WotC 3.5 books

[Gorbacz]

I see that a lot of 3.5 books have the "currently unavailable" tag. Are they ever coming back, or is all the old stuff OOP, meaning that we should hit emergency purchasing mode before the stores run out and eBay prices go bananas ?

[SirUrza]

ebay prices won't go bananas. D&D and AD&D stuff sells from $1.99 - $10 a book.

Anyway, I suspect you won't see them from Paizo. They're all out of print now and just won't be reordered.

[Gorbacz]

SirUrza wrote:

ebay prices won't go bananas. D&D and AD&D stuff sells from $1.99 - $10 a book.

Anyway, I suspect you won't see them from Paizo. They're all out of print now and just won't be reordered.

True, but most of the sellers have somewhat dodgy overseas shipping prices, and one thing I love Paizo for is their reasonable international shipping rate (best I ever had in any US shop), and besides I would rather leave my money here (taking advantage of rather silly exchange rate between USD and EUR :P)

[Guennarr]

seeing some other online shops: Maybe Paizo will eventually be able to offer 3.5 books as pdfs?

Even after the relase of PRPG these books won't turn obsolete suddenly.

- Günther

[Vic Wertz]

Guennarr wrote:

Maybe Paizo will eventually be able to offer 3.5 books as pdfs?

I don't think Wizards has much interest in offering them to us right now.

[Gorbacz]

Vic Wertz wrote:

Guennarr wrote:

Maybe Paizo will eventually be able to offer 3.5 books as pdfs?

I don't think Wizards has much interest in offering them to us right now.

Vic, are you guys expecting a restock of some WotC books (eg. Complete Mage and Scoundrel) ?

[Vic Wertz]

Gorbacz wrote:

Vic Wertz wrote:

Guennarr wrote:

Maybe Paizo will eventually be able to offer 3.5 books as pdfs?

I don't think Wizards has much interest in offering them to us right now.

Vic, are you guys expecting a restock of some WotC books (eg. Complete Mage and Scoundrel) ?

Nope. In fact, you can expect to see their paizo.com listings going away soon. Wizards is rapidly running out of 3.5 products, and we've been informed that the channel is expected to completely dry up by October or November.

[Wiglaf]

Is it possible that you could do the same thing with the books that you do with the minies. Offering to give people store credit in exchange for used books to re-stock your shelves with?

[lojakz]

Gorbacz wrote:

I see that a lot of 3.5 books have the "currently unavailable" tag. Are they ever coming back, or is all the old stuff OOP, meaning that we should hit emergency purchasing mode before the stores run out and eBay prices go bananas ?

You might consider looking at Amazon's individual sellers. The shipping price is a bit more consistent than Ebay (there's a set price for shipping both domestic and international). You'll usually have quite a bit to choose from, and many might still be available from Amazon itself (meaning you won't have to buy from a private seller). This can be trickier if you're overseas, but it might be worth a look.

[Gorbacz]

Vic Wertz wrote:

Nope. In fact, you can expect to see their paizo.com listings going away soon. Wizards is rapidly running out of 3.5 products, and we've been informed that the channel is expected to completely dry up by October or November.

Thanks Vic.

/EMERGENCY SHOPPING MODE ON

[Vic Wertz]

Wiglaf wrote:

Is it possible that you could do the same thing with the books that you do with the minies. Offering to give people store credit in exchange for used books to re-stock your shelves with?

We've thought about that, but shipping costs would make that one prohibitive (that is, it would often cost you more to ship books to us than we would be willing to give you for them, in most cases). Also, people are more sensitive about the condition of used books, so it would be a challenge to deal with those issues.

[Wiglaf]

Thanks for answering Vic. I can certainly see where you are coming from.

[Digitalelf]

I usually went to HitPointe.com for my OOP 2e stuff, now I will be going there for my 3e needs (once my FLGS dries up)...

-That One Digitalelf Fellow-