Offers / Trades
Email me offer@waynesbooks.co
If you have some RPGs, sci-fi/fantasy books, games, or related pop culture items you’d like to sell or trade, tell us about it! I buy modern RPGs; I buy classic RPGs; all years. We pay top $ for collectible Dungeons & Dragons and other old school RPGs.
- Real Offers. You get offered the max I can pay for your lot or collection, take it or leave it. No haggling or lowballing here. Got an estate sale? Same deal. Even if you don’t take my offer, you at least have a dollar figure for comparison.
- For an Offer Quote, I’ll need to know what you have, and the condition (wear, markings, completeness, etc.). Lists are good, photos even better. If you have a lot of items, group photos are quicker.
- Or just box it up and send it. Include a note with your contact info. We’ll pay based on what’s there. You get the same payout, quote or no quote.
- Shipping is on your dime. Books ship cheap by USPS Media Mail at approx. $1 per pound. See my Packaging Tips below for secure shipments. Are you in or passing through the Phoenix Arizona metro area? We can meet!
- I pay on delivery. Cash deals are by Check or Paypal, your choice. Trades get a higher offer; you will get a store credit code to spend as you wish in the shop.
- My goal is for you to be so pleased with our deal, that you’re digging in boxes, looking for more to send me.
Mailing Address
Wayne’s Books
20987 N John Wayne Pkwy Suite B104 PMB 444
Maricopa, AZ 85139-2926
United States
Looking for the shop? Examples of what we sell? Sales Site Here.
Packaging Tips
Heavy book shipments are a threat to their own package. If allowed to bounce around freely, the stack of books will be a battering ram as the package is tossed around in the postal stream. This is how package seam splits happen.
Tape every panel and seam of the package. A strap of tape will stop a seam tear before it becomes catastrophic. Tape is cheap; package losses are not.
Fill every air space in the package with with bubble wrap, rolled newspaper, etc. Pad the contents away from contact with the box walls. Voids in the package become crush zones, and allows your battering ram to bounce around.
Write clear, legible addresses. This is the time to use your best penmanship. If you are writing the address on a slip of paper, make sure it is securely attached to the box, else it could be torn off, and the package will disappear into the postal vortex.
FAQ
What is Wayne looking for?
My scholarly focus is on pre-2000 roleplaying games. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Runequest, Traveller, MERP, early Warhammer. Those are the big names. But also more obscure RPGs like Albedo, Twilight 2000, Gangbusters, James Bond, plus plenty more come to mind. I could go on and on. See my Old School RPG Reference Site for more examples.
But really, any RPG will interest me, I buy all years, new and old. Dice and miniatures too. Sometimes I’ll take pop culture items like posters, movie tie-in books, etc.
Who am I?
I’ve played RPGs since the early 1980s, starting with the red D&D Basic Book. I’ve been in business since 2002, back when eCommerce was new. Since then, I’ve sold several hundred thousand RPGs, all the while studying, recording, and photo-ing the more interesting pieces.
RPG history fascinates me, and I write articles here at my photoblog (as well as my RPG Reference Site, linked earlier). Frustrated with a lack of comprehensive collector info regarding box and book contents, for years I’ve posted the authoritative open box contents photos you see all over the internet.
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