Textbook ManiacReviews of textbookmaniac.com

Do not suggest selling your books to them at all. They offered me about 3 dollars more for a book so I selected them. I sold over 35 textbooks after finishing my RN degree and they were the only company I had issues with. Claimed they had to take off $16 on a textbook as it had a 1 inch by .25 inch stain on the inside cover. Then when requesting picture you one can’t even tell and then they are claiming water damage now. This is all in a book I never even used just brought to class to not get in trouble. Stay away, liars, and much better companies to use. Bookbyte, Amazon, Abe books, etc Stay far far away.

DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH TEXTBOOKMANIACS.COM. I recently sent a book to them to re-sell and three weeks later I received an email stating that the book I sent was a fraudulent copy which I know for a fact it wasn’t. They would not pay me for it and said that if I wanted the book returned to me that I would have to pay the shipping. After speaking to three different people, I was ultimately told that they couldn’t prove that the book they were looking at was in fact the one I sent to them. I received the book in the mail today, after insisting that they pay the shipping, and I can 100% say that the book they sent me was definitely not the book I sent in. Should have checked their reviews first I guess since when I posted mine I was not alone with the same complaint. Apparently they base their business on scamming people.

Terrible experience with this company. I received a quote and a shipping label. I shipped the book out and the book was in great condition with only minimal wear and tear, with no highlights. They received the book, (as I tracked it) and they notified me that they received it, days late I might add. And then whenever it was passed the date that I should have received my money, they then emailed me and said that the book has a different cover than they thought it should. I have never altered a book to change the cover. They then changed my quote to zero dollars and said I would have to pay return shipping for the book! Stay away from this company at all costs! Book thieves!

They will quote you a fair price and then change it once they have books in hand. Additionally, they lie about the condition of the book when received. I sent new, never used textbooks to them and was the emailed that the cover and pages were ripped so that they could give a price lower than quoted. They do give the option of returning the (now damaged?) book, but the shipping charge is higher than the deducted buy back price. Total scam.

Stole my books! These people claimed that my book was an instructor's copy and then said I'D have to pay for the return shipping. Don't sell to them they will steal your books and you won't see a penny!

I don't recommend selling to them. The shipping label they send is for Media Mail, which is notoriously unreliable. They quoted me an unbelievably high payout, so I picked them over other options. Well, Media Mail made it all the way to Huntsville AL, which is where Textbook Maniac is located and then... stopped updating tracking. I'm pretty sure the package was delivered without being scanned, but Textbook Maniac told me they never got it. I emailed them several times and got contradictory responses.

I shipped the book and it got to them within two days. I then got four emails all at the same time (exact same minute). First email said they got it and were processing it. The next email said they couldn’t pay me for it because their “superiors deemed it a fake book” and I could pay them to return it to me or they’d recycle it within ten days. Then an email with the book deducted from my total (now $0) and then another email saying they got my order and were now processing it. The book was brand new, hardly used, and definitely not fake. Horrendous company/service. Unfortunately sent them a rude email back.

Do not sell to them! I sold two books to them a couple weeks ago and they claimed that they both had water damage (which they did not) and only gave me half the money. They also acted like they were doing me a favor by accepting them. I would not have sold it to them, except the other option was to pay for the shipping back to me. Do NOT sell to them!