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I saw some of the price increases from an email by the warstore. Things like greater daemons are jumping to almost 60. Yikes. How are you preparing to handle this. Switch to online shopping? more conversions? In my case it's doing the whole squirrel and winter thing. I bought and packed away 2 full armies to paint down the line. So I now have 4 full armies. My problem is wanting to make a 2k Space Marine army now (Iron Lords colorscheme).

Erm, my discount from project hydra is just getting better, so what price increace?

Not buy any more stuff. I have basically everything I need now, I will stop buying.

Just bought a whole load of Flames of War bits so no painting GW stuff for quite some time. I still have about a year and a half worth of unpainted GW stuff in my queue on top of that anyway!

I put my planned Cadian purchaces on hold, perhaps permanently.

Considering that I NEVER pay full price for GW product aside from things like rules and army lists and usually buy second hand, the price increase has not effected me at all....aside from just help validate my extremely poor opinion of GW as a company.

TR

I will continue to build my Ork army, online at the cheapest shop I can find, it will not be the size I had planned, I am using the models from AT43 for the dreds n kans and will be considering other options for trucks and battlewagons.

When that army is finished somewhen in 2010 I will be building a fantasy army, my intention is to construct it without a single gw miniature.

I will then not purchase a GW mini again unless for a greatly reduced price on ebay or something. GW has proved it's self completely removed from it's hobby roots and demonstrated time and again that it is unconcerned with reputation or an kind of loyalty to it's playerbase. I posted on this site because last year I decided to return to the hobby due to improved minis and what I thought was an improved attitude from GW, it has been a reawakening of the hatred that drove me from the game so I want to investigate other options. As an adult with no kids and a reasonable wage, I am staggered by what is being charged for the figures and the idea that a new IG army won't be far short of a DKoK army from forgeworld.

I am hopeful now that GW falls. In the rush over copyright there would be a slew of GW style imitation armies released and the good times would roll, another company would take ownership of the games and identity and hopefully show a more ethical and less 'wring all the nerds and kids for cash' attitude. GW is out of touch and been living in a monopoly based ivory tower for too long, it needs decapitation.

since I am in the mood to continue complaining, I will be buying much less stuff but still, like, buying stuff.

I have mostly trade for what I need anyway, and buying online what I can't find. If someone doesn't already have it for cheaper, I'll still buy to support the FLGS.

I will be buying items but not as many as I used, too as soon as my IG/Dkok army is done purcahses will hault.

I have an addiction...

What price increase?

I will grab a couple sets, then start working off my backlogue.

I'm pretty much working through my 'To Paint' box before any more large purchases. Aside from that, I'll stick with my current practice. I'm looking for old stuff and my Witch Hunters online since they're basically side projects.

For my Orks, it's mostly dribs and drabs. A couple of Trukks, a couple of Battlewagons and a couple of boxes here and there. Those, I'm still getting at the FLGS' since I do play there and all that.

My FLGS isn't having a price increase. I laugh at those of you who actually buy from real GW stores.

It's really odd for me because out of the entire list that I've seen, only two of the models which I was thinking about picking up are on the list, and I just don't care about a $2 increase on a $22 boxed set. Oh my god, one less cheeseburger this week.

I imagine that it's a bit worse for the UK people who have to weather through GW's foolish attempt at curbing exports, but that's a whole other discussion.

I haven't really been buying anything, so I doubt that'll change much. The last models I ever bought were two cheap devilfish tanks on eBay and an Asurmen model from the FLGS for $3, and I'm actually thinking of trading or selling off the Orks I had.

It's also interesting to note that because of this price increase, Kroot hounds are probably one of the only models in the game that cost more than a $1 per point.

The budget stays the same. If I buy fewer models, oh well.

I buy less stuff, and spend more time on it painting it to a high standard. So I get more bang for my buck.

Meangreenstompa:
Well said sir, and I agree 100%.

I have hated GW for a long time (at least since some of the very questionable stuff they pulled around the time of the change over to 2nd edition 40k and the baseless lead scare) but GW really jumped the shark for me around 2002 or so. Right after the divorce from my first wife, I had loads of disposable income. I was living alone, had very few bills, and was past the weekly dating with me paying for everything stage with my new girl friend. Up until that point I generally made it a practice were I could of buying a new army in one large purchase. I hate "collecting an army" and had gotten into the habit of of buying an army all at once from real wargaming. But around this time I found that I could no longer afford to buy a full army for WFB or 40k with one paycheck's hobby allowance. That's when I realised that GW's prices had gotten totally excessive. Don't get me wrong, they have always been high compared to other compaines in the wargaming genre, and I had not bought much wargaming stuff for a few years due to the control by my ex of the purse strings, but that is when I fully realised how stupid GW's pricing model had become.

TR

I'm done. I never thought I'd say it, but I'm pretty much done buying new product. I'm sticking with ebay exclusively from now on.

Sorry, but I can't do $30 bloodcrushers. Raising prices during a recession of this magnitude is borderline insane.

dont really care
there mostly increasing by the 2 or 4 dollers so whats the big deal?
it may go down later any way when the recessions over

For those of us who never buy GW at retail, and always buy from discounters? Who cares... I'll still be getting 30% off.

It's not gonna affect me to much. I'm just about done buying GW products for the forseeable future. I've got enough models for the three armies I play for 40k and Fantasy to never have to play the same list twice again. There really isn't any army I see myself wanting to play anytime soon, so I just don't see the need to spend any money on new models.

im wondering? how many of you said your done buying gw stuff from the last price increase

I'm just sticking with the armies I have so the price increase doesn't really affect me.

garret wrote:im wondering? how many of you said your done buying gw stuff from the last price increase

I never said I was done. But I'm not spending more.

Probably some of the stuff I'm buying next month is stuff I would have bought
earlier.

Cost isn't an issue for me, only time to paint play and assemble. so I will continue to build armies at my snail pace

it may go down later any way when the recessions over

There aren't enough smilies in the world...

GW has never lowered prices, and never will. You're a fool if you honestly believe they will go down at any point, especially when (if) the recession ends.

im wondering? how many of you said your done buying gw stuff from the last price increase

LEAVE GW ALONE!

And just to answer your question, I've been "done" for a while now. It's been a long, long time since GW got any of my money, I've been buying mostly used or eBay models for quite some time, and like I was saying I'm not even going to do that much now. This hobby was hard enough to afford in 2006, but if prices keep going up every fething year then I'm going to have to quit eventually, so better sooner than later.

Well,upon completing my Traitor guard (half of wich I hope to do via e-bay,discount online,warstore) my GW purcases will drasticly decrease.
I'll have 3 full armies,plus a ton of terrain/scenery projects to work on with nothing GW offers catching my eye save a select few items wich I'll buy over time,basicly making the price increase virtuly a non issue for me.

I will still buy GW mini's but in smaller amounts,but since I don't buy from a GW store I am not sure if the price will increase by much.Also I might try buying more second hand stuff off Ebay and such.