AbeBooks is an online marketplace of millions of new, rare, used, and out-of-print books and long-lost books. AbeBooks being a company with passion to books; booksellers love AbeBooks for helping them to sell books around the globe 365 days a year and 24 hours a day. At AbeBooks you can search by title, author, or keywords to find your desired book. The search results will offer up a list of books and buyers can choose the copy that best fits their needs. You can have big savings on cheap textbooks. You can shop by browsing the following categories: Antiques & Collectibles, Law, Literary Collections, Art, Mathematics, Body Mind & Spirit, Nature, Music, Pets, Cooking, Education, Religion, Science, Fiction, Games, Social Science, History, Travel, True Crime and more.
Founded by two couples from Victoria in 1995, AbeBooks.com went live in 1996. Acquired in December 2008, AbeBooks Inc. is a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc. and with headquarters in Canada, Victoria, British Columbia and in Dusseldorf, Germany. Their business stretches around the world with 6 international sites, with their mission is to help people find and buy any book from any booksellers. Dating back to the 15th century, the unique inventory of books for sale from booksellers includes the world's finest antiquarian books, millions of signed books, countless out-of-print gems, a vast selection of college textbooks, millions of used copies and new books as well. Click here for more on company information.
For media inquiries you can call 250-412-3258. Their mailing address: AbeBooks Inc., Suite 500-655 Tyee Road Victoria, BC V9A 6x5 Canada. If you need assistance contact customer support for further assistance.
These are what customers say about the company online:
The overal summary of the tone of feedback for the site is 90 percent positive.
AbeBooks is not BBB accredited. But on a scale of A+ (highest) to F (lowest) BBB has given AbeBooks a rating of A+. Factors that raised the site's ratings are: The length of time it has been operating, complaint volume filed with BBB, response to 32 complaint(s) filed against business, resolutions of complaint(s), and BBB has sufficient background info on this business which started in 06/1996. The New York Time described the company in 2002 as " an actual Internet success story." At its World Summit, by 2003, the United Nations acclaimed AbeBooks as one of the world's leading ecommerce companies.
AbeBooks is very popular. According to Alexa.com as of March 2013, this site has a three-month global traffic rank of 3,516. It ranked #932 in Australia, #965 in South Africa, #1,041 in New Zealand, #1,345 in the United States and #1,574 in Canada. It has 10,896 Sites Linking in and has 7 reviews and was given a star rating of 3.5. Top search queries are: abebooks (7.94%), abe books (3.58%) and abe (2.46%). The estimated daily unique pageviews per user of the site is 7.4. According to Google PR Checker the pagerank value of Abebooks is 8 from 10 possible point (8/10). According to WebstatsDomain Abebooks ranked 3,452 in the world-low ranked means lots of visitors. The site is popular among the users of the United States where it get 52.1%. The site was given a star rating of 4.0/5.0 and an excellent pagerank (8/10). This site has an organic keywords of 105,000 with 80% seo score so its good for seo website. Pageviews per user is 5.49. Abebooks estimated worth is $1,517,50.
AbeBooks is very popular. They have pages on the following social media: (a) Twitter with 9,350 Followers, 1,977 Following and 6,203 Tweets; (b) Facebook with 32,711 Likes and 5,804 Talking about this; (c) You Tube with 1,272 Subscribers and 503,760 Video Views; (d) AbeBooks Blog with the latest article titled:" E Nesbit: Queen of Children's Literature." Abe Books is on Flickr too. AbeBooks on Pinterest has gathered 774 Followers, they have 11 Following, 23 Boards, and 604 Pins. They have also an account in Google plus with +471 votes on its page and 12 in their circles and their presence is on Tumblr.com too.
AbeBooks guarantee that the site is secure website to shop. To keep your credit card information safe, they employ SSL (Secure Socket Layer. They will never pass your credit card number through e-mail. They use encryption to protect transferred of data. You enter the last 4 digits of the number for greater protection of your card. If you forget to sign off their site after making a purchase close down the browser when done if you are in a public or shared computer-this measures protect your card number. Click here for more info on privacy. Check their website using this tool: http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://www.abebooks.com
AbeBooks have the following top-level pricing:
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AbeBooks offer lower prices than other company at the same product.
AbeBooks do not ship any books themselves. AbeBooks is an online site that connect you with independent booksellers around the globe and the sellers decide on the method of shipment. Each booksellers sets their own shippping rates and delivery speeds vary between sellers. Many AbeBooks booksellers from around the world offer free shipping on select books; and that there's no minimum purchase- what you see is what you pay. Click here for more info on their shipping policies.
AbeBooks accepts the following methods of payment: Visa, American Express, JCB and Mastercard. They cannot take orders over the telephone nor they offer gift certificates or gift cards. They do not accept Paypal but some of their individual booksellers do, some accept check or money order too. Pease note that if you paid for your order by a method other than credit card, you will be instructed to contact the seller directly for refund. Check the Terms of Condition of the card itself if you wish to make a purchase using a branded (American Express/Visa/MasterCard) gift card. There may be other terms specific to your card since some gift cards have other restrictions. Click here for more on payment methods policy.
At AbeBooks within 30 days you are eligible for a refund if you are not happy with your purchase due to their error or if the book does not arrive. So if your order is the result of error on the bookseller's part you will be refunded return shipping equal to the original charge. Please note that you will be given the tracking number and refunds for 'item did not arrive' cannot be initiated until 8 days after the Estimated Delivery Date. They recommend that you include a copy of the Return Confirmation email in the package so that the bookseller can easily identify your item upon arrival and to process your refund immediately. Click here for more info on their return and refund policy.