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Bluetau wrote:So when will the website update? Midnight?

As said a few times, this'll be a June 1st update if it happens. They're not going to do it on a random week night.

I don't see why everyone is so suspicious of this - real or not, it's broadly in line with what they do every year.

I.e. in the 10%ish range, with a few whoppers thrown in there. I'm surprised to see battallions going up again (after having had a signifigant increase last year).

It's more or less what I was expecting .Though if you add in some of the crazy fine-casting price hikes of late - it seems like an especially rough year.

Oh got it!

Theres still time to go out and scoop up a stormraven and land raider!

even if they did raise prices I can understand it. GW is a publicly traded company. They have boss's (the stockholders) they have to answer to. Costs have gone up. Labor, gas, price of material, lawyer fee's, transportation, R&D. etc etc. Every year these thing go up between 3 to 5% each on average. Now in order to make that money up they must raise there prices by 7 to 10% on MSRP because GW sells there product to the retailers at roughly at a 45% reduction. Now I know what your saying that if they lower there prices they would sell more models in bulk, etc etc etc. This is true but not enough to make profit to keep the stockholders happy. The per unit profit on each item for GW is probally 5% per model after all costs.

Btw GW is not the only company to raise there prices.

Yep, just over a week. Quite possibly a plan on their part, though unlikely.

GW are their own retailers, hence the added cost of production and the likely cause of these yearly increases.

I'm glad Australians can still use Dicebucket at least.

I've still got some shopping to do for my Tyranids. Though I think my Vampire Counts are on the serious backburner for now.

TobyDog wrote:Its June 1...
And some of the prices Are insane...

Hope you all have stocked up on marine vehicles..
$82.50 for a stormraven
$74.25 for any of the Land raiders
$57 for the whirl winds
37.25 for the rhinos

$30 for ten Guardsmen

And I get a ridiculous amount of from GW employees for buying the starter models.

GW employee wrote:For only 12 dollars more you get all the options!

Yeah, I save $12 by not buying the overpriced box. Maybe for Space Marines, it would be reasonable. Not for something you need an indefinite number of..

30 squads for $30: $900
30 squads for $18: $540

-Loki- wrote:

Bluetau wrote:So when will the website update? Midnight?

As said a few times, this'll be a June 1st update if it happens. They're not going to do it on a random week night.

The e-mail sez June 4th. Buy your cheaper models while you still can (preferably from us ).

If this is true then my all-metal Valhallan infantry horde army looks decidedly affordable.

Remember comrades:

When in doubt, eBay.

if this is true...lets just say I'm glad I went to infinity when i did

Take this with a grain of salt but my local store owner just confirmed the price increase IS true. He just got the email and I'd link the convo from Facebook but I don't know if he'd get in trouble or not

Im not too worried, Ill just rely on my FLGS 100% for purchases or even start buying off of the swap shop here.

Not a single box in his store is the GW recommended price... my little honey hole of model goodness.

If this is true, then I think I've finally been priced out of Warhammer. I'll likely keep my armies and continue playing, but I wouldn't want to pay these prices even with the 25% discount and free shipping I get from MM. Eighty-plus dollars for a Stormraven is a slap in the face. I really wanted to start a Chaos Marines army when the new codex came out later this year...

A price hike right before 6E? NO! I sit here with a stunned shocked look!


Phew....

Ah well thank god I dont buy from GW Stores and go online for my 20% OFF sites...

Still 20% off of Ridiculous still equals Insane.

I'm expecting my first historical minis - TAG early samurai and mongols - to arrive any day now which, when coupled with this news, may just push me away from GW and solely into historicals as a guy who paints and doesn't play. I can still see myself picking up FW from time-to-time as I love their HH era models, but the prices are already high and, with the finecast issues, I'm reluctant to even order outside of .au to save money due to the hassles that will occur shoud I have to exchange the model due to imperfections.

@Milisim: A price hike right before a new edition would actually be a bad move, since it could flat out stop people even looking at it; saving it until a month or so in, perhaps even until the new starter set for it comes out, gives people time to acclimatise and spend money on preparing their armies for it now that they know what the new rules are.

If Microsoft announced all X-Box games would increase in price by £10 just before releasing the next-gen X-Box console, how many people would buy into it as opposed to announcing it after the new console has come out and after people have already bought it?

Avatar 720 wrote:A price hike right before a new edition would actually be a bad move, since it could flat out stop people even looking at it; saving it until a month or so in, perhaps even until the new starter set for it comes out, gives people time to acclimatise and spend money on preparing their armies for it now that they know what the new rules are.

If Microsoft announced all X-Box games would increase in price by £10 just before releasing the next-gen X-Box console, how fewer people would buy into it as opposed to announcing it after the new console has come out and after people have already bought it?

The fact that GW makes dumb moves is not in dispute.

pretre wrote:Yeah, until GW or at least Mikhaila confirms, I'm gonna pass.

Feel free to add me to your thread on Rumormonger accuracy. I will get a 100% true next to my name in a few weeks.

-Loki- wrote:

Bluetau wrote:So when will the website update? Midnight?

As said a few times, this'll be a June 1st update if it happens. They're not going to do it on a random week night.

Ya, no. It's the 4th. I went to my FLGS just now and read the email myself.

So glad I gave this company and it's games up...

OverwatchCNC wrote:

pretre wrote:Yeah, until GW or at least Mikhaila confirms, I'm gonna pass.

Feel free to add me to your thread on Rumormonger accuracy. I will get a 100% true next to my name in a few weeks.

Throw me on there as well. I could use a 100% for when I start absurd rumors about Alpha Legion.

Wow... What a way to deter new comers, i can barely convince my friends now to start playing let alone a price hike! sure they need to cover expenses but you cant do that when 50% of your customers stop buying... and who shops at a GW store anymore anyway? lol sure i may play there but ill never buy from them. Midas well just bend over...

There are no percentages anymore and I don't know if we will count all the pile ons on this one. Not really a rumor anymore. Either it is true or a really good hoax.

Laughing Man wrote:

OverwatchCNC wrote:

pretre wrote:Yeah, until GW or at least Mikhaila confirms, I'm gonna pass.

Feel free to add me to your thread on Rumormonger accuracy. I will get a 100% true next to my name in a few weeks.

Throw me on there as well. I could use a 100% for when I start absurd rumors about Alpha Legion.

I heard they're changing the name the to Beta Legion.

Not to mention none of you have added anything new, just confirmed the original.

haroon wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:A price hike right before a new edition would actually be a bad move, since it could flat out stop people even looking at it; saving it until a month or so in, perhaps even until the new starter set for it comes out, gives people time to acclimatise and spend money on preparing their armies for it now that they know what the new rules are.

If Microsoft announced all X-Box games would increase in price by £10 just before releasing the next-gen X-Box console, how fewer people would buy into it as opposed to announcing it after the new console has come out and after people have already bought it?

The fact that GW makes dumb moves is not in dispute.

I didn't say that GW makes dumb moves (I was actually responding to Milism and didn't notice someone posted before me), and I don't think they're going through with it. I was just stating how bad of a move it'd be overall.

Do we have any confirmation that this price increase could also affect GW prices around the world?

If we all truly believe it is fake, then it will be
-The Secret

Laughing Man wrote:

OverwatchCNC wrote:

pretre wrote:Yeah, until GW or at least Mikhaila confirms, I'm gonna pass.

Feel free to add me to your thread on Rumormonger accuracy. I will get a 100% true next to my name in a few weeks.

Throw me on there as well. I could use a 100% for when I start absurd rumors about Alpha Legion.

Nice, anything dealing with rumors about Alpha Legion though should be false by nature. In fact, I heard that Alpha Legion aren't in the new CSM dex because Alpha Legion has taken over all the Chapters, so the new C:SM is really just C: Alpha Legion.

pretre wrote:Not to mention none of you have added anything new, just confirmed the original.

Ya, I wasn't serious.

As another returning gamer, I've been keeping myself in a holding pattern in regards to purchases until 6th edition comes out. However, should these price increases prove to be true, no way will I shell out any money to GW, I'll just find another game (Dust Warfare anyone?) to satisfy my tabletop fix....That said, I'm not one to believe in rumors, no matter how valid they sound.