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chaos0xomega wrote:
I'm not sure if that's true or not, but I can say they raised their prices - they had the battlegroups listed for ~$110 a few weeks ago, now at $155.

I checked Wayland and the prices are the same. Maybe you saw the british pound prices and got confused.

That doesn't even make sense, why would I, an American, be looking at uk pound pricing on an American website?

It was $110 USD, discounted from a higher price (iirc $135 USD or $140). It was displayed with the original price struck through as are all other discounted items on their site. That base price has been increased and the discount removed now.

Gadzooks is the same, when the game was announced for preorder they had it listed at $135, then that increased to $150, and somewhere in September iirc that changed to $165.

Assuming wayland has them discounted then the current price has the same discount from retail. But honestly I'm just glad to have a place that I can buy them from.

Wayland doesn't have them discounted, Wayland is the manufacturer.

Gotcha. Either way Valhala isn't overcharging. At worst they're doing msrp. Which seems fine.

Gadzooks just had a small restock and is now marked UP 8% so it really highlights how much it will be an issue letting a couple small shops control the entire US stock... Gadzooks and Valhalla have kept raising prices with each small restock feels perilously close to price-fixing.

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:
Gadzooks just had a small restock and is now marked UP 8% so it really highlights how much it will be an issue letting a couple small shops control the entire US stock... Gadzooks and Valhalla have kept raising prices with each small restock feels perilously close to price-fixing.

Again, Valhalla at least is just priced the same as MSRP. That's not price fixing. That's just not discounting. Probably because they have to order direct. Warcradle needs to find a US distributor.

Someone on fb posted that gadzooks isn't the distributor for the US anymore so maybe that has something to do with it?

I agree that there is the look of pricefixing or gouging here though. There's more demand than there is supply and basically 2 sites control all of it, and they are both progressively hiking prices in response to the limited availability.

Update: i have learned that Occam will now be handling distribution for warcradle in the US

Who's Occam? I'm not familiar with them. Hopefully they and Warcradle are equipped to handle a potential trade dumpster fire in 2025.

Apparently also owned by Wayland/Warcradle. Apparently they are establishing a US warehouse or something.