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<blockquote data-quote="Mr. Kaze" data-source="post: 1623737" data-attributes="member: 8848">I tend to split my purchases between FLGS and online, but have been tending more to FLGS lately.&nbsp; This goes for normal books, too.&nbsp; The simple question is &quot;Do I care enough about this purchase to want this one now?&quot;Amazon.com gave me Complete Warrior at 60% off, but it was pretty busted up in shipping.&nbsp; My FLGS, meanwhile, sold me a copy of Slayers d20 that didn't get munched in some kind of printing paper-jam.&nbsp; They also sold me one pack of Giants of Legend because I wanted that huge mini for the next session.&nbsp; But with Amazon.com being $6 cheaper per pack, I can't justify buying more sight-unseen packs from the FLGS.IMO, haggling would be a great tool for the FLGS.&nbsp; &quot;Don't see why you need another campaign setting for $40?&nbsp; Well Amazon's got 'em in stock for 30% off.&nbsp; But there's this horrid and rampant printing error.&nbsp; So I'll tell ya what, I'll sell you one that's misprinted for 25% off and then give you a call when the corrected replacement copy comes in -- so you're not waiting for it to ship just so you can ship it back and wait for it to ship again, see?&quot;&nbsp; At which point I would've been tempted by Eberron, but since I have my campaign under control for the foreseeable future, a full-price campaign setting was just straight-out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mr. Kaze, post: 1623737, member: 8848"] I tend to split my purchases between FLGS and online, but have been tending more to FLGS lately. This goes for normal books, too. The simple question is "Do I care enough about this purchase to want [i]this one[/i] now?" Amazon.com gave me [i]Complete Warrior[/i] at 60% off, but it was pretty busted up in shipping. My FLGS, meanwhile, sold me a copy of [i]Slayers d20[/i] that didn't get munched in some kind of printing paper-jam. They also sold me one pack of Giants of Legend because I wanted that huge mini for the next session. But with Amazon.com being $6 cheaper per pack, I can't justify buying more sight-unseen packs from the FLGS. IMO, haggling would be a great tool for the FLGS. "Don't see why you need another campaign setting for $40? Well Amazon's got 'em in stock for 30% off. But there's this horrid and rampant printing error. So I'll tell ya what, I'll sell you one that's misprinted for 25% off and then give you a call when the corrected replacement copy comes in -- so you're not waiting for it to ship just so you can ship it back and wait for it to ship again, see?" At which point I would've been tempted by [i]Eberron[/i], but since I have my campaign under control for the foreseeable future, a full-price campaign setting was just straight-out. [/QUOTE]

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