Ask the Readers: Where do you buy your RPG products?

Thanks for adding "I don't buy RPG products" because generally, I don't!
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I wish I could choose more options. All of the above except brick and mortar game stores is me. I get all my Pathfinder products from Paizo, I order stuff from RPGnow and Drivethrurpg every once in a while, and I get all the core rpg books from Amazon or FRP Games. I only go into game stores if they carry a used gamebook bin, but that's a hard find in gamestores these days in the area I live–I have better luck with used bookstores.

"Used" is my biggest category. Whether from shop, thriftstore, garage sale, ebay, convention. I buy 80% of my stuff 2nd hand.
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Usually I by from my local store (Tyche's Games in Athens, GA) which is also where I work except for the occasional item directly from the publisher. But, obviously, my situation is slightly different from most gamers.
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I replied online store and other. There used to be a time when I purchased all my games from the local comics/hobby store where I worked for years. I was friends with the employees, knew the owner, and even if I could get them at a discount online I wanted to give my business to a local shop. Sadly they kept getting games later and later, sometimes not at all, stopped carrying what I was interested in and when they got something the owner would sell them to the first person that came in instead of holding it for me for a day or two, even if it meant loosing my regular business.

Now I usually get my games from Amazon, or Paizo, for most of my games, and the big chain book stores for some purchases. For smaller publishers I usually buy direct and in the last couple of years I’ve begun buying more and more digital products. Hope that gives some perspective on my purchasing habits.

I'd say about 50% of my books come from Half Priced Books (local used bookstore chain). About 10% from Ebay, 35% from Amazon, and the remaining %5 from hobby shops.

It's all about cost and accessibility.
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Thanks for all your comments!

@Yongkyosunim: I thought about allowing people to pick more options, but I know there are clowns out there that click every option or impossible combinations out of fun. When you can choose only two options, you can still mess up, but the impact is less significant.

Here in Germany, it's tough because most of what I'm interested in is:

1) long out of print.

2) from independent publishers.

3) is in English.

Most of the indie stuff is bought via IPR in the US. I usually order physical books once per year, with the rest of my purchases being pdfs.

For the rest, I buy either through Amazon.de or at conventions (RPC is coming up!).
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Online stores mostly, mainly due to the poor quality of the local stores in the area. If the customer service was better I would support them.
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