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With great regret I have to say I will no longer be buying physical products from the Paizo store. I was a subscriber for years, both to insure I supported the company and (selfishly) to get free PDFs of physical products. I have returned to the store occasionally since cancelling my subscriptions and unfortunately, almost everything is now cheaper to buy from a UK supplier. Of course, I don't get the PDF copy but the pricing of physical books plus shipping is prohibitively expensive.
I have, historically, loved Paizo products and there are still books I would love to buy direct from the company but I just can't justify the cost. I hope this situation improves but I'm not optimistic. $80 for a hardcover book is ridiculous and I'm not prepared to pay it. Best wishes to the company for the future but sadly I'm out. Good luck.
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Supporting your FLGS is another great way to get books! We're sorry the state of the economy right now makes it hard for small companies like ours to find good international shipping solutions. We hope it improves, and we're actively working on all we can do on our end!
It'd be neat if Paizo could provide some way of either offering the PDF or offering a discount on the PDF to people who buy their books from a local game store, especially seeing how helpful it sounds like it'd be for international customers for whom subscribing and getting the PDF that way is no longer viable with the rising shipping costs. I know that having something like that would also have encouraged me to purchase a few physical books rather than sticking solely to PDFs; a lot of the indie RPG publishers that I follow are doing such things at this point.
Huh, these seems exorbitant shipping costs, true. Is that Sweden specific? Because I had 35 USD with FedEx this month for three books and I think DHL Express would habe been about 50 USD for the same amount. Customs is another problem, but that seems partially on Paizo's side, because while they do charge sales tax, their bill did not include it, resulting in double charges for me on that part.
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Huh, these seems exorbitant shipping costs, true. Is that Sweden specific? Because I had 35 USD with FedEx this month for three books and I think DHL Express would habe been about 50 USD for the same amount. Customs is another problem, but that seems partially on Paizo's side, because while they do charge sales tax, their bill did not include it, resulting in double charges for me on that part.
Defiently not Sweden exclusive, like the OP I'm from the UK and I would likely subscribe were it not for the massive markup compared to buying from somewhere in the country. Having a 'free' PDF would be wonderful, and the ones I got out of a gifted humble bundle have proven useful but I can't justify the extra expense.
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The Bits & Mortar scheme is a great system for folks buying physical books from FLGS to get access to pdfs, perhaps Paizo can look at that?
https://bits-and-mortar.com/