Half Price Books

U never know what u will find in here, I found dvd of Bön Jovi live from London for $ 2., u can sale them u books or whatever but u won’t make much on, several times of year u buy a $ 25 gift card and get $ 5. Gift card for free but the catch is u have to use it for the month that it said to use it and u have to spend that amount or bigger to use it, the staff is friendly too

Best HPB location I have been to. Staff is amazing and always helpful and efficient. I visit this store often and can’t say I have ever had a bad experience with this team. If you are in need of cleaning out your old books and records this is the place to go. Buying or selling Olathe HPB is wonderful.

I love Half Price Books!
I like the fact that I can get books and movies for less than the cover price. Yay!

I love HPB. I was at a conference once in Dallas/​Forth Worth, which is the original home of HPB, and also where there are 20-​some stores. Because of the way the flights worked out I got there very early the day before, so I spent much of my day seeing how many stores I could hit. (Six, as it turns out. I might have a problem.)
Having said that, this is my least favorite location in the metro. I mean, I gave it four stars, so I obviously don’t hate it, but of the locations I tend to have the worst luck finding things here. Plus – and this isn’t the store so much as the clients – the clientele can be a bit annoying. Take, for instance, the carts. All the stores have a few of the shorter shopping carts for customers, but this location seems to have the most people take advantage of them. And then they push through aisles that aren’t made for carts, getting in the way and generally being annoying. Why do so many people at that store park carts in the aisles? Why do you need a cart in a bookstore anyway? And why do you have to park it right in the middle of the aisle, blocking the way completely? And as I said, I know that’s not the fault of the store or the staff, but still, it annoys me.

This place is full of the same stuff you would find on the Barnes & Noble clearance table. 90% of the merchandise seems like just overstock, which you would already expect to get for half price, no?
Additionally, I once decided to try «trading in» a book here and found that they do not provide store credit, just cash. I brought in a hardcover book that was released in the last 9 months and expected to be offered around $ 5 for it, but apparently I am naïve and delusional. Instead, the employee said they could offer me «a quarter.» At first, I interpreted that to mean a quarter of a $ 100 bill and I was pretty excited. Then it hit me that she meant 25 cents and I felt, at once, ashamed and duped.
Needless to say, I am not a fan.

This is my second-​favorite location (Wesport wins), they have a good variety and clearance section. Metcalf seems to over-​picked and busy.
Got to overhear some great employee bashing by other employees today. I wish they’d keep their dirty laundry off the sales floor. The place seemed a little ransacked today, but they were super busy gossiping, so you can’t expect them to be tidying up.
Regardless, I did get some great gift items at a reasonable price, so at least that was good.

Not really happy with where this store has gone lately. Used to get really good prices on my books, and great buybacks. Half Price was my to-​go spot to keep my personal library circulating and I was rabidly loyal for a decade.
Now, I take in a TON of brand-​new books and used DVDs (three boxes worth, with these brand-​new books grossing at least $ 200 retail value) and they offer me $ 30? I could have sold them for way more than that online.
Not coming back here to sell again. Definitely gone downhill.

A great spot to pic up books at a great price. I would like to say I am an avid reader, but I tend to be more of an avid book buyer, walking out with piles each time when I have books at home that I still have not read. I just can not resist myself! A lot of people suggest the library to me, but sometimes I may read a book in a day and sometimes it may take a month, the library with due dates just doesn’t work well with me. This makes half price books perfect. I can get books at a great price and when I am done take them back and sale them so others can enjoy them. They have a huge selection and rarely do I not find what I am looking for.
Maybe someday I will go digital, but I can’t imagine not browsing through stacks of books, reading preview after preview to determine if it is something I want to dive into, anticipating the page flip to find out what happens, etc.

I love this place. Sorry B&N but I’ll go here before I go full price. I can usually find 75% of what I want and what I can’t find, I can find on Amazon still cheaper than B&N. The staff is kind of hit or miss whether they’re helpful or not but I’ve come at times when they are super busy.
As far as selling books… meh. You’d be getting a little more than garage sale prices for your books so if you’re going to put them in a garage sale anyways, you can get store credit instead of cash…
Better place to buy than sell, definitely! I’ve gotten some books for $ 1 for older copies. They also have games and kid’s stuff, stationery/​journals, bookmarks, book lights, etc. As well as first editions and autographed copies towards the front of the store.

Mind you, I am a member of the 21^st century, so I have a Kindle. OK, I know a lot of people like the paper… me, well, I am the opposite, actually. But there are still some things I like on paper, notably puzzles like crosswords. I like to get a new book of crosswords every once in a while to do with the ol’ pen and paper. This place has a terribly small puzzle section with a poor selection. I have snooped around the books while in there, and the stuff is half priced, but only because it’s only worth half price. Nothing really that special in my mind.