Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Delemental" data-source="post: 994145" data-attributes="member: 5203">The FLGS I go to (and worked at for about two years) doesn't shrink-wrap books, but they do bag them in clear plastic.  They don't have a problem with people opening them up and looking at the books.  It lets people look at the books, but still keeps most of the fingerprints off the cover.  The biggest reason they bag isn't so much fear of pizza stains, it's to keep the dust off the books (the building they're in is pretty old) and to prevent abrasions on the cover from books sitting together on the display and being pulled on and off.  The biggest problem they have is people putting the books back in the bags backward.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />However, I can say that book abuse is an occasional problem.  I was in charge of the Warhammer section when I worked there, and I ended up having to move several of the brand-new army books into the "used" section because of in-store damage (meaning that I had to sell them at a lower price).  I had a few people that would literally open up a book and sit there with a piece of paper desgining their army list for a game they were playing at our store that day.  I had to remind them that we were not a library.Of course, people who would go to that lengths to abuse the trust of the FLGS are a rare minority.  And I figure that's what it boils down to is trust - the understanding that you need to see what you're buying to make an informed decision, and that the FLGS wants to keep their product in top shape to encourage sales.By the way, the store does shrink-wrap some items - box sets, and occasionally groups of books they want to keep together (like if they had a full set of an original module run like the Slavers series).  However, they will gladly open up the shrink-wrap to let people look inside (hey, you can always re-wrap it... and shrink wrapping is fun!)</blockquote>

Verification