Recommend me some online retailers

[philreed]

I've had good experiences with:

www.stiggybaby.com

www.rpgshop.com

 

[Justin D. Jacobson]

I'm a little biased too, but I would recommend you take a look at Indie Press Revolution.

1. They've been in business for nearly a year now, and you can read one of the glowing testimonials on their front page. I haven't heard a bad word from anyone who's used their services.

2. Because their client roster focuses on small press, IPR is invariably the first and often the only place to get many of the products they carry.

3. It's difficult to compare IPR to, say, Amazon, because a vast majority of the books are not available at discount in other avenues, if at all. On the other hand, most of the books they carry are already competitively price compared to more mainstream books.

 

[ohGr]

Thanks guys, i'll check all of these out. Regardless of which one(s) i go with, i'll likely bookmark all of 'em.

 

[francisca]

ENW store, Stiggy, and rpgshop have all done right by me in the past.

for OOP stuff, I have always had good luck with Dragonstrove.

 

[Steel_Wind]

Art's Bargains. He's a seller on e-bay. That's about all I know about him. He's located in Cleveland TN.

What I know of him though? That's a little more important:

Great store? Not really. But it was good enough. The product was reasonably cheap, shipped in reasonable packaging, shipping costs was inexpensive and the product showed up as described in great shape when I reasonably expected it to.

I expect there are 100 other resellers online more or less just like him. But most importantly - I also expect there are 400 more online who are far worse.

My problem is pretty simple: I don't know who the other 100 are - and, worse, I don't know who the other 400 are either. I do know Art's Bargains is one of the good guys. That will have to do.

 

[ohGr]

Alright, placed an order with Stiggybaby's for Five Nations and the Explorer's Handbook. Hopefully everything will go well from here on out and i'll have a new place for role-playing books. Thanks, everyone.

Buy from EN World. It might not be as cheap as Amazon, but you are helping out this site. And isn't that worth it?

*sigh* I wish i could, i really do. My hobby budget is dreadfully thin however (unfortunately, necessarily so), and RPGs have to compete with video and pc games, music, and DVDs, and i just can't afford to spend money anyway i want like i used to.

I must be blessed. The only time I had to wait with Amazon was with Slavelords, and that wasn't Amazon's fault, I don't think. I got my copy of Iron Heroes on Thursday (and would have had it Wednesday but I had bundled it with something else that wasn't released till Tuesday).

This seems to only be a poblem only with WotC books. For some reason, Amazon always gets WotC books at the end of the month instead of the beginning. *shrugs*

 

[talien]

Also: http://www.nobleknightgames.com

The best part is you can trade in games for credit. This works especially well if say, you want to upgrade to the latest version of (Spycraft, D&D, etc.). It's one of the few sites where you can hand books in for trade towards new books.

 

[Qlippoth]

Another vote for Art's Bargains. I've ordered from him (via eBay) for years; everything has shipped cheaply but promptly, in perfect condition. The selection is (as Steel Wind noted) not the greatest, but his store is well worth having as a "favorite" seller on eBay. His eBay ID is arthur.

 

[Kanegrundar]

Also: http://www.nobleknightgames.com

The best part is you can trade in games for credit. This works especially well if say, you want to upgrade to the latest version of (Spycraft, D&D, etc.). It's one of the few sites where you can hand books in for trade towards new books.

I got to second the vote for Noble Knight. They are extremely helpful, quick, have a great selection of titles, and you can trade it like Talien said. I've been doing business with them for years now and I have never once been disappointed.

Kane

 

[HellHound]

I've been buying used stuff from Titan Games since the old days before automated payment systems existed on the web.

Not to mention at the Cons.

Otherwise, I buy 90% of my on-line purchases through enworld.rpgshop.com