Another GW Price Hike

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**Kid_Kyoto**

Don't miss this line:

"Even with the pressure of rising costs we are adamant that we will not at this time raise prices on any plastic model kits."

**syr8766**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Don't miss this line:

"Even with the pressure of rising costs we are adamant that we will not at this time raise prices on any plastic model kits."

Yeah, I find that interesting too. Either they realize their bread and butter are their plastic kits, which are, frankly, some of their cheapest figs and appeal to non-GW gamers, or the plastic kits are just that much cheaper to transport (will they reduce packaging to cut costs further? Doubtful), or there's something else behind that.

@JTS1486: Welcome back, even if briefly! I don't know how Yak and the powers that be feel about leaked info ending up on their site, but I'd love to see it.

**malfred**

Jester wrote:I guess I should get those Cold One Knights now then.

Depends, Jester. If GW is completely sure that they're not going to raise plastic
kit prices, then the better bet is to buy whatever Dark Elf metal models you
needed.

But the Cold One Knights are sweet, I agree.

**Jester**

I've got most of the metals that I want, (other than goofy hydra, but I'm trying to resist) so cold ones it is, unless I decide to do some Corsairs as Slaaneshi Marauders.

**Hellfury**

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%.

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.)

-JTS

Yes, please do share JTS. And nice to see you again mate.

Any info you could provide would be most welcome.

**H.B.M.C.**

Modquisition edit to remove chum in the water. Lets discuss the topic, not incite an uncalled for flame response peoples

Any one notice that they called it a price increase, rather than spinning it as a 'price adjustment'.

BYE

**Kid_Kyoto**

Modquisition edit to remove chum in the water. Lets discuss the topic, not incite an uncalled for flame response peoples

Any one notice that they called it a price increase, rather than spinning it as a 'price adjustment'.

BYE

**Foda_Bett**

Hellfury wrote:
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%.

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.)

-JTS

Yes, please do share JTS. And nice to see you again mate.

Any info you could provide would be most welcome.

The only item that went up 70% is the rough coat spray paint. Which was discontinued.

All GW paint will be $3.50. For fantasy metal model boxes (empire great swords, etc..) will be $22, commands (great sword command) will be $25.

Thats the basic gist of the changes (other than minor bilsters), unlike last blister price hike NOTHING went down.
The odd thing is the GW e-mail even mentions price increases for things that aren't even able to be ordered (Fallen Giant template, old army cases).

**Eldramesha**

Plastics are volume sellers so they make more money by keeping them cheap.

Metal prices are so high right now that the meth gangs have taken to stealing copper pipes and wiring from stores and such.

**Lorek**

General Hobbs wrote:

Greed Workshop strikes again.

Ha ha, yeah! And Micro$oft!! Man, those guys are just raking it in by ripping off the little guy! Oh, and John$on and John$on too! Just try finding "No More Tears" somewhere else; good luck, buddy!

Man, I LOVE fresh humor.

**Aduro**

Stealing copper from stores? Pft. They steal wires and pipes from anywhere they can get their hands on it. Had a local guy get electrocuted when he tried to steal live copper wires from a railroad crossing warning.

**Jayden63**

I just pray the new drop pods don't become stupidly expensive. They are the key in weither or not I start a space wolf army when it gets redone.

**Stelek**

Jayden you have superb painting skills.

If I gave you a

coffee cup you could make a drop pod.

**warpcrafter**

The more GW stuff costs, the slower my current army build, so they aren't making more money off me. Anybody out there the same?

**Ratbarf**

"same dedication to customer service"

Could use a little more of that...

As to the price hikes I'm cool on most of them. Though I guess it really doesn't affect me cause I try to by metal as little as possible. (45 dollars for Logan Grimnar??? Not on your hobby mate)

**H.B.M.C.**

Eldramesha wrote:Plastics are volume sellers so they make more money by keeping them cheap.

Then why aren't they cheap?

BYE

**Zoned**

Not sure if you were exagerrating but FYI, Logan grimnar is $30 canadian, retail.

**Greebynog**

When I started all regiment/squad box sets were a tenner. Hurumph.

**Rated G**

GW prices are completely reasonable and this price rise is a good thing.

No, I'm not John. And yes, I'm kidding.

**Kilkrazy**

Waaagh_Gonads wrote: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.

Don't you pay a lot in shipping?

**Kilkrazy**

GW's plastic model kits are already much more expensive than comparable kits from Tamiya, Perry Brothers, etc.

However this is due to the IP value of them being 40K.

**BrookM**

If the US starts adjusting the prices to reflect the prices of the UK and NE we wouldn't be having this all the time. Yes the US economy is

but it is the same story everywhere.

**Grot 6**

Myrthe wrote:
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

Any word on the 40k skirmish game, yet?
They can raise prices till the cows come home, if the game continues to degrade, the stocks will soon follow.

**Squig_herder**

This has been coming a mile off, with a falling global market at the current time, this was going to hit us sooner or later. remember that GW have final turned around a 3 year profit lose or downfall

**Hammerziet**

huh incresed cost of metal models + most Eldar aspect warriors and most High Elf specials are metal =

**carmachu**

jfrazell wrote:Well I pretty much have everything I need at this point so whatever.

Yeah.

I just got a Daemon army and 90% it is through bartertown. The rest will be chaosorc or ebay.

**Przemas**

well, not a big surprise. GW increases prices on a rather regular basis, either as a direct increase, or hidden one (like a product repack - kind of "you got less models, for the higher price" or rather "the price seems lower, but when you break it down to cost per models it turns out higher").
That being said GW has done some really nice, reasonably priced boxes recently - Dark Elf Cold Ones for example.
And you can still be happy folks out there - at least you`re not treated as customers in Poland. We have much expensive minis out here. Why? Some not-so-clever GW employee had an idea to use a PLN based pricing sheet for all stores located in Poland. Generally seems a good idea, doesn`t it? Well, there`s a catch. The PLN price sheet is based on totaly unrealistic exchange value. In reality GBP costs around 4,2PLN, while GW based all exchange rates on over 6PLN price. That`s over 30% higher than a real value, so we have prices over 30% higher than the rest of the world.
The effects are really bad for local hobby stores, especially for new ones (and there`s a lot of new hobby stores in Poland) as customers started to buy minis online in EU. In a short-time period this may cause closing of many of them as none will buy in hobby stores.
Well, ok , I had to vent it out

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**NAVARRO**

Well Przemas I think the prices in general europe are not as cheap as in uk? ... just check uk prices and for example spanish ones... spanish ones are considerably more expensive... I also checked german ones and same history... Mind maybe its just a coincidence that the particular products i hunted on these stores are cheaper in the uk...

**Przemas**

yup Nav, but still there are not over 30% more expensive, do they

?
I`ve checked the official prices and so far I haven`t found so high prices as in Poland....

**malfred**

warpcrafter wrote:The more GW stuff costs, the slower my current army build, so they aren't making more money off me. Anybody out there the same?

Yeah. It helps to already have a playable army, though.