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go get your preorder on;
http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Codex-Tau-Empire-Ghostkeel-Edition

130 dollars extra for some paper, a deck of cards and some coins.

The feth.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
130 dollars extra for some paper, a deck of cards and some coins.

The feth.

It will be interesting to see if it sells out.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
130 dollars extra for some paper, a deck of cards and some coins.

The feth.

I bought the Tyranid Limited Edition codex. I was thinking, "I paid twice as much for a different cover and a what ever number out of a 1000?" At leas it wasn't a piece of paper saying that.

With all the limited editions being sold out within 5 minuets of release, I am surprised after a few hours that it's still available in Canada. I missed out on the Dark Angles Limited edition and I was refreshing every minute. So maybe GW finally hit the price limit that we will not accept.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
130 dollars extra for some paper, a deck of cards and some coins.

The feth.

I returned to the game at the beginning of 6th. They have done this (or less!) for every single limited edition book since then.

And yet, somehow, people are still surprised; and some people even get excited!

This hobby is bewildering to me...

 Kilkrazy wrote:
It will be interesting to see if it sells out.

with print runs as small as they are, they can probably always sell out of them, that's basically one book for every major metro area of the UK, US and Europe. There will always be *that* guy somewhere.

He might even be posting right above you....

 Slaanesh-Devotee wrote:

 TheCustomLime wrote:
130 dollars extra for some paper, a deck of cards and some coins.

The feth.

I returned to the game at the beginning of 6th. They have done this (or less!) for every single limited edition book since then.

And yet, somehow, people are still surprised; and some people even get excited!

This hobby is bewildering to me...

It's still no less shocking to see how much extra can be charged for some paper and some coins.

Hey making your own sculpts is artistic and fun.

Plus you get to attend a lot of life drawing/sculpting classes.

Saving money is cool, maybe you can homebrew a codex too.

Sold out :-)

What can i say, im a weak man with a massive attraction to anything labeled as limited edition.

God help me...

 poolatka wrote:
go get your preorder on;
http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Codex-Tau-Empire-Ghostkeel-Edition

No

I won't fall for the classic reverse reverse psychology technique when 180 US dollars-doos are on the line

 Bottle wrote:
Sold out :-)

I weep for humanity.

I picked one up. But, then again I didn't have any prior Tau Empires stuff. It might have been different if I already had previous books.

I wonder what number I'll get!

When they first did LE dexes they were stupid. Double the price for a variant cover? C'mon, toss in something to make it worth it. So they did.... and then charged quadruple...

Dexes are printed in china, They are worth $10 tops before the GW gouge machine gets to them


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 Tinkrr wrote:

 Bottle wrote:
Sold out :-)

I weep for humanity.

Apparently people really liked those printed coins. Guess they don't realize that the books are worth nothing and are going to be obsolete in 2 years or less.

I'm one of the suckers who sprung for Codex: Dark Angels: Reclusiam Edition. I have to say, although the price was way above and beyond what I should have done, I do like the metal objective markers and the nicely printed Cypher dataslate, plus its nice having something very few other players have. It usually turns a few heads at my FLGS (the metal markers especially). As cool as they are, I will never buy another special codex, as there are far better things to do with my money (like more models ).

this book costs more then my law textbooks! Holy crap i thought school was expensive

I was thinking of selling my few tau units...

Well I saw this and caved. I too am a collector of limited stuff, especially if it is shiny. The cover art and colors are much cooler, black page edges, those awesome objective markers, and I don't have to buy data cards!

Damn it is expensive though. I seem to limp for a couple days after gw opens up preorders like this...

 Mechanical Crow wrote:
When they first did LE dexes they were stupid. Double the price for a variant cover? C'mon, toss in something to make it worth it. So they did.... and then charged quadruple...

Dexes are printed in china, They are worth $10 tops before the GW gouge machine gets to them


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 Tinkrr wrote:

 Bottle wrote:
Sold out :-)

I weep for humanity.

Apparently people really liked those printed coins. Guess they don't realize that the books are worth nothing and are going to be obsolete in 2 years or less.

Being obsolete in one to two years isn't a problem with any product, even a limited edition one. The issue comes with how much more that limited edition price tag costs, and how people get almost nothing for it.

I mean really, limited edition product usually exists to either support the main company, or the FLGS that sell their product. Though I hear time and time again how GW is scum when it comes to business practices, and I've seen some of it myself, so seeing people support them with this is just disgusting. The very least GW could have done was used these to support FLGS, but they didn't.

Alas I bought one too. Weep all you like, I like to collect the limited stuff when I can, and Tau is the army I got into when I got back into 40k after my 10 year break.

I really wanted the map, honestly, but instead of spending almost $200 on a map I opted instead to buy three boxes of crisis suits from my local store, so...

I honestly think GW would make more money in the long run if they made cool stuff like that and just sold it regularly. Posters, tokens, custom dice, t-shirts, key chains, etc. Oh well.

 Sidstyler wrote:
I really wanted the map, honestly, but instead of spending almost $200 on a map I opted instead to buy three boxes of crisis suits from my local store, so...

I honestly think GW would make more money in the long run if they made cool stuff like that and just sold it regularly. Posters, tokens, custom dice, t-shirts, key chains, etc. Oh well.

I actually did buy my copy through my LGS. They have been able to get all the limited stuff for me.

 Sidstyler wrote:
I really wanted the map, honestly, but instead of spending almost $200 on a map I opted instead to buy three boxes of crisis suits from my local store, so...

I honestly think GW would make more money in the long run if they made cool stuff like that and just sold it regularly. Posters, tokens, custom dice, t-shirts, key chains, etc. Oh well.

I wish they would do it as well, but from my understanding the reason they don't make it a "regular" item is that it's made by a third party and it would be rather expensive to keep doing it rather than the one-off methods they do now.

The U.S. webstore sold out last night, to make a grand total of about 10 hours after release for them all to be snatched up. I think Britain sold out first by a long shot. But, they do have a time zone advantage.

Of course, that isn't to say a chunk of the boxes weren't picked up by resellers. I fully expect to see Ghostkeel boxes on Ebay for $300 in the next couple days. It might still be possible to get one if you really go hunting!

Osseo wrote:
The U.S. webstore sold out last night, to make a grand total of about 10 hours after release for them all to be snatched up. I think Britain sold out first by a long shot. But, they do have a time zone advantage.

Of course, that isn't to say a chunk of the boxes weren't picked up by resellers. I fully expect to see Ghostkeel boxes on Ebay for $300 in the next couple days. It might still be possible to get one if you really go hunting!

I would actually be surprised, considering they were limited 1 per order, same with the Raven Guard/White Scars datacards.

Nocturus wrote:
Alas I bought one too. Weep all you like, I like to collect the limited stuff when I can, and Tau is the army I got into when I got back into 40k after my 10 year break.

So while I respect that, and Tau was also the army I chose after coming back from a ten year break a few months ago, I just still can't see any justification for purchasing the limited edition codex.

Like if this was a product they sold at the cost of a regular Codex to FLGSs, and then allowed FLGSs to sell it at the stupidly marked up price, as a way to support those who carry their product in even a minor way after how they tried to kill them with their own GW stores, I'd be completely on board. When they themselves use it to basically swindle their costumers, for their own gain alone, I can't get behind it.

 Tinkrr wrote:

Nocturus wrote:
Alas I bought one too. Weep all you like, I like to collect the limited stuff when I can, and Tau is the army I got into when I got back into 40k after my 10 year break.

So while I respect that, and Tau was also the army I chose after coming back from a ten year break a few months ago, I just still can't see any justification for purchasing the limited edition codex.

Like if this was a product they sold at the cost of a regular Codex to FLGSs, and then allowed FLGSs to sell it at the stupidly marked up price, as a way to support those who carry their product in even a minor way after how they tried to kill them with their own GW stores, I'd be completely on board. When they themselves use it to basically swindle their costumers, for their own gain alone, I can't get behind it.

Does anybody do this?

 Bottle wrote:

 Tinkrr wrote:

Nocturus wrote:
Alas I bought one too. Weep all you like, I like to collect the limited stuff when I can, and Tau is the army I got into when I got back into 40k after my 10 year break.

So while I respect that, and Tau was also the army I chose after coming back from a ten year break a few months ago, I just still can't see any justification for purchasing the limited edition codex.

Like if this was a product they sold at the cost of a regular Codex to FLGSs, and then allowed FLGSs to sell it at the stupidly marked up price, as a way to support those who carry their product in even a minor way after how they tried to kill them with their own GW stores, I'd be completely on board. When they themselves use it to basically swindle their costumers, for their own gain alone, I can't get behind it.

Does anybody do this?

Do what? The "limited edition product" that's sold at cost to FLGSs specifically, and not big box stores, in order to reward them for selling their product?

Yea, Wizards of the Coast does that with their "From the Vault: ____ " product, which a premium product only sold to FLGSs at cost of any normal product (their MSRP is actually 35$, so whole sale to an FLGS is probably half of that or less), and then it's sold for like 100$+ to costumers. It's just one of their many programs to support small size retailers for carrying and supporting their product. Like there's a reason MtG is as massive as it is.

Thanks for the info. WotC must be unique in that. It's a very admirable move by them too. I wouldn't hold it against GW for not doing the same, but it would also be a move worthy of admiration if they did.