| From: | runnerpaul@*****.com runnerpaul@*****.com |
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| Subject: | Shadowrun 3rd Edition Hardcover |
| Date: | Wed, 4 Aug 1999 12:18:25 -0400 (EDT) |
At 10:56 AM 8/4/99 -0400, Roger J. An wrote:
:I was just on the Fasa homepage and there's a disconinued Shadowrun
:3rd Edition Hardcover! Ack, when was it on sale?
There were only 1000 of these. The bulk of them were sold over the
space of three days at last year's GenCon. 72 copies were also sold
between 10 AM and Noon, Central Daylight Time, August 17th, 1998, in
a buying frenzy that severely clogged FASA's online cart-server.
:Anyone know any specialty shops that might have one?
Not likely. The pre-GenCon98 rumor was that if an individual retailer
were to order a case of 24 first-printing third edition softcovers,
FASA would send them out one and only one copy of the Hardcover. I
don't recall hearing if this actually happened or didn't happen.
If there _were_ any of the thousand hardcovers distributed this way,
the odds of finding it on a retail shelf are practically
non-existent. Any retailer who has sufficient demand for Shadowrun
product in her market to justify ordering 24 softcovers would de
facto, have enough demand to guarantee that you would not find the
hardcover still available one year later.
Your best bet would be to try E-Bay. A handful of hardback owners
have occasionally auctioned them off in the past year. Expect to
spend _at_least_ $100 US.
:Why does FASA always discontinue the hardcovers?
In this particular case, the hardcover was intended to be solely a
promotional item, something to increase their impact on the largest
industry convention of the year. It was never intended for
mass-consumption by the public.
In general, it would seem that FASA does not think that demand for
core rulebooks in hardcover is large enough to justify the higher
per-unit manufacturing costs of a hardcover.
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