New GW policy: Free stuff for stores

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**Kroothawk**

Posted over at Warseer:

xxRavenxx wrote:Very exciting news for the world of retail.

If you meet certain criteria (Essentially the criteria is being a reasonably sized hobby store), you will now recieve the following:

£500 of stock per year for demoing to customers, placing terrain on the table, etc.

£100/200 (I forgot the given number) in stock to give prizes out for competitions.

Trophies. Made specially by GW to give out to winners. (Which presumably will be fairly cool.)

So yeah. GW move to give people free stuff for participating in organised play, and in stores. I think its a lovely move on their part. Long may it continue

**Ulven**

Fantastic move - I really like this and think it will help bring a lot of new players into the hobby.

**thakabalpuphorsefishguy**

WOW

sweeet

makes me feel that much better about taking the 30 dollars in store credit prize for taking first in the local tourney recently

**Talarn Blackshard**

Well ... if this is true, works for me and my local peeps.

**Rakear**

This is along side the new product margin levels they just set. (margin level is the type of stockist you are, and are required to stock specific things in concordance with your level).

Depending on how fast you fill out the form and send it in conforming to the new rules dictates what level of the above benefits your store will recieve.

at least thats the gist of what my gw rep told me on the phone yesterday, will have to see exactly what we get when we sign the forms.

**Ma55ter_fett**

That isn't half bad

A couple free new armies every year to do cool demo's with (maybe rafle the old one's off at the end of the year)

And enough free prizes for several good sized tourniments

**KaiserEddie**

The money prize pool its a money that will probable be back in no time, since the winners surely will spent in other stuff or some armys they want to get, anyway, its a good move on their side

**pretre**

Wow, that's a pretty awesome program

**Acardia**

Sweet more terrain my the FLGS guy will want painted in exchange for store credit.

**Mr Hyena**

*Waiting to see how long till a person inevitably bitches about this as well*

Its a good idea GW is implementing this.

**ZacktheChaosChild**

GW has really been trying to make us forget about their recent slump. A good move, in my book.

**Necros**

That's pretty cool .. but, didn't they already give free product to stores for tournaments and prizes? At least I thought they did a couple years ago when I was planning to open up my own shop.. Or do they give even more now than before?

**ZacktheChaosChild**

Mr Hyena wrote:*Waiting to see how long till a person inevitably bitches about this as well*

Too true, unfortunately.

**ph34r**

I thought GW already gave out at least prize support?

Either way this is a good move.

**Hulksmash**

GW currently gives out prize support per quarter based on some such or another. You'd have to get the specifics from someone like Mikhaila. So the new amount they are giving out would depend on whether it's once a year or quarterly or what. But i like the reward for demoing in retail stores.

**spiralingcadaver**

Wow, seems like one of the better marketing choices GW has made, re: their fanbase.

**rodgers37**

The £1-200 prize money will presumably be GW vouchers, but still these sound like a fairly good idea.

**KingCracker**

Well color me impressed

**crazyredpraetorian**

Hulksmash wrote:GW currently gives out prize support per quarter based on some such or another. You'd have to get the specifics from someone like Mikhaila. So the new amount they are giving out would depend on whether it's once a year or quarterly or what. But i like the reward for demoing in retail stores.

Is the 100/200 # per event or per year with trophies taking the place of monthly prizes?

**Bloodfever**

It's great news...if you have a FLGS near you :(

**Milisim**

Congratulations to GW.

Finally catching up to all its competitors! Warmachine et al and even MAGIC the card game have been donating tons of FREE Gear in order to drum up support for its games...

Maybe GW is finally seeing its fanbase wither away and is actually trying to fix it!

**Stoffer**

Good stuff

**Vampirate of Sartosa**

Come on, guys. If you're inventing rumours, try to make them believable.

**chaos0xomega**

Great idea, step in the right direction, now if they were at all intelligent, they would shut down most of their own hobby stores, and then offer a tiered program to existing independent retailers where they can double this level of prize support if the store increases its support for GW product (say by putting up a large sign underneath the existing store name proudly proclaiming it to be a "GW Hobby Center" and prominently featuring GW product in window displays etc. In effect getting a similar amount of representation as their actual stores but with minimal cost/overhead to themselves.

**Mr Hyena**

That would be good indeed.

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

This sounds great.

That said, given how prone GW is to changing horses mid-race, how long will this program last?

**mikhaila**

Necros wrote:That's pretty cool .. but, didn't they already give free product to stores for tournaments and prizes? At least I thought they did a couple years ago when I was planning to open up my own shop.. Or do they give even more now than before?

Not sure about the rest of the world, but each of my stores have been recieving 1800.00 a year to use for terrain, paints, demo models, and prize support, based on the shops being at the Partnership level. It's one of the reasons we supply free paints and glue at the store at the painting tables.

The new program looks like the top end stores will get at least what they used to get, and maybe a bit more. Nice to see it rolling out for the rest of the world.

**Phototoxin**

Yay! Finally a reason to visit a GW store!

**mikhaila**

Milisim wrote:Congratulations to GW.

Finally catching up to all its competitors! Warmachine et al and even MAGIC the card game have been donating tons of FREE Gear in order to drum up support for its games...

Maybe GW is finally seeing its fanbase wither away and is actually trying to fix it!

You are dead wrong on that statement. Yes, WOTC gives out a lot of support for MTG, totally agree there. But if I want a league kit or trophies from Privateer, I have to buy them, They are way behind GW in support. And as I stated above, (and in many other posts over the years) GW has offered stores in the US this support for a long, long time. Battlefront have also been offering a lot of support for tournaments. Privateer? Not so much, although I certainly wish they would.

**Johnny-Crass**

I just got that rising feeling....

Does anyone know if this applys to FLGS or just official stores