This is a fantastic site, but you have to know how to use it. What I do is, go to
Amazon.com and use all their neat r
ecommendation engines, user book lists,
reviews, etc and find books I'm interested in. Then I go to half.com and look for the books there. It is almost always cheaper, even including
shipping, which usually accounts for something like half your bill. You can cut down on shipping if you buy more than one book from the same person, but this is somewhat difficult to do.
The only real problem is that it can take 2-3 weeks to get your books. But if you're in no rush, then Half.com is a great way to buy books and more.
Amazon now has a feature like this on their site, but I don't think they have quite the user base Half.com does.
You can also buy books (computer books work well) from a discount catalog like
Edward R. Hamilton and sell them on half.com at a profit.
BTW Half.com is owned by
ebay.