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<blockquote data-quote="Ibrandul" data-source="post: 8211264" data-attributes="member: 6871736"><p>Does the site actually try to impose a “no reselling” policy on purchasers (as opposed to content creators)?</p><p></p><p>I’m asking because, in the US at least, I don’t think that would be legal for books. If I purchase a book, I can turn around and immediately resell it at a markup to whoever (I think; caveat: I’ve resold a lot of books in my day but I am neither a professional bookseller nor a lawyer).</p><p></p><p>Of course, if the original seller didn’t offer me any discount, and the prospective buyer knows that the original seller is still offering new copies at the same price I originally paid, it’ll be tricky for me to make much profit off the endeavor. But I’m not at all sure that a policy trying to prevent me from reselling the book at all, or to penalize me as a customer for doing so, could stand up to a legal challenge.</p><p></p><p>I frequently see DMs Guild POD reprints of pre-5e TSR/WotC books for sale on eBay at a steep markup. I suspect many of the buyers of those are getting screwed because they mistakenly think they’re buying an original copy rather than a reprint (perhaps even when the product description clearly states otherwise), or else they don’t realize they could still get the same thing at lower cost from DMs Guild. Personally I think that kind of reselling is a bit sketchy, but I wouldn’t have exactly the same opinion about reselling community-created PODs (where there isn’t a more valuable original version for buyers to get confused about). At any rate, if DMs Guild tried to penalize those resellers (as customers of DMs Guild) I think they might be on shaky ground.</p><p></p><p>Ebooks/PDFs are different, of course.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ibrandul, post: 8211264, member: 6871736"] Does the site actually try to impose a “no reselling” policy on purchasers (as opposed to content creators)? I’m asking because, in the US at least, I don’t think that would be legal for books. If I purchase a book, I can turn around and immediately resell it at a markup to whoever (I think; caveat: I’ve resold a lot of books in my day but I am neither a professional bookseller nor a lawyer). Of course, if the original seller didn’t offer me any discount, and the prospective buyer knows that the original seller is still offering new copies at the same price I originally paid, it’ll be tricky for me to make much profit off the endeavor. But I’m not at all sure that a policy trying to prevent me from reselling the book at all, or to penalize me as a customer for doing so, could stand up to a legal challenge. I frequently see DMs Guild POD reprints of pre-5e TSR/WotC books for sale on eBay at a steep markup. I suspect many of the buyers of those are getting screwed because they mistakenly think they’re buying an original copy rather than a reprint (perhaps even when the product description clearly states otherwise), or else they don’t realize they could still get the same thing at lower cost from DMs Guild. Personally I think that kind of reselling is a bit sketchy, but I wouldn’t have exactly the same opinion about reselling community-created PODs (where there isn’t a more valuable original version for buyers to get confused about). At any rate, if DMs Guild tried to penalize those resellers (as customers of DMs Guild) I think they might be on shaky ground. Ebooks/PDFs are different, of course. [/QUOTE]
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