also i have bought some stuff at conventions - but i don't like it that much, the prices are high-ish and the sellers seem pretty oily (apologies to the non-oily ones on the this forum of course). i also get a bit fed up with ebay sometimes - although it is what i do 70% of my buying and selling on. In the UK we don't have lots of dusty old games-stores. i imagine in the states it is possible to roll up to some small dusty town (in my imagination it ios always somehere in the desert) and find a whole back-catalogue of out of print
RPG stuff. (sigh)