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Message: <blockquote data-quote="caelum" data-source="post: 4271228" data-attributes="member: 51656">Yes, used book stores buy books back for cheap...but then, they don't sell them back to people at cover price either!  So if this were a good analogy for magic items, you'd be able to buy "used" magical swords for 50% (or even less) of the nominal value as well.  Trying to introduce reality into the D&D economy is a lost cause, but I would think a better analogy would be specialty durable goods like high-end camera lenses.  Used versions of those go for about 80% of retail on eBay, and can be sold back to camera stores for half their original cost.</blockquote>