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Hi I have been playing Warhammer 40k for a while and noticed all the price increases. Since the last few years the prices have sky rocketed past any reasonable measure. I would like to find out what people think of the gw price increase and how it affects their gaming.
I would also like to point out that depending on where you buy the products you get an additional fee. for example 5 death company boxes it costs 192 dollars around Canada before taxes. while it costs 138 dollars Canadian if you go to the united kingdoms. I would think that gw would at least treat their customers with a bit of respect instead of this blatant racism. I could understand a small delivery fee but a cost difference of 54$ on top of price increases is Insane! OUr economy isn't so terrible that GW needs our support or that its business will go out without these price increases, it seems more like just pure greed. If you have any comments on this topic or what we the consumers can do to tell GW how pissed we are please leave a message. I also encourage you to Wright Gw a letter representing how unhappy the Gaming community is about these price increases.
Thanks for your time.

If you think it's about racism then you should rethink what you just wrote.

GW's prices are due to racism?


I know people have posted things like GW staff assaulting people, but this, this takes the cake.

Just look at Australian prices those will make you cry.
The prices are crazy. the new kits keep going up in price even faster aka new woc stuff.

In my time of warhammering i have seen the lr price double and it is very saddening.

They are just bad at business.

I used racism because my friend Alex once went to Britain on a trip and when he was their they wouldn't sell him any models 3 years ago. So sorry if it is a bit strong use of language but i don't have a different descriptive word to use. (so yes you can call it bad business)

Slayer222 wrote:
I used racism because my friend Alex once went to Britain on a trip and when he was their they wouldn't sell him any models 3 years ago. So sorry if it is a bit strong use of language but i don't have a different descriptive word to use. (so yes you can call it bad business)

I'm not calling you a liar, but I don't believe this story.

Since when is "Canadian" a race?

well Canada is more of a mix between races, but i mean is that the UK gets special deals while the rest are forced to pay much more, like Australia, they pay 114 Canadian for a land raider while the united kingdom's pay 60 dollars Canadian for a land raider. That's almost double.

GW are the KKK of business yes, but in no way does this mean they are racist.

Also, Slayer do you know what an exchange rate is?

Please....
"Canadian" is no more a "race" than "American", "British" or "Mexican". Thus it's not by definiton "racism".

Yet more proof that this little Marxist construct of a word has been over-used and mis-used to the point that it has no real meaning in today's world aside from "racist=someone I disagree with".

TR

Yes, and that's why i am putting all the prices into Canadian dollar to show the difference. The main thing would be a fee for transporting the goods or the cost to ship an item out of the country so that the government gains money off of it, but almost double. That seems a little to high of a cost difference.

Slayer222 wrote:
Yes, and that's why i am putting all the prices into Canadian dollar to show the difference. The main thing would be a fee for transporting the goods or the cost to ship an item out of the country so that the government gains money off of it, but almost double. That seems a little to high of a cost difference.

The main problem with buying stuff in canada is your tarriffs that are placed on goods coming into the country. Ergo since their is no GW factory in Canada it costs more to ship stuff there.

Slayer222 wrote:
I would think that gw would at least treat their customers with a bit of respect instead of this blatant racism.

Stupid post is stupid.

So your saying (not including Gw price increases) That it is double because of tarrifs and shipping? shipping may cost around 10% and the duties cost no more than 8%. That only justifies rounded up about a 20% increase not a 100% increases

buy from china,you can get 50% - 70% off GW prices :p

Slayer222 wrote:
So your saying (not including Gw price increases) That it is double because of tarrifs and shipping? shipping may cost around 10% and the duties cost no more than 8%. That only justifies rounded up about a 20% increase not a 100% increases

Yep I do international shipping and receiving for a living. Canada's a lot worse than that on large shipments like GW would do. Also using the number you provided it is 39% not 100%. Math is fundamental so we are now down to 54 dollars Canadian as your issue (192(Canadian price)-138(British price)=54 Canadian dollars guess what you have a Canadian infrastructure for the company to support in addition to the English hence why it is cheaper in England.)

Math and Common Sense are fundamental.

Yes and so is reading the posts. look at land raider to land raider. 60-114.

Oh noes, that means that when I buy from GW USA (since it's the nearer one and it's on the other side of the globe) charges me a $35 shipping is being racist?

Oh mah Emprah!

not racist but bad business when they charge an extra 90%.

SouthTexanFrymire wrote:
... Warhammer 40k has a right wing twang to it...

Slayer222 wrote:
...Canadian...

This is why. GW is punishing you for liberalism.

Really though, I would imagine increased business costs in your country might be to blame, along with the supply and demand issue.

Slayer222 wrote:
I used racism because my friend Alex once went to Britain on a trip and when he was their they wouldn't sell him any models 3 years ago. So sorry if it is a bit strong use of language but i don't have a different descriptive word to use. (so yes you can call it bad business)

Your mate is lying to you.

GW's prices have kept pace with inflation in general, and GW's varying prices by-country are a result of problems in their distribution system.

/thread.

Plus, if you've genuinely drunken your kool-aide, the best thing you can do is to profit by it. If prices are really that bad in your country, then start a small business importing things from countries where prices are lower and selling them in your own country at a profit. If you really think that GW's prices are going up so fast, then buy a bunch of box sets now, and then sit on them and sell them in a couple of years for a profit.

Of course, neither of those will actually work, because you're wrong, but if you're that passionate about it, then put your money where your mouth is.

So i am wrong that Australia has to pay 90% more dollars than the united kingdoms. 2nd of all buying from other countries is actually cheaper for me so that's what I have been doing.

I agree that the prices are getting a little ridiculous, but I have serious doubts that it has anything to do with racism. The gentleman who mentioned the fact that Canada has no factory hit it right on the nose. Importing is always more expensive.

I agree that it isn't racism. i just lacked a better word. It is really bad business. (thanks for blood reaper for giving me a better word)

Now I just imagine GW's exectutive meetings being filled up with skin heads, Klansmen, a stereotypical Souther Plantation Owner, and Hitler's head in a jar.

 Savageconvoy wrote:
Now I just imagine GW's exectutive meetings being filled up with skin heads, Klansmen, a stereotypical Souther Plantation Owner, and Hitler's head in a jar.

You forgot the executive council of Mao Stalin and Vlad Dracul

 captain collius wrote:

 Savageconvoy wrote:
Now I just imagine GW's exectutive meetings being filled up with skin heads, Klansmen, a stereotypical Souther Plantation Owner, and Hitler's head in a jar.

You forgot the executive council of Mao Stalin and Vlad Dracul

tss tss tss, your all wrong... they are british, they think that everybody are lower race. Who need KKK, Nazi and Communistes when you live under the Queen's kingdom.

Slayer222 wrote:
I agree that it isn't racism. i just lacked a better word. It is really bad business. (thanks for blood reaper for giving me a better word)

But ya see, they can get away with it. GW, at the moment, doesn't really have any other serious competition with 40k. I mean, in the grand scheme of things 40k is MASSIVE for the war-gaming community. The way their stuff is run, you kinda have to pay their prices or your out of luck. You can make conversions with third parties but sometimes it can be just as expense or hard to get.

However, the prices are kinda blatantly overpriced. Like, I understand the amount that goes into making sets of miniatures but do 10 plastic Space Marines (who are some of the less detailed models they make since not a whole lot goes into their armor and things, and the sprue lacks a lot of special weapons and stuff) REALLY need to cost $40? My older brother remembers when mini's cost $15 for a box of 10 or 15-20 if you got lucky with a company. They also weren't too badly detailed back then either

head of GW!