value books. Unfortunately, there wasnt much selection of bookf (as Igor would pronounce and cheered her.
Review №7
2022-08-17A perfectly average Half Price Books. Good book options that are always changing from week to week. Good to just check out if youre in the area.
Review №8
2022-08-15I always love this place. Lots to choose from and Im occasionally selling back like my last visit. Just a real cool place
Review №9
2022-07-21I love this place. The staff are very friendly and there are hundreds of books to choose from. The place is always hopping (an indication that people still love real books).
Review №10
2020-09-25Half Priced Books has not only a pretty good selection and prices but also friendly and helpful staff. Accessibility wise, the store has very wide aisles. The store is also quiet, which is good if you have sensory issues.