uk.bol.com

Advantages: Cheap, decent range, reasonable service, cheap, cheap!
Disadvantages: Some softback volumes, immediate debiting of credit cards.

We all have an Achilles Heel. Mine is books. My shelves are groaning. I like to own books, not borrow them. I just cannot help it. Still, I do not spend money on clothes and make up. I do not spend my weekends clubbing. So it is fine for me to buy books, books and more books, right? I buy a lot from Amazon; with vouchers I earn in various online, You Will Never Make A Fortune You Know activities. I like Amazon. It is like a nice pair of comfortable ...
...reliable. I buy a lot from PS Books – they are as cheap as chips and they sell books I would never usually think of looking for. I buy a lot from The Book People – they are also phenomenally cheap, and they are super in particular for children's books. I scour the charity shops and I have a kind friend who scours the charity shops on my behalf. I spend far too much on posh books from the Folio Society. Oh, and I buy from the local independent bookshop ... Read review

Advantages: Be the first with the hottest books
Disadvantages: They drive my mum crazy with early morning deliveries

...book has now been published in paperback, bol.com are offering the hardback at 82% off cover price. That is £3.59 for a 700 page hardback. In comparison Amazon.co.uk have the paperback edition for £8.99 plus postage. If you buy new books, you owe it to yourself to check out uk.bol.com ... Read review

Advantages: Some things are EXTREMELY cheap
Disadvantages: Not as wide a selection as I'd like, VERY disorganised customer service, slow to reply to emails & unhelpful

After finding a newly released book that I wanted reduced from £14.99 to £5.99 it was fair to say that I immediately thought www.uk.bol.com was a godsend. My subsequent experience with customer service will explain why that might not be the case later on; but firstly, allow me to familiarise you with the site. UK.BOL.COM This is the UK website of bol.com and initial impressions are good! The home page seems to be logically arranged with links at ...
...help and login.’ Underneath that are larger tabs for Bestsellers at 60% off, 1000s more titles, Film Music, Gift Ideas, Gift sets, Booker Winner, and Book of the Month. Down the left hand side is a slimline quick menu with hyperlinks to categories that may be of interest to you. Overall the homepage is pleasantly full without being brightly coloured, confusing, or overly cluttered. At the top there is a little box for searching, so if you know what ... Read review

Advantages: cheap books, cheap postage
Disadvantages: poor packaging, slow delivery

uk.bol.com is one of the sites I sometimes use for buying books. The site has the following advantages - very cheap. A new hardback bestseller frequently sells for £7.99 compared to £11.99 or more on other websites . -good range of new fiction, tv tie-ins and cookery books -cheap delivery: only £1 per item and free if you order 3 or more books. -the site is easy to search and navigate. -when you become a member of the site you only need to order ...
...membership agreement. This is not at the hugely inflated price of other book clubs I have been members of. However the site also has the following disadvantages -painfully slow delivery. Do not order from this site if you need something soon. The earliest I have ever received an order is 3 weeks later. Not ideal for gift buying unless you order weeks in advance. You may have to do as I have done and have to rush to a bookshop at the last minute ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap & cheerful
Disadvantages: Rubbish customer service, immediately debit credit/debit card regardless of delivery, small selection of goods

...christmas presents, I checked my uk.bol.com account daily to see if this my account had been 'authorised.' Suddenly, (well about a week later) and with no warning, I found myself unable to log in and the usual asking for my password procedure was no joy either. I emailed uk.bol.com customer services and a week later I was told that my account had not been authorised and therefore, I was no longer a customer. Annoyed and extremely worried about the ...
...their customer services (which by the way is a call centre somewhere in India by the sounds of things) only to be put in touch with a very incompetent member of staff who kept me on hold whilst she found out 1) why my account had been rejected & 2) when I would get a refund. Let me assure you that this cost a hell of a lot and the response was the usual "your account will be refunded shortly." This conversation took place in the last week of November ... Read review