Explore the Elements!—Paizo Earth Day Sale

This is a huge faux pas: an event to celebrate Earth, and every item on sale is physical. This means more paper and more pollution.

You want to celebrate our planet? Put digital products on sale. This looks like an excuse to get rid of stuff collecting dust in your warehouse.

I, too, remember being ten years old and sadly learning that Christmas sales didn't really have anything to do with Jesus, Memorial Day sales didn't benefit dead armed service members, and Valentine's Day sales were offered to the single buying nonromantic items as much as couples in love. Truly, learning the basics of retail marketing is a sobering moment in every child's life.

Diaz Ex Machina wrote:

This is a huge faux pas: an event to celebrate Earth, and every item on sale is physical. This means more paper and more pollution.

You want to celebrate our planet? Put digital products on sale. This looks like an excuse to get rid of stuff collecting dust in your warehouse.

I love it when you guys eat your own.

May I ask what you mean?

Great deals! Elemental Stones is a lot of fun.

This is a huge faux pas: an event to celebrate Earth, and every item on sale is physical. This means more paper and more pollution.

You want to celebrate our planet? Put digital products on sale. This looks like an excuse to get rid of stuff collecting dust in your warehouse.

To give a response that isn't just trying to insult you for no reason: broadly speaking, this is the intent of almost all sales of physical objects. They want to get stuff out so they can hold more new stuff. It isn't wasteful because these books already exist and are printed; they don't do anything if they aren't bought and used, and destroying unsold stock (which I'm 99% sure Paizo doesn't do anyway) would *actually* be a tremendous waste.

I imagine this is mostly being called an Earth Day sale and not an Easter sale just so they could have a sort of theme going on for copy purposes.

Diaz Ex Machina wrote:

This is a huge faux pas: an event to celebrate Earth, and every item on sale is physical. This means more paper and more pollution.

You want to celebrate our planet? Put digital products on sale. This looks like an excuse to get rid of stuff collecting dust in your warehouse.

To give a response that isn't just trying to insult you for no reason: broadly speaking, this is the intent of almost all sales of physical objects. They want to get stuff out so they can hold more new stuff. It isn't wasteful because these books already exist and are printed; they don't do anything if they aren't bought and used, and destroying unsold stock (which I'm 99% sure Paizo doesn't do anyway) would *actually* be a tremendous waste.

I imagine this is mostly being called an Earth Day sale and not an Easter sale just so they could have a sort of theme going on for copy purposes.

Thank you, I really appreciate this kind of response. Probably the naive side of my personality got the best of me yesterday and just felt the urge to vent my disappointment. I see the same things happening where I work (a big LGS with an online store), I should be used to this kind of things.

Thank you, I really appreciate this kind of response. Probably the naive side of my personality got the best of me yesterday and just felt the urge to vent my disappointment. I see the same things happening where I work (a big LGS with an online store), I should be used to this kind of things.

You do not have to feel remorse for feeling your feelings! We appreciate you expressing yourself. To ease your worries, yes, all of these products were already printed, so the sale does not create any additional waste. We also print all our products as sustainably as possible. I hope this helps!

You do not have to feel remorse for feeling your feelings! We appreciate you expressing yourself. To ease your worries, yes, all of these products were already printed, so the sale does not create any additional waste. We also print all our products as sustainably as possible. I hope this helps!

Thank you, I really appreciate the way you people treat your customer. I'm actively trying to push people toward your games instead of "The Big Double Dees", because I love how your company works compared to "that other one". I'm really happy with the support you show us even through little things like this one.

Thank you, I really appreciate the way you people treat your customer. I'm actively trying to push people toward your games instead of "The Big Double Dees", because I love how your company works compared to "that other one". I'm really happy with the support you show us even through little things like this one.

You're very welcome! I'm always happy to help and ease worries. Have a good weekend!

Maya Coleman wrote:

You do not have to feel remorse for feeling your feelings! We appreciate you expressing yourself. To ease your worries, yes, all of these products were already printed, so the sale does not create any additional waste. We also print all our products as sustainably as possible. I hope this helps!

Thank you, I really appreciate the way you people treat your customer. I'm actively trying to push people toward your games instead of "The Big Double Dees", because I love how your company works compared to "that other one". I'm really happy with the support you show us even through little things like this one.

To help alleviate your worry, all newly printed books have the FSC certification, that certify that theya re using ecologically sourced paper (the trees are replanted, and other stuff to make it sustainable), and using soy ink (less toxic, and biodegrade better than other inks that usually uses petroleum based materials, at the cost of drying more slowly).

To help alleviate your worry, all newly printed books have the FSC certification, that certify that theya re using ecologically sourced paper (the trees are replanted, and other stuff to make it sustainable), and using soy ink (less toxic, and biodegrade better than other inks that usually uses petroleum based materials, at the cost of drying more slowly).

We really do the best we can, and I'm happy it's not going unnoticed!

We really do the best we can, and I'm happy it's not going unnoticed!

Believe me if I say it's absolutely not going unnoticed here, I just wish more people in the TTRPG community would do the same.

The only concern I have is about the impact moving all these physical goods has on the environment, but that's not really something you can do much about. Living in Italy I avoid ordering stuff from outside my country to help with transport pollution, so far I've been able to get just a couple of Pathfinder rulebooks through the accounting office of our company.