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2019-09-23, 08:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Snips Snails and Dragon Tales
Bummed.
I just started reading OOTS about two to three weeks ago, finished the whole strip.
I've just discovered there are prequel books, super happy about that.
I've more recently discovered that Snips Snails and Dragon Tales is out of stock and will not be reprinted, nor is it available in PDF.
I am big sad.
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2019-09-23, 08:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-23, 08:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Arrrgh, here be me extended sig!
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2019-09-23, 08:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Whoa, it finally sold out? What a momentous occasion!
You can easily find used copies if you want to own the physical book (or if you can't handle the uncertainty regarding a potential PDF release).ungelic is us
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2019-09-23, 09:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Snips Snails and Dragon Tales
I was very tempted to order Snips but couldn't justify even the reduced price of international shipment on my current household budget. Might get it as a PDF if there ever is one...
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2019-09-23, 10:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Only bad thing is that the used ones that I found on Amazon are $50, whereas the other books that I have seen are closer to $15. I wouldn't want to give someone else a profit off of the creator's work, especially if they're marking it up over 300%. I will continue to pray to the Twelve that the PDF will be released soon.
Would it be more beneficial to pray to Banjo in this matter?
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2019-09-23, 10:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2019-09-23, 10:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Arrrgh, here be me extended sig!
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2019-09-23, 11:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Snips Snails and Dragon Tales
I mean I'm sure they have, but the creator worked that deal out with Ookoodook and Gumroad. A used book could just be someone buying and reselling for their own profit without letting the creator know about it, or getting the creator in on the deal. It's like buying a NES Classic for $60 and selling it for $300 once stock is out.
At any rate, I will be impatiently waiting for the PDF.
Thor, pls. :)
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2019-09-23, 11:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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What you're talking about is called arbitrage; the arber is buying the book from Ookoodook and reselling on Amazon at a higher price. The creator is making the same amount of money that they would have made on you buying the book directly, and if the book is out of print then the creator received exactly as much as they expected throughout the entire run of the book.
Two points to make here: I'm not disagreeing with you at all that it totally sucks and the person selling it is clearly gouging, I'm just saying that if your concerns are about the creator's bottom line, that's not being altered at all here. Second, just about every single sentence i wrote should end with "in theory."Last edited by Peelee; 2019-09-23 at 11:29 AM.
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2019-09-23, 12:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-23, 01:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-24, 10:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Snips Snails and Dragon Tales
Or even more explicitly!
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2019-10-03, 10:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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But that means, in theory, that when my copy finally wears out, I won't be able to replace it without finding some secondhand and inordinately expensive volume, since apparently no more will ever be printed? I will have to be satisfied with looking at one on computer? (Which, let me add, I already had to buy Haleo and Julean, if I spelled that right, twice because of a computer crash and I had no idea how to download it again, nor even if I were allowed to do so...)
I don't enjoy digital versions of things. I likes me some paper.
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2019-10-04, 09:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Demand, meet supply. Supply, meet demand.
Supply and demand is the relationship between the quantity of a commodity that producers wish to sell and the quantity that consumers wish to buy. Funny enough, when a resource is scarce and no more of it is to be had, the price goes up. Shocking, I know.
It's a good thing we have those Amazon sellers, though. Otherwise the product would be completely gone and unavailable at any price. Whew!
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2019-10-04, 09:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by Peelee; 2019-10-04 at 09:19 AM.
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2019-10-04, 09:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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I know you're joking on it but,
the constant price in Ookoodook, as far as economic principles are concerned, is artificially constant: someone decided the price was to be that and that decision remained. It's exactly the contrast beetween the constant price at Ookoodook and the rising prices at other places (free of the first decision contraint) that shows the effect of the scarcity on the price of the product.
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2019-10-04, 09:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Supply shouldn't be allowed to determine the prices of essential, inelastic goods like the OotS books.
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2019-10-04, 09:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2019-10-04, 11:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Another possibility, besides price gouging, is that the sellers merely value SSDT quite highly, and they weren't willing to sell until the price reached a certain level. I would be willing to sell my own copy, now that I know there will be a digital version available, but... not exactly at the price set by Ookoodook. I value it far too much to part with it for anything that wouldn't benefit me in a meaningful way.
Sure, they're probably just gougers, but I prefer to be charitable about the motives of strangers if at all possible. It seems healthier, somehow.Number of Character Appearances VII - To Absent Friends
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2019-10-05, 07:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hey, The Giant gives permission to price gouge right there on the back of the book!
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2019-10-07, 08:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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You can also print out the PDF for personal use. So print it out and then use one of the first two threads here to create your own dead-tree version.
Last edited by Lord Torath; 2019-10-07 at 08:54 AM. Reason: No judgement is intended by the use of "dead tree". It's the version I prefer best as well!
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2019-10-07, 12:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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My Spelljammer stuff (including an orbit tracker), 2E AD&D spreadsheet, and Vault of the Drow maps are available in my Dropbox. Feel free to use or not use it as you see fit!
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2019-11-04, 05:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Awesome!
I have all the paper versions, but I'm moving continents again and honestly, paper books are making my moves expensive. I've been replacing physical books with digital ones, but I didn't want to just have the one physical OOTS book so I haven't sold them yet (I do have all the available PDFs already though). I'm excited about SSDT finally coming out as a PDF so I can have the collection all in one format and also save money when I move.
Thanks, Giant! :D