With the Holiday Season Just Around the Corner, Customers May Use Store Credit to Buy Books as Gifts
SAN LEANDRO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Oct. 18, 2006--BlueRectangle.com, a leading online book-buying website, now offers store credit at FreeBookShipping.com, in addition to cash payments by check or PayPal. FreeBookShipping.com provides customers with more than 200,000 new and used books to select from and free shipping to anywhere in the U.S.
FreeBookShipping.com has books on subjects like: Alcoholism & Recovery, Baseball, Car Repair, China, Civil War, Cookbooks, Crafts, Films, Firearms, Fishing, Gardening, Golf, Harry Potter, History, How-to, War, Sex, Travel, Weddings, Maps and more.
"Store credit allows us to pay almost twice as much as cash for books," said Michael Johnson, founder of BlueRectangle.com and FreeBookShipping.com, both Pacific Book Exchange LLC web sites. "Since many of our book-selling customers are also book-buying customers, it really works out great for everyone."
Johnson added they've found that people buying or selling books don't want to pay shipping costs, which is why both BlueRectangle.com, which buys books, and FreeBookShipping.com, which sells books, do not require the customer to pay shipping. BlueRectangle.com buys the largest variety of new and used books
in three easy steps:
1) Enter the books' International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs).
2) Receive an instant online purchase offer (or decline).
3) Then ship requested books; BlueRectangle.com pays for the postage via its merchandise return label.
After receipt of the books, BlueRectangle.com pays the customer.
About BlueRectangle.com
Michael Johnson and Joy Johnson, co-founders of BlueRectangle.com, an offshoot of their book company the Pacific Book Exchange LLC, started their family business in their garage in 1997. Since then, the business has grown to 15 employees, utilizing 17,000 square feet of warehouse space. Pacific Book Exchange's eBay store is the 15th largest store of any kind on eBay and the third largest eBay anchor store in the books category. It offers 200,000 books online.
Pacific Book Exchange has recycled over 1 million pounds of obsolete or damaged books, saving 11,000 trees. Also, it has donated over 40,000 children's books in the last two years to the Children's Book Project, as well as donated books (up to 10,000 books) to local high school and boys and girls clubs.
