Used Amazon Books - optimizing/discovering shipping
March 21, 2018 4:00 PM Subscribe
I would love to buy more used books on Amazon but I have problems with comparing shipping costs. Surely there's some better alternatives ?
I live in New Zealand so shipping books (predominantly from the USA) is always going to be a significant cost but there is some thing which would make it easier and I wonder if it exists already.
When you look at a list of suppliers who have a particular book available it would be great if you could compare the actual cost of buying and shipping from each supplier without having to go right through to the shopping cart to find out what the total is .
Does someone provide some sort of alternative listing which allows you to see all the available suppliers of a given used book with the purchase+shipping so you can compare and contrast ?
This question inspired by the USD2 book which had USD25 shipping !
I live in New Zealand so shipping books (predominantly from the USA) is always going to be a significant cost but there is some thing which would make it easier and I wonder if it exists already.
When you look at a list of suppliers who have a particular book available it would be great if you could compare the actual cost of buying and shipping from each supplier without having to go right through to the shopping cart to find out what the total is .
Does someone provide some sort of alternative listing which allows you to see all the available suppliers of a given used book with the purchase+shipping so you can compare and contrast ?
This question inspired by the USD2 book which had USD25 shipping !
The display is cost+shipping to the country that the site is located in, not your country. So it's normally a few dollars for shipping within the U.S., but $$$ to another country. You can't find out how much the international shipping is without ading the item to your cart and proceeding to checkout.
posted by wnissen at 4:09 PM on March 21, 2018
posted by wnissen at 4:09 PM on March 21, 2018
Try ABEBooks.com
posted by Pressed Rat at 4:22 PM on March 21, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by Pressed Rat at 4:22 PM on March 21, 2018 [4 favorites]
I know you're asking about Amazon, but there's a very good price comparator for books that allows you to specify destination and currency and shipping costs for used books, namely BookFinder.
posted by davemack at 4:27 PM on March 21, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by davemack at 4:27 PM on March 21, 2018 [1 favorite]
what about using the official nz reshipping service to ship a bunch of books from different amazon sellers in one package from the US and taking advantage of all those sweet domestic US rates on amazon?
posted by noloveforned at 4:28 PM on March 21, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by noloveforned at 4:28 PM on March 21, 2018 [1 favorite]
Another vote for abebooks.com—I’ve bought tons of used books from that site. Enter the title you’re looking for and you’ll get a list of all the bookstores that have it in stock, along with a rating of the book’s condition at each location and any shipping fees. I believe you can filter your search by country—I know there are international bookstores registered on the site.
posted by bookmammal at 4:53 PM on March 21, 2018
posted by bookmammal at 4:53 PM on March 21, 2018
BookFinder.com has a search option for the destination country and will then show the Cost+Postage
n.b. Bookfinder is owned by AbeBooks which in turn is owned by Amazon
posted by Lanark at 5:15 AM on March 22, 2018
n.b. Bookfinder is owned by AbeBooks which in turn is owned by Amazon
posted by Lanark at 5:15 AM on March 22, 2018
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posted by teremala at 4:06 PM on March 21, 2018 [2 favorites]