<p>I’ve been waiting for general Barnes and Nobles coupons to buy textbooks for the Spring and so far have only seen targeted coupons at seasonal items. I’m used to seeing the 20% off your entire order if it’s above a certain amount.</p>
<p>I just renewed the membership but it’s not turning out to be quite as useful. I’m hoping that the general discounts resume after the holidays. I’m wondering if they are going away from the general coupons to try to squeeze profits from customers.</p>
<p>There is a coupon for 15% off one item but that’s it.</p>
<p>BCEagle91,
I wasn’t aware of the 20% off your entire order coupon! Never seen it. Every time a new coupon is issued via email, I’ve been using it to buy another SAT type prep book for my sons. I use the “bricks and mortar” coupon and email the online part to DS#1 who only shops at B&N online.</p>
<p>I just got a membership a couple of months ago because I read here on CC how so many of you got to use coupons on textbook purchases and saved a lot of money. But all of the coupons I’ve gotten so far exclude textbooks! What’s up with that? These are e-mailed coupons I’m talking about, by the way.</p>
<p>I hear you. I just ordered two textbooks for the spring semester and tried the 15% and 25% coupons that I recently received. My guess is that too many of us are doing this and it’s eating into their profits that they need to offset major revenue declines in their other product lines. I’m hoping that they will do some textbook coupons before the semester starts. Alternatively someone could call them and ask about the coupons. I will consider another vendor for textbook purchases if they provide better prices and/or coupons.</p>
<p>I just compared the price of my order on Amazon and should have gone with amazon. Their regular price is lower than B&N with membership - I should have comparison shopped first. B&N doesn’t allow you to cancel an order after it has been placed. Amazon does if it hasn’t been shipped. Shipping was free at both sites.</p>
<p>It appears that Amazon is working a lot harder to get business compared to B&N this year. I’ll have to be a little more careful with the remaining list of books.</p>
<p>The one advantage to ordering from B & N is that you can take something back to the store for a full refund. With Amazon you have to pay return postage.</p>
<p>I seldom return anything that I buy - last time I did that was over a year ago for a disk drive that I hadn’t opened. The power specs were too high. I’ve never returned a book. B&N sent me an email saying that they had a problem processing my order and that I should call them back. I’m tempted to not call them back to see if they cancel the order - if they did that, then I’d just order from Amazon. The books aren’t time critical and I’m not even sure that they’re the right textbooks but I’d really like them anyway (they’d be useful in the course and I’d like them on my bookshelf).</p>
<p>I have the coupon and other coupons too but the problem is in the terms of the coupon. Clicking on the details link shows that textbooks are excluded from the coupon.</p>
<p>Thanks for that coupon. I verified that it works with textbooks. B&N sent me a notice that they had a problem with my credit card verification (they frequently require a phone confirmation as I ship to my office instead of my main home). I replied saying that I’d prefer it if they cancel my order. If the do cancel it today, then I will place the order again with the coupon but just for one book. There are now two other books that I want to order but I will comparison shop with Amazon. The kids don’t start their courses until late January so these aren’t time-critical. Two of the books will most likely be used in son’s courses. The other is SICP which I’d like the kids to read for fun.</p>
<p>The overall discount on one book that I tried was about 40%.</p>
<p>I got my order cancelled at Barnes and Noble but went to try the coupon against the most expensive book on my list and it wouldn’t apply. The reason was that it’s a textbook. The test book that I tried was SIPC by Abelson and it did take that but I guess it’s not in the textbook category for some reason. So I will order the other two books at Amazon which has better prices than B&N with membership as their regular price. SIPC by Abelson can be read online so no need to order it at this point.</p>
<p>I just received a 15% off coupon for one item. The details indicate that the coupon doesn’t exclude textbooks so I may give it a try (it’s good until January 25). Unfortunately we’ve already purchased all of the textbooks that the two kids need for the spring. It’s too late to order textbooks online to get them before the semester starts anyway.</p>
<p>This seems like a deliberate move to drop in a coupon good for textbooks after the semester starts. There are a few math textbooks from the math book thread that I’d like to pickup for fun reading so maybe that’s a solution. I could take a chance on books for the Fall too but that’s a gamble.</p>
<p>I seem to remember an email specifically regarding textbooks a month or so ago… I got the membership for textbooks too. I’m a senior in HS but it turned out to be cheaper than going through my school. Now if only my 30% employee discount applied to textbooks!!</p>
<p>Just received two 15% coupons from B&N in the mail. I just ordered three textbooks for our son and was holding off on a few others. I will order one of the others that he needs for the fall. I don’t know what the textbooks for two other courses will be but I will hopefully find out before the second coupon expires a the end of July.</p>
<p>I think that B&N are basically cutting way back on coupons when kids are buying books at the beginning of the semester so that they don’t compete with their campus bookstores.</p>