You Want How Much For That Book?!, What the hell is up with these prices on older books Options

[Thanos007]

Did I miss something of have people just gone crazy? Books that came out 4 or 3 years ago and now selling used for hundreds of dollars? WTF! Or is this just related to Amazon?

[Sendaz]

which books?

A lot depends on if its still in print or other factors as well.

[Thanos007]

Seattle 2072 is going for over $200 in Amazon. But stuff like Lone Star is $10.

[Sendaz]

Well it is a hardcover and very popular among the 4th ed crowd so imagine its demand driven.

If you are willing to roll back a few years, you can pick up New Seattle far cheaper. ;p

[Sengir]

Nearly every book on Amazon has one or two entries with ridiculous prices, you can pay $500 for an SR5 BBB in "acceptable" condition if you somehow feel the need to get rid of your money.

It's not that books actually trade for that price, but if all the reasonably priced books are sold out only those offers remain...probably assuming that every once in a while somebody actually believes a book is worth that much.

[Wakshaani]

There're also some automatic programs that get into bidding wars which is kind of fun. One of them searches the site for a similar product, then marks itself up by a ratio (Something like 3% in general) ... all well and good, until two people with those programs don't notice that they have the same item up and teh bots begin playing footsie. This leads to some amazing situations.

I expect the prices for Seattle 2072 when the new Seattle box drops. That won't happen until after Xmas, I'm pretty darn certain, but it'll be set in 2078 and have all kinds of goodies in it. Boxed set, woo!

(Sadly, I don't think it'll be my DREAM set, where there's several minibooks, each one a guide to a singular neighborhood, with a map on the back of each one, so you can set them out face-down and see a city map, or just hand someone a paricular book about the area that they live in, but, hey. One day... one day...)

[hermit]

That'd be nice, especially if the booklets detail the individual neighborhoods.

[Wakshaani]

That'd be nice, especially if the booklets detail the individual neighborhoods.

That'd be the dreaml, yeah. So a Downtown booklet, a Redmond Barrens booklet, etc. They'd be small, 8-10 pages each I'd think, but still neat, in the nifty picture in my head.

(Edited to remind people that this would be a dream project feature in my head, like animation cells or a CD full of music and sound effects, NOT a feature to look for. Gonna hush up form there to make sure I don't give anyone else a wrong impression. Sorry about that!)

[hermit]

I've got my own semicomplete document on Seattle neighborhoods but still, there's a lot that has never been touched on, like, what the hell is the "Neon Killings" in Puyallup and why does it have ten times the population of today's (much larger) Puyallup county. There also is a huge slab of city in the old maps that might need a bit fleshing out.

[Wakshaani]

Anything like that, feel free to mention it. You never know what we'll cover. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Iduno]

Probably at least partly due to the insanity that comes from Amazon being a slightly-upgraded version of ebay.

Although if someone is willing to pay way more than it's worth, my FLGS has a copy of Seattle 2072 on the shelf. Actually, a lot of the non-core 4th edition stuff.