Lowest prices for textbooks: Comparison of beatbookdeal and bookfinder

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Hi All,

 

Colleague Margie Garrett, DVM wrote:

> [ Re your comments on www.bestbookdeal.com ] ... have you been to

> www.bookfinder.com ? I have found many books and the entire network

> they have usually can find just about anything. How do the sites

> compare?

 

I have completed a direct comparison, based on the prices quoted for

the following 12 textbooks, on the two sites

[bBD = www.bestbookdeal.com & BF = www.bookfinder.com ]:

 

#1: Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine: 2-Volume Set, ISBN:

0721601170 by Ettinger & Feldman

 

#2: Current Therapy in Equine Medicine (Current Veterinary Therapy

S.) by N.Edward Robinson / Saunders (W.B.) Co Ltd / Hardcover /

January 2, 2003 / 072169540X

 

#3: A Manual of Acupuncture by Peter Deadman, Kevin Baker, Mazin

Al-Khafaji

 

#4: Diagnosis in : A Comprehensive Guide by

Giovanni Maciocia

 

#5: Forensic Veterinary Medicine by J.E. Cooper, Margaret E. Cooper /

Blackwell Publishing / Hardcover / April 30, 2007 / 1405111011

 

#6: Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica, Third Edition by Bensky

et al

 

#7: Acupuncture Point Combinations: the Key to Clinical Success by

Jeremy Ross

 

#8: A Practical Dictionary of by Nigel Wiseman &

Feng

 

#9: Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine: Principles

and Practice by Allen M. Schoen, et al / Mosby / Hardcover / January

16, 1998 / 0815179944

 

#10: New Therapies in Joint Disease: An Issue of Veterinary Clinics:

Equine Practice (The Clinics: Veterinary Medicine S.) by A.Simon

Turner, Troy N. Trumble / Saunders (W.B.) Co Ltd / Hardcover /

January 13, 2006 / 1416028382

 

#11: Chinese Herbal Medicine: Formulas and Strategies by Dan

Bensky

 

#12: Ten Lectures on the Use of Medicinals from the Personal

Experience of Jiao Shu-De

 

The following table shows the MINIMUM price (in EUROS, including

delivery) for each textbook from each of the two locators:

 

Title BBD BF Diff

________________________________

#1 164 178 -14

#2 104 104 0

#3 94 94 0

#4 92 120 -28

#5 86 132 -46

#6 84 87 -3

#7 83 95 -12

#8 74 75 -1

#9 70 89 -19

#10 61 73 -12

#11 53 61 -8

#12 46 46 0

________________________________

TOTAL SUM 1023 1166 -131

MEAN 84 96 -12

________________________________

 

On average, the MINIMUM price from BBD was 12 euros CHEAPER

than from BF.

 

The following table shows the MAXIMUM price (in EUROS, including

delivery) for each textbook from each of the two locators:

 

Title BBD BF Diff

________________________________

#1 325 259 66

#2 182 148 34

#3 157 133 24

#4 173 135 38

#5 150 150 0

#6 240 190 50

#7 159 120 39

#8 160 150 10

#9 139 128 11

#10 104 94 10

#11 136 137 -1

#12 104 95 9

________________________________

TOTAL SUM 2041 1751 302

MEAN 169 145 24

________________________________

 

On average, the MAXIMUM price from BBD was 24 euros DEARER

than from BF.

 

The last table shows the mean MIN, mean MAX & mean SPREAD for

the two locators:

 

BBD BF

________________________

MEAN MIN 84 96

MEAN MAX 169 145

________________________

MEAN SPREAD 85 49

 

The bottom line is that:

 

(a) BOTH locators found a very significant spread of prices for the

SAME 12 books

 

but

 

(b) www.bestbookdeal.com found lower prices (on average 12 euros

lower, equivalent to a mean saving of 14% on the mean minimum price)

than www.bookfinder.com

 

 

Best regards,