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So we all know, Forge world stuff is kind of expensive. However with the recent britexit, the GBP has dropped. Currently 1 GBP is worth 1.37 USD. Does this mean I can get Tyranid Hierophant for $183 USD?

According to the math I just made up without actually looking, you save 10 dollars for every 300 spent

Woohoo........

It's cheaper, for now at least, but not significantly cheaper. If you can't afford a kit at $100 you probably can't afford it at $90, or even $80. Maybe there's some kind of psychological effect with even a modest price decrease, but from a purely practical point of view I doubt it's going to change many buying habits.

Also you might have to pay import fees / tax on top of it that price. (Note I am not sure of this since I don't know anything about USA/UK trade agreements and tax regulations)

The usd and canadian dollar is dropping just as fast. This is a global problem due to brits. The EU trade deals are in question and the ledge is talking about talks if the deal still stands.

So in short the difference in price is not anything special. Spend 20000 save 200$ I guess lol

What you should be looking for is your chief export of your country. For canada it is oil and tees ect, so when the price on them raise our dollar does aswell.

 oldzoggy wrote:
Also I don't know the us laws but you might have to pay all sorts of import fees / tax on top of it that price.

You don't. You have to pay the same state/local sales tax that applies to every sale and your bank may charge you a conversion fee for making a payment in GBP instead of USD but there are no import fees or taxes.

Still "okay" for smaller stuff and some vehicles, and huge comical rip-off as you get larger and larger.

It was affordable before, to me anyway. Everyone's situation is different though. As others said, the recent drop isn't suddenly going to make FW affordable if you couldn't afford to blow $100-200 on plastic a week ago. You might save $25 on an order that would qualify for free shipping.

 Toofast wrote:
It was affordable before, to me anyway. Everyone's situation is different though. As others said, the recent drop isn't suddenly going to make FW affordable if you couldn't afford to blow $100-200 on plastic a week ago. You might save $25 on an order that would qualify for free shipping.

aww you so rich want a cookie lol.

On a real note you can find forgeworld on ebay alot cheaper. It has alot less to due with price then the amount the over charge. I can afford a 100k truck but I would not pay that much for a hunk of metal lol.

 Lord Scythican wrote:
So we all know, Forge world stuff is kind of expensive. However with the recent britexit, the GBP has dropped. Currently 1 GBP is worth 1.37 USD. Does this mean I can get Tyranid Hierophant for $183 USD?

You're dividing where you should be multiplying. If an item costs £1.00, it costs $1.37. The rate earlier this year was roughly £1 = $1.50.

Current Hierophant price:
£250 (Hierophant price) X 1.37 (current exchange rate) = ~$342. Further multiply that by (100% + you state/local sales tax%) to arrive at your final cost.

OgreChubbs wrote:
aww you so rich want a cookie lol.

It's not about being rich, it's just that the difference really isn't all that much. If you can afford a FW kit at 10-20% off and are eager to buy it at that price you could afford it a week ago. Maybe you'd buy your FW kits a little slower because you have to save up 10-20% longer to afford them, but you'd probably still buy them. And let's be honest here, if you can afford GW prices in general you can afford to buy FW stuff.

On a real note you can find forgeworld on ebay alot cheaper.

Yes, we know you love buying recasts. Some people have higher standards.

It all depends on how much you wanna buy. FW is the premium product to the premium hobby that is 40k, so even a small discount can be a noticable chunk of cash saved. The problem is you're still spending a lot of cash anyways.

I'd recommend that if you were at any point planning to buy FW, buy everything you want now. The Pound tanked, but it won't stay like that forever. Plus seeing a bigger savings at the end feels better than looking at it practically (a 10% discount sounds paltry on paper, but when you're buying possibly thousands of dollars worth of stuff, it could be a few hundred you're saving realistically).

You will save more if game workshops allows us to order fw in thier stores since it will remove vax and shipping costs. So saying buy now really doesn't matter as cad and US dollars both dropped in value as well. You're not going to save much and can End up saving more later.

That rumor is ancient and I doubt its going to happen.

Well, i think in a long term when GB left the Pound will loose and we will get 1£ for less than 1€.

If the UK goes into another bloody recession as some theorists predict, that'd be the time to buy 2nd hand from the UK. The pound will get weaker and people will lose their jobs and be selling off collections to make ends meet.
Can't wait, I was just starting to get comfortable after the last couple of shitstorms.

 wuestenfux wrote:
Well, i think in a long term when GB left the Pound will loose and we will get 1£ for less than 1€.

assuming the EU doesn't collapse. apparently the EU has a higher approval rating in the UK then it does in other countries. I'd expect to see some serious pushes for referendum elsewhere, I suspect europes in for a bumpy decade.

 Lord Scythican wrote:
So we all know, Forge world stuff is kind of expensive.

Have you seen GW's normal prices lately? Like...seriously, there's tons of FW stuff that isn't any more expensive than plastic equivalents, and in many cases cheaper these days (especially infantry characters)

That said, yeah, if you were planning on an FW order and live outside the UK, now would be the time to do it.

 Lord Scythican wrote:
So we all know, Forge world stuff is kind of expensive. However with the recent britexit, the GBP has dropped. Currently 1 GBP is worth 1.37 USD. Does this mean I can get Tyranid Hierophant for $183 USD?

Did you really just fail at exchange rates THAT hard?

Oh no even the most basic FW stuff is insane expensive in Canada.

 Scott-S6 wrote:

 Lord Scythican wrote:
So we all know, Forge world stuff is kind of expensive. However with the recent britexit, the GBP has dropped. Currently 1 GBP is worth 1.37 USD. Does this mean I can get Tyranid Hierophant for $183 USD?

Did you really just fail at exchange rates THAT hard?

Yeah I did. Not going to lie, I was drinking last night. You should see this crap I posted on 9gag last night!

 Vaktathi wrote:

 Lord Scythican wrote:
So we all know, Forge world stuff is kind of expensive.

Have you seen GW's normal prices lately? Like...seriously, there's tons of FW stuff that isn't any more expensive than plastic equivalents, and in many cases cheaper these days (especially infantry characters)

*Cough* £13 Titan tech-priest *Cough* £18 Enginseer *Cough*

The exchange rate looked to be about .14 less.

It varies, bu I typically would account that it was roughly $1.50 per 1 British Pound. Today, it was @ $1.38 per 1 British Pound. Once you are submitting your FW order, you can get the exact cost in USD.

gungo wrote:
You will save more if game workshops allows us to order fw in thier stores since it will remove vax and shipping costs.

What?

Unless you're going to wait 4-8 weeks for the next container it still needs to be shipped and tax still needs to be paid.

You mean - "If GW US stocked FW at the US distribution center". There are rumours that say that might happen in the near future.

Last week, before the vote, the British Pound was going for £1.00 which equaled US$1.67. Before the markets closed on Friday after the vote, it was £1.00 = $1.35. That's about a 20% drop. I look at it this way:

Before / after

Legion Fellblade: £170, Before: $284 After: $230
Anvillus Pattern Drop Pod: £59, Before: $99 After: $80
Contemptor Dread Body: £34 Before: $57 After: $46
30K Upgrade Kit (just the heads/body/shoulders): £44 Before: $74 After: $60

As you can tell, I'm working on a 30K army...

Some more interesting prices on the actual GW webstore: The Battle of Calth box set: £95. Now, it's $128.25, or almost the same price as the US webstore. If the pound continues to drop, a lot of stuff in the UK webstore will cost less then the US webstore. Now, if only you could get around the shipping and import/export taxes and currency fees...

While if you were buying maybe one or two Forge World items at the less then £60 total (US$100) last week you could afford it now and not really see much in the way of savings, I disagree with the idea applied to a larger purchase. Most gamers I know in the USA will band together to attempt to break the £250 threshold for free shipping. Before, £250 was US$418. Now, that's only US$338, or about a savings of 20%.

In times past when the Pound Sterling dropped only a few cents, Forge World would immediately raise it's prices. No one ever really said anything because, well, it's Forge World, the Cadillac of Models. I bet that if the pound doesn't recover significantly by the end of next week, Forge World will be raising it's prices. I would expect that Games Workshop will follow as well by the end of this fiscal quarter. The British Pound won't recover anytime soon, and GW will raise prices to compensate (even though that would be an insane move when the UK in on the brink of a huge recession).

Bottom line: If you want Forge World stuff, but it now at a 20% dsicount.

 Tamwulf wrote:

If the pound continues to drop, a lot of stuff in the UK webstore will cost less then the US webstore. Now, if only you could get around the shipping and import/export taxes and currency fees...

Just use a mail forwarding service. I do this all the time for buying stuff from the US (lots of US webstores either refuse to ship internationally or make their minimum shipping cost ridiculously high).

The pound will get stronger. We are definitely not going into a recession. There will be some slight down (probably flat) then it will slowly climb and outpace the euro.

The "bounce" is people shorting and leveraging. IE there were a lot of people "betting" on the brexit. That's why they did the vote on the Thursday. So that the referendum announcement was Friday which gave the markets one day to play then 2 days to calm down. The FTSE closed on Fridayactually up on Mondays rate.

The reason the pound is a strong currency is two things which people tend to forget:

1) It has never defaulted
2) it's the oldest currency in the world about 1000 years old

If you compare that to Germany Germany default 4 times in the last 200 years and the currency is 20 years old. This is why the pound do is used as a reserve currency along with the dollar and Swiss franc and Japanese yen. But the GBP is still a good one. Probably joint best with Swiss Franc

Last week, before the vote, the British Pound was going for £1.00 which equaled US$1.67. Before the markets closed on Friday after the vote, it was £1.00 = $1.35. That's about a 20% drop.

Can I get the name of your exchange agent, as sterling hasn't been much above US$1.50 this calendar year?

 Tamwulf wrote:
Last week, before the vote, the British Pound was going for £1.00 which equaled US$1.67. Before the markets closed on Friday after the vote, it was £1.00 = $1.35. That's about a 20% drop. I look at it this way:

......

Bottom line: If you want Forge World stuff, but it now at a 20% dsicount.

The exchange rate hasn't been at or above 1.67 since the middle of 2014.

The average for May was 1.45USD, which is a saving of only 5.5% at the current rate of 1.37.

The averages over the past few months...

Jan 1.440257
Feb 1.429990
Mar 1.426061
Apr 1.430589
May 1.451924
Jun 1.435555

You need to check your maths before you go telling people to spend their money (even if it was at 1.67 that's an 18% drop, not 20%, people always round when it suits their argument to do so ). But actually you're only 5.5% better off now than you were in May, and only about 4.2% compared to preceding months.

I don't know about you guys, but a ~5% discount really isn't enough to get me off my arse and buy something I wasn't going to buy anyway. If I'm spending $100, saving $5 is nice but not really going to affect my decision at all.

The Brexit drop came off the back of a couple of weeks of a strengthening pound, and has dropped us back to the level it was before it started rallying.

Since the middle of 2014 the pound ranged from a high of 1.72USD and gradually dropped to 1.37 in Feb this year. Brexit dropped us back to that level, now we can wait and see if it falls further or continues to rally.

OgreChubbs wrote:


On a real note you can find forgeworld on ebay alot cheaper. It has alot less to due with price then the amount the over charge. I can afford a 100k truck but I would not pay that much for a hunk of metal lol.

Discount eBay FW is generally assumed to be recasts.