Another reason to love GW...

funnymouth

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fortunately for me, i like em all :D (please, don\'t post that hideous mini here! i love minis, but even love has its ugly side!).


minis are cheep anyhow, i spend less than a blisters price on beer almost ever afternoon....:beer:
 

Legacy Account

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Originally posted by Avicenna
But if you do buy it, dont complain about it

Unless of course you get miniatures that are covered in flash and miscast detail.....

Or bits of silicon rubber from the moulds in the case of Forgeworld....

Problem is Peter, people are taking your advice and stopping buying GW stuff. It\'s EXACTLY that sort of attitude they have adopted and it will kill them eventually.
 

Tony Manero

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Originally posted by Spacemunkie


Or bits of silicon rubber from the moulds in the case of Forgeworld....

man i think u don\'t have the minimum idea of what i found into the Black Templars Dreadnought....

blue blue blue silicon!!!! i love it! lol
 

Avicenna

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Originally posted by Spacemunkie
Originally posted by Avicenna
But if you do buy it, dont complain about it

Unless of course you get miniatures that are covered in flash and miscast detail.....

Or bits of silicon rubber from the moulds in the case of Forgeworld....

Problem is Peter, people are taking your advice and stopping buying GW stuff. It\'s EXACTLY that sort of attitude they have adopted and it will kill them eventually.
Those complaints are different altogether - complaining about casting issues is more like alerting people to the problems of the company, not just moaning about prices.

If GW dies from their own prices then they will have brought it upon themselves. I dont think it will happen though, but itmight get pushed to a point where someone has to buy it and change some of their working practices... how many times has the phoenix that is celtos/i-kore/urban mammoth (etc etc) risen from the flames?
 

Shawn R. L.

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I buy my mini\'s almost exclusively on eBay now. GW can charge whatever they want.........I\'m getting GREAT deals.:D
 

hakoMike

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I just can\'t get excited about it anymore. It\'s an expensive hobby, irregardless of manufacturer.

I can\'t afford it and I still have more models than I can paint.
 

StarFyre

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I am with Shawn....

90% of my liz army is from ebay.

My other GW models, most are eBay.
Admittadely, my FW stuff is regular store stuff though :( cause what I want is rarely on ebay.

my old ral partha\'s are ebay. Reaper\'s I buy in stores, along with my brushes (well, online).

vallejo paints are also ebay stores.

Deals are awesome :D

Sanjay
 

matty1001

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An army of liz\'s! Scary stuff!
But yea you can get some real cheap stuuf off ebay! As long as you dont mind stripping it.
 

Dragonsreach

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Originally posted by matty1001

But yeah you can get some real cheap stuuf off ebay! As long as you dont mind stripping it.
That\'s what Dettol\'s for.



The whole GW and price hike issue has been done to death many times in these forums.
As has been said before, GW\'s attitude is that they have a captive clientle who have hooked into their games systems and are utilising sales psychology for all they are worth to generate revenue.
The fact is that their primary target clientle are 12-16 years olds means that their (the customers) discernment on cost implications of prices rises isn\'t going to be the same as we collectors/painters who are outside of their demographic sales target.

Whinging on the forums here isn\'t going to change JackSh*t. If you want to effect changes to their attitude organise legal protests via boycotts of their products or postal letters of complaint to GW\'s headquarters. Similarily investigate and target their investors for complaint. (Or if you really want to cause a ruckus become an investor, buy a serious amount of shares and utilise the stockholder meetings to raise the issue).

But in the end it comes down to this; if you don\'t want to pay the prices don\'t buy the product.
 

Braveheart712

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Well said Mike, complaining will get you know where, and GW has turned a deaf ear to any sort of criticism from its customer base. I do believe however that some sort of reasoned and rational pricing point needs to be put in place soon by GW or they ultimately will fail as a corporation. Where I game/paint, many of the hardcore regulars have switched to other systems (FOW, WarMachine, Reaper, Confrontation) mainly due to price. Fewer players even attempt to start armies now because the cost is prohibitive. I find it laughable that GW thinks its core is 12-16 year olds. Tell me, where are they getting the money, robbing banks because the average child that age lacks the income to finance this expensive hobby on their own. Last I checked, most of this age group plays video games and cannot afford an army unless they have a parent who also games (like my son for example). When I started back into this hobby a few short years ago blisters were HALF the price they are now. You are absolutely correct when you point out GW can charge whatever they want and we will or will not pay it. The problem I see is that most people have chosen the latter choice. Just my 2cents...
 

Avicenna

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Originally posted by Braveheart712I find it laughable that GW thinks its core is 12-16 year olds.
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Last I checked, most of this age group plays video games and cannot afford an army
The price of computer games over here is also a real bone of contention - it is massively overinflated and as such, if you can afford computer/console games, you can certainly afford a warhammer army...
 

Rev

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Originally posted by Dragonsreach
(Or if you really want to cause a ruckus become an investor, buy a serious amount of shares and utilise the stockholder meetings to raise the issue).

Imagine if every CMOn user bought a number of shares - would could invade the shareholder meetings and change the future of the entire world *evil laugh*
 

matty1001

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Roughcoat is up 36.5%, mustve been the Medusa campaign. I wonder which products they are going to \'boost\' next year?
 

MPJ

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Originally posted by Leavesden
gamesworkshop staff get huge discounts

I offered to work part time at the local GW store just for the discount. :drunk:

I think the manager went into shock, I probablly make 4 times what he does and he wasn\'t sure what to say.
 

Infidel Castro

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Originally posted by Braveheart712
I find it laughable that GW thinks its core is 12-16 year olds. Tell me, where are they getting the money, robbing banks because the average child that age lacks the income to finance this expensive hobby on their own. Last I checked, most of this age group plays video games and cannot afford an army unless they have a parent who also games (like my son for example).

You\'re underestimating the power of marketing on kids and the influence kids have over their parents. Mammy (for example) will buy little Johnny a shit load of the stuff he wants because Johnny has been programmed to think he needs the stuff and Mammy isn\'t strong enough to say no all the time. The money comes from the parents in bucketloads in an attempt to pacify the monsters their lack of parenting skills have made :D
 
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