Games Workshop Pricing Feedback Thread

[Lord Dan]

It is even funnier in the Republic of Ireland. I can travel 300km to Dublin to shop in the only gwPLC "hobby" store in the country at Euro prices which is the pound sterling price plus 40%

That's insanity. You'd think they'd see a problem there...

By the way, the RoI is part of the Eurozone?

[Jericho]

There's also the issue of "Screw Canada pricing." When UK retailers could sell world wide, I could get an item to my door for less than the local independent stockists could get it for wholesale. So without the added value of a good GW store and an active player base (it's all dried up and switched to Flames of War and Warmachine around these parts), I got used to paying UK prices in Canada. With that ending, I haven't bought a single GW new product. I did by some bitz off a US based ebay store that were a good value.

At UK retail, GW's prices aren't awful. At Canadian (or Australian!) retail, they're terrible in terms of value. Especially when other companies don't try to charge me 50-75% more for the honour of being Canadian. What would you think if the next time you walked into a GW store, the prices were suddenly 50% higher on everything? Would you mind paying that extra based on your nationality?

Yeah the price differential is annoying. You can't buy for convenience anymore, because you're paying the additional tax of Canadian pricing. Makes it way too tempting to buy from some hefty online discounters, or eBay, or whatever. A friend in a local hobby shop gives me a good discount so I can stock up on some items without feeling too bad about it.

Kinda takes some of the spontenaeity out of the hobby when you can't realistically buy models and build them the same day. Impulse buys used to be a lot of fun, and dropping $12 on a character could snowball into a much larger project very quickly. Now everybody is so damn deliberate, and the army lists tend to dictate the purchases because you don't want the project to cost $600 when you could have a better list for $400 (or whatever the case may be).

Forgeworld though, they make a killing off me lately. The HH announcement made my wallet very sad

[Sophet Drahas]

Meh, I guess I'm a rarity for GW. The last two years I've had a huge uptick in my buying as I returned to the hobby and found myself in a rush to get the metal figs (usually through eBay, sometimes from GW when available) before everything was shifted to Finecast.

Now that I've got what I wanted my spending in the last 6 months has dropped a lot and will continue to decrease as I start to work on the massive piles of models I have now. The only things I'd possibly need are some hobby supplies which I usually purchase from other companies and possibly a realm of battle board or a battle mat and some scenery.

[Baragash]

By the way, the RoI is part of the Eurozone?

Yes. Very much so.

[SaintTom]

Can someone tell me when the hardbacks went up to 45.50 USD? The last time I had looked at them they were still the 41 USD.

Or weren't they? I don't remember anymore..

[loveless]

Can someone tell me when the hardbacks went up to 45.50 USD? The last time I had looked at them they were still the 41 USD.

Or weren't they? I don't remember anymore..

Last price increase...start of July or near there.

[Finnigan2004]

Can someone tell me when the hardbacks went up to 45.50 USD? The last time I had looked at them they were still the 41 USD.

Or weren't they? I don't remember anymore..

Could be worse. You could live in Canada where it now costs 54.50. All they had to do was forgo the last price increase (or the one before that, or the one before that, etc.) to bring us closer to where the relative prices should be. Instead, they foist their ridiculous "Please go and buy Privateer Press products" embargo on us. Gotta love the "Screw Canada" plan.

[SaintTom]

Last price increase...start of July or near there.

Ah I see, thank you. I wasn't aware there were price increases in July as well.

Could be worse. You could live in Canada where it now costs 54.50. All they had to do was forgo the last price increase (or the one before that, or the one before that, etc.) to bring us closer to where the relative prices should be. Instead, they foist their ridiculous "Please go and buy Privateer Press products" embargo on us. Gotta love the "Screw Canada" plan.

That's true, not looking forward to prices going up next year either.. Just mean's i need to work more on my painting and conversions; maybe i can even finish my chaos centaurs with all the extra bits i have.

[Lord Dan]

I wasn't aware there were price increases in July as well.

They proved to be the grandest of all.

[Hercco]

The last two years I've had a huge uptick in my buying as I returned to the hobby and found myself in a rush to get the metal figs (usually through eBay, sometimes from GW when available) before everything was shifted to Finecast.

I've been doing the same since I got back being active in 40k this year. Judging by the prices and bidding wars in eBay, I think there are lot of us trying to secure our beautiful metal minis.

[manickze]

Blue scribes are $73NZ, this is insane. I was expecting perhaps $40 to 50 max.

Looks like I'll be sculpting up some custom ones.

No wonder the recasters are doing awesome business.

[iamfanboy]

Blue scribes are $73NZ, this is insane. I was expecting perhaps $40 to 50 max.

Looks like I'll be sculpting up some custom ones.

No wonder the recasters are doing awesome business.

And other companies, don't forget other companies...

There's one whose Kickstarter to fund their transfer to a new plastic medium has made, oh, 230k of its 30k goal - in other words, about 7 times what it originally thought it would need and/or want. Over eleven hundred people have contributed at the $100 dollar level, which gets you 100 minis - or more, because about every other time they put up a new stretch goal, they add more minis to the $100 dollar level's reward. They even have pledge levels up for the store level, because they know that stores like having nice, cheap minis to sell to folks too.

I mean, 230k of 30k? That's just... insane.

[New Cult King]

You only need to look at the McVey's Kickstarter - they pulled nearly a million dollars I believe. Intense.

[C-Coen]

Blue scribes are $73NZ, this is insane. I was expecting perhaps $40 to 50 max.

What the ...? That's 55% more than the price in euros (and I don't think that is very good value for money either).
Luckily, all one need is two horrors, a disc and some random books and scrolls.

And other companies, don't forget other companies...

There's one whose Kickstarter to fund their transfer to a new plastic medium has made, oh, 230k of its 30k goal [etc etc]

Yeah.. in something like 10 days. There's twice as many days to go yet. Looking forward to seeing what's going to be included in there.. although I'm not 100% if I want to have another 100 models in my backlog!

[manickze]

And other companies, don't forget other companies...

There's one whose Kickstarter to fund their transfer to a new plastic medium has made, oh, 230k of its 30k goal - in other words, about 7 times what it originally thought it would need and/or want. Over eleven hundred people have contributed at the $100 dollar level, which gets you 100 minis - or more, because about every other time they put up a new stretch goal, they add more minis to the $100 dollar level's reward. They even have pledge levels up for the store level, because they know that stores like having nice, cheap minis to sell to folks too.

I mean, 230k of 30k? That's just... insane.

I already backed the Mantic Kickstarter, seriously tempted by the Reaper kickstarter over getting GW daemons this month. Y'know I can seriously see Mantic being a real contender to take a large chunk of GW's fantasy battles monopoly.

What the ...? That's 55% more than the price in euros (and I don't think that is very good value for money either).
Luckily, all one need is two horrors, a disc and some random books and scrolls.

GW prices are the necessity of invention.

I will still get some of the plastics though. Because I'm an addict.

[Tymell]

I will still get some of the plastics though. Because I'm an addict.

Well done, the first step is admitting you have a problem

[Black-Tooth]

I'm shocked at those Nurgling prices! £15 for 3 bases! 3 BASES! I can't see how anyone in their right mind would pay that!

[loveless]

I'm shocked at those Nurgling prices! £15 for 3 bases! 3 BASES! I can't see how anyone in their right mind would pay that!

Don't go looking at the Finecast Bat Swarms, then...

[frozenwastes]

Don't go looking at the Finecast Bat Swarms, then...

Recommended substitute? Reaper bat swarm:

http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStor...sku-down/03355

http://www.reapermini.com/graphics/g.../03355_w_1.jpg

And they're scheduled to be released in their "Bones" white plastic. Unlike finecast, when Reaper changes something to plastic, the price is halved (or goes even lower).

[Lord Dan]

Hey, and they look 100% better, as well.

By the way, the new flamers appear to be 3 for $20 here in the states. Is that cheaper than they were, for a change?