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Does anyone think it's a good place to buy online? I joined the boycott so i am looking for an alternative to GW.

Buying GW products from a retailer eventhough online and at a discount is still feeding GW if you are a member of the boycott. Malestrom Games will have to restock what you bought and order from GW.

In answer to your question, it has many fans among dakka members, and most consider it to be an excellent retailer. As a US resident though, you may find that other sites are cheaper when you factor in shipping, taxes etc.

Well contrary to poular Dakka opinion, I have had nothing but trouble ordering from maelstrom.

I have made 4 orders from them, none of which they have managed to get right. Each and every time I have had either something missing from the order or the wrong item sent. To their credit in all but the last case they managed to correct it fairly quickly but it took time and several emails each time.

I've had good experience with them, ordered on a friday night and got the item two weeks later, very pleased. (but for americans, i would probably go the warstore or something similar)

We quite literally just had a thread on this subject.

The Dreadnote wrote:As a US resident though, you may find that other sites are cheaper when you factor in shipping, taxes etc.

There are no shipping charges. Maelstrom ship free worldwide.

Pipboy101 wrote:Buying GW products from a retailer eventhough online and at a discount is still feeding GW if you are a member of the boycott. Malestrom Games will have to restock what you bought and order from GW.

He's right, online retailers get stock from GW so you might want to avoid that.

However, it's perfectly fine to buy secondhand models on eBay or at your FLGS if they have them. They've already been paid for by another party, you aren't directly giving GW your money. If you go eBay then make sure what you bid on has good pictures taken of it.

Some of the "so called" boycotters said they will buy from ebay. If that person takes the money from you and buys GW products you are still, in essance, giving GW your money.

Maelstrom sounds like a good place to order but I'll order from Neal even if it might cost a few dollars more. He's in the US and with our economy in shambles US businesses, especially small ones like The Warstore, could use a helping hand. I'd rather help a US citizen put food on his table than a foreigner (no offense to anyone). Neal used to carry FW products but now that he doesn't that is my only reason for ordering any GW product overseas.

Ah good. The big hero speech from Fateweaver. Just the refreshing taste of patriotism we all needed...

Some of the "so called" boycotters said they will buy from ebay. If that person takes the money from you and buys GW products you are still, in essance, giving GW your money.

No, I'm not giving them gak. You can't hold me responsible for what someone else decides to do with my money once it leaves my hands and enters theirs.

Going by your logic I could be charged as an accessory to murder if I pay someone for a couch, and they (unbeknown to me) use the cash to illegally purchase a gun to go on a rampage with at work. Or hell, you could go as far as saying every single working American is a murderer because the tax dollars we're legally required to pay get used to fund wars overseas.

In any case, how often do you see auctions on eBay where the seller claims they have a baby on the way or need to pay bills so their extra Warhammer stuff has to go? Happens quite often. I highly doubt they're going to take my money and go buy more GW stuff with it, but even if they did, it's their money now, not mine. I personally have not given GW a dime in this instance, I've stuck to my word.

Most of the used stuff I've bought lately though has been from the FLGS or people on forums, I haven't used eBay for a while. So this doesn't even really apply to me anyway. No, wait, the FLGS will likely use the money I've given them to order more stock from GW (lolz, they hardly ever restock, most of their money comes from cards anyway), so the blood is still on my hands! lol

H.B.M.C. wrote:Ah good. The big hero speech from Fateweaver. Just the refreshing taste of patriotism we all needed...

Ah yes. As per usual H cannot post in a thread that I post in without taking cheap shots at me and my way of thinking first.

Rather than save an extra $6 and order from overseas, which has greater odds of my order getting lost in the Bermuda Triangle on the way over here I'll order within my country so that if it gets lost it's easier to track and sue me as well for wanting to support my countries economy.

Yes, we should all support GB so that someday it might be nearly as economically powerful as we are. See what I did there H?

Isn't HBMC Australian?

But isn't Maelstrom in the UK?

Yeah.

...wait, I don't get it.

For the record, I've ordered 3 or 4 times from Maelstrom now and every single one has been virtually impeccable. For high through-put items like some of the IG stuff (chimeras, the new hellhound/demolisher kits, etc.) their 'packing' phase of the transaction takes as long as the actual shipping, but I've yet to see an order from maelstrom take more than 2 weeks or so to reach me on the west coast of Canada.

My point Sid, and one H was quick to pounce on and get snide with me is that I, being a US citizen, would rather support a US business (the Warstore) over giving my money to a company based in the UK thus helping a foreign entity over a US entity.

Apparently it's wrong in H's eyes that I want to do that and he felt the need to take yet ANOTHER cheap jab at my beliefs.

NATIONALISM WILL BRING US VICTORY COMRADE.

Fateweaver wrote:Yes, we should all support GB so that someday it might be nearly as economically powerful as we are.

I support this notion. Rule Britannia!

But then most of the money you spend on GW products from your US reseller will go back to the UK anyway...?

Although I will buy into the whole supporting your local store idea more than I will the idea of buying something just because it is supporting [insert nation of choice here].

In relation to the actual thread, I have bought a couple of things from Malestrom Games and have been pleased with the speed they have arrived and the condition they have been in when they got to me. Though I am in the UK so YMMV.

I also like the cost (compared to the GW store prices).

It does obviously as Neal has to order from GW but Neal makes a profit on what he buys so if I don't order from him he doesn't make that profit.

I'm not saying I don't support GW or I wouldn't buy their products but If I'm going to help a man or woman turn a profit on GW stuff it's going to be a business within my country.

I guess I'm baffled by the anti-Nationalism remarks on this thread. If you are afraid to voice your pride in your country why the hell even live there?

I see now why I was told to give you a wide berth.

edit.

And I am a proud traitor of my country, Maelstrom! Maelstrom! Maelstrom!

Yes, we should all support GB so that someday it might be nearly as economically powerful as we are. See what I did there H?

HBMC is an aussie.

And as someone from ENGLAND, i can happily say we have allready surpassed you



As for maelstrom: Great company, cant fault them.
Usually get orders sooner than i should do.

Bah whatever. Certain people have a personal vendetta against me and take jabs at me whenever they can.

Like me or not I don't give a flying feth.

I post a reply in a thread stating why I won't support Maelstrom even though they are supposedly the best online store on the whole planet (I beg to differ) and because I have not jumped on the Maelstrom bandwagon I'm just talking out my ass.

If I offend people I don't care. If the ops think I've gone too far I'll get a warning or a ban. If I get a warning maybe I'll change my attitude but mostly not. Don't like what I post hit the ignore button or report me, just don't think making personal attacks and flaming me is going to make me bow down to like you are some kind of god. Our President already made that mistake, I'm not going to do the same. Sorry.

I'm out.

I don't think anyone has a problem with supporting your local stores, even if they are not the cheapest you can buy things from.

I guess a lot of people in these global days don't attach much importance to where you happened to have been born. After all, you could have been born anywhere.

Fateweaver wrote:

All kidding aside, I like Neal and I've gotten some good deals with him. I've met a bunch of Warstore staffers at conventions and the like, and they're really nice guys. They recognize me and my buddies year by year, which is really nice. Regardless, shipping from the Warstore to anywhere else in the US is pretty much definitely going to be faster than shipping overseas.

I like that .

I am honored.

Fateweaver - its not your views that people have a problem with, its the way you are putting them across.

At the end of the day we are in a recession still so the cheapest usually wins in most cases. I'm one of the foolish people who still buy direct from GW or from my local Hobbycraft (well paints and glues there warhammer fantasy battle stock is GAK), after a few bad experiences with GW Mail Order its put me off ordering my toys online, hell I was at the Warhammer GT this weekend and I didnt even trust them to get the stock from downstairs (mail order is underneath Warhammer World) to bring it upto me in the store.

If Mealstrom get enough positive reviews though I think I may give them a try with a small test order for some Tomb Kings stuff..

I've ordered from both companies and have had a better experience with the Warstore overall. Even with free shipping, the prices work out about even when I did the conversion. (Don't take the US prices for face value on Maelstrom, find the most recent conversion rates and do the math yourself. I made the mistake of not doing this and ended up paying about 10% more than I thought it would cost, which actually would have made the Warstore cheaper for that particular transaction.)

The Dreadnote wrote:

Fateweaver wrote:Yes, we should all support GB so that someday it might be nearly as economically powerful as we are.

I support this notion. Rule Britannia!

I'm actually a Brit living in Canada so...

Rule Britannia! Britannia rule the waves!

Fateweaver wrote:My point Sid, and one H was quick to pounce on and get snide with me is that I, being a US citizen, would rather support a US business (the Warstore) over giving my money to a company based in the UK thus helping a foreign entity over a US entity.

Apparently it's wrong in H's eyes that I want to do that and he felt the need to take yet ANOTHER cheap jab at my beliefs.

Ah yes, but TRUE Americans believe in Capitalism. And since Maelstrom is considered a better store, it should win out, which is capitalism.

You obviously don't, so you're not a true American. And Michael Moore doesn't believe in capitalism either, so you're as bad as he is.