where do you get your RPG books?

[Bards R Us]

Voted FLGS. Although I have bought books at regular book stores as well. I enjoy going to my FLGS (Brookhurst Hobbies) as they have a good selection (although not perfect by any means) and courteous staff, so they get my dollars. Still not comfortable ordering things through the Internet yet.

 

[Desdichado]

I would like to buy online, but I mostly buy at the local Books A Million. It's mainly because RPG books are carefully researched by me online, but the actual buying of that carefully researched book is more of an impulse buy, because I have to talk myself repeatedly into spending the money.

I'm a cheapskate at heart, but when I spend, I generally blow a gasket.

I need to just budget X bucks and month and spend it online, hesitations be damned. I'd probably save more money that way.

LOL, I do the exact same thing.

 

[roytheodd]

I work for a distributor so I buy them at the warehouse. Before this job, though, and after it as well, I am loyal to the mom & pop brick & mortar.

 

[RFisher]

My view is this... Amazon and Overstock sell for cheaper than any game store and you know they still make a profit on their RPG book sales. RPG book prices are marked up too much. The 3.0 splatbooks are the perfect example of that for $20 of almost nothing. They need to bring the prices back down to Earth and then I MIGHT go back to shopping at walk-in stores.

Now, I don't have any problem with someone not supporting the FLGS because they want a cheaper price.

But do you really expect a walk-in store to be able to compete on price with amazon & overstock? Do you not realize that the business models are totally different? Do you not realize that the FLGS add lots of value that amazon & overstock don't (enabling browsing, hosting games, providing a find-other-local-gamers bulletin board, knowledgable employees, &c.)?

There's nothing wrong with choosing not to support subsidizing those value-adds, but I just want to make sure it's an informed choice.

 

[Psion]

i didn't do multiple choice because i wanted to know where people prefer to get the majority of their books, not necessarily everywhere they get them.

But I don't get a majority of my books from a single source. I go about 40% ENWorld RPGShop, 40% from Booksamillion online, and 20% FL-GW-S

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

From my local drug dealer.


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What?

 

[wheeljack]

get it at buy.com. $33 (free shipping) to amazon's $54.

Conan

Or for $27.87 at alldirect.com, course you have to spend $99 to get free shipping..otherwise its 3.45 to ship still cheaper than Buy.com
Conan @ Alldirect

 

[mmadsen]

RPG book prices are marked up too much.

So, who exactly is reaping the vast profits from these mark-ups? And why haven't you gone into that line of business?

 

[thol]

So, who exactly is reaping the vast profits from these mark-ups? And why haven't you gone into that line of business?

well someone is either making alot of money or losing money. not sure which.

 

[Desdichado]

well someone is either making alot of money or losing money. not sure which.

No offense, but that's not really very insightful.