The Great d20 sell off begins with GRR

[nerfherder]

Erekose, try messing around with what's in your order. You might find that you can lower the shipping a lot by removing 1 or 2 items or by shipping them in 2 separate lots. I found with my order (shipped to Australia) that adding 1 extra item bumped the shipping from around $38 to $75. After messing around a bit with what was in my order I was able to get most of what I wanted and still keep the shipping price to $38.

Olaf the Stout

Yeah, I've been fiddling around and finding some items add a large amount to p&p. I've also checked the HM Revenue and Customs site, and it seems that books attract no duty, and may or may not attract VAT (I thought VAT wasn't payable on books, but they're listed as S/Z for Standard (17.5%)/Zero).

 

[nerfherder]

Anywhere in the UK doing this sale?

Are there any distributors other than Esdevium?

 

[trancejeremy]

I live in a condo and have more books than book shelf space and have not bought myself a physical book in years. I'm going to regretfully pass this sale up as I did the Kenzer one. I buy lots of pdfs, particularly when they are on huge discount sales.

I would buy a lot of pdfs from GR if they put them out for a comparable sale.

Yeah, but the whole point of the sale is to get rid of physical inventory (presumably to clear warehouse space and possible d20 issues if the license gets canceled when 4e comes out), not to just to lower prices for the heck of it. They don't have those issues with PDFs, since they don't take up space and if they have to remove the d20 logo, it's not that big a deal.

 

[Voadam]

Yeah, but the whole point of the sale is to get rid of physical inventory (presumably to clear warehouse space and possible d20 issues if the license gets canceled when 4e comes out), not to just to lower prices for the heck of it. They don't have those issues with PDFs, since they don't take up space and if they have to remove the d20 logo, it's not that big a deal.

Only Chris or another GR person could say what the actual point/intent of the sale is.

I'm sure that physical inventory reduction is a big part of it, but I also think part of it might be simply to sell a bunch of d20 stuff while a lot of people (comparatively speaking) are still buying d20 stuff.

The latter rationale would indicate a reason to put pdfs on sale now as well in hopes of generating more immediate pdf sale income than might be earned later at normal prices if d20 pdf sales slow to dribs and drabs once people have moved to active campaigning in 4e.

For instance I expect at some point I will pick up Aasimar and Tiefling and Creatures of Freeport as I currently generally pick up at least one d20 pdf of something I have in print each month in my monthly rpg budget amount. I would like Cults of Freeport, Book of the Righteous and a dozen other d20 GR titles, but there are a ton of pdfs I want from a dozen different companies and I could not say when I would get to the GR products at their normal prices. Probably for years. I jumped on the $1 and $2 pdf sales though immediately and have been happy I did so. There are a ton of things I want to get so going with current sales works for me very well. Therefore EN Publishing and Dog Soul Publishing both got a bunch of money from me this month, whereas at their normal prices I would not have gotten stuff from either this month and likely would not have gotten anything anytime soon (months and maybe years between a purchase) and only one product at a time then.

So I might buy a $10-15 GR pdf at some point next year at the normal price with the possibility that other pdfs would continue to push my planned purchases of them further back, but if they were on significant sale I'd divert my monthly rpg budget around to them now.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

However, putting their PDF's on sale may discourage people from buying the print books and get the PDF's instead. This could be because they can save on postage or it may simply be because they prefer the PDF's over hard copies. Either way, it may result in lower sales of their physical stock.

Olaf the Stout

 

[humble minion]

Just got an email from my LGS. They're doing Green Ronin package deals - either $300 for 44 preset products ($1300 value) or $200 for 10 ($580 - mostly big stuff like Black Company). Pity it's all-or-nothing though - I'd have a look at a few GR booksif I could buy them individually...

 

[Pramas]

Trancejeremy has it right. We are doing this sale to reduce our inventory on older titles. Books sitting in a warehouse don't do us any good. In fact, they harm us at tax time because they count as assets even if they aren't really selling anymore. We aren't offering the same deal on PDFs because none of the above applies.

 

[Erekose]

Erekose, try messing around with what's in your order. You might find that you can lower the shipping a lot by removing 1 or 2 items or by shipping them in 2 separate lots. I found with my order (shipped to Australia) that adding 1 extra item bumped the shipping from around $38 to $75. After messing around a bit with what was in my order I was able to get most of what I wanted and still keep the shipping price to $38.
Olaf the Stout

Yeah, I've been fiddling around and finding some items add a large amount to p&p. I've also checked the HM Revenue and Customs site, and it seems that books attract no duty, and may or may not attract VAT (I thought VAT wasn't payable on books, but they're listed as S/Z for Standard (17.5%)/Zero).

Thanks guys - definitely seems weight related (or perhaps size?). For the three books I'd definitely want I get a minimum P&P of $39. I can then add three others (including Book of the Righteous) before it trips to the next category.

 

[Thanael]

Anywhere in the UK doing this sale?

Or in Germany?

Someone tell those Esdevium guys they got it wrong with the US only sale...

 

[Erekose]

Or in Germany?

Someone tell those Esdevium guys they got it wrong with the US only sale...

Hi!

See my previous post - unfortunately Esdevium do know that it's not just America . . . there just not interested!