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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Veander" data-source="post: 828489" data-attributes="member: 1693">Well, I know if I go out and, using Ebay, Buy.com, or some other outlet, buy 3 books for $30 when the original retail is approximately $50-60, then I notice something interesting.  Other gamers I know go out and partake in the same deals.  For instance, I was able to get Book of the Righteous for $18 from Buy.com.  I had it out the next game night, and 2 gamers thought it was a great book (it is).  One gamer looked at the price of $30 on the back of the book and said, "Jeez, Mike, don't you feed your kids?!"  Now he was semi-kidding, but then again this was a guy who had a problem with being nice.  ANYWAY, the other gamer who was interested agreed they couldn't see spending $30 on such a book.  I told them finally what the proce was on Buy.com and one of them bought the book after we were done gaming with Buy.com online.  The other guy didn't get it until weeks later... from buy.com.  I know this is a singular event and may not reflect any major statisitic, but it has happened twice since with other products.  I admit most of the time the best deals are found while snipering the Ebay auctions, but I feel better getting it from a company with some amount of a return policy.NONE of the gamers in my group buy books at full price.  We all did when 3e started, but we all agreed that with the list of books we want it isn't possible to even take a chunk out of it with full prices.  If it is my responsibility to make it possible for Mongoose, Bastion, WotC, and others to maintain a working business by paying the high costs then maybe, just maybe having all these companies isn't meant to be.  If their prices are where they are because they won't have the customer base such as even WotC or even larger companies, then unfortunately they are going to fall.  Hey I am somewhat in the biz too, but if I am supposed to go out and battle intellectually with the possible customer base about getting deals, then let the wolves show up at my front door.  Granted I just do some side work for a DnD software company, but it's certainly an interesting subject.  I hope we can keep talkign about the ins and outs of this issue without the thread getting flamey.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />Sincerely,VeanderNOTE: I want to add that Book of the Righteous is probably the worst scenario to happen considering it is one of the cheapest books AT retail considering what you GET in comparison to other books out there of it's size.</blockquote>

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