"I went to allbookstores.com to search for a book and came up with a1books.com as the lowest price. I was skeptical at first because I've never heard of the company and resellerratings.com didn't have it listed as one of the store (this new listing of a1books.com is requested by me). I took the chance and bought it on Dec 17, 2003. Within two minutes, I've received a confirmation email about my order so in a way it was some sort of good news. By the end of the month, still no book yet so I went to their website and logged into my account. There wasn't a way to find out if my item had been shipped nor there was a tracking number. So I waited and it arrived on Jan 6, 2004. The confirmation letter that they had sent me did indicated that it takes between 10 to 14 business days for merchandise to arrive. Well, if I don't count weekends and holidays as business days, then my book arrived in 12 days, within 10 to 14 days that they had promised (but doesn't U.S. postal service work on Saturdays?)However, it was sent in a bubble mailer via media mail using mechanical bar codes. There wasn't a sent day stamped so there's no way of telling when it was sent. I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt by hoping it was the holiday season and that they shipped it from New Jersey to my home in Texas. My advice to you is if you need your book right away then try to buy it locally. If you can wait at least a week then a1books can save you some money. "