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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1151274" data-attributes="member: 2205">If the supply is greater than the demand, then raising the prices certainly isn't going to help (sorry, I have a B.S. in Economics, and B.S. is just about right.)  I think it's a lot more complicated than that, because RPG books are not a commodity in which one book at one price is easily swappable in the consumers mind with another book at another price.  It's almost to the point where customers have a seperate supply/demand curve for each individual product -- at least that's the case for me.  At a certain price point, I'll buy a product without question, at another price point, I'll wrestle with it, defer it, and maybe finally buy it, at another price point I simply won't buy it at all.Along with what The Sigil posted, I'm not sure I have any better arguments other than I'd like prices to be lower, naturally.  I'm not sure I'm going to try and propose some kind of complex switching mechanism wherein I buy different products than I otherwise would because of price, but certainly I have seen more products recently that are above my personal limit in terms of what I'm willing to pay (barring exceptional circumstances) for an RPG product.  And it's not really because I can't afford it, it's because I have some kind of internal gauge of what I'll pay and upwards of $40 that starts to really go off like a fire alarm.  Like I said, almost all of the expensive books I own, I bought on sale at a major discount.</blockquote>

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