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Great Place to Work, but Beware the Stacks. - Bookseller Half Price Books Employee Review

5.0
22 Jul 2013
Recommend
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Pros

The discount is great, but beware your buying habits or else you'll simply be paying HPB to let you hang out at the store. Your co-workers are almost always awesome and everybody knows how to have a laugh and be pleasant. The customers are 99% of the time very grateful for any help and always very patient. The PTO is great and monthly store meetings really help the sense of teamwork . Overall, an amazing place and company to work for.

Cons

Somewhat erratic work hours, some co-workers with a curmudgeonly demeanor, and the pay starts out small, but that seems to be the norm these days. The level of dust can be a little high sometimes. Also, people really need to stop bringing in moldy books and vampire romance books thinking they are going to get a high payout when they sell them to us.

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5.0
23 Oct 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great staff, awesome benefits and discount

Cons

Not much of anything really

4.0
4 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great coworkers. Get quarterly bonus checks. Not a super hard job.

Cons

Mangement is kinda iffy and they really require you to do a lot more work than you're paid for.

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