Your failures or successes at selling used D&D 3.0 books?

[Turanil]

Well, I am considering trying to sell a dozen D&D 3.0 rulebooks (basic core books, some splat books, and a couple of third party publishers D20 3.0 books). However, it would cost me some work (taking photos, writing a compelling ad, etc.) and fee to sell it on ebay. Before I do it, I would like to know if you tried to sell your 3.0 books (after 3.5 was released, that is), and how it fared. Myself, I see almost no 3.0 books currently for sale on ebay, and was wondering... :\

 

[JoeBlank]

Trading or selling them in the Miniatures Trading and RPG Marketplace forum here seems the easy way to go.

Being in Europe, shipping may be an issue, but we certainly have plenty of posters that might be close enough to you. Post a list in the forum and see if anyone is interested. A lot of folks do that first, then move whatever is left to ebay.

 

[DM_Jeff]

Ebay

Myself, I see almost no 3.0 books currently for sale on ebay, and was wondering... :\

Different folks might have other tales, but despite the 'glut' everyone was talking about I have sold nearly a hundred d20 books, across the line, every publisher and campaign style (stuff I was amazed to see sell) over the past 3 years.

That was, until about 4-5 months ago, than it all just stopped. My d20 auctions went by with little or no viewers and none ended with any successful bids. A couple of more tries and I stopped. I'm glad I sold the ones I could while there was still an apparent collector market. That seems to have come to an end from my point of view.

-DM Jeff

 

[JoeGKushner]

Might have something to do with the increase in ye old gas price too. I know my free cash has been limited.

 

[Oryan77]

Just stick them in the marketplace thread and keep bumping your post until they sell. It may take awhile, but they'll probably sell.

I had some 3.0 books for sale last year and I had to let them go pretty darn cheap just so they'd sell....but they did sell

 

[Crothian]

I've had some in my trade thread for about a year now and they are still there. I'm considering starting a thread on who plays 3.0 and giving them away to people that might need them.

 

[Greg K]

I still play 3.0 (although we use some 3.5 material)

 

[pogre]

First, let me define "success" - to me that's 50% of retail. I have not had success selling books individually on ebay. However, some books that I bundled together approached success (45% of retail).

If you have another area of interest - miniatures, paintball, whatever - get on one of their trade boards and offer the books in a trade for something you want. You are going to have somewhat limited success here with 3.0 because folks either have them and use them or have sold them. YMMV

 

[Turanil]

Well, so far the suggestions would be:

1) Give them for free to someone who plays D&D 3.0.

2) Keep trying to sell here until they actually sell.

3) Try to find an alternate trade forum to find people who don't have the books yet.

Well, I am not especially keen on the give for free idea, unless it was for someone in the third world who cannot afford the books (it happened once that someone in south america told on ENworld he couldn't afford to buy D&D books). But the person would still have to pay for the shipping costs. Anyway, since I don't think that will happen, I may try to sell until it actually sell on ebay... But will it sell at 50$ the bundle of 10 books*...

(*: PHB, DMG, MM, S&F, DotF, Psi, R&R, Crea Coll, a supplement of prestige classes, demonology; all in very good condition.).