{"id":1114,"date":"2023-04-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indycritic.com\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2024-08-06T04:20:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T04:20:43","slug":"second-hand-books-india-delivery-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indycritic.com\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"Book Delivery Review &#8211; Second Hand Books India (Noida)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/indycritic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/B-Others-5.1-1024x569.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indycritic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/B-Others-5.1-1024x569.png 1024w, https:\/\/indycritic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/B-Others-5.1-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/indycritic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/B-Others-5.1-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/indycritic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/B-Others-5.1.png 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"background:radial-gradient(rgb(254,205,165) 0%,rgb(254,45,45) 50%,rgb(107,0,62) 100%)\"><strong><em>Overview<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Product\/Book<\/strong> &#8211; Six of Crows (Paperback) by Leigh Bardugo [#1 of the &#8216;Six of Crows&#8217; duology]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Price <\/strong>&#8211; \u20b9179\/- (Selling Price) + \u20b925\/- (Delivery Charges) = \u20b9204\/- [I got the book for \u20b9191\/- though, courtesy of a discount code displayed on the website]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Website <\/strong>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondhandbooksindia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\" class=\"ek-link\"><strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">https:\/\/www.secondhandbooksindia.com\/<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"background:radial-gradient(rgb(254,205,165) 0%,rgb(254,45,45) 50%,rgb(107,0,62) 100%)\"><strong><em>Review<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>&#8220;NOT sponsored\/promotional.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Second hand books India (under the company name of Sohum Worldwide) is an Indian online book store based in Noida, consisting of used\/second-hand books of genres like fiction (mainly fantasy), comics, self-help, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">I am really happy that I could find this amazing website to be honest. It&#8217;s nothing too fancy or eye-catching, but is a rather simple, straight-forward website. Nonetheless, it offers some really great books at an absolute steal deal, that&#8217;s for sure!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">I happened to stumble upon it while searching for R.A. Salvatore books at a cheaper price in India, since the popular e-commerce websites like Amazon offer it at a much higher price. And guess what&#8230; I found it here! I was certainly a bit weary of purchasing from them at the start no doubt, but went ahead to give it a try&#8230; and it was a great decision! I got &#8216;Sojourn&#8217; by R.A. Salvatore [#3 of the &#8216;Dark Elf Trilogy&#8217;, featuring the legendary Drizzt Do&#8217;urden], and although I didn&#8217;t have the previous two books of the trilogy at the time, I had no doubt in my mind to go for it considering that it was available at a very low price of \u20b9134\/-&#8230; that too at a very good quality!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">And so once again, while searching for the book that is the topic of discussion here, I happened to find it at their website, that too at a very good condition, and at a very low price too. And I just couldn&#8217;t say no! (especially with the massive popularity of the action\/heist story surrounding the book, also then enhanced by the TV adaptation by Netflix in &#8216;Shadow and Bone&#8217; featuring the &#8216;Crows&#8217; themselves).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Delivery info.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ordered &#8211; 29\/03\/2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Delivered &#8211; 04\/04\/2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>From &#8211; Noida, UP.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To &#8211; Mumbai, Maharashtra.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Delivered by\/delivery partner &#8211; India Post.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u20b925\/- extra charges\/fees for packaging\/delivery.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>E-mail notifications present, including order details, dispatch details, etc. But there were no SMS or WhatsApp notifications present at all (no complaints though).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Overall, a pretty good delivery service altogether.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Packaging info.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Only one layer of packaging was present, that too of lots of tape wrapped around the book&#8230; and that&#8217;s all. No other layer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Product arrived in a pretty good condition though; as shown and described on the website as &#8216;like new\/almost new.&#8217;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No bookmarks\/any other stuff along with the book (not a negative at all).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Overall, definitely disappointed with the packaging. There was no damage to the product, however, the package was torn at one of the edges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/indycritic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/B-Others-5.2-1024x569.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indycritic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/B-Others-5.2-1024x569.png 1024w, https:\/\/indycritic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/B-Others-5.2-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/indycritic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/B-Others-5.2-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/indycritic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/B-Others-5.2.png 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>What was good?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Delivery was pretty good. No complaints here whatsoever.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The website also displays the actual front cover image of the books, which makes it even easier for the customers to purchase, especially when it comes to a specific cover\/edition required, plus the quality of the book in general when it&#8217;s used\/second-hand (well done!).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There was a minor delay in the shipping (by a day) due to holidays, but the email regarding the same was present, and it was shipped on the very next day as well, so good job on that!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>What could be improved?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The packaging was disappointing, and needs improvement for sure in my opinion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Apart from the front cover images, a few more images could be added like that of the back cover, spine, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Other info.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The website displays a &#8216;star rating&#8217; for each book, depicting the condition of the books. A higher rating directly depicting that the displayed book is of a better quality and vice versa. There&#8217;s a chart depicting the same on the website as well (a great addition really).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The payment mode is a little different than usual. You have to first add the required amount of money to the &#8216;cash basket&#8217; on the website through whichever payment mode you prefer. Once the money is added, only then can you make the final purchase, with the money being then deducted directly from the &#8216;cash basket&#8217; (nothing negative here, just that you can&#8217;t directly make the payment, and have to go through one extra step).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"background:radial-gradient(rgb(254,205,165) 0%,rgb(254,45,45) 50%,rgb(107,0,62) 100%)\"><strong><em>Rating: &#8211; 9\/10 (A gem not to be missed!)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Product\/Book &#8211; Six of Crows (Paperback) by Leigh Bardugo [#1 of the &#8216;Six of Crows&#8217; duology] Price &#8211; \u20b9179\/- (Selling Price) + \u20b925\/- (Delivery Charges) = \u20b9204\/- [I got the book for \u20b9191\/- though, courtesy of a discount code displayed on the website] Website &#8211; https:\/\/www.secondhandbooksindia.com\/ Review &#8220;NOT sponsored\/promotional.&#8221; Second hand books India (under&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-reviews","tag-book-delivery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indycritic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indycritic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indycritic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indycritic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indycritic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/indycritic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3918,"href":"https:\/\/indycritic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/3918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indycritic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indycritic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indycritic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indycritic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}