Site interface updates, Bookscouting Guide, upcoming goals, and exciting news for our dedicated Pro users!
You’ve already decided what classes to take, and now it’s time to get materials! When it comes to textbooks, it can be hard to decide if you should buy or rent, or whether you should get them new or used. We know it’s hard, so here’s a few points so you can make the best decision.
Hello and Happy New Year! Alright, so we’re a little late on our New Year’s greetings, but we wanted to make sure all of our ducks were in a row before letting you know what’s in store for the coming year.
We’d love for BookScouter users to support a charity we have been contributing to for many years now. The charity helps elementary school children in the local area receive books during the summer to improve their reading level.
Great news everyone! For a limited time Sell-Textbook.com is offering customers the opportunity to earn 6% bonus cash on buybacks until September 13th, 2015. Use the code “Summer6” at the checkout to claim your bonus.
Here is the path to follow to snag that bonus!
1. Search your ISBN on BookScouter.com.
2. Locate Sell-Textbook and click “Sell.”
3. Continue adding books by following steps 1-2 (new books will automatically be added to your Sell-Textbook cart).
4. When you’re ready to checkout, login to Sell-Textbook, create an account, or proceed via Guest checkout.
5. Type “Summer6″ (without quotes) into the box next to the “Apply Coupon” button.
6. Click “Apply Coupon” and watch your total increase by 6% (Make sure the coupon worked by verifying the price increase in the “Bonus” section right above the total).
That’s all! Just finish up the payment, shipping, and tracking options, and you’ll receive an extra 6% on your buyback order. Head back to BookScouter to rate your experience and share this great offer!
Over the past 40 hours BookScouter.com has experienced some pricing discrepancies for specific vendors, causing the price shown on BookScouter to not reflect the actual price the vendor was offering. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused, and we’re happy to say these issues have been resolved. We take pride in BookScouter being the best resource to sell books and because of this, we want to let you know why this happened. There has been a longtime misconception that BookScouter buys books. In actuality, BookScouter.com is merely a price comparison site. We have no say in the prices offered for books. We use information given to us [not scraped] by each vendor and display that price on our price comparison page in real-time. As a result, when there is a price discrepancy on BookScouter.com, chances are it’s the vendor providing misinformation and not BookScouter attempting to bait and switch users.
When we were first informed of a pricing discrepancy we quickly confirmed the source of the problem and informed the appropriate vendors of our findings. It was then the task of each vendor to find and resolve the issues from their end. Of course, they’ll always have our full cooperation in conducting any tests needed in order to more quickly identify and resolve the problem.
Through this hiccup [of which there will be more], we always appreciate our vigilant users who identify and detail the problem thoroughly. Of course, there are lessons to be learned for everyone, so I’d like to take this opportunity to remind users of an important disclaimer when using BookScouter.com.
“Reasonable attempts are made to make sure that the displayed pricing is accurate. However, you should confirm the price with each site before making any decisions.”
We always encourage users to trust the price on our vendors’ sites over that of the data seen on BookScouter.com. BookScouter requires a lot of moving parts involving data feeds, integrations, authentication, third-party services, and more. As such, it is a very fragile system that can and will experience an occasional problem. While we make every reasonable attempt to ensure things run smoothly all the time, it is inevitable that they will not.
In the event of an outage, hiccup, or something that just seems odd, please continue to report these problems through our contact page, Facebook, Twitter, or directly at support@bookscouter.com.
We apologize for any misinformation that may have flooded our users’ inboxes (BookScouter Deals Notifications), arbitrage buyers who hoped to turn a quick profit, and for sellers who were shocked to find the vendor prices much lower than anticipated. To the few of you who actually saw a price increase, you’re the silver lining in all this.
BookScouter has and always will be a price comparison site to help users make more educated book buying and selling decisions. The final decision, however, belongs to each user. We encourage all users to buy and sell responsibly and, when something doesn’t quite add up, consult the buying or selling vendor directly before making a decision.
Regards,
Dustin Checketts
President