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**Gitzbitah**

Gimgamgoo wrote:
Bull0 wrote:
It's £80 for Skarbrand vs £70 for the normal Bloodthirster kit in the UK. For me, the extra tenner is worth it, simply because to my eyes the Skarbrand kit looks much better and more in line with how I'd expect a bloodthirster to look (versus the effeminate, prancing jump pose of the normal one).

This is what I don't get about GW customers these days.
You're happy to pay £10 more just because a previous (already overpriced) version was designed in a poor pose (Billy Elliot the Khorne Lord). They make a slightly better pose a year later with the same amount of plastic but a 14% increase?

I agree, it does look better. It isn't prancing - but then the way it's gripping the axes kills any desire to own it. I guess to make a decent version you need 2 kits. :-(

Just as GW intended. Exercise your creativity, and convert your own Skarbrand from 2 models for only 130 pounds. They might even make it easy for you and put that into a web bundle if you ask really nicely.

I think the axe pose is just fine for someone using 2 axes- you really don't want 2 two handed weapons in most cases.

**mjl7atlas**

Am I the only one who still prefers the Balrog as a bloodthirster? Used one before the "official" model came out and honestly have no desire to use the new rendition, had actually thought of making a skarbrand from the Vampire counts terrogheist.

**highlord tamburlaine**

Having had a chance to see the 360, having not bought any Bloodthirsters ever, and having a sizable chunk of credit sitting at the hobby shop... I think I may take the plunge.

Always wanted one. Never had the cash as a kid and was never impressed with the older models by the time I got interested in gaming again.

Having the shop's 30% off certainly helps push me into the "willing to pay" category. Otherwise, credit or not, I don't think I would.

**NAVARRO**

Relapse wrote:
NAVARRO wrote:
Looking even better on the 360, I like is pose much more than the bloodthirster one.

As for the question if its worth the price tag? For some will for others not as much, personally I think its inferior to the Glottkin which I have in my collection so I believe this should be around the 60gbp mark and not more.

Do you use the Glottkin as a Great Unclean One?

Thats the plan I still need to sculpt his back with more spiky bits and bobs. The other brothers will be obviously a champ and wiz.
Glottkin model is quite original design wise and he is a BIG model packed with interesting things to paint up. Yes, its vastly superior to Khorne big demons IMO.

**Thunderfrog**

His AoS rules are really brutal, to those who care about that sort of thing.

I want to be excited for AoS releases, but their idea of a release schedule being a mix of "No magic guys with priests and big weapons" and "evil red no magic guys with priests and big weapons" is really trying my patience.

**prowla**

Thunderfrog wrote:

His AoS rules are really brutal, to those who care about that sort of thing.

What's the point for drooling after AoS rules, if there's no proper army lists or points costs?

**angelofvengeance**

prowla wrote:
Thunderfrog wrote:

His AoS rules are really brutal, to those who care about that sort of thing.

What's the point for drooling after AoS rules, if there's no proper army lists or points costs?

What's the point coming into this thread to whinge about the game if you don't like it??

**RoninXiC**

Fun?

**Red_Zeke**

He'll get some kind of comp value from one of the dominant systems. It's fun to think about how big/how many units he can take on solo.

Certainly interesting to see the AoS monster damage mechanic flipped on its head for a model.

**Red Corsair**

$130! My lord, I remember when I thought a riptide for 86 was pushing it. This guy is not as big as a ritide and cost 44 dollars more... he is nice but that's getting a tad out of hand or I should say out of pocket lol. I am fairly sure GW is aware of online discounts and is adding that discount onto the SRP so they can make some more. Meanwhile that discounted price is what it should be retail.

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455_PWR wrote:
Ok, not as bad as I had thought thanks to ebay! Ebay gave me as $20 off my next purchase of over $100 coupon, and I found he is listed already for $105-$106 with free priority mail shipping.

Just got mine for $86 with free priority shipping... whew

Exactly my point right here.

**Chopxsticks**

How does one go about getting a $20 off a purchase on ebay?? Does ebay send that $20 to the seller?

**pretre**

Chopxsticks wrote:
How does one go about getting a $20 off a purchase on ebay?? Does ebay send that $20 to the seller?

Yes.

**toasteroven**

I think my new hobby is just going to be staring in stunned incomprehension at the prices.

I could buy a significant part of an army for less than that one model.

**Talys**

455_PWR wrote:
Ok, not as bad as I had thought thanks to ebay! Ebay gave me as $20 off my next purchase of over $100 coupon, and I found he is listed already for $105-$106 with free priority mail shipping.

Just got mine for $86 with free priority shipping... whew

LOL, that's funny

I ordered mine for almost exactly the equivalent of USD $86 at my FLGS

**H.B.M.C.**

Talys wrote:
LOL, that's funny I ordered mine for almost exactly the equivalent of USD $86 at my FLGS

DCGM, amirite?

**Kirasu**

Red Corsair wrote:
$130! My lord, I remember when I thought a riptide for 86 was pushing it. This guy is not as big as a ritide and cost 44 dollars more... he is nice but that's getting a tad out of hand or I should say out of pocket lol. I am fairly sure GW is aware of online discounts and is adding that discount onto the SRP so they can make some more. Meanwhile that discounted price is what it should be retail.

Automatically Appended Next Post:

455_PWR wrote:
Ok, not as bad as I had thought thanks to ebay! Ebay gave me as $20 off my next purchase of over $100 coupon, and I found he is listed already for $105-$106 with free priority mail shipping.

Just got mine for $86 with free priority shipping... whew

Exactly my point right here.

Every new release will be more and more expensive because 80% of GW's customers are "collectors". Therefore, we will continue to collect and not worry about the price! Like fine art...except art that comes unassembled and unpainted.

**reds8n**

Via FB

GW has Lowered skarbrands price on the Australian Web store by $25aud and on the New Zealand Web store by $30nzd, no other countries got a price drop

is this true ?

**Kanluwen**

reds8n wrote:
Via FB

GW has Lowered skarbrands price on the Australian Web store by $25aud and on the New Zealand Web store by $30nzd, no other countries got a price drop

is this true ?

Skarbrand was $225 AUD but is now $200 AUD...so it looks like this is true?

**Matt.Kingsley**

It's true at least for the AUS store.

Still stupidly expensive, though.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

the 'original' prices were out of line even considering the crazy high Aus/NZ price banding though weren't they?

so the question in were they a mistake that they've just corrected?

or an attempt to see what happened if they jacked the prices even more (which probably showed they would get far, far fewer orders)?

**H.B.M.C.**

They did seem like a mistake.

**Lithlandis Stormcrow**

OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
the 'original' prices were out of line even considering the crazy high Aus/NZ price banding though weren't they?

so the question in were they a mistake that they've just corrected?

or an attempt to see what happened if they jacked the prices even more (which probably showed they would get far, far fewer orders)?

I am betting on the latter.

**pretre**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
They did seem like a mistake.

Wow. Even so, when's the last time they did that? Good on them, but still.

**Grimtuff**

pretre wrote:
H.B.M.C. wrote:
They did seem like a mistake.

Wow. Even so, when's the last time they did that? Good on them, but still.

Chaos space marine plastics IIRC, when they were originally 8 to a box yet the same price as Tacticals. GW lowered the price and even offered cash back to anyone who had bought them at the original price.

**plastictrees**

Even GW recognizes when their crazed commonwealth hating pricing robot goes too far.

**Thunderfrog**

prowla wrote:
Thunderfrog wrote:

His AoS rules are really brutal, to those who care about that sort of thing.

What's the point for drooling after AoS rules, if there's no proper army lists or points costs?

Because people play the game under various comps and systems. And even playing it uncomped, it's still a strong rule in a collection vs collection battle.

**jonolikespie**

So are any Aussies who already paid for their preorder getting a partial refund?

Or did literally no one preorder and that was what prompted this.

The price was absurd but I don't believe it was just a mistake when they put it up on the webstore since White Dwarf listed it as $225.

**angelofvengeance**

jonolikespie wrote:
So are any Aussies who already paid for their preorder getting a partial refund?

Or did literally no one preorder and that was what prompted this.

The price was absurd but I don't believe it was just a mistake when they put it up on the webstore since White Dwarf listed it as $225.

Mistakes do happen...

**jonolikespie**

If it were one or the other I'd happily believe it a mistake, but with the amount of time in advance all this stuff is arranged it should NEVER have appeared both in WD and on the webstore if it was a mistake. You'd think they would have caught it right away too, this seems to have taken a couple of days to be 'noticed'.

**Bottle**

I would say a mistake. The repacked plague censor bearers also had a mistake, although it was on the amount of models included rather than the price.