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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GQuail" data-source="post: 4625626" data-attributes="member: 30709">Thanks for everyone's replies so far.  Although we have two RPG stores in my area, plus a bunch of general bookshops that stock some D&D material, it's hard for me to tell sometimes if something happening in my neck of the woods is happening elsewhere.  (Especially since local RPG groups can really skew it - a successful campaign of TORG at Glasgow Uni's gaming soceity means its possibhly selling much hotter hear than it is anywhere else.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /> )It sounds like online retailers may have had a clearout but local game stores did not, and for the most part products are being sold pretty much as they were before.  (Certainly, no-one is saying anything like "My game shop has all the 3.X MMs at $5")Of my two LGSes, one of them does have occasional discounts.  Just in the last month or two they had some 50% discounted Mutants & Masterminds books, and earlier in the year they had a big clearout where I got a bunch of stuff cheap (including Blue Rose for £5)  The other, however, seems to pretty much keep things in forever - they have the Lawnmower Man & Men In Black RPGs on a wee quiet wall, as well as a copy of The Primal Order from way back when.There does seem to be a little less D20 product in the standard bins of one of my shops - though it's still a bigish chunk, and far more is in the second hand area.   I wonder if some shops are reluctant to discount ands ell it cheap because they still don't have enough material to fill that void - with fewer people picking up the GSL at the start than the D20/OGL, and still a smallish selection of products for 4E, perhaps they're still seeing 3.5 books as a major chunk of their RPG section.I read this in a few threads about FLGS management, and I can see why it's a problem and why FLGS managers make the "wrong" decision.  With small margins at the best of times, they seem loathe to take a dent rather than wait for that "perfect" sale.Speaking from my own experience, though, if I'm already playing a game and I don't get a supplement on release I'm unlikely to pick it up at all.  I think more game shops should be considering discounts sometime around 1-3 months after a product is released to try and tempt players - in all my time at these two shops I can only think of one product where this happened, and it did lead to me buying something I was swithering on.See, the thing is, I've been going pretty constantly to my game shops (one of which has a hefty second hand selection) and not really seen much of this.  Whatever second hand books turned up were either 3.0, campaign-specific or unremarkable 3rd party books.  I have turned up some gems but, for the most part, it doesn't seem like the boat reached my neck of the woods at all.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />I wonder if part of the problem is the kind of books I'm after - I've got a pretty broad selection of books, most of my missing ones being the Complete Series and the Racial books.  I also wonder if some retailers are waiting until Pathfinder comes out properly to really see what the 3.X support is like, and if a lot of people are still only dipping their toes into 4E rather than abandoning the previous edition wholeheartedly...</blockquote>

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