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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 5508236" data-attributes="member: 4348">This is an excellent point about all this that kind of irritates me.  Someone buys a book, such as the 3.5 PHB years ago for a certain amount of money, let's say 29.99, or even 34.99 USD.  Why then, turn around and try to sell it, a used book, for MORE than you bought it?In instances like this, it's even blatant.  Not meaning to offend the original poster, but to me, unless you bought a collectible (and I don't believe anyone really felt the PHB, DMG, or MM 3.5 was a collectible when they were out unless you got the special editions), you probably didn't get it for that in the first place.To me, starting off selling a core book for a higher price used than when new smells almost like someone trying to rip others off of their money.  I suppose it's because others are willing to pay scads of money for it.I can't understand the willingness to pay something for that amount for a used book (I do go to used bookstores, saw one copy recently in a used bookstore for $2...but that's in the East, I hear prices are going through the roof in the West for 3.5 stuff) when there seems to be a good supply still out there.One can even go here<a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/article/srd35" target="_blank">Revised (v.3.5)System Reference Document</a>and get most of the rules for free.For something so recently OOP, why are people selling it for such a high price, normally used...and why are people buying it for such a high price?If people refused to pay higher prices for used books then what they sold for new, I bet the prices on 3.5 stuff would decrease and become more affordable.</blockquote>

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