I just received an email from GW, spend £40 online and get £6 off my next order.

“A £6 Voucher Just For You...


Despite everything going on, the Warhammer hobby is healthier than ever. That’s in large part thanks to you and the amazing community of Warhammer fans around the world sharing positivity and great projects online.

To say thanks, we've a free £6 voucher for you.
All you need to do to claim your voucher is spend £40 on games-workshop.com by the 30th of September and we’ll give you a voucher for £6 to redeem against an order in October.

What's more, once you use your voucher, we'll give you another one! (Rumour has it there might even be a third voucher on the offing…)
That’s it. Now, go grab those kits you’ve been eyeing up.”


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The promise or rumour of further vouchers too, it’s a nice move.
Shame you have to spend to get the voucher..

I got a similar one, but spend £65 for a £10 voucher.

I got the same too. It's nice, I guess ? It's like we are shareholders and we get some benefits lol

If I was being sceptical I would wonder what the strings attached to the voucher are. If you need to spend another 30 or 40 quid in October as well, it starts to get less generous. However, vouchers will always have utility to someone, so it's still nice.

I got one in Canada:
Spend $200 for $30 off your next order.

I was offered £20 for spending £100

Whilst it is appreciate, I’ve few GW spending plans by 30 September.

And I now have a bird to spend my munneh on!

Despite everything going on, the Warhammer hobby is healthier than ever. That’s in large part thanks to you and the amazing community of Warhammer fans around the world sharing positivity and great projects online.

To say thanks, we've a free £20 voucher for you.
All you need to do to claim your voucher is spend £100 on games-workshop.com by the 30th of September and we’ll give you a voucher for £20 to redeem against an order in October.

What's more, once you use your voucher, we'll give you another one! (Rumour has it there might even be a third voucher on the offing…)
That’s it. Now, go grab those kits you’ve been eyeing up.

Weird the one I got said a $25 voucher if I spend $170.

In the US it is $9 off of a $65 order, or ~14% which puts it just under the 15% discount they allow mail-order retailers in the US.

It's an odd move. It provides some incentive to shop at their online store while also undercutting their 3rd party channels. What's strange is that the value of the voucher drops proportionally the more you spend, and the selected target will likely drive most people to order sizes around $85-120 just based on where their SKU price points sit. Seems like they're trying to acculturate monthly spending, but it's strange there's no ladder of benefits, e.d. spend $65 and get $9, spend 130 and get $25, etc.

Honestly, would rather they had some monthly free model or something, similar to what Wyrd has done in the past. It's higher perceived value and marginal extra cost on their side.

Appears they’re A/B testing the heck out of this! I was offered £5 for spending £50. Friend was offered £6 for £40! Rude!

Seems almost like they're tailoring the voucher to what you've spent on their shop in X period. I got the £10 off a £60 order.

Yeah, I basically don’t ever buy from there (must be over five years minimum..), so I suppose I got the lowest..

Maybe they give you the voucher based on what you’ve been looking at. So the £100 one people were looking at big items

 Londinium wrote:
Seems almost like they're tailoring the voucher to what you've spent on their shop in X period. I got the £10 off a £60 order.

Almost certainly.

When I order, I order large. And that has been helped by procuring stock for the Loot Group during lockdown, as I had the cash to spare, and was aware it may have been the opposite for others.

Yes, I am lovely and thoughtful of others.

I haven't bought anything from their online store and still got a voucher (small: 7eur for 50eur spent). So they hand them out just for being subscribed to the newsletter, I guess.
Still get better prices from discounts at local stores and currently there ain't gw products I want. The voucher will go down the drain.

Hmmm no email to me. Don't think i'll try risking it. Could have been nice enough. While flgs provides comparable discount this could be used for web store only items which don't have discount from flgs

Spend £50 in the next 5 days to get £5 off on a subsequent purchase next month.

It's a nice thought, but I dunno where you think I'm gonna get that money from GW...

beast_gts wrote:
I got a similar one, but spend £65 for a £10 voucher.

I got this one too. Interesting algorithm they're using, even in the UK.

I doubt I'll use it, for various reasons. Partly because my Pile of Shame is big enough I don't really feel the need to make it any bigger right now.

I got $14 for spending $99. Works out near to my FLGS 15% off, but plus shipping... it's close enough that I might make a purchase to see if the next voucher escalates in % at all or if they'll be the same.

 Prometheum5 wrote:
I got $14 for spending $99. Works out near to my FLGS 15% off, but plus shipping... it's close enough that I might make a purchase to see if the next voucher escalates in % at all or if they'll be the same.

There's no free shipping in us? I get one if order is 25e(less than codex or...well pretty much any box)

While not stellar discount(since you need to order something in october to use it) does have advantage of webstore items being usable for voucher. If i get email(aka safe for me to order) might get some ogor mawtribe webstore items.

Spend €80,- and get €12,- on my end, which is a bit annoying timing wise, as I just visited my local store today to get some expensive stuff.

I still want to order some books before the end of the month, but bumping it up to €80,- is going to be a bit hard right now.

£5 off when I splash £50. Think I’ll pass as there’s nothing I want direct and I can save more by going 3rd party. Shame it doesn’t apply to Forgeworld...

 Londinium wrote:
Seems almost like they're tailoring the voucher to what you've spent on their shop in X period. I got the £10 off a £60 order.

After reading the first posts here, I just assumed it was simply a big experiment: see what combination of 1) percentage of discount and 2) minimum order size will lead to people placing an order.

For completion, my offer was 12€ after spending 80€.

See timing wise this is a bad move - Septembers money is spent


That said do remember that GW has vouchers on their website so if you can't think of anything you want you could get a voucher with the money. Esp if your'e saving up for a big necron or marine or Sons release

Interesting...just got an offer for Spend $170, get $25...looks like they definitely monitor spending trends.

That may encourage me to get the Pelenor Fields set finally...

Damn, I haven't bought anything from GW proper in a while besides the new Orruk Brute warband for underworlds. Must be why I haven't gotten anything from them in my email

 Overread wrote:
See timing wise this is a bad move - Septembers money is spent


That said do remember that GW has vouchers on their website so if you can't think of anything you want you could get a voucher with the money. Esp if your'e saving up for a big necron or marine or Sons release

For sure, the timing is funny. If it was just a little later and I could use it on some giants...

 flaherty wrote:
In the US it is $9 off of a $65 order, or ~14% which puts it just under the 15% discount they allow mail-order retailers in the US.

It's an odd move. It provides some incentive to shop at their online store while also undercutting their 3rd party channels. What's strange is that the value of the voucher drops proportionally the more you spend, and the selected target will likely drive most people to order sizes around $85-120 just based on where their SKU price points sit. Seems like they're trying to acculturate monthly spending, but it's strange there's no ladder of benefits, e.d. spend $65 and get $9, spend 130 and get $25, etc.

Honestly, would rather they had some monthly free model or something, similar to what Wyrd has done in the past. It's higher perceived value and marginal extra cost on their side.

So far people have mentioned 9/65, 14/99 or 25/170 (for US). All around 14% [13.8%-14.7%]
And a vague promise of more kibble if you keep mashing the button when the bell rings. That troublesome aspect aside, its useful if already planning a purchase (and with two big releases next month, the voucher isn't anything to sneeze at).

Personally, the trouble is, a quick glance tells me that the things I've been trying to buy since spring are still out of stock.


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I assume the short time frame (5 days, basically) to qualify is intentional.

I got £20 for spending £100. Does anyone know if you can buy vouchers to get to the total, as I know I will want the Necron and marine codex in October?

Voss wrote:

 flaherty wrote:
In the US it is $9 off of a $65 order, or ~14% which puts it just under the 15% discount they allow mail-order retailers in the US.

It's an odd move. It provides some incentive to shop at their online store while also undercutting their 3rd party channels. What's strange is that the value of the voucher drops proportionally the more you spend, and the selected target will likely drive most people to order sizes around $85-120 just based on where their SKU price points sit. Seems like they're trying to acculturate monthly spending, but it's strange there's no ladder of benefits, e.d. spend $65 and get $9, spend 130 and get $25, etc.

Honestly, would rather they had some monthly free model or something, similar to what Wyrd has done in the past. It's higher perceived value and marginal extra cost on their side.

So far people have mentioned 9/65, 14/99 or 25/170 (for US). All around 14% [13.8%-14.7%]
And a vague promise of more kibble if you keep mashing the button when the bell rings. That troublesome aspect aside, its useful if already planning a purchase (and with two big releases next month, the voucher isn't anything to sneeze at).

Personally, the trouble is, a quick glance tells me that the things I've been trying to buy since spring are still out of stock.


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I assume the short time frame (5 days, basically) to qualify is intentional.

I'd bet a finger that this is entirely the point. Stocks at third party sellers (that I use) are falling again, much like they did in the run up to Indomitus. I've been thinking that stocks are taking a hit again as they're ramping up the pre-December made to order Indom boxes. This offer lines up neatly with my theory - they know that they're going to be short on many SKUs in the coming period and so, much like they did with Indomitus, they want to sell stuff that they can't make right now but will be able to make later on. Hence a limited time offer (this voucher). Buy now, time (or in the case of Indomitus, stock) is limited ! !


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The_Minsk wrote:
I got £20 for spending £100. Does anyone know if you can buy vouchers to get to the total, as I know I will want the Necron and marine codex in October?

Almost never (with these types of offers, from most retailers) so I assume not with GW (eg if Amazon sends you a limited time discount voucher, you can't buy Amazon vouchers with it)

JWBS wrote:

Almost never (with these types of offers, from most retailers) so I assume not with GW (eg if Amazon sends you a limited time discount voucher, you can't buy Amazon vouchers with it)

You wouldn't bu buoing vouchers with vouchers. You pay vouchers with cash. Not voucher

The_Minsk wrote:
I got £20 for spending £100. Does anyone know if you can buy vouchers to get to the total, as I know I will want the Necron and marine codex in October?

Far as I'm aware you just have to spend X on the GW store no matter what you buy, including vouchers.

At least that is how it worked last time they did this earlier in the year.


Note the only limit is that GW segregates their vouchers. So digital ones only work on the digital store; physical ones only work in the physical store; forgeworld ones only work in forgeworld etc....

Yes it's a bit different in this case and theoretically you might be able to roll the discount over indefinitely, until the offer expires.

They offered $55 if I spent $280.

Piss off...

Fun fact i have 2 different e-mails subscribed to GW newsletters and each e-mail got a different offer.

7Euro voucher for 50 spent and 12euro Voucher for 80 spent. And i never bought anything online from them as i have FLGS and even a local Warhammer store a few mins from my home.

£6 off £40 for me,

I'll have to consider whether I use it (and what's the betting that the 2nd voucher will require a higher spend?)

As others have said you tend to get better savings with independent stores, I guess if there is any web store exclusive stuff that you want that the voucher may have some use.

£10 for £65 spend. Might be tempted if nothing comes out on the previews for next week. Mines of Moria scenery and an Exorcist would be exactly right..

Nothing. This sucks.

I got $9 if I spend $65. That’s less than 15% off. My FLGS gives at least 15%, and there’s a small stockist nearby who gives an even bigger discount if you pay cash. Not that I’ve bought any GW stuff NIB in years.

Anyway, is there a numerical value that means “up yours” in British? ‘Cause I’d pay that.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
£6 off £40 for me,

I'll have to consider whether I use it (and what's the betting that the 2nd voucher will require a higher spend?)

They might just cycle through the values (low-middle-high and back to low).
Mind you, I think the low values are far more useful.

6 to 40 pounds (well,local equivalent) here too.
Would have to be mad to spend it, seeing as it still comes well below FLGS dscount.

I'm getting jealous of you folks. Discounts around these parts weren't particularly common, even before 2020.

JSG wrote:
Nothing. This sucks.

Nothing here either - but then, I've not ordered much from the webstore, I much prefer waltzing into my local GW to help ensure it keeps existing.
I think maybe I've spent... maybe £200 total on the webstore in the last 5 years?

I'm also not subscribed to the newsletter, I always untick anything along the lines of "promotional material". So that might have something to do with it.

It is probably linked to previously purchased vouchers, as my GF in Canada received an email with the same offer, but in Euro's instead of CAD.

 BrookM wrote:
It is probably linked to previously purchased vouchers, as my GF in Canada received an email with the same offer, but in Euro's instead of CAD.

Might not be, since I've not bought any vouchers from GW in a long time and the only one I've used was a gifted store voucher.

I suspect its more just looked at your recent purchase history up to a point. Plus one or two people might be missing the voucher as its only going to go to their GW registered email (which might not be their main email)

 BrookM wrote:
It is probably linked to previously purchased vouchers, as my GF in Canada received an email with the same offer, but in Euro's instead of CAD.

Not sure about that. I've never purchased vouchers myself before.

No voucher offers for me

They probably read what I have to say about the Taurox.

Or Storm Raven.

Or Servants of the Abyss.

€25 for €130 spend here. Normally don't order direct but I did get Indomitus from them, the 2 new Underworld warbands as I got €10 off from the Indomitus order and the latest WD with Zarbags Gitz. That's my only direct spend in a long while.

I got $8 if you spend $80. So it isn't all 14% or whatever.

I got NZ$18 for a NZ$120 spend. I have never bought anything from the GW online store. $120 is a lot of money to me and spending my limited hobby money to get a small discount for next month "is not feasible". Remember folks it's spend money this month to get a discount next month.

 Lord Perversor wrote:
Fun fact i have 2 different e-mails subscribed to GW newsletters and each e-mail got a different offer.

7Euro voucher for 50 spent and 12euro Voucher for 80 spent. And i never bought anything online from them as i have FLGS and even a local Warhammer store a few mins from my home.

Yeah, I didn't realize but I'm also subscribed with two different emails.
The one that's linked to my active purchasing account ($150 spent this month - GW is my local) got an offer of $10 with $100 spent. The one that I've never used before received an offer for $12 for $80 of spend. It makes me want to create a new shopping account - and in fact that's what I'm going to do.

i got £10 for £65 spend.
maybe it's in response to the price of that Imp Guard action figure so you can actually afford it (if you buy a bunch of vouchers).

I wasn't offered anything. :(

 Phobos wrote:
I wasn't offered anything. :(

The Algorithm has looked deep within your soul and found you wanting.

£50 for £5 for me, discounters are still cheaper but its a nice gesture.

200 zł buy for 30 zł off.

 BrookM wrote:
It is probably linked to previously purchased vouchers, as my GF in Canada received an email with the same offer, but in Euro's instead of CAD.

Never bought any.

These numbers are all over the place. Why wouldn't it be a consistent percentage across whatever each person's spending level is?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Phobos wrote:
I wasn't offered anything. :(

The Algorithm has looked deep within your soul and found you wanting.

Ugh, story of my life...

I got a $22 voucher for $150 spent. That's ~15%.

I got the $25 for $170, which is weird, because I've spent very little this year directly from GW. I bought loads of expensive stuff (Dark Uprising, etc.) but all from a FLGS. It's also annoying, because most of what I HAVE been buying from GW has been from Forgeworld, and I don't think it works there, just gamesworkshop.com.

 Snrub wrote:
I got a $22 voucher for $150 spent. That's ~15%.

Remember that to calculate the percentage discount to compare with other stores, you should divide the voucher with the total MSRP value (which is $172 in your case).

Da Butcha wrote:
I got the $25 for $170, which is weird, because I've spent very little this year directly from GW. I bought loads of expensive stuff (Dark Uprising, etc.) but all from a FLGS. It's also annoying, because most of what I HAVE been buying from GW has been from Forgeworld, and I don't think it works there, just gamesworkshop.com.

Correct. There's a link to 'wordy legal stuff' (terms and conditions) in the email.
Basically your purchases only qualify from 00:01 on 25/9 to 23:59 on 30/9, and only on the webstore and the vouchers are only valid for a calendar month and only on the GW webstore.
And make sure the email address and your 'gw account' are linked correctly or you'll get squat.

'discounted bundles' also don't count, but I'm not really sure what that would be on the GW stores. Its just not a phrase I associate with GW.
and you can't buy vouchers with vouchers.

Keel wrote:

 Snrub wrote:
I got a $22 voucher for $150 spent. That's ~15%.

Remember that to calculate the percentage discount to compare with other stores, you should divide the voucher with the total MSRP value (which is $172 in your case).

That’s a very good point.

The discount is even worse when you consider that you’ll almost certainly go over the threshold rather than exactly meeting it.

I got the £6 for spending £40 email. I'd be tempted if it was a voucher straight away, but doing it like this means the £40 wouldn't be discounted at all, I'd have to buy more once I got the voucher after that spend, which makes me wonder how much of an actual saving it'll be (or not).

It's probably just supposed to be a stimulus package to get people buying. If it was like 20% I would be thinking a lot harder about it. Heck I remember during the Kirby years I could get GW product if I preordered it at 25% off MSRP.I think Kirby era 25% off MSRP right now, considering my plastic pile of shame, is about what it would take to get me to buy something for the near future.
Hopefully people that buy stuff from GW anyways get something out of it?

macluvin wrote:
It's probably just supposed to be a stimulus package to get people buying. If it was like 20% I would be thinking a lot harder about it. Heck I remember during the Kirby years I could get GW product if I preordered it at 25% off MSRP.I think Kirby era 25% off MSRP right now, considering my plastic pile of shame, is about what it would take to get me to buy something for the near future.
Hopefully people that buy stuff from GW anyways get something out of it?

Seeing many armies have tons of kits that are webstore　items that generally have no discount at flgs(who get barely any discount themselves) themselves.

If i want doomsday arks no discount. Destroyers, no discount. Ogor army has basically basic ogres and beastclaw start collecting set as shelf item, rest web only.

Apart from marines not many armies you can build without any direct only items

I got £20 if I spend £100

My guess is that they have seen sales drop a bit due to a lot of kits being unavailable. Giving out a free voucher may tempt people to buy items they do have in stock which are probably slower moving and taking up space.

I notice none of the vouchers offer more than 20% of the qualifying spend, this is basically the same discount you could expect from most online retailers.

The biggest bonus for the customer would be if you were buying items only available through the GW online store

I got $22 AUD for spending $150. That’s nearly 15%, no complaints from me, I was going to pre-order the new stuff anyway.

 Prometheum5 wrote:
These numbers are all over the place. Why wouldn't it be a consistent percentage across whatever each person's spending level is?

Because it's almost certainly part promo to get you buy more and part market research to see what level of "discount" gets highest yield. So if "$8 for $40 spent" gets the most takers, you can expect more of those in the future.

I got 7€ when spending 65€.

diepotato47 wrote:
I got $22 AUD for spending $150. That’s nearly 15%, no complaints from me, I was going to pre-order the new stuff anyway.

Just shy of 13%. You get the voucher afterwards and also this is assuming you can spend exactly the voucher amount and not more; if you spend EXACTLY 150 AUD you’ll likely spend the 22 dollar voucher on maybe a character. Otherwise I can see you having to basically count the voucher off nearly 200$ in purchases realistically at best.

macluvin wrote:

diepotato47 wrote:
I got $22 AUD for spending $150. That’s nearly 15%, no complaints from me, I was going to pre-order the new stuff anyway.

Just shy of 13%. You get the voucher afterwards and also this is assuming you can spend exactly the voucher amount and not more; if you spend EXACTLY 150 AUD you’ll likely spend the 22 dollar voucher on maybe a character. Otherwise I can see you having to basically count the voucher off nearly 200$ in purchases realistically at best.

How so? I know AUS prices are pretty absurd, but rounding totals off with a paint bottle or whatever doesn't require spending an extra 50.

Canada here, got a 12$ voucher for spending 80$.

I'll stick to my FLGS as I save 15% on all purchases, instead of a very limited threshold from GW to make it not-quite equivalent or worse. First purchase at 80$ + taxes from GW (that's ~15% over the FLGS), then I need to get a 40$ + taxes on my second order (minimum for free shipping) to make the 12$ voucher be worth about 30% in saving to equal the FLGS offering (the taxes on the second order makes it a bit worst value).

Plus GW have like over half their stock unavailable, where my FLGS have near everything not direct-only in-stock.

$14 rebate that can only be spent at GW if I spend $99 or order the same stuff on Ebay to save $16 now.....

Well I got a $15 voucher if I spend $100.

Interesting as I have made no online GW purchases this year, I did however make a FW order.

It's kind of frustrating though as who doesn't like saving money but I've just gone through the GW site and most things I'm interested in are unavailable. I'm actually a bit surprised at the amount of unavailable items, probably shouldn't be but I am lol.

Anyway good luck to those using it hope it works out for you.

"dear customer, please spend a bunch of money BEFORE the big marine and necron release"

I got the email but right now I'm on a soending freeze until the marine codex comes out in 2 weeks

BrianDavion wrote:
"dear customer, please spend a bunch of money BEFORE the big marine and necron release"

I got the email but right now I'm on a soending freeze until the marine codex comes out in 2 weeks

Basically, yeah. I'm almost certainly going to pick up some Necron stuff, and I'm curious to see what the DG codex has to offer, and somewhat interested in the shape of marines. So there's lots of reasons to save hobby money.
If they'd sent me one of the low threshold savings? Might have picked up some paints and things. But I'm not going to toss $170 at them _before_ those releases for a slight mitigation to a similar purchase towards the middle or end of October (once I have a clear sense of everything coming and what it'll cost).

Opening the wallet now because it isn't here yet would be a weird move.

My email was (AU$)55 for (AU$)280

...I'm assuming that's because my last couple of orders (I think, my only 2 orders this year?) were a made to order indomitus box, and another big lot of stuff (~$400)

I probably would've gone for it too, if they actually had ANYTHING I wanted in stock...believe me, I looked hard for stuff to throw money at!

I received the "USD$25 off for spending USD$170"

Almost 15% off, but I'd rather spend that kind of money at my local FLGS. They need it more than GW.

BrianDavion wrote:
"dear customer, please spend a bunch of money BEFORE the big marine and necron release"

I got the email but right now I'm on a soending freeze until the marine codex comes out in 2 weeks

Or just get GW vouchers and then spend them on the big necron/marine release

I read this differently. Edited for perception:

Danny76 wrote:

Because of Covid-19, Brexit, skyrocketing shipping costs, and people waking up to other options, the Warhammer hobby is more vulnerable to total collapse than ever. That’s in large part thanks to people making choices to support their vulnerable lives outside of Warhammer. We hope to rope back in fans around the world with the promise of discounts for their projects.

I also received a similar offer from another British model and game company. A cry for help these are young Padawans.

 Tokhuah wrote:
I read this differently. Edited for perception:

Danny76 wrote:

Because of Covid-19, Brexit, skyrocketing shipping costs, and people waking up to other options, the Warhammer hobby is more vulnerable to total collapse than ever. That’s in large part thanks to people making choices to support their vulnerable lives outside of Warhammer. We hope to rope back in fans around the world with the promise of discounts for their projects.

I also received a similar offer from another British model and game company. A cry for help these are young Padawans.

To be fair if that's your GW viewpoint chances are you've already added GW to your email block list

 Tokhuah wrote:
I read this differently. Edited for perception:

Danny76 wrote:

Because of Covid-19, Brexit, skyrocketing shipping costs, and people waking up to other options, the Warhammer hobby is more vulnerable to total collapse than ever. That’s in large part thanks to people making choices to support their vulnerable lives outside of Warhammer. We hope to rope back in fans around the world with the promise of discounts for their projects.

I also received a similar offer from another British model and game company. A cry for help these are young Padawans.

Guess somebody hasn't been paying attention if that's　how you read it...

For data purposes, I also received the $22 AUD for spending $150 offer.

I suspect my best bet is to: Purchase a $150 virtual voucher in order to trigger the offer, then use my bought voucher to make up the difference on whatever I spend the offer voucher on next month? (Leaving the remainder of the bought voucher for future non time limited purchases)

This is about equivalent to what I can do "locally" (including shipping). Plus side, I can use it on GW only items. Minus side - there may not be one I want next month?

Also, it is not as if I need more miniatures...

Decisions decisions...

I got the $25 for $170 offer. I considered for about a third of a second before sending it to the trash bin.

Bleh. People who have no need for it get it. Me who has bunch of webstore only items which normally get no discount on to-get list doesn't. Gw sending promotions to wrong people

Want me to send you mine?

Got the 20 imperial credits for £100 offer, not a lot I want at the moment though until the Necron release drops

 Overread wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:
"dear customer, please spend a bunch of money BEFORE the big marine and necron release"

I got the email but right now I'm on a soending freeze until the marine codex comes out in 2 weeks

Or just get GW vouchers and then spend them on the big necron/marine release

Has anyone successfully got the extra voucher when buying regular vouchers? Looking at the T&Cs this seems possible - they don't appear to restrict qualifying purchases, only want you can use the additional voucher for

 Tokhuah wrote:
I read this differently. Edited for perception:

Danny76 wrote:

Because of Covid-19, Brexit, skyrocketing shipping costs, and people waking up to other options, the Warhammer hobby is more vulnerable to total collapse than ever. That’s in large part thanks to people making choices to support their vulnerable lives outside of Warhammer. We hope to rope back in fans around the world with the promise of discounts for their projects.

I also received a similar offer from another British model and game company. A cry for help these are young Padawans.

A company I worked at some time ago regularly sent "X discount for Y value order" e-mails to customers. Said company is still to my knowledge 2nd largest company in the world in their market. While it may be new for GW, it's not new in the wider world, and GW's profits and share prices this year look as solid as ever from the publicly available sources so...no, it's just them catching up to XXI century marketing.

Get £10 off your next order when you spend £60 first.

No.

I appreciate the effort GW, it's a positive step but it's still laughable.

Lets just have a 10% off the next purchase. Or "here £10 off your next order for being a loyal customer for the last 20 years..."

Semper wrote:
Get £10 off your next order when you spend £60 first.

No.

I appreciate the effort GW, it's a positive step but it's still laughable.

Lets just have a 10% off the next purchase. Or "here £10 off your next order for being a loyal customer for the last 20 years..."

Yeah, it's a lot of hoops. Unless you are ordering something that can't be accessed through LGS, it probably isn't worth it.

First, spend a very particular amount at full MSRP, then you will receive a voucher on your next purchase. Then rinse and repeat for 3 months.

My voucher was $12 when I spend $80. This is not a 15% discount - at best it is 12/92 = ~13% discount (likely less because I will spend over $80 on the initial purchase, and likely will spend more than $12 on the voucher purchase).

In total, if you can access 10% off elsewhere, you are likely better (I would have far preferred a one-time 10% off voucher from GW, to be honest).

I got £20 off for spending £100. Went for it because there's one or two web exclusives I'd wanted for a while: the inquisition Crusaders, and the Noise Marine with the ridiculous guitar gun thing. Mostly stocked up on Contrast paints other than those.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
They offered $55 if I spent $280.

Piss off...

Yeah, I got the same. With, you know, 5 days to spend it. If I got one of the more reasonable ones, I'd have grabbed something.

Hmm. I've managed to get given a fiver for £50...

Sucks because I need to do my spending in just a couple weeks, don't need anything that much right now

 Azazelx wrote:
If I got one of the more reasonable ones, I'd have grabbed something.

Legit. If it'd been 20% rather then 15%, I'd have made an order for all webstore exclusives.

Yeah, I'm a little envious of those getting a 20% deal. Mine was only 10%.

Has anyone confirmed that if you buy virtual gift cards this month that you will get the bonus voucher?

I got the £20 if you spend £100 offer, but there's nothing I really want this month. October however, oh boy. Shame.

I have a confirmation email from GW to say you can but vouchers to reach this months total

DATE HAS CHANGED

All you need to do is spend over £65 before midnight BST on Saturday and we’ll send you a voucher for £10 – we will also give you another voucher the following month when you redeem!

There's even a countdown timer in the email so its unlikely a mistake. Which is good news because that means you CAN spend this on the Necron/Marine launch. So now you've a choice - 3rd party store or GW central.

Confirming I got the $25 for $170 offer again, extended until Saturday evening. Promptly sent to trash again. Why bother when the local store will give me 20% off on a Necron/Marine stuff preorder this weekend?

 totalfailure wrote:
Confirming I got the $25 for $170 offer again, extended until Saturday evening. Promptly sent to trash again. Why bother when the local store will give me 20% off on a Necron/Marine stuff preorder this weekend?

Aye, but anything direct from GW gets very little discount to stores so there's a body of models you can get with better than 3rd party store discount. It likely wont' be the new stuff, but might be something else

 Overread wrote:

 totalfailure wrote:
Confirming I got the $25 for $170 offer again, extended until Saturday evening. Promptly sent to trash again. Why bother when the local store will give me 20% off on a Necron/Marine stuff preorder this weekend?

Aye, but anything direct from GW gets very little discount to stores so there's a body of models you can get with better than 3rd party store discount. It likely wont' be the new stuff, but might be something else

It’s farther away, but I do have another store I go to that does get direct order stuff into his store occasionally. So far, in the last few years, I think the only thing I HAD to get direct from GW was a copy of Fabius Bile Manflayer. This last Josh Reynolds Black Library book was not released in hard cover to third party sellers, and I had the previous two novels in hard cover. So far, model wise, I’ve never had the situation where I needed something so badly that was direct only. I’ve been able to do without, or pick it up from that ‘other’ store when I’ve been by.

I had to go look, since I ignored it the first time, and mine was $9 off of $65.

Which seems a bit weird/random

£6 off £40 for me. Thats a pass - still cheaper off other sites

Mine is $14 for $99 spent. Such odd amounts...

 totalfailure wrote:

 Overread wrote:

 totalfailure wrote:
Confirming I got the $25 for $170 offer again, extended until Saturday evening. Promptly sent to trash again. Why bother when the local store will give me 20% off on a Necron/Marine stuff preorder this weekend?

Aye, but anything direct from GW gets very little discount to stores so there's a body of models you can get with better than 3rd party store discount. It likely wont' be the new stuff, but might be something else

It’s farther away, but I do have another store I go to that does get direct order stuff into his store occasionally. So far, in the last few years, I think the only thing I HAD to get direct from GW was a copy of Fabius Bile Manflayer. This last Josh Reynolds Black Library book was not released in hard cover to third party sellers, and I had the previous two novels in hard cover. So far, model wise, I’ve never had the situation where I needed something so badly that was direct only. I’ve been able to do without, or pick it up from that ‘other’ store when I’ve been by.

Getting them flgs possible yes. No discount and at least for me here easily month before flgs　gets them.

Small discount better than no discount

The_Minsk wrote:
I have a confirmation email from GW to say you can but vouchers to reach this months total

I guess we'll find out - the email says the gift vouchers will be send out within 7 days of end of Sept.
I put the order in for some gift cards because I realized that between the Crusade mission pack, Codex, dice, shard of the void dragon, and Flayed ones - I'll be spending over $200. This way I get the same %15 that my local store gives but I get it delivered and don't need to go into the city and risk a pandemic hot zone.

 Overread wrote:
DATE HAS CHANGED

All you need to do is spend over £65 before midnight BST on Saturday and we’ll send you a voucher for £10 – we will also give you another voucher the following month when you redeem!

There's even a countdown timer in the email so its unlikely a mistake. Which is good news because that means you CAN spend this on the Necron/Marine launch. So now you've a choice - 3rd party store or GW central.

I went and double checked the terms and conditions the 'legal goodness' link in my email, and its in there too:
This Offer is valid from 00:01 BST on 25/09/2020 until 23:59 BST on 03/10/2020 inclusive.

Thankfully the timer in the email itself means having all afternoon on Saturday to decide, well after the preorders go up.

Its certainly more tempting with the offer including stuff I was going to probably purchase, plus extra time to sort through which paints I need to replace.

I actually got one this time. £10 for spending £65.

JSG wrote:
I actually got one this time. £10 for spending £65.

Same as my offer!

I'm not sure I understand the value of the one I was sent.
I was told if I spend £50 or more, I'll get a £5 voucher. Which means spending more later to use the voucher.
In other words, this would max out at a 10% discount, dropping to 5% if I spent the same amount both times.
No offense GW, but every online seller ever gives at least double that discount. Why?

Someone mentioned it earlier, but I think they are trialling different combinations of values to see which ones prove most popular. They can then pick the cheapest option, most popular option (s) going forward.

Got one finally. Spend 130€ for 25€. Bit on expensive but as it turns out there's 4 direct only items that a) I could definitely find use for b) adds up to 130€ on the spot. Then there's another 30€ direct only item I could find use...And for added fun free postage limit is atm 25e. So all in all I pay 135€ for 160€ which adds up to 15.6% discount for items I normally would not get discount.

It's not stellar, it's not life changing but nice enough that can appreciate. I rather pay 135 than 160!

Obviously value depends on what items you are planning to purchase. This is obviously best use for direct only items. Even better if you live where GW delivers direct only items super slow like I(month waiting delivery was rather normal even before covid).

Received my code just now along with a repeat of the offer: spend €80,- or more this month and get another €12,- voucher for next month.

Just received my voucher, I got the same offer again, spend £65 to get a £10 voucher.

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:
Just received my voucher, I got the same offer again, spend £65 to get a £10 voucher.

Ditto

Got my voucher & repeat offer, applying through October

I can confirm that buying virtual vouchers worked - order those on Wednesday and haven't bought anything else from the webstore for a couple of months

 OldPeculiar wrote:
Got my voucher & repeat offer, applying through October

I can confirm that buying virtual vouchers worked - order those on Wednesday and haven't bought anything else from the webstore for a couple of months

Yeah, I bought a virtual voucher and received the bonus voucher. The updated terms and conditions explicitly reference virtual vouchers as being eligible purchases:

"This Offer is limited to physical purchases from the Games Workshop web store and purchases of virtual vouchers only, excluding purchases of any discounted bundles."

I wonder if you can use month 1 virtual vouchers to purchase month 2 virtual vouchers to get the second bonus voucher.

decker_cky wrote:

 OldPeculiar wrote:
Got my voucher & repeat offer, applying through October

I can confirm that buying virtual vouchers worked - order those on Wednesday and haven't bought anything else from the webstore for a couple of months

Yeah, I bought a virtual voucher and received the bonus voucher. The updated terms and conditions explicitly reference virtual vouchers as being eligible purchases:

"This Offer is limited to physical purchases from the Games Workshop web store and purchases of virtual vouchers only, excluding purchases of any discounted bundles."

I wonder if you can use month 1 virtual vouchers to purchase month 2 virtual vouchers to get the second bonus voucher.

No:

Legal stuff link wrote:Virtual Vouchers provided under this Offer:

1. must be redeemed within one calendar month from receipt;

2. can only be redeemed against products on the Games Workshop web store; and

3. cannot be used for purchasing additional Virtual Vouchers.

Something that I can't believe only just occurred to me - this offer is not only bringing GW a little influx cash right now, it's also setting up some extra cash for next month too.
Think about the amounts on those vouchers, and how most of them don't even meet the price of a single model. How many receiving a voucher are going to spend up to or under that voucher's value, getting just a couple of paint pots or something? Hardly seems worth it, right...?

Now - how many are going to spend more than the voucher next month?
Admittedly, I can imagine quite a few of you were going to get one or both of the new 40K Codexes when they're available anyway, but that's still a sale that might otherwise have gone to a FLGS.

Voss wrote:

decker_cky wrote:

 OldPeculiar wrote:
Got my voucher & repeat offer, applying through October

I can confirm that buying virtual vouchers worked - order those on Wednesday and haven't bought anything else from the webstore for a couple of months

Yeah, I bought a virtual voucher and received the bonus voucher. The updated terms and conditions explicitly reference virtual vouchers as being eligible purchases:

"This Offer is limited to physical purchases from the Games Workshop web store and purchases of virtual vouchers only, excluding purchases of any discounted bundles."

I wonder if you can use month 1 virtual vouchers to purchase month 2 virtual vouchers to get the second bonus voucher.

No:

Legal stuff link wrote:Virtual Vouchers provided under this Offer:

1. must be redeemed within one calendar month from receipt;

2. can only be redeemed against products on the Games Workshop web store; and

3. cannot be used for purchasing additional Virtual Vouchers.

Doesn't actually state that in the updated terms and conditions (you get updated terms and conditions when you get the new voucher), but what I was referring to:

Month 1, spend $80 to buy a virtual voucher. Receive bonus $12 virtual voucher.
Month 2, spend $80 virtual voucher (not the bonus $12 virtual voucher) to buy $80 virtual voucher.

Only a little generally. With free shipping limit so low it's easy to avoid spending much. I'll get 25e voucher. That alone　covers free shipping. Ogre artillery is 30e. Gw gets　5e from me.

Slightly better discount all told than flgs which normally can't even discount the items　i got.

 Super Ready wrote:
Something that I can't believe only just occurred to me - this offer is not only bringing GW a little influx cash right now, it's also setting up some extra cash for next month too.
Think about the amounts on those vouchers, and how most of them don't even meet the price of a single model. How many receiving a voucher are going to spend up to or under that voucher's value, getting just a couple of paint pots or something? Hardly seems worth it, right...?

Now - how many are going to spend more than the voucher next month?
Admittedly, I can imagine quite a few of you were going to get one or both of the new 40K Codexes when they're available anyway, but that's still a sale that might otherwise have gone to a FLGS.

Yeah, it's a pretty smart marketing ploy. One that I will fall for as I can put money through the till at my local GW AND get a bit of a discount. best of both.

It is pretty sneaky though, for sure. Allows them to test discounts/targeted marketing and will definitely bring in a wave of influx orders people wouldn't be buying if the multiple vouchers weren't there.

Expect to see this in the future.

 Super Ready wrote:
Something that I can't believe only just occurred to me - this offer is not only bringing GW a little influx cash right now, it's also setting up some extra cash for next month too.
Think about the amounts on those vouchers, and how most of them don't even meet the price of a single model. How many receiving a voucher are going to spend up to or under that voucher's value, getting just a couple of paint pots or something? Hardly seems worth it, right...?

Now - how many are going to spend more than the voucher next month?
Admittedly, I can imagine quite a few of you were going to get one or both of the new 40K Codexes when they're available anyway, but that's still a sale that might otherwise have gone to a FLGS.

Erm, yes, this has been discussed from the very start as it relates to the realistic discount the vouchers offer. This is especially true when wanting to order enough to get over the free shipping threshold, as the total amount you will be spending is first the minimum order to get the voucher, and then enough to get free shipping; not just something that's exactly the same amount of the voucher.

Which brings me to a question... how does GW actually calculate the free shipping? Is it for orders containing products to a value of X, or should there still be X worth of products to pay for after vouchers have been applied? E.g. if you were to have a £20 voucher, can you place an order for £20 of products, redeem the voucher and have the order shipped for free (£20 is the free shipping threshold), or would you have to order £40 worth of products, so that the order still costs you £20 in order to qualify for free shipping?

 Coenus Scaldingus wrote:

 Super Ready wrote:
Something that I can't believe only just occurred to me - this offer is not only bringing GW a little influx cash right now, it's also setting up some extra cash for next month too.
Think about the amounts on those vouchers, and how most of them don't even meet the price of a single model. How many receiving a voucher are going to spend up to or under that voucher's value, getting just a couple of paint pots or something? Hardly seems worth it, right...?

Now - how many are going to spend more than the voucher next month?
Admittedly, I can imagine quite a few of you were going to get one or both of the new 40K Codexes when they're available anyway, but that's still a sale that might otherwise have gone to a FLGS.

Erm, yes, this has been discussed from the very start as it relates to the realistic discount the vouchers offer. This is especially true when wanting to order enough to get over the free shipping threshold, as the total amount you will be spending is first the minimum order to get the voucher, and then enough to get free shipping; not just something that's exactly the same amount of the voucher.

Which brings me to a question... how does GW actually calculate the free shipping? Is it for orders containing products to a value of X, or should there still be X worth of products to pay for after vouchers have been applied? E.g. if you were to have a £20 voucher, can you place an order for £20 of products, redeem the voucher and have the order shipped for free (£20 is the free shipping threshold), or would you have to order £40 worth of products, so that the order still costs you £20 in order to qualify for free shipping?

Just to the value of X. So in your example, a £20 voucher spend for £20 of product gets you free shipping.

Thanks, that's good to know for the future!

How do you get alerted that you've got your voucher?

Needed to do some pre-orders today through my local GW. Logged in to the online terminal, spent the £50, got confirmation email on my phone, but nothing about voucher, and nothing existing in my virtual vouchers section on the site.

Since it's only a fiver I'm not that bothered, but its a nice to have.

Something to do with going through store?

It SHOULD come to you as a code you'd redeem, arriving in the email tied to your account.

Upon placing the relevant order I got nothing. Only confirmation I got was yesterday when I simply got the code in the mail.

Decided to spend my €12,- on the new Getting Started magazine, perfect gift for someone else.

Though I am a bit miffed that this voucher is only good for a month, after which you lose it. Would've been a nice thing to save up over the months that they run this and get something nice and big in the end.

I ended up exerting some willpower over myself and managed to not spend anything. But it got me thinking.
GW could do a rolling discount for regular spenders. Spend $'X' one month, get a 5% discount the next. Spend the same (or a bit more) next month, and your discount jumps up to 10% for the month after. Keep going like that till you reach say.... 25%, maybe 30% discount. Then if you miss a month, start again at the base discount and work your way back up.
People would spend big to keep that sort of thing going and GW aren't going to lose any money on it really. If other stores can do up to a 20% and still make profit, GW certainly will.

It would incentivise people to use their webstore again and again. And how many people aren't going to chuck in an extra pot of paint or a brush, if it bumps them up over the threshold for a bigger discount later on.


I mean, I don't think they'd ever adopt that model. Especially not to a discount level that high. But I feel like it's a model that could work quite well for them.

Ideal would be to not have the vouchers be valid for a single month.

They'd also need to work on their timing, when this first dropped the window to purchase something and get the voucher was quite small, as opposed to the month-long window we've got now. But this may very well be part of the predatory FOMO / "Act now or lose out!" mindset that a lot of companies use to get people to spend-spend-spend! these days.

As is right now, spending €80,- for another one isn't that bad for me personally and with a month to do it, I can wait until the end of the month at least, when I get paid. With no FLGS to go to and a my GW store of choice having poor stock levels, not to mention worrying that they'll have to lock up again soon, I am ordering more online anyway. Only real downside is that home delivery is a poor choice due to how utterly horrible Royal Mail is as a delivery choice.

I buy almost exclusively online and Royal Mail has never given me the slightest problem.

Just a reminder, the final day to use vouchers earnt last month is tomorrow. Tomorrow is also the deadline to earn any vouchers for next month.