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Not sure if this was covered, but as many might know the GW Memphis location closed it's production side (everything is made in uk) a while back, and the huge open area is set up for forgeworld and black library stuff. GW stores received new computer and register programs this week which are being installed in March. Fw and bl will merge with GW website, and everything will be ordered through GW main site. At least we will save time and shipping costs by having it go to a local store!

I hope this is true. I'd love to be able to order small quantities of FW goods and not have to worry about the shipping and VAT fees.

Has the Memphis location been a storage warehouse since production ceased or is this an entirely new direction for that site?

If this gets rid of the increased shipping costs and they pass the savings onto the customers instead of raising prices, this will be great for US customers.

I'm dreading what might become of the prices after they go through the "whatever we feel like" currency exchange system.

The Knight being more here than in Australia is worrisome.

 DarkTraveler777 wrote:
I hope this is true. I'd love to be able to order small quantities of FW goods and not have to worry about the shipping and VAT fees.

Has the Memphis location been a storage warehouse since production ceased or is this an entirely new direction for that site?

It's true. Memphis shut down and cleared it's production area about a year ago (letting the UK location make everything), and revamped it into a stock werehouse. Everything is ordered in mass amounts, and arriving in March. The werehouse staff will getting everything set up in March. I was at 2 GW locations, and was told by 2 GW managers (as they were updating their software/shopping cart/etc, this WAS happening.

This also means FW is mainstream now with GW models, no more treating FW models/players as red headed step children! (Rejoice my DKOK!).

GW saying the FW models are "mainstream" and the general gaming population coming to terms with it are two completely different animals

 ironicsilence wrote:
GW saying the FW models are "mainstream" and the general gaming population coming to terms with it are two completely different animals

I'm just saying the models. I used DKOK as reg guard for example. Tried a DKOK siege list and owned everyone. Where's the fun in that?

 Eldarain wrote:
I'm dreading what might become of the prices after they go through the "whatever we feel like" currency exchange system.

The Knight being more here than in Australia is worrisome.

Given that FW stuff is pretty much priced on a par with regular GW stuff for us in Aust, this can't be a good change.

Hmmmm....this has me wondering.

Can US gaming stores hope to order FW in the same way we make special orders fromt he website? I'd love to actually be able to have FW in my stores.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
If this gets rid of the increased shipping costs and they pass the savings onto the customers instead of raising prices, this will be great for US customers.

This will be nice. It will also be nice if the give FW products a standard price for us non-UK customers so we don't have to deal with price fluctuations constantly.

 mikhaila wrote:
Hmmmm....this has me wondering.

Can US gaming stores hope to order FW in the same way we make special orders fromt he website? I'd love to actually be able to have FW in my stores.

Nah, couldn't possibly. That'd make sense.

I just got a non-confirmation confirmation from my local GW store that he would be able to sell FW as early as this coming Wednesday. He can't set up the new till yet because he has to get in touch with tech support and that can't happen until Monday. :(

 krazynadechukr wrote:
... and revamped it into a stock werehouse.

So is this a guy that turns into a house every full moon Sorry, too good of an opportunity to pass up.

Why do Australian GW stores sell their products for so much more? Is the currency value or other reasons?

Surprised GW just didn't get rid of the property to save costs in light of their stock issues. The entire reason Memphis was shut down was to hide their problems.

 Eldarain wrote:
I'm dreading what might become of the prices after they go through the "whatever we feel like" currency exchange system.

The Knight being more here than in Australia is worrisome.

holy gak your right.

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I buy FW stuff mostly right now because it's close enough in price to the plastic kits, i'd rather just get the better modles. If they "localize" the prices i'm going to be done with GW once and for all. I just can't justify it anymore when their are better games the cost less.

 Whumbachumba wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
If this gets rid of the increased shipping costs and they pass the savings onto the customers instead of raising prices, this will be great for US customers.

This will be nice. It will also be nice if the give FW products a standard price for us non-UK customers so we don't have to deal with price fluctuations constantly.

I'm just going to say that describing it as "rounding up" on GW's part will be a understatement.

Johnnytorrance wrote:
Why do Australian GW stores sell their products for so much more? Is the currency value or other reasons?

GWs reasons in the past have been 'higher minimum wage' and 'the exchange rate fluctuates too much so we use historical exchange rates' but there is literally no good reason, GW are just greedy.

 Eldarain wrote:
I'm dreading what might become of the prices after they go through the "whatever we feel like" currency exchange system.

The Knight being more here than in Australia is worrisome.

At current FX rates the knight is £80 in Aus and £90 in Canada, and £85 in the UK, so, ye... Nice selective data picking. All of them are within the range of picking a round number rather than an exact exchange and minor tax differences.

The problem with the exchange rates is that for whatever reason GW don't change their prices, but then neither do most companies, but most companies don't have the same product on sale for so many years.

If forgeworld is going mainstream I really hope the rumour that they're going over to Finecast has no merit.

I don't think it dose. I would believe FW going plastic rather than that. It seems to me that most of that roumor is down to people not understanding how resin casting works. About once a month Nafka posts on Faite some "proof" someone has because they get a FW mini with slightly different resin colouring. I don't think that GW would be getting rid of FC only for FW to take it up. I am sure it was a stopgap between metal and plastic and nothing more.

I'd be cautiously optimistic about this. I'd love to see US based FW shipping, although I too would be concerned they'd decide to bake in the VAT cost to the US price ("hey, they're paying it now, right?")

 mikhaila wrote:
Hmmmm....this has me wondering.

Can US gaming stores hope to order FW in the same way we make special orders fromt he website? I'd love to actually be able to have FW in my stores.

GW would be happy to sell FLGS Forge World items... at retail prices.

 Ouze wrote:
I'd be cautiously optimistic about this. I'd love to see US based FW shipping, although I too would be concerned they'd decide to bake in the VAT cost to the US price ("hey, they're paying it now, right?")

That's a VERY good point, and I think you're spot on.

I'd be shocked if FW items suddenly became 'cheaper'...

 Breotan wrote:
I just got a non-confirmation confirmation from my local GW store that he would be able to sell FW as early as this coming Wednesday. He can't set up the new till yet because he has to get in touch with tech support and that can't happen until Monday. :(

Interesting, so not just Memphis, but maybe all GWs? That would be most welcome (and even more if FLGS could do it, too).

 ironicsilence wrote:
GW saying the FW models are "mainstream" and the general gaming population coming to terms with it are two completely different animals

The general gaming population coming to terms with it will happen when GW proper sends a clear message through the 40k rulebook. All we have gotten over the past 15 years is something swinging from "always ask" to now "it's a good idea if you ask even though it's for 40k" from a subsidiary. They had the chance with 3 different editions (4th, 5th, and 6th) to clarify it in black and white during the era of Imperial Armour books and yet have chosen multiple times not to for whatever reason. Every argument about this in every game store and on every forum could have been prevented with a single paragraph in the rulebook. Not that it matters anyways now with Apocalypse at 1500pts that is 40k currently...

 RiTides wrote:

 Breotan wrote:
I just got a non-confirmation confirmation from my local GW store that he would be able to sell FW as early as this coming Wednesday. He can't set up the new till yet because he has to get in touch with tech support and that can't happen until Monday. :(

Interesting, so not just Memphis, but maybe all GWs? That would be most welcome (and even more if FLGS could do it, too).

no.... You are missing the point. No GW store actually will stock fw stuff. You order it from the computer in a GW store and it is sent to that store for you. Memphis just stocks it all...

 krazynadechukr wrote:

 RiTides wrote:

 Breotan wrote:
I just got a non-confirmation confirmation from my local GW store that he would be able to sell FW as early as this coming Wednesday. He can't set up the new till yet because he has to get in touch with tech support and that can't happen until Monday. :(

Interesting, so not just Memphis, but maybe all GWs? That would be most welcome (and even more if FLGS could do it, too).

no.... You are missing the point. No GW store actually will stock fw stuff. You order it from the computer in a GW store and it is sent to that store for you. Memphis just stocks it all...

Memphis is stocking it? I hadn't heard that. I suppose that makes sense. Nottingham will save some money shipping bulk to Memphis instead of making many more smaller shipments to the entire US.

 Breotan wrote:
Nottingham will save some money shipping bulk to Memphis instead of making many more smaller shipments to the entire US.

How so? I was under the impression that Forgeworld charged for shipping until you reached a lofty amount at which point you'd get the only bulk discount possible. It's not like they were shipping individual Hurons across the pond for free. I'm curious to see if they'll be charging shipping at all if you order in the store. If the goal is to get FW more mainstream and (more importantly selling more) then making it as close as possible to ordering a normal plastic or blister should be the goal.

 warboss wrote:

 Breotan wrote:
Nottingham will save some money shipping bulk to Memphis instead of making many more smaller shipments to the entire US.

How so? I was under the impression that Forgeworld charged for shipping until you reached a lofty amount at which point you'd get the only bulk discount possible. It's not like they were shipping individual Hurons across the pond for free. I'm curious to see if they'll be charging shipping at all if you order in the store. If the goal is to get FW more mainstream and (more importantly selling more) then making it as close as possible to ordering a normal plastic or blister should be the goal.

He's referring to the idea of making it so that you just order directly from FW with the store terminal(which always equates to free shipping for in-store pick up) would be more costly for GW than making bulk shipments of items to Memphis at the start of each week/month(or just packing the items in with the regular shipments) and then having Memphis being a hub for distribution.

 krazynadechukr wrote:

 RiTides wrote:

 Breotan wrote:
I just got a non-confirmation confirmation from my local GW store that he would be able to sell FW as early as this coming Wednesday. He can't set up the new till yet because he has to get in touch with tech support and that can't happen until Monday. :(

Interesting, so not just Memphis, but maybe all GWs? That would be most welcome (and even more if FLGS could do it, too).

no.... You are missing the point. No GW store actually will stock fw stuff. You order it from the computer in a GW store and it is sent to that store for you. Memphis just stocks it all...

You seem to have misread my post, I was referring to any GW store ordering FW, not stocking it (and thus, as mikhaila asks, maybe independent stores too?).