My Review is for the Bookfair department. It is a new department and so far I feel like a valued customer. In my 23 yrs of my career I can honestly say Follett Bookfair offers the best deals. Rewards NEVER EXPIRE in fact they roll them over for your next purchase. LOVE TITLEWAVE except I can not find a Titlewave app for android. Weird if you ask me most folks offer apple and android. But again they are new in this frontier. Cons. this department is new and with that being said they have some loose ends to figure out. pros. BEST easy bookfair set up with FANTASTIC REWARDS! BEst part about it all the Follett Bookfair team that has made my life easier! LOVE the real MARC records! Finally working with real publishers. I am so Happy! read more

Ordered a bedding set on sale at the end of spring. Followed up b/c I had not received it and not sure if it was to be picked up in August. Told to wait for tracking. Several emails through the summer (no reply) and many phone calls later, the bedding set was not available at move in, nor any explanation. Decor purchases were made around this purchase, and lost opportunity to shop for other on sale items, b/c surely they had FOUR months to get it to us, or let us know before the move in day that it wasn't going to be there!. The staff answering the phones are nice, but the system doesn't let them do anything about it and a manager never even bothers to call. Terrible service by a company that is taking over all the campus bookstores - such a loss and a disgrace. read more

Poorly run company, from top to bottom! It seems to present itself as customer focused, service forward, but it's obvious neither management nor the people they hire actually understand those concepts, let alone how to attain them! read more

Telephone customer service from a 3rd party foreign company is extremely unreliable. Problems cannot be resolved and it takes more than a week for them to give an update. I'm glad my college ended their contract from this company. read more

Paid for expedited service for a 2-day shipping of item ($19.99). Never received the item within 2 days (as of today, waiting 7 days). Was told order is still being processed and the 2-day shipping starts the day the carrier receives the package. They either need to revisit their shipping policies or get rid of it if they cannot live up to that policy. By the way, they told me they would not be able to refund my $19.99! read more

TLDR: Mid. Try to cold call them rather than making an online ticket for support, especially if you need something urgently. Make sure to have details like order ID, item you need support for, and user info like email and institution ID. My university uses Follett. While there are lots of shenanigans like charging signficiantly more compared to other stores (which is why I rate them a 3) they generally do a good job. All my physical purchases arrive in great shape, and I have almost always recieved digital purchases on time, including opt-in programs. Recently though, I did suffer an issue with not recieving an opt in code. I had an assignment due that day and my free trial ran out, so I desperately needed a code. I managed to find their phone number and called their support staff. They were very swift and professional, and I managed to get a code. If I didn't have an issue in the first place I definately would have given them a 4/5. They don't go above and beyond, however they are definately sufficient. read more

I purchased a $200 gift card through Follett for the Old Dominion University Bookstore. When my daughter tried to use the card for a purchase, she was told that the University no longer does business with Follett and would not honor the card. Any attempts to contact Follett for a resolution were unsatisfactory or completely ignored. read more

My refund was never credited & when I contacted customer service my issue went unresolved. I was never able to communicate with the same representative consecutively. Every 2 messages I'd be replied to by a different person. I spoke to 5 different people over this order. Each one asking me the same questions I had already answered. they couldn't even bother to read the message history like if they were putting it off on the next rep. I had to tell them all what Items I had returned A Ipad case, (that I had even emailed customer service and my school's contact for online orders & tried to cancel not even 30 minutes after I ordered it -before it was even processed or marked shipped, and the agents waited 3 days to reply to at which point the item had been shipped and they said there was nothing they could do) & a laptop stand. One person even emailed me that even if they received my return they wouldn't process it or even notify me that they received it without a tracking number, which i found was very unethical. I couldn't find my receipt with my tracking number on it, and unfortunately my USPS office keeps primarily paper records and then have to mail off at the end of every month. This is the second time I have had to contact them and jump through a million hoops just to be refunded for unused items I returned. I am extremely displeased, especially because I had to pay for the return shipping, pay for the items, and do not even have anything to show for it except for the displeasure I encurred trying to resolve this matter. I mailed my return on August 25 by USPS to the return address on the order form included a copy of the order slip in the box with the returned items, like requested for returns. I don't see why this is such a hassel, the box was returned, the slip inside there should be no questions on who's order it is was when they received it. I would've assumed a larger company like this would have been more ethical and honorable handling students returns. read more

I have applied at Follett several times for "no experience " positions. I've gone in for 2 personal interviews months apart. The SAME job is always posted, yet they always tell me they found a different candidate. I believe it's because I'm in my 50's. They are NOT an equal opportunity employer. read more

How can Follett work with these scammers called Advanced-Online from Texas? They do not process refunds in a reasonable time (9 days after return received). They do not refund the entire amount for online retail purchases! Horrible service. Unethical practices. read more

This is the worst company. I have been waiting for my materials for school for over 5 weeks. Their responses are that "they do not know when they will have products in stock". How is this even acceptable as a company?? I WOULD NEVER ORDER FROM THEM AGAIN!!!! IF THERE WERE ZERO STARS THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WOULD CHOOSE!!! HORRIBLEEEEE!!!!! WORST!!! read more

Follet is the worse company I have ever had to deal with. I truly do not understand how and why universities deal with this company. They truly just do not care about anything other than money. With my university, a lot of the books the university requires they have this deal that they will reimburse rebates to students based on what the university would pay for the school, this is with almost every book. And you know almost no one knows, and Follet sure does not tell you. You have to go through this process to submit it, and if its over a certain amount of time, too bad, forget your rebate. But either way, I wish this review was only about the rebate, no. The "contact people" for my university from Follet, NEVER answer emails. My school and I sent MULTIPLE emails trying to correct an issue over the span of 2+ weeks, between 3 people from my school, myself, and 5 people from Follet, The email thread actually was between my university and I because follet NEVER answered. Its sad lol. Now what about phone calls? Nope. Do you know how I finally got ahold of them? Through the chat website by pretending I wanted to buy a book lol, thats how I finally tricked someone into speaking with me. Another issue, I paid 1 day shipping for a material I needed... 5 DAYS AGO!! guess what, has not updated, after me harrasing them about the order, switched to "fulfilled" but theres no tracking, there is no update, there is no more emails... well they never answered emails. It truly baffles my mind how this company still exists. This needs to change. All of us students, have the power to make this change. Please do not support follet when you can, if you need a book, please buy directly from the book's publisher such as coursepoint, or try amazon. Please. They cant get away with this nonsense anymore. read more

Recently Follett advertised for a temporary position that would last a month. They advertised well in advance. And then on the day I was supposed to start working, good ol' Follett sends me an e-mail that they decided not to have any temp workers at all. Nothing like waiting until the last minute and having drama galore. This has never happened to me before. I would suggest that buyer beware when dealing with ol' Follett. read more

This company is terrible. DO NOT order anything from them...you will not receive it. My son purchased a mandatory online resource for college. He was never supplied with the code to access it. They kept saying he was given the code. I said no it wasn't. I kept asking them to re-send the code or issue a new code. They first said to return the book. What book??!! It's an online resource! Then they said I need to re-purchase the item. I was forced to pay for this twice! I will be writing to the BBB to report their fraudulent practices. read more

I finally got paid. Took a different approach, I threatened supporting Follett buyers with a lawsuit against Follett and them personnally. Within 24 hours I was paid in full. I also contacted each college directly and explained to them that I would take them to court as well unless they pressured Follett to pay up. It worked. I will never do business with them again. read more

This company is THE worst. They pay vendors when they want and act as though it's inconvenient to be paid what you are OWED. They're almost a year late on invoices; this is the second time this has happened. I don't recommend that any small business work with them. I have called and emailed over 30 times and never given a real answer. read more

Over a month later, still no merchandise wanted to give to a birthday recipient in mid-January. Follett blames UPS still and says the address is a difficult one to find--no call, though. Follett certainly took my credit card money. They were supposed to call me back on Thursday and didn't. Next step is to go to state attorney general and file fraud charges. read more

People hiding behind COVID, no shame. They order defective/incomplete kits and sell them full price. With no certainty of delivery. The bag that came with the kit is also damaged. They don't care about quality at all. read more

Terrible online collegiate "bookstores" with BS inventory, terrible shipping times, and zero customer service. I can't believe colleges and universities allow their names to be tarnished by this scam site. read more

Follett Access is a scam. They never provide the texts I actually need and it's nearly impossible to opt out of. Just another pointless fee students are burdened with. Shame read more

Buyer beware, this place is the worst place to buy books for your school children No books available, no updates just a cluster F##k I will never again use this company for school books read more

I wish I could give you zero stars. Your company is horrible and I will never purchase from you again. Terrible customer service and you overpriced all of your products. read more

Didn't give me access to my Cengage and my course for the semester. I contacted support and they directed me to countless other different supports to solve my issue. Seriously? What a scam site. Disgusting. read more

Terrible customer service. Via email, the person I spoke with obviously did not read my first email so my question was never answered. Via phone, I spoke with a young man that acted like he had no clue about textbook rental policies and was deferring to someone else to look up the information I had given while placing me on hold multiple times. My question was still not answered. He then transferred me to a supervisor, a woman whom acted like I was troubling her for help at all. My issue was resolved, but it was a painstaking process. On top of all of this, they make you pay shipping to return rented textbooks. USE AMAZON TEXTBOOK RENTALS. THEY ARE WAY CHEAPER AND THEY WILL PAY THE RETURN SHIPPING. read more

I recently worked a temp position at the Davidson County Community College bookstore in Thomasville, NC. The staff are very hard worker's and were helpful in my training. I enjoyed each person that I worked with and I'm amazed at the teamwork they have in place to get the job done! I would be happy to work there again. Covid guidelines are closely followed as well. I can't say enough good things about the staff!! I'm going to miss them! read more

These people give horrible service. The confirmation and follow-up emails are vague to the point of me not knowing if my class books are digital or actual. They were not able to send me my digital access information, even when I informed them I never received it. They act superior as if I'm the one that didn't follow through. I use them only because I have to - some of my school books are only available through them. Avoid them if you can. read more

I wish I can do no stars. I go to a school in Florida but I live in Puerto Rico for work. I am not allowed to order anything from Follett because I get "flagged" because I live in a country thats US territory. So none of my scholarship money is able to be used to buy schoolbooks. Even if I pay out of pocket, still can't order books or anything else read more

Absolutely awful! I was told as long as my books were shipped back by the due date of Dec. 20th they would be considered returned on time. They were very clear that the books merely had to be shipped by the due date, not received by then. Well, I shipped them on Dec. 19th. The system on their site says that the books were received. Despite this, I woke up this morning to find a pending charge on my credit card for almost 500 dollars!! For non return! I'm trying to resolve this with customer service, but I keep being told to call my college bookstore which is closed for winter break. I'm disputing the charge with Amex tomorrow and will be using Amazon for my books from now on! They prey on young college kids and their parents. STAY AWAY! read more

I worked here before its ok but people you worked act like in high School students. I got scammed with a co worker here and I told to my supervisor she dont do anything about it. And its a lot of drama. Thank God I left that job I cant not stand negative energy and people that I work to and the management also they dont a heart to they employee at all. They mess up My w2 big time now I need to pay the state because they make a mistake on my w2 I called them about my Problem about My w2 they wont help you because you dont work them anymore. So if you thinking working there in Follet think twice before you apply. I been working to different company and filing My tax like every body else but this the whom screwed up My w2 this the first time happen to me. I dont want some trough what I went trough to them. So better think twice. read more

Shruti is extremely unprofessional and did nothing to rectify my issue. Terrible customer service.

Umm, what? These these guys took $1 away from my account for no reason and I have no idea who the fudge they are. Judging from the reviews below, I'm guessing it had to do something with ordering a textbook online from my school's bookstore. And now i get to embarrass myself and call the bank making a big deal saying I got robbed of a dollar. read more

This website does not work. Even though it says AmEx is an acceptable form of payment, they cancelled my order later. The items are overpriced and on top of it they can't even take an order. read more

If I could 'award' them negative stars, I would. My son is in his freshman year at Daytona College and not knowing any better, I purchased his textbooks for his first semester classes at the campus Follett bookstore. I decided to compare prices on textbooks for his 2nd semester classes before having my wallet pillaged yet again by these crooks. Since he is going to school part time, my son was taking 3 classes for the 2nd semester, 2 of which had textbook requirements. For TWO books, what would have cost me $408 through eFollett.com or the on-campus store cost me $246.57 through Amazon. That's roughly a 40% difference in prices! I didn't buy used books, either. These are brand new with the same ISBNs as on eFollett. With the cost of going to college rising every year, you would think that companies like Follett would do what they could to help ease some of the burden - with the number of colleges that contract them, they can certainly afford it! But noooooooo. They don't care about the parents or the students. All they care about is making maximum profit. read more

I'm in wholehearted accord with the other reviewers, this company is TERRIBLE! Don't use their buyback service; they offer a certain price for your books, you send said books then they decline to pay you the amount you've agreed on. They told me that one of my textbooks, one in pristine condition as far as I could tell, could inexplicably no longer be accepted. When I asked for the book back so that I could sell it elsewhere, they refused, citing their policy that once you've sent them the books they can pretty much keep them and not pay you for them! This all occurred, by the way, nearly a month after they received my books, ignored my emails and repeatedly transferred my calls to the "buyback department" voice-mail; of course, my messages were never returned. I count myself lucky to be finally getting any money from them, of course it hasn't arrived yet. By the way, in case you don't heed my advice: they don't publish any numbers and they absolutely WON'T give you the "buyback department's" phone number, so here are a couple that I dug up after a great deal of research: 800-381-5151 general customer service from what I can tell 855-899-1001 who knows? the 'some lady who works close enough to the buyback department to physically walk over and see why they aren't answering the phone and then come back, offer to transfer you, but refuse again to give you the phone number and ultimately hang up on you' department read more

Gotta love Follet. They hire you and then decide they have too many people so they have no job for you. What's infuriating is they called me about a job and after screwing up all I got was a lousy email thanking me for my interest. read more

They REFUSE TO GIVE ME MY REFUND. Terrible customer service. This company is an absolute joke. Where should I start? Let's see, this current semester I ordered 4 books, the order was fulfilled no problem. I check a week later as my classes are about to start and 2 of the books were cancelled because they weren't in stock.. yet they were fulfilled. How do you not know what books you have in stock when you fulfill an order?and then don't even notify me. But, not even that big of a deal compared to what comes next. - one of the books, per UPS said "a damage occurred.. etc" so I contacted UPS, and apparently the book fell out of the package and they were sending a damage report. Ok cool. I contact follett to try and explain this, and of course you get the run around, you can never talk to someone who can actually fix a problem. Always "oh it's been sent to so-and-so and they'll contact you".. yeah right. So now it has been 2 weeks of going back and forth with follet about this issue, and they are REFUSING TO GIVE ME MY REFUND until the "book arrives back at the warehouse". I have tried to explain to them I don't have the book, in fact, I never received it. And not only that, whether UPS fixes their issue on their end has NOTHING TO DO WITH ME. Issues with shipping and delivery of goods is on the seller, period. I have nothing to do with it, however they don't care. Literally what they're doing is borderline illegal, they are literally in a breach of contract because they did not deliver my book, and now won't refund my money. Next, one of the other two books came in and was completely destroyed with scribbles, writings, underlines, marks through entire pages, etc. to the point it is hardly legible, they didn't care about that either. And I guess I can also add that a year ago one of my books had the entire front cover ripped off. But I never even complained about that because I just duct taped it back on. No big deal. Now to last year-- I rented a book, and needed it again the following semester. I forgot to return it on time because I would be using it again the following semester- my fault. However, it hadn't even been a week since it was due and I contacted them saying I wanted to renew the rental on the book, just wanted to re-rent it, easy enough right? Wrong. -- you would have thought I asked them to find me the krabby patty secret formula and give me 2/3 of their company. First, I emailed them multiple times- no response. Then I called them, of course the run-around again, oh "so-and-so will contact you" yeah right. It was oh no idk I think you'll have to return the book, this and that, I'm like ma'am why would I return the book only to have you send it right back to me?? I didn't even mind paying the late fee (even though me not returning it did no damage to them since I would be renting it again- in other words, they didn't lose a customer that they could have rented this book to and in turn lose money, because I'm trying to rent it again), just wanted to pay the late fee and rent it again. Then I was supposed to wait for the warehouse to contact me. Time passed with no response from anyone, then I see they charged my card for the entire book! I said wtf?? So called and called again, finally getting in contact with someone, only to get the same run-around story, oh the warehouse will contact you, blah blah.. yeah right. After a month of going back and forth about something that should have been as simple as a click of a mouse on their end, I just said f*** it, I'd rather just buy the book than keep dealing with them, so I just left it alone. So a recap- this company is an absolute joke, has no customer service, seems to not care at all, and some of the employees seem to have no idea what's going on. I see a lawsuit coming their way in the very near future if they keep operating the way they do. --USE AMAZON!!!-- read more

Absolutely awful. I ordered a textbook, and they sent me the wrong one. I triple checked my order to make sure, and they sent me a book that is not the one I ordered. Different title, content, cover, ISBN, totally different. I sent several emails and filled out support tickets, and they don't answer any of them. After sitting on hold for quite a while, a girl answered the phone and had no clue what she was doing. She said she would ask the warehouse about it and get back in 24-48 hours. That was a week ago. She told me if I didn't want to wait, I could just make a return and reorder the book. I'm not paying shipping to return and then shipping to reorder for something that was THEIR MISTAKE. Unfortunately, the book I ordered is a new specific edition, so I can't order it from anywhere else, but if you have the option, DON'T ORDER FROM THEM. read more

A few days ago I purchased a book online from Thomas Nelson CC Bookstore and today I noticed a random $1 charge from Follett Higher Education. I called my bank and canceled my card immediately. I don't know how they're getting access to ppl's credit card information but this company needs to be shut down for their fraudulent activity. read more

Do not do business with this company. They advertise 2nd business day receipt of books, but what they dont tell you is that they give themselves up to 48 hours to "process" your order. In effect, you will essentially receive your books 6 business days AFTER you place your order. On top of that, they only accept returns for books up to 7 days after your order is PLACED. Therefore you are basically buying a book that cant be returned. I called Follett to talk about the order time line, and when i asked to speak to someone about returning the book, they "transferred" me and whoever answered the phone, hung up on me after saying hello. Absolutely ridiculous.... poor business practices and customer service Again, do NOT do patronize this business with your hard earned money. I will never order from them again. read more

I bought a gift for a student and the charged me $1.00 in a separate transaction with no explanation. I know it's only a dollar but what the heck. As if spending money on the gift wasn't expensive enough and all the charges since I bought it online. Sucks! read more