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<blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 8606595" data-attributes="member: 3457">That’s just Amazon. Amazon sD&amp;D books for about 30-40% off as their standard price.Amazon is not a good gauge for how well something sells based on what we sale it for (I work for Amazon), we get things in bulk so can sale for very cheap. Target sells D&amp;D books for about the same priceI have a couple friends who have published books with major publishers and periodically their $40 hardcover books will go on sale for 7 bucks a pop. The first time it happened one thought there was a sales issue and contacted his editor and they told him it was still one of their best sellers and Amazon had ordered a large quantity of the book for a flash sale. The Curse of Strahd set is a luxury item but the contents themselves are inexpensive for WOTC to produce so it’s not an expensive product for them to put out aside from the box itself. Even at the Amazon discount they’ve made their money off it before Amazon even sells it on the site. You would want to look at book stores for clearance to see if it is a poor seller and even then it’s kind of meaningless because the size could be the reason it’s on clearance or that it is the last one.another example is the Critical Role art book has a luxury editions in a slip case with loose art work etc and it is a big seller but on Amazon it’s $60, I got the one for my wife for 50 actually, cover is 120.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="teitan, post: 8606595, member: 3457"] That’s just Amazon. Amazon sD&D books for about 30-40% off as their standard price. Amazon is not a good gauge for how well something sells based on what we sale it for (I work for Amazon), we get things in bulk so can sale for very cheap. Target sells D&D books for about the same price I have a couple friends who have published books with major publishers and periodically their $40 hardcover books will go on sale for 7 bucks a pop. The first time it happened one thought there was a sales issue and contacted his editor and they told him it was still one of their best sellers and Amazon had ordered a large quantity of the book for a flash sale. The Curse of Strahd set is a luxury item but the contents themselves are inexpensive for WOTC to produce so it’s not an expensive product for them to put out aside from the box itself. Even at the Amazon discount they’ve made their money off it before Amazon even sells it on the site. You would want to look at book stores for clearance to see if it is a poor seller and even then it’s kind of meaningless because the size could be the reason it’s on clearance or that it is the last one. another example is the Critical Role art book has a luxury editions in a slip case with loose art work etc and it is a big seller but on Amazon it’s $60, I got the one for my wife for 50 actually, cover is 120. [/QUOTE]

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