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In order to test the links on this rel­a­tively new Web site, I’ve done a num­ber of small sam­ple pur­chases from var­i­ous stores found on our church and char­ity part­ners’ pages. Up to this time, I had never per­son­ally shopped at BookCloseouts.com. Here’s my impres­sion of their site and service.

While you won’t find the newest and hottest titles at a close­out retailer, Book­Close­outs does have a nice selec­tion of books of all types from a vari­ety of authors, some well-known and oth­ers obscure. They typ­i­cally sell their books at 50% — 70% off the full retail price, so it can be well worth your time to sift through their rapidly chang­ing inven­tory to find some real bargains.

I was drawn to a sale that they were pro­mot­ing at the time in their “Reli­gion & Spir­i­tu­al­ity” sec­tion, where they were offer­ing books at 50% off their already deeply dis­counted prices. As you can guess from the name “Reli­gion & Spir­i­tu­al­ity,” they had all kinds of books in this sec­tion from every imag­in­able reli­gious per­spec­tive, but it wasn’t hard for me to find a num­ber of titles that cap­tured my interest.

I placed two orders. The first was for ten copies of a small group Bible study guide on the Gospel of Luke, writ­ten by Max Lucado. List price was $8 per copy — I got them for $2 each. The sec­ond order was for four indi­vid­ual books, two hard­backs and two paper­backs. I got all four of them for just over $10. All books were well pack­aged and received in excel­lent condition.

I’m happy to report that Book­Close­outs doesn’t inflate their ship­ping rates to squeeze some extra profit from each sale, like some mail-order ven­dors do. The set of ten Bible study guides cost $5.25 to ship, while postage on the four books that made up my sec­ond order was a lit­tle under $5.

Book­Close­outs offers a num­ber of ship­ping pri­or­i­ties and prices. I was in no hurry to receive my orders, so I went with the cheap­est option both times. Both ship­ments arrived in about two weeks.

Based on my expe­ri­ence with BookCloseouts.com, I am happy to rec­om­mend them to dis­cern­ing bar­gain hunters. As of this writ­ing, they have a new sale on “Scratch & Dent” books from every cat­e­gory at 85% off the retail price. If you can live with a less-than-perfect vol­ume, you can find some crazy deals on books while this offer lasts.