It is never too early to start preparing for Christmas. Below we have provided some tips for your Christmas Shopping on AbeBooks.
Ensure your order arrives before Christmas:
With thousands of member booksellers worldwide, you have great flexibility in choosing which bookseller to purchase from on AbeBooks. To ensure you receive your orders in time for Christmas, the sooner you order the better. As postal services worldwide experience an increase in volume during the Christmas season, you may wish to select the quickest shipping time. You can easily check any bookseller’s shipping rates and times by clicking [Rates & Speeds] from the search results.
Send a book as a gift directly to another person:
On AbeBooks it is easy to have an order shipped to a friend or family member as a gift. Simply follow our step-by-step instructions available on our help pages.
Find booksellers with higher ratings:
You may wish to narrow your searches to only include booksellers with a 4 or 5 star Bookseller Rating. You can do this by using the drop down menu at the top for the search results.
Bookseller Ratings are based on a bookseller's "Completion Rate" which represents the number of successful orders. Booksellers with higher ratings have received fewer returns and have cancelled fewer orders.
Read the item’s description fully before ordering:
AbeBooks booksellers write their own item descriptions. By clicking on the title, you can view the full description plus any bibliographic data that was provided. If you are not sure what a term means you can look it up in the AbeBooks Glossary!
If your order is incorrect, damaged or does not arrive:
