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    Bookoff - Riverside

    3.7 (58 reviews)
    Closed 10:00 am - 8:00 pm

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    Decent selection
    Paul S.

    It's becoming rare to find a place to buy used books, much less pop culture toys and other media. In fact, none of the local used bookstores even purchase books, they accept donations or offer a trade value. This is an option, too, if you sell here. I've sold three rounds of books to date. They don't take everything, that's a given, although in a few cases I brought rejected books back to see if a different buyer would take them. The ones that failed this experiment are minty newish, but I wondered if there was a bias at play (e.g. the books were an Arabic perspective of the crusades)? Nevertheless, be sure the books are clean, have dust jackets, no outward nudity on the cover, and so on. As for records, DVDs, Funco Pop toys and things, prices offered are based on rarity and a look around the store at the resale prices can provide some insights. If you research your stuff in advance, perhaps you can do better selling on ebay? But, if that's too much trouble, try to negotiate. You'll be given the choice of cash or credit, or take it back. Depending on how busy they are, it can be a 15-30 minute wait. I just go next door to Mr. You and have a quick meal, they'll text you when they finish examining the stuff. You'll need your ID the first time, which sets up your account. Know before you go.

    Store was clean and organized which made it really easy to search for items. Deals included 1$ CDs which if you were willing to search through them you could find some real gems. The associates were kind and didn't hover so we were able to take our time.

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    Mark S.

    This place is awesome! Upon arriving, you won't have an issue finding parking; that's always nice. First impressions are everything. When I arrived, I was greeted by two employees. It's a cute and calm atmosphere. This place can be overwhelming; so come ready knowing what you're looking for. If you're coming to browse; you're going to be here for a very long time. It's not just books - there's video games from U.S to JAP titles and various platforms. There's statues, figures, CDs, DVD's, Blu-ray's ... the list goes on and on. I actually came specifically to sell my items. I was hesitant upon reading a lot of the reviews because places like these do have the tendency to lowball. I brought in roughly 90-100 video games mainly for the PS2. They were all on the lower end titles, 30 titles ranging from $10-20. I also brought some figures as well. They offered me $376.52 for all my games, which made sense for me. You have to know what you have and be realistic as well. They have a small wall full of Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! cards which is awesome. They're mostly commons priced at $1; which honestly is very expensive. They also don't buy trading cards so keep that in mind. Speaking of expensive, pricing is generally more expensive than what you'll see on EBAY snd other competitors. I saw a few higher ticket games that were price between $10-30 over the market price. Which is one of the reasons I can't give it 5 stars. Don't let that steer you off, because you can find some affordable items - just have to do some digging. It's a great experience here. A lot of variety. I appreciate stores like this. It's great for the community- regardless of some pricing aspects. Come by if you are in the area. You won't miss out!

    The ridiculous offer for the 18 items.

    Great place to buy certain things but terrible place to sell to. My son wanted to sell some of his collection items to make extra cash, he collects movies and pops. So we took 14 movies mostly some like new but used probably once or twice. They only accepted 8 of them. Took 3 pops 2 without protectors and 1 with all in like new conditions. He also took 2 Jumbo Pops still in their original shipping boxes. Last but not least he took 3 Movie Steel Books that were not in the wrapper but were definitely new and unused and they were originally selling for $25-40$ a pop. You can just tell by how perfectly clean they are that they were new and never used with absolutely 0 damage, unlike the steel books they have selling for $15-$25 scuffed or dinged up. Our offer for all of these items was $8.35! WTH?? These guys are selling movies in way worse conditions and steel books in rough shape for way more than that and that's just for 1 item. The audacity to offer $0.46 per item, I know for a damn fact those steel books alone would have been placed up for sale for easily $20 a piece minimum the same day. I had better hopes for this place and was excited my son had found a place like this where he could have bought and traded more often at. But damn how the hell do they even acquire anything with that type of valuation for peoples things? Idk but all I know is I would never recommend selling to this shop. All I can say that's good is how kind everyone who works there is and how fast they work as well as the prices on some books and movies.

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    Ann T.

    Extremely powerful Book Off, surprisingly more so than the ones that I've gone to in Costa Mesa and the Gardena/Torrance area, but I guess not so surprising considering those locations are probably mined to death by the local weeaboos and incoming weebs from other areas tryna get some good Japanese food. My review is basically only that of an anime fan/merch collector. Upon walking in, I immediately saw some Arcueid (Tsukihime) tapestries that I've seen elsewhere going for $60+ and were only $12-ish dollars here. Scooped those up immediately. I got the FGO Chaldea Karuta set for around $20 where I've seen people sell $40 for only 2 cards of the set and a Natsume Yuujinchou postcard set that was limited to an event exhibition. My rarest find was an Arcueid & Saber poster set from 2010 from the doujin circle Crazy Clover Club, WAY TOO LUCKY finding it here for the price that I did. Also got some clear files for around $7, not so bad since there were some for some much rarer series (found one with all the nitro chiral + male leads lol) and not just the dumped ichiban kuji dupes for unpopular characters. There's lots of older series (found a 2010 rare calendar for K-ON, Fate Lyrical Girl Nanoha, etc) and lots of idol stuff for IdolM@ster, Love Live (unsure if the individual rage quit from the worldwide version closing or just made the natural shift towards Bang Dream or towards Vtubers in general), Idolish7, A3!, B Project, etc. Also lots of Touken Ranbu and KanColle. Interesting to see but slightly heart breaking since it's a LOT of rare items that you can easily tell came from one otaku collector and for SURE they spent thousands of dollars and went through a lot of effort to get them, but idk if they really made any money exchanging it at Book Off instead of selling at an anicon swap meet, etc. I can only imagine they'd either move on (sad), forced to become a normie cuz of their spouse/having a kid (even sadder), or died (acceptable by my standards). Anyways, enough with that aside. Neat stuff to sift through, surprised to find things that interested me (so that mean's it's not all normie/casual stuff), and got some good buys too. If you're a normie or casual, there's LOTS of shonen stuff here for sure, like Dragon Ball, MHA, and way, way too much Demon Slayer and JJK. Though my only qualms are that some of the figure prices were WAY too overpriced, even more so since brand new versions of those figures at MSRP are anywhere from $10-40 cheaper than what I've seen here and the fact that Book Off is a secondhand store. I saw an Ishtar chain figure that is at Tokyo Central and other Japanese markets for like $12 new, but went over for more than twice the price here. Another issue that I have, not just this location, but Book Off's in general, especially at anime cons, is that their key chain strap, can badge, and smaller figure merch is NEVER organized in any way perceivable. So unless I take some Adderall beforehand, it's impossible to sift through. They have a lot of posters, tapestries, playmats, etc. that are rolled up without the design showing and no way of knowing what the item even is and bunches of blind boxes (that have been open by the previous owner) that have been resealed. I feel like if it's second hand, at that point just let people know what they're buying (circle it on the product box maybe? or just take a picture of the rolled up item and place it on the packaging outside, or even a catalog with that stuff printed on it). I'm just saying whatever works best for this since no one is feasibly going to buy something they're not even sure what it is. TLDR; great Book Off stop for anime fans for sure! Especially if you're in the area.

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    Honestly I great selection! And for affordable prizes and sorry I I'm advance I bought all the south park DVD

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    Really neat place lots of stuff and cool collectibles so many books even ones that are hard to find !

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    Went to sell some books. Customer service is horrible. They try to rip you off. A dime a book barely. Employees seem so unhappy.

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    They have large selections of books, cd, and anime stuff. Staff is very friendly and the price is good. Would definitely be going again!

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