Attn: Gamers in Austin!

[Mouseferatu]

Due to a need for both money and shelf space, I just made about $150 selling mostly RPG material to the Half-Price Books on 183 and Anderson Mill. A friend of mine did the same at the Lamar location.

My own collection includes, among other things, almost all the 3E/3.5 Dragon and Dungeon magazines.

I figured someone should go benefit from my own financial and spacial needs.

 

[SavageRobby]

Man, I just had dinner at Kobe, right next to it. We literally just got home from there. Wish I'd known.

I might have to check it out for Dungeon magazines tomorrow. How fast does stuff you sell go up for sale? Any idea?

 

[Mouseferatu]

Man, I just had dinner at Kobe, right next to it. We literally just got home from there. Wish I'd known.

I might have to check it out for Dungeon magazines tomorrow. How fast does stuff you sell go up for sale? Any idea?

I can't say for sure, but I think it's usually by the next day. I'd be almost positive that they'll be up if you go back tomorrow (and if not, I suppose you can always ask about it).

(It was rather an odd experience, in that we were there right after the shooting at the auto repair place just north of that shopping center on 183. It's always a little freaky watching cops speed through, and watching a life-flight helicopter land in the parking lot, when you don't know what's going on.)

 

[SavageRobby]

I'll definitely check today. My daughter has a cheer thing up in Leander later today, so I'll swing by there on my way. Most all the 3E Dungeons, eh? Even though they're 3E, that would still be a great resource - I've considered them in PDF, but this might be way more cost effective.

 

[Phaeryx]

I used to work for HPB. Stuff doesn't always get priced and stocked for sale in a timely manner. It depends on how backed up they are. It could be a day or a week. RPG material can sometimes be a problem, because at some locations employees aren't familiar enough with which games are currently in print and some stuff, especially magazines, gets dumped under the assumption that RPG stuff doesn't sell well in general. Austin is a good market for it though, and if you got $150 for the merchandise, it seems like they know it's stuff that will sell. I am now tempted to make a special trip up to Austin.

 

[SavageRobby]

Well, I went to that store today, and couldn't find the magazines. Not a single one. I talked to an employee in the buying area who was singularly unhelpful. He said the stuff should be out there already, and if I couldn't find it, then someone must have bought it already (a possibility), but frankly, I think he was more interested in blowing me off than being at all useful. I may go back, but after how useless he was, I may not ever go back.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Well, I went to that store today, and couldn't find the magazines. Not a single one. I talked to an employee in the buying area who was singularly unhelpful. He said the stuff should be out there already, and if I couldn't find it, then someone must have bought it already (a possibility), but frankly, I think he was more interested in blowing me off than being at all useful. I may go back, but after how useless he was, I may not ever go back.

Damn. I'm sorry to hear that. I've mostly had good experiences at that location myself, but I don't go that often. Maybe I've just been lucky enough to miss the jackasses.

 

[bento]

Too bad I can't have my local HPB send a request down there to have all those copies transferred up here!

I had a couple of opportunities a couple of years ago when the main Dallas store got in almost every 1E module and several hundred copies of Dragon going back to the late 1970s. THere was also a heap of CoC books and modules. Someone up here must have been cleaning out their closet as well.

 

[Pseudopsyche]

On a related note, the Half-Price Books on Lamar at 2222 recently stocked a slew of apparently remaindered 3.5 books. (Until now, I've only really seen 3.0 books there.) They had plenty of like-new copies of assorted Eberron and Races of ... books at half price. (Anyone looking for such might also be interested in the black leather-bound special edition core books, of which they inexplicably have many copies.) Three new copies of Red Hand of Doom, $12 each. Almost a dozen copies of Races of Eberron?! Good stuff.

 

[Flynn]

Looks like I need to make a trip to the local HPB (I live near the one that holds Ari's stuff), and maybe a trip over to Lamar as well.

Thanks for the update, guys,
Flynn