BOOKOFF Lakewood Center Mall

G Knighton 2 months ago

This is a great location for a Book Off. It's underneath a Round 1, and attached to a mall, across from Costco, and within walking distance of a movie theater. A-Tier location. The selection is good in this area. Not super large in some media forms, but varied enough that you continuously look throughout the store for cool stuff, which there definitely are. Unfortunately, the store prices are often way above what they should be. Supposedly there is also no "true" inventory log, so some prices may not match for exact copies of the same product. Furthermore, this causes issues when a person is attempting to locate a specific item, as the staff WILL NOT look up said item. This also causes issues in theft, which the store has had experienced significantly in the past. Alongside this issue, the buy back program is not good. A lot of the expensive collectibles and anime figures which I gathered over the years which was worth well over a grand and a few Benjamin's, amounted to just under $60 cash, or $75 store credit. That's less than 5% of their projected worth. Needless to say, I did not go through with the deal. Fortunately most staff there is rather friendly. Namely the trainers, and

Wade Young 3 months ago

I used to go here a lot years ago but recently everything is too overpriced. You'll see multiple copies of something on the shelf, pick one, and then put it back because the price is too high, look at the one next to it and the price is HIGHER. Never sold anything to them, so I can't speak to that, but I don't think I'll be back to shop. You can get this 70$ Ozzy CD for the cost of shipping on discogs/new on Amazon for 10$.

John Jilwan 6 months ago

Overall great selection of video games, anime, books, and music. Lots of retro and modern things and overall fun atmosphere. Prices can be a bit high and it can feel a tad disorganized. Especially for loose Japanese titles that are more crate digging energy than curated displays. Overall though, I love this place and stop by pretty often.

Gavin Huynh 6 months ago

Visited from out of town by recommendation from a friend, and I was absolutely blown away by the selection and prices they had. I managed to find a handfull of 4K UHD movies and a Limited Edition Xbox One X (in box with special controller and cables!!!) for just over $500. The employee at the register even told me a little extra about the console I was buying because she was the one that took it in on appraisal and even let me know that there was a bit of stick drift on the controller. While I wasn't there for the Mangas, comic books, and novels, I did enjoy seeing such a massive variety of basically anything I could think of. The selection of figurines was also amazing, both in box and out of box, my girlfriend managed to walk away with a figure she had been hunting for years at this point. Overall a nice place to be! If I'm ever in town I will be stopping by again and see what else I can find!

SeaTurtles&Peonies 10 months ago

I got a lot of great books for cheap! But I would have liked more book options. I saw a lot of cheesy romance novels but not the Middle Eastern history books I was looking for