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Paints will be going up 25 cents a pot
Hobby tools 3~10% up in price
Glue up 35 cents
Spray paints up $1.25 a can
Aegis defense line will be $37
Realm of battle board going up to $330
Realm of battle board imperalis $363 June 1st

This is accoriding to my flgs

Because you know, when the company is losing sales, the best thing to increase demand is raise prices!!!

(seriously, GW has no business sense, no idea who their customers are, or what they really sell.).

I don't doubt you but their hobby tools are already 2-3x thf price of every competitor.
The ruined imperialis board is not really a hot seller at $330 and Several major competitors boards or mats released. I kinda wanted one for a city fight themed board but even with 25% off online retailers at $330 base price ot was a stretch. Guess I'll stick with fat mats instead. Paints spray and aegis should be fine with the new prices. Thier glue has always been awful.

gungo wrote:
I I don't doubt you buy thier hobby tools are already 2-3x thf price of every competitor.
The ruined imperialis board is not really a hot seller at $330 and Several major competitors boards or mats released. I kinda wanted one for a city fight themed board but even with 25% off online retailers at $330 base price ot was a stretch. Guess I'll stick with fat mats instead.

Good points. Considering board 'alternatives' are getting better and better, you would think they would discount theirs.

The problem is the culture from the old leadership down - kirby thought they had no competition - he was very wrong.
Competition is anything his potential customers might spend their money and time on, not just other games - and with these prices and practices - I have seen a lot of friends drop, and the pace of new people join, slow considerably.

 Chute82 wrote:
Paints will be going up 25 cents a pot
Hobby tools 3~10% up in price
Glue up 35 cents
Spray paints up $1.25 a can
Aegis defense line will be $37
Realm of battle board going up to $330
Realm of battle board imperalis $363 June 1st

This is accoriding to my flgs

Hmmm lets see

Paint: I use valljeo so lel
Hobby tools: I dont use any of theirs so lel
Glue: roflmao... no
Spray Paints: Nope
ADL: While it kinda sucks that they are going up in price i dont really need another one so lel
RoBB and RoBBI: Was expensive already and now i really dont need to get one.

I can build a full 6'x6' board for cheaper so I was not going to buy theirs anyway. This just extended the 8' pole to a 10' pole that I wouldn't touch the Realm of Battle boards with.

About the only thing I bought, other than some models here and there, was the hobby materials; paints, primers, tools, etc. But I have been moving over to PP and Armypainter for the past year, this was the last push I needed to be completely past the GW line.

Anyo else think a 10% or so price rise will mean a 20% fall in profits on the upcoming financial report?

In response to a competitor making a cheaper modular plastic tile board, they raise the price of the one they have that doesn't sell.

Oh GW, you slay me.

Well you are wrong -Loki- Gw's closest competitors make pokemon games and playing cards and even that it's a passing thing. Who will remember Nintendo next year?

So Kirby said.
So say we all.

M.

By the power vested in my by...

I dunno, Lego maybe?

I do move this to the News and Rumors Section where all may gaze in wonder upon this great news!

Early GW-fan hottake:

GW appears to have hit rock bottom and continued digging.

Really?

GW Management: *shrugs* "Gotta raise prices on something, it's tradition."

wow this is beyond stupid

guess I'll go buy an aegis defense line next week

This is great news!

Now we all have extra incentive to try out new paint lines and hobby tools!

I am excited to see what other price increases our Plastic Liege will bestow upon us. We must be diligent, and pay the shortcomings of the heretics who have abandoned our great cause. For our Astromomicon runs not only on our souls, but by our cash is it sustained!!


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 Miguelsan wrote:
Well you are wrong -Loki- Gw's closest competitors make pokemon games and playing cards and even that it's a passing thing. Who will remember Nintendo next year?

So Kirby said.
So say we all.

M.

So we say.

I thought GW were done with the across-the-board price-increase nonsense in favour of just increasing the cost of each item as it was released?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I thought GW were done with the across-the-board price-increase nonsense in favour of just increasing the cost of each item as it was released?

I've always thought you've said it best: "The only pattern GW has is that they have no pattern" (or something similar to that effect )

Walmart acrylic paints .99 cents
Rustolium Spray can primer $3
superglue $3
Full army of Warzone Resurrection models $250

So suck it GW. You aren't the only game in town anymore.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I thought GW were done with the across-the-board price-increase nonsense in favour of just increasing the cost of each item as it was released?

I guess GW couldn't hold out until Codex: Paint Pot, and Codex: Sprue Cutter made their way into the rotation. Shame, I was so looking forward to the tournament breaking cheese those would bring.

These seem to be minor increases in a relatively specific categories.

But that they choose things like paint and hobby tools - where they are already far and away the most ridiculously overpriced choice in a fairly competitive field is baffling.

Reaper, Vallejo and P3 paints are all just as good (if not better) than GW paints - and they already clock in a good, what 30% cheaper per ounce?

Boy do the ArmyPainter Warpaints look better and better. Especially as I liked the old Coat D'Arms GW colors.

The great name change also really hurt, I mean if even a grey-breaded fan like has no @#$%ing idea what those colors mean, why would anyone seek out GW paints?

"If we don't raise prices regularly, how will we maintain our status as a premium luxury hobby?"

Keep digging GeeDub... Keep digging.

You still pay much less then we do.

You still pay much less then we do.

Can't really argue with that, though i like to think that GW turns their noses up at all of us equally at the thought of our grubby paws on such a premium product. God forbid those of us that like to talk about the "good old days" of the late 90's and very early 2000's.

Is anything else going up?

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
The great name change also really hurt, I mean if even a grey-breaded fan like has no @#$%ing idea what those colors mean, why would anyone seek out GW paints?

Yeah, I'm 100% anal retentive about paint names. Don't know why but I have this need that my Khaki is called something like that and not yxz799

M.

Thachng wrote:
Is anything else going up?

That's all the store posted on their Facebook page. If I find anything else out I will be sure to post it

I heard about the paint a while ago. Already have 2 ADL and an Imperialis board, so not really a biggie. But why ever did they increase the price of ADL? O.o