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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scurvy_Platypus" data-source="post: 4690336" data-attributes="member: 43283">The people that are confused about the OP's problem should notice that a bit after his first post, he mentioned he's in Australia. I realize this might come as a surprise to some people, but books over here in the Southern Hemisphere cost a _lot_ more.That $7 cheesy sci-fi book that you picked up in Barnes and Noble on a lark to kill a few hours? Here in New Zealand, it's going to be $20 or more.Between the crappy exchange rate and the cost of shipping, books in general are just expensive.Australians have it a bit easier... right now their dollar is worth .63 U.S.  Over here, the New Zealand dollar is only worth .50 U.S.Also, Australia winds up being the larger market compared to NZ. NZ is the Canada to Australia's United States.I just bought the Pre-Order for a game called SPITE: THE SECOND BOOK OF PANDEMONIUM. I went with the soft cover option. In the U.S. you can get it for $38, including shipping. Cost me $90.I am _so_ glad I paid the extra money to have my rpg books shipped over from the U.S. with the rest of my stuff, instead of trying to replace the more "common" ones once I got here.As for the whole "scarcity" thing... I personally didn't really see a sudden surge in people dumping their books when 4E came out. I got the impression a fair number of people decided to A) Hold onto their 3E books just in case, and/or B) Decided to hold onto their books and sell them later so they didn't take such a money loss due to the market being flooded.As for how popular 3e/4e is... for pete's sake, can't we just <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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" />ing leave it alone? 4E is the game that's out now. Even if 4E is a complete and utter failure, it's not like WotC is going to go, "Whoops! Our bad dudes. Look, we're just going to go ahead and roll things back to 3.5 and spiff it up a bit like ya'll suggested."There's no need for head-scratching as to how it is that 3E books aren't $2 now. Quite a few older D&D books are still close to cover if not more, there's a crappy economy happening right now (which is one of the things that might help prompt people to stop hoarding books they don't plan on using), and where you happen to live can have a huge affect on how much you're going to pay.The reason the crappy economy might work _against_ folks hoping to pick up books cheap, is because people will think, "Damn, I paid a lot of money for these things, and I need the money. They're still popular enough, so I'll just try marking them down about 25% and see if I can avoid losing too much money."Also, Ebay isn't exactly a great option over here because again, A) Shipping is astronomical. This is because it's done by air which is charged based on weight. My stuff being shipped over from the U.S. is in a cargo container, which is charged based on space (cubic centimeters or whatever). Cargo shipping is cheaper (not cheap) but not the sort of thing you can get something like an Ebay purchase to use.And B) there's an awful lot of people that are U.S. only. Hell, even Paypal is difficult that way. I've got a Paypal account that I maintain for a number of reasons, and I can't use it to purchase stuff that's going to be sent to me here in NZ. Why? Because Paypal only allows you to have one home address.Edit: Sorry about that JoeGKushner. It was uncool of me to do that.</blockquote>

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