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Just checked a site that previously had the boards on pre-order for £75 plus £10 p&p and found an apology saying that GW have put the price up to £150 before release. Tried to confirm it by going to the GW site but its under maintenance so no luck...
Was going to get the basic set but it would of been a push money wise, now there is no way I can afford them! Must be a world record, 50% increase before release!!!
Mick

Point of order.. that's not a 50% increase, that's a 100% increase. 75 + 75 = 150.. A 50% increase would be 75 + 37.50 =112.50.

And I would agree, that's a huge increase that pretty much puts it outa range of anyone ...

It was an independant site that had them for £75, GW's original price was £100, hence the 50% increase. Sorry for any confusion...
Mick

yeah,
I don't get the increase? if it hasn't been out yet they can't claim due to world price increases?
...
what ever happened to...


I'm really looking forward to this, I was thinking about buying two... I don't know about getting two now?
I really like the GW plastic hills and COD and thought this would be the icing on the cake... It's looking like expensive icing now..

Panic...

I know the people who have seen it at Games days etc think its pretty swish but I was not in need of one.

This price makes it well beyond even thinking about for me, I have better things to blow my money on GW miniature wise....

Whats that equal to, about 250-275 USD-wise? Wow...give me $200 and I'll build you something sturdier than that, 2x2 sections, flocked and all.

It's a tough sell at $300....I would have bought it at $200, but at $300, I can build 2 or 3 really nice tables (Full tables, with folding legs, etc).....

I'd rather have expensive forgeworld stuff at that price range. Like the anphelion terrain or something...

£150!

$300 dollars for something I can make with board,foam,sand,and thier crater set.
I would rather have the forgeworld trench sysytem
I hope they do not make too many of these things,I don't want the rest of the models prices to go up to cover the losses from this.
I just personally see alot of these thing going unsold.

I've been told by my GW rep that the US is holding to the cheaper price for the first printrun. Later printruns will go up. So if you're interested in one, grab it on the first go around.

$300 for that load of shi*te??!!! What, do they think we're stupid Now if you'll excuse me, it's friday and I just got paid--I have to go spend $35 on 3 plastic ork warbikers....

mikhaila wrote:I've been told by my GW rep that the US is holding to the cheaper price for the first printrun. Later printruns will go up. So if you're interested in one, grab it on the first go around.

I was told by the manager at my local GW that they couldn't do that, and they're selling them for $275.

I canceled my preorder. I could swing $175, even 200, for a little time saving. When it went over that, there's just no way. I think they shot themselves in the foot here.

Yeah, no kidding.

$175 - hey, maybe. It'd be nice to have
$200 - hmmm, that's near my limit. I'll think about it, maybe get it from Neal.
$275 - This was a $100 cheaper ten days ago. No interest now.

$275,
Chuck

The thought of getting one before has crossed my mind more then once, but now it is just insane. I would be better off going to Home Depot and get them to tell me how to build one...

So the reasonable price is $175, eh? I'll build you a customized table for $175, just PM me.

I was considering this too but not now :( mostly because I won't be ready to buy it till I buy my new house and get my war room going so it's still several months off.. maybe by then they will be selling them as separate tiles and I can just pick and choose the ones I want

stormtitan wrote:It's a tough sell at $300....I would have bought it at $200, but at $300, I can build 2 or 3 really nice tables (Full tables, with folding legs, etc).....

I'd rather have expensive forgeworld stuff at that price range. Like the anphelion terrain or something...

No.
You do not want the Anphelion base.
The Anphelion base is your enemy.
The Anphelion base is evil.

My buddy bought the Anphelion base... the biggest one. This guy has probably HUNDREDS of FW pieces, from models to model pieces (Rhino doors, etc). He has probably 12 - 20 FW CoD building ruins and the complete Wall set (the big one with the huge gates for 40K... I forget the name). The Anphelion base was the single worst set of all of it. Pieces were horribly miscast, the "tabs" on them, where the resin was poured into the mold are about an eighth to a quarter inch thick (at the NARROW point), NOTHING lined up right... NOTHING. The decorative windows (at the top, roof sections) were... just bad. They ran from non-existent (empty holes) to being so thick you'd have to dremel them out.
It's about the worst kit FW has put out.

Spend your money on the various ruined buildings they're marketing for CoD, if you want to get FW stuff. You'll be all the saner for it.

Eric

Lormax wrote:So the reasonable price is $175, eh? I'll build you a customized table for $175, just PM me.

Made out of connecting plastic?

I'm out if it's > 200 USD on the GW version.

I still think lots of mums will happily buy it for little Johnny and his pals, but self-respecting Vets will prefer to put the money into figures or stuff for self-building terrain.

I thought if it was advertised at £100 they had to sell it at £100 .....

You can get a 4' x 8' piece of 2" pink foam insulation at any home labrynth store for $20 or less, a hot-wire cutter and a hot glue gun for about that much and a 3' by 5' conference table at an office furniture rental liquidation store for $40-$50. That's all the materials for $100 or less, so it's just a matter of whether you have the time to do it. I'm willing personally to take my chances with my own work. No thanks, GW.

Urgh.
It's modular aswell. I hate modular boards. It's better to have a completely blank board that you can arrange scenery pieces on.
You could nearly buy an army for that price.

So not worth $300. Not even sure its worth $200.

But this is the what, second or third time a lower price is told then switched to a higher price when released. GW needs to get their poop together. Either that or they plan on doing this on purpose as a bait and switch.

What such a table is worth is dependent upon what your time is worth (to make your own) or what comparable or better alternatives exist (Lormax!!). If there's something better for $200 (already painted/flocked) or your time is pretty expensive (above $20 per hour), go another way. If you're a lawyer and there's nothing as good as this on the internet (or shipping would drive the price of those alternatives way high) go with the GW thing.

Kane wrote:I thought if it was advertised at £100 they had to sell it at £100 .....

No, it's called an invitation to treat.

You make the formal contract offer when you send in your form. If they accept the offer, for instance by emailing you back that they have accepted, then you have a contract.

The same applies in a shop. The sticker price is an invitation to treat. You make the offer when you go to the till. You are legally entitled to offer less than the sticker price.

Well crap, I'll have to look at the girl really sad for the coming months if I want one of these

Well, a friend in Canada subscribes to WD and received a mini holiday catalogue to go with it. It listed the gaming board at $250 Canadian. I can't see the American price being higher. Probably going to be around $200.

Zoned

Mick A wrote:It was an independant site that had them for £75, GW's original price was £100, hence the 50% increase. Sorry for any confusion...
Mick

Then I retract my above criticism.

yeah,
plus the storage angle,
A 6x4 board or table has to go somewhere. this comes in a tidy 2'x2' storage bag.

I replaced my styrofoam hills with the GW plastic hills because they are stackable and tidy away into less space.
My entire open space table set up has 3 hills, 6 modular hills loads of trees which all fit into a 13"cube (ikea shelves the tree's are in the cardboardbox).
the old styrofoam hills didn't fit and wheere stored in a a crate...
If I can replace my collection of boards (that take up space in my front hall) to a a bag that sits next to the shelves I'll pay...

Having a tidy home is worth paying for...

Panic...

my gaming hills and forests

Da Boss wrote:Urgh.
It's modular aswell. I hate modular boards. It's better to have a completely blank board that you can arrange scenery pieces on.
You could nearly buy an army for that price.

It's modular to allow for ease of transport.. you just stuff it in the bag and you have everything you need.. (except the trees and the buildings.. and the ...... ok, I'll stop.. )