(06-05-2015, 11:38 AM)rerathbun Wrote: (06-05-2015, 06:05 AM)Coniglius Wrote: The way I look at it, Dr. B sold a product some time ago (Tank Battles for example). He made his money on that copy. The current owner of that copy has decided he no longer wants it, and is trying to recover some of his original cost. I get that, and I would hope that Dr. B understands that as well. He should have no expectation of earning additional dollars on an item that he sold many years ago, especially since it is long out of print.
He does understand it (we discussed this on my last visit). He's not expecting to make any more money on older items (especially the out-of-print ones 
). His point about competing with AvPress's old items is that any game company can't afford to keep an item in print nearly as long as they used to. Twenty years ago old games were thrown away or went in a (very) local garage sale and didn't impact current sales. Now they sell and re-sell on ebay. It's the main reason why a large number of PG games went out of print this year.
I totally understand that. I'm not complaining about it; I get it. THat's why I was particularly upset about seeing Army at Dawn and Conquest of Ethiopia listed for $30. Last I checked CoE was up around $56 and AaD was in the upper 30's and climbing. Hopefully they will get to be prohibitively expensive and other would-be buyers will just go over to the AP website and buy it there. My point was particular to the oop items, several of which have become a holy grail of sorts.
I am missing 12 of the titles in the library. 2x I am ordering under the current promo (AaD and CoE, along with SOI '67). Of the remaining 10, 7x are readily available on Ebay but only Hammer and Sickle and Kursk: South Flank are available from AP. Maybe the others will be reprinted at some point, maybe not. One in particular, Lion of Finland, is what I refered to as a holy grail. I know it was the predecessor to Arctic Front, but I know I will go into fits if that becomes that last title that eludes me.
Bottom line, if the title is oop, then feel free to hunt as aggressively as you like on the secondary markets. If you want to support Dr. B, then I would say avoid the items that he is still actively marketing.
