Quote from: Buttercup;254504Squeeee! :hug:  I don't think I saw you at all this past GenCon. Of course, I only managed to get there for a day.  Between the Midnight screening and the dealer hall, I hardly saw any of my buds.

Next year though!

I wasn't there this year... Circumstances, money, sick cat, and wife-out-of-townness all made it rough.  Hopefully next year again!

-O

Quote from: Hobo;254467Well, I'm patient.  If they still haven't tanked, what's another year or two to see if more and more holdouts eventually unload them for cheap?

I've seen a few folks unload all their WotC stuff starting for 99 cents each on ebay.  I was able to pick up a few books for a couple bucks each, but there were a few I wanted that still jumped up pretty high.

Yeah, and at least in Germany it´s totally that way. You pay mor for a used 3.5 PHB than for the 4e corebooks in shrinkwrap.

Quote from: Settembrini;254584Yeah, and at least in Germany it´s totally that way. You pay mor for a used 3.5 PHB than for the 4e corebooks in shrinkwrap.

As usual, Sett, you are full of shit.

http://shop.ebay.de/items/_W0QQ_fromZR46?_nkw=spielerhandbuch+dungeons+&_sacat=0&_fromfsb=&_trksid=m270.l1313&_odkw=spielerhandbuch+dungeons+3&_osacat=0

One 4th edition player's handbook for 34 euro, 3rd goes for 31, 5 and a half and 1 euro.
Several online shops I just checked still have the third edition players handbook in spades.

My take is, that a lot of books haven't hit aftermarkets because most roleplayers don't throw out old editions when they buy a new one.

Quote from: Saphim;255095As usual, Sett, you are full of shit.

As usual, 90% of the times Sett gets flamed on this forum people are just full of shit. I make allowance for a 10% rating of  legitimate flaming I mean, you got to hate his spelling, grammar, and punctuation, not to mention being cryptic on key points.

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=110290925091&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=001

The main reason German (and French, Spanish, Italian,...) D&D books are more expensive is that they are rarely available as pirated PDFs.

As for (English language) 3.5 sales figures, I can confirm (coming from my limited, personal experience) that they've risen quite a bit over the last months as far as online sellers go (Ebay, ABEbooks, Amazon,...). 3.5 sales plummetted around January - with the collectors DMG going for 1,99 dollars a piece, Eberron books a dollar each, etc - but they have been on a steady rise ever since.

Windjammer,

Saphim is a cyber-stalker. Of the twenty posts I read of him before I IL´d him, 18 were threadcrap-answers to anything I´d say.

And 100% of times I see people quote him, it´s a slur against me or Pundit, usually without anything to back it up. I´m pretty sure he´s the Sock of someone I know from Germany. He´s on a revenge trip, because he knows he doesn´t stand a chance in German, so he spreads lies and slurs to theRPGsite.

Quote from: Settembrini;255300Windjammer,

Saphim is a cyber-stalker. Of the twenty posts I read of him before I IL´d him, 18 were threadcrap-answers to anything I´d say.

And 100% of times I see people quote him, it´s a slur against me or Pundit, usually without anything to back it up. I´m pretty sure he´s the Sock of someone I know from Germany. He´s on a revenge trip, because he knows he doesn´t stand a chance in German, so he spreads lies and slurs to theRPGsite.

;-) of course!

Quote from: Windjammer;255254As usual, 90% of the times Sett gets flamed on this forum people are just full of shit.

Agreed.

Quote from: Windjammer;255254As for (English language) 3.5 sales figures, I can confirm (coming from my limited, personal experience) that they've risen quite a bit over the last months as far as online sellers go (Ebay, ABEbooks, Amazon,...). 3.5 sales plummetted around January - with the collectors DMG going for 1,99 dollars a piece, Eberron books a dollar each, etc - but they have been on a steady rise ever since.

I just got back from the local McKay's Used Books. The pricing there for 3.5 Core Rulebooks was $20 each, up from $15 each two weeks ago. The prices fluctuate in response to demand, so there's some anecdotal evidence to consider.

I run a Comic and Game shop, I slashed prices on 3.5 stuff, and I sold most of it.

Now, I'm selling very little in the way of 4th edition (and not because I don't want to), and I'm having a LOT of requests for 3.5 edition books. I've had several customers dump their 3.5 books BEFORE 4 came out in hopes of making more money than if they had waited. Now they are recollecting all of their old books.

So, I can believe that the 3.5 market is probably fairly strong and growing. At least the official stuff. I myself will probably start rebuying some of the books as I didn't enjoy 4th edition at all.

I have enjoyed Pathfinder.

Quote from: John Aynge;255645Now, I'm selling very little in the way of 4th edition (and not because I don't want to), and I'm having a LOT of requests for 3.5 edition books.

1) *gloat*/wow
2) That´s actually bad, as D&D goes, so goes the hobby.