PG on Ebay

[rerathbun]

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.