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From TGN ...

http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/2008/08/22/16543

Edit: link to TGN added. --yakface



Dear Valued Customers,

There is an old curse you might know: “May you live in interesting times “

I would be very surprised if anyone could look around our tiny world today and not ponder the truism of such a simple remark. There is very little doubt that these current days would certainly qualify as interesting.

Among many other concerns the world has been struggling with the rising cost of energy, transport, and materials. These rising costs have ultimately affected not only the price of gasoline that we put into our tanks, but the price we pay for milk, eggs and cereal. It has also, not surprisingly perhaps, greatly affected the costs for producing miniatures.


Today we are contacting all of our Trade customers globally to announce that due to these rising costs, we too will be raising some of our prices.

We do not do this lightly. We fully understand that the timing of the price rise directly conflicts with our annual July price review and for that we deeply apologize. I hope that you understand that this price rise is not something Games Workshop Global desires to do, it is something we have to do.

That being said, we wish to approach this change with the same dedication to customer service that we do for every endeavor. So for clarity and fairness I offer the following points:

We are contacting our Trade customers this week to prepare them for any questions they may have.

On Monday August 25th a message informing end hobbyists will be placed on all of our websites.

Prices will change September 29th.

A message will appear in our October White Dwarf.

The price increase will affect part of our paint and hobby ranges, as well as a large portion of our metal models and printed materials.

Even with the pressure of rising costs we are adamant that we will not at this time raise prices on any plastic model kits. Providing high quality, great value kits is fundamental to our corporate strategy and will continue to produce and distribute them at the current prices for as long as we are able.

Sincerely,

Games Workshop

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2008/08/23 05:57:03




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Well this cannot be a suprise to anyone, can it?

While I am not happy about it, when was GW's last price hike?

 
   
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The last really broad hike was a few years back, when regiments went from 30 to 35. A 25% hike is pretty steep though, and it's apparently applying to everything across the board.

In all fairness, GW minis had become some of the cheaper models on the market after the rounds of hikes from PP et al. The only thing that cheeses me is that they told us price hikes would only occur in July. If it were, say, november, I'd be more willing to accept that times and conditions have changed. Its' still only late August, and I can't see any reason they couldn't have announced this in July. The have the right to set their prices, no doubt, but GW was starting to rehabilitate their old "we lie right to face of our customers" reputation (which is not entirely fair).

I have boxes of eldar still to assemble, let alone paint, so I'm not really affected by this. I figure most grognards are the same way.

To be fair, the US prices have been far lower than the rest of the world for a year or two now. I think we all knew this was coming.
   
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Well I pretty much have everything I need at this point so whatever.

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Not surprising at all.

Its a shame that they are doing it though. The price of some HQ models is astronomical and makes little sense. (Eldrad for $20+ really?)

I honestly wouldn't think it would be a big deal if they lowered their prices during times of great prosperity, instead of always increasing the prices.

But that can be said of any company.

   
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This tells me two things:

- Buy your new minis before Sept. 29!
- And, man, I'm glad AoBR comes out in Sept.

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Maybe someday I will become rich, and I won't have to be bothered by price hikes anymore.

But this one still makes me sad. Especially with all the lovely Chaos models that seem to be in our future.

   
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Wait, did someone just say GW figures were cheap?

I'm so sad. The power of the internets is overwhelming.

   
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Stelek wrote:Wait, did someone just say GW figures were cheap?

I'm so sad. The power of the internets is overwhelming.


In relative terms, sometimes they are.

GW has even LOWERED pricecs in some new releases. The new LR kit for instance is $50 MSRP as opposed to $55-60 for the LR and LRC kits. And with this kit you can make all three LRs.

This is definitely breaking with the tradition of every time that GW makes a new model, the price likewise increases too.

   
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Price wise, GW these days releases some dirty cheap deals of minis.
I dont remember such huge good deals like these new army deals that came for new edition in a long time...

Doing my math on deals I know better

Normal Batallion box costs 80 euros and if you got content individually it would cost 117.5 euros

New big army deal costs 150 euros (its about 2x batallion box and a extra carni)
- If you got 2 batallions and 1 carni it would cost 195 euros
- If you got everything individually it would be 270 euros

No wonder this army deal was released in July and its hard to find it already.

new starter box is also super cheap...

Mind I'm not saying GW is cheap... but these deals do make things alot more interesting to the wallet.
So as long as these deals keep on coming i will keep on buying.

   
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when i first started playing warhammer 40k in 3rd ED a space marine combat squad was 12.50 so this rise in price dosent surprise me at all.

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Deathmachine wrote:when i first started playing warhammer 40k in 3rd ED a space marine combat squad was 12.50 so this rise in price dosent surprise me at all.



Same here. 5 marines for $12.50 and 10 for $20.

I can barely imagine that now. I thought that was expensive then. How silly I was.

   
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Myrthe wrote:From TGN ...


Link to the original since Myrthe didn't included it.

http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/2008/08/22/16543
   
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Hordini wrote:
Deathmachine wrote:when i first started playing warhammer 40k in 3rd ED a space marine combat squad was 12.50 so this rise in price dosent surprise me at all.



Same here. 5 marines for $12.50 and 10 for $20.

I can barely imagine that now. I thought that was expensive then. How silly I was.

Bah, I remember when 40k first started, "I thought that was expensive then" also. Strangely, I don't feel that way now since I can afford them and realize that most everything else I was buying then has gone way up too.

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For once, they have a legit reason. Even PP recently raised their prices on metal models.

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I hope its US only, the prices in Australia are already 25-30% more than the US and UK.

Which is why I buy everything online now from the US or UK and save 25-30%.

Paints were the only exception to that but looks like I'll be getting them from overseas too.

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The one product that was mentioned , but I hope does not get increased, is the paint line. The paints are already outragiously priced but they have gotten so much better quality wise. I have recently switched back to Gw paints from using Vallejo and I hope I do not have to reconsider.

 
   
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I'm price insensitive; I care not if GW raise their prices.

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At least they are not raising prices on plastic models...

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I'd hope it was just US too (makes sense since it's cheaper over their atm). But we will have to listen to our local suppliers and get our orders in quick before the hike.

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There goes all the goodwill GW had managed to generate.

Milk, eggs, cereal, paints and metal models.

At least they're adamant about not raising plastic prices.

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Nice to see that GW is trying to scare customers into raising their third quarter sales. I can't be the only one that noticed that they are changeing right after the quarter ends. After that they will get the holiday rush so this will probably help the year end P&L reports.

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Apone wrote:I'd hope it was just US too .


Nope. Sorry.

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From 0% to 70% in some cases. Average across the entire board is 17% - meaning that if you bought one of everything before and one of everything after the cost would be up 17%.

So does anyone want an excel spreadsheet of every single GW kit and what the exact price hikes will be?

(No, I'm not getting back into 40k and I haven't been on Dakka in well over a year. But someone leaked this spreadsheet to me and I didn't know if y'all already had it somewhere here yet.)

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Hmmm....September 29...Marines come out the next month.....

Either it's poor planning, or excellent planning depending on how you look at things.

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reds8n wrote:
Apone wrote:I'd hope it was just US too .


Nope. Sorry.


I wonder if the new Marine release prices are in line with this? Example;

Telion: $12
Chronus (2 models, for tank and on foot): $17
Scout bike (1): $12
Landspeeder: $30
Droppod: $30
Landraider Crusader/Redeemer: $50
Thunderfire Cannon: $40
Codex: $25


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JTS1486 wrote:From 0% to 70% in some cases. Average across the entire board is 17% - meaning that if you bought one of everything before and one of everything after the cost would be up 17%.

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What's going up 70%? What are the big rises?
   
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