2nd & Charles Reviews Summary

Category: Book store

Address: 101 Geoffrey Dr, Newark, DE 19713, USA

Phone: +13027374306

Rating: 4.4
based on 276 reviews.

Product Selection

Pros:

  • "Large variety or new and used books."
  • "Great place to spend a few hours searching shelves for treasures!"
  • "This is a great place to find music on CD or vinyl, gaming, books, tv and movie collectables."
  • "Lovely store, so much to look at, especially MANGA holy do they have a lot of manga."
  • "They have one of the largest selections of Japanese manga books in the Delaware area, and their used prices are incredibly fair."
  • "They have merchandise for just about every fandom you can imagine and the best used books."
  • "They have a very large children's section from Educational to picture books and all the way up through teen books."

Cons:

  • "Selection of retro games is not very good and they are pricey as well."
  • "Some of the store floorspace has been converted to toys."
  • "The kids section is difficult to navigate and I couldn’t find anyone to help me."
  • "Wish that the used stuff wasn't always mixed in with new things...makes it harder to bargain hunt."
  • "They have a huge collection of books, comics, games, and video games, but are lacking in cds."
  • "The non fiction section is non existent no science section and the history section is mostly auto-biography’s."
  • "They don't have a large selection of how to books."

Pricing

Pros:

  • "If you happen upon a used book, then the price is great."
  • "And the prices are wonderful..."
  • "Prices are reasonable for the new stuff and very good for the used stuff."
  • "Such great prices too."
  • "The prices on used items was really good."
  • "They have so many interesting and novelty items that are affordable."
  • "HUGE selection of gently used books with reasonable prices."

Cons:

  • "I did expect the prices to be more competitive."
  • "Certain things like Blu-Ray's are pretty pricey."
  • "They are over priced, under staffed, the employees don't know where anything is."
  • "Great store but the prices are crazy."
  • "Some of there stuff is very very over priced for example a monopoly game they have is 20 dollars more then at say Walmart or target."
  • "The prices are seriously steep."
  • "Prices are so far out of current competitors!"

Customer Service

Pros:

  • "Every time that I've been here has been a really good experience overall."
  • "The staff are friendly and helpful."
  • "The staff is super friendly and have no problem helping you find something."
  • "Staff is friendly each and every time I come here."
  • "Friendly and informative staff."
  • "The workers are polite and helpful."
  • "Staff is always helpful and friendly."

Cons:

  • "Traded a game for some store credit. Later we found a game to use the store credit on, only to not have our credit work due to a system malfunction."
  • "The employees who work there are extremely disrespectful."
  • "They do scalp you on selling used items back to them so I don't suggest bringing high end items to resell to them."
  • "They need to restaff and train the employees properly. They waste people's time like it's a game or something."
  • "Staff are generally not very polite--this place must not pay them well."
  • "Incredibly rude and disrespectful staff, several of them don't seem to be trained properly in customer service or etiquette."
  • "The employees seemed annoyed at helping me."

Trade-In and Selling Experience

Pros:

  • "I picked up a couple good bargains on things that were on my want list."
  • "They give a lot of store credit (and half as much cash, if that's how you roll), so if you want to sell books, CDs, records, DVDs, video games, etc. this is a great place."
  • "They also give good credit when you turn items in as well."
  • "If you want to trade then that’s a better bargain."
  • "You can sell your old books, DVDs, vinyl albums video games, board games, cameras and electronic equipment for cash or store credit."
  • "Excellent used media store. You can get books, music, video games, comics, and more usually for a good price."
  • "Always good selection of used books in excellent shape."

Cons:

  • "Trade in is a COMPLETE RIP OFF! I brought in over 50 Blu-rays and was offered a laughable amount of in-store credit and it took 2 hours for the assessment process."
  • "The commercials make it seem as if they buy back books & everything, but they hardly purchased any of my books."
  • "DIRTY BUSINESS PRACTICES! At the counter you get offered 'free' magazines. Don’t do it!"
  • "Though, don’t try to sell your stuff here. They will give you pennies on the dollar. It’s not worth it."
  • "I probably won't be selling to them ever again."
  • "But trying to sell your cds is out of the question."
  • "They don't pay very much per item."

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