Extreme MM Inflation

[Tom Cashel]

Here's the real price:

http://www.wizards.com/catalog/product.asp?88268

Amazon wasn't even close.

 

[333 Dave]

Except that $22.69 is quite a weird price for a book to be listed at. I expect it's 26.95 and the first "2" is the mistake.

Point taken .

BUT! I Think rather the second 2 is the misplaced one for
$26.95
$18.86
$8.09 (the subtraction makes the first didgit wrong in this case, but it would be the second didgit if you fixed three places before the decimal (068.09 becomes 008.09))

I think I've got it solved

 

[Henry@home]

I don't think I've spent $226.95 on all my 3E supplements combined yet...

let's see...

sword & fist 17.95
defenders of the faith 17.95
tome and blood 17.95
song and silence 17.95
masters of the wild free (gift)
frcs 35.95
phb 19.95
dmg 17.95
mm 17.95
PDF's 20.00

yep, about $183.00!

 

[Nightfall]

I passed the 200 mark long before Masters of the Wild came out.

 

[333 Dave]

I've spent under $120 so far. The three core books, the Psi book and MotP. I don't feel like doing the math, but the 3 core books is approx 60, motp is 30 and Psi is 27 which I can round to 30 so 60 core 60 non-core total approx (but under) $120.

 

[reapersaurus]

Maybe this is the first salvo in WotC's campaign to increase the value that gamers place on gaming products?

 

[TalonComics]

This time, Talon will totally 0wnX0r Amazon with his 1337 prices!

Lol!
Now that's funny! Man, I don't think I've ever screwed a price up that bad before.

I've always thought Amazon was smoking crack. This pretty much proves it.

~Derek

 

[Maudlin]

Here's the real price:
http://www.wizards.com/catalog/product.asp?88268

Hey, whoa, what's that blurb at the end?

"and provides information on creatures from the new D&D Chainmail miniatures game."

Was this common knowledge? I don't really like these tie-in things, especially since the Chainmail monsters are all very interesting but not exatly mainstream. Transparent ploy to sell more miniatures?

 

[JohnRTroy]

Not the only Amazon screw-up in gaming.

There was the minitures combat game Steve Jackson Games was planning called "Hot Lead". It was planned back in 1993 or so, but it never came to fruitition--it was more or less "vaporware".

Only thing is, Amazon had entries for it for at least three years. In the past Amazon allowed comments on unreleased products, so people in the know got the joke and started posting comments like "best game ever" and little off-center recommendations. They wised up after a while. I wish they still allowed it for books so we could say just how valuable this is.

My own personal Amazon story doesn't involve a gaming product. I purchased a 5-disc DVD player during the 2000 Holiday season. They sent me two without billing or notifications. So I told them and had them supply return shipping for the other one. I didn't want some poor loading dock worker to get fired.

 

[Henry]

D'OH! I forgot the Psi Handbook, Sunless Citadel, and Forge of Fury! Oh, well, there goes my extra $40.00