Hastings
So tonight Katie and I went out to Gamestop and Hastings in search of something new for my DS (I bought a nintendo DS with birthday money my dad gave me) and I wanted Goldeneye: Rogue Agent but neither place had it so I was looking around the rest of Hastings and found a selection of used D&D books. It looked like someone had just traded in their whole collection minus the core books because I got out of it an Expanded Psionics Handbook, Complete Warrior, Complete Divine, and Complete Arcane and I left behind the Forgotten Realms source, Lost Empires of Faerun, Weapons of Legacy, Player's Guide to Faerun, and Champions of Ruin. The books I left behind were all around $15 which isn't terrible, and I paid $17.50 for the Expanded Psionics but here's the real killer: the Complete books were SIX DOLLARS a piece. Those books retail for $30 each. I walked out of Hastings with over $125 in D&D books and paid only $28. Hopefully some of those Forgotten Realms books will be left once we get back from Springfield, I'd love to get a couple more of them. And you know the poor bastard only got half of their sale price in trade for them. I can't fathom trading in a $30 book and receiving $3 in return.
Hats off to the schmuck who traded in a fortune in D&D books for what amounts to pocket change.