Half Price Books — Local services in North Olmsted

BEWARE WHO YOUR SELLING TO. These guys are offering extremely different pricing based on (expert lol) opinion. lowest offers ever today lol. First time I traded books in was great. This older bald man took 2 bags of books and offered me 22 dollars. That was fine. 3 days later I go to turn in 4 bags of books hoping for around 30 dollars. A lot of hardcovers including a Odyssey by Homer and some DVds including the hobbit 2. Yes some books had some cat hair from being in my mother's basement Im cleaning out but same condition as the last books I sold. Some were library books which I had no problem donating if they didn't sell. This time tho a (feminine young male) handled the books. You could tell he wasn't looking to hard BC of the cat hair. I waited and when called he offered me a dollar and 50 cents. I laughed and thought the DVDs alone could get me that. I understood about the library books but a dollar fifty total???? Anyways I asked the young manager why and he mentioned the library books (OK) , the condition (same as last 2 bags I sold) and that he was his decision about the prices. I was like wow this guy is cheap and must want a raise bad lol or this place needs to stop taking in books til they sell more lol. So moral of the story is watch who you trade your books into BC they all offer different prices based on opinion (bad system) and try to sell to the older gentleman he's a lot...

To those of you who have been to this business in the past- I will give you a fair type of warning here- Do not sell anything to this book store or any of its branches. For what I turned in- and some items were common but others were not. I am really embarrassed to say how much I received for what I turned in- and it wasn't much- but you think that you would receive more on that basis. Also- and this was not directed towards myself- but through my observations- and I have been at this store in the past- the staff was very rude to a lot of customers that were in the store. I was a repeat customer until now. I will say this- if you have good products that are in really good shape and you want to sell them- I would recommend using an exceptional trustworthy market outside this business and their branches. If things were to have changed- I might return. But after this experience- I will no longer sell any items to them- for the time being. But also be forewarned- I believe that what they tell you that they are overstocked on certain items- do not believe them for a second. I leave you with this observation- and many of you have probably seen it. What you sell them- and after they accept and give you a poor return on it- they mark it up with the price tag increased over 250% so that they can sell it and make money off of what you sold to them and they gave you almost nothing for it. Just be cautious and...

I went to this store because I was looking to add to my CD collection in my car. When I walked in I was pretty surprised because the store was packed with so much stuff. Games, pens, book accessories, comics, DVDs, CDs and more. The selection was definitely way better than I expected and I was pretty impressed by that. After looking around a bit I went to the CD display and saw many titles and all types of music, even artists that can be hard to find at places like FYE. The only issue that I found is that I didn't really think the prices were that great. Some of them were even used and they were priced the same as new CDs. I don't hate this store. It has a pretty impressive amount of material and most likely has something for everyone. I just believe that the store name was misleading as the "markdowns" were not only mediocre but most items I found there were nowhere near half priced, not even on books. It isn't a bad store, it has a large selection of materials but be prepared to spend pretty much the same on their materials as you would at a regular bookstore. I didn't end up buying anything that day because i found the same CDs for less at The Exchange in a...