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lol...
Not without a cease and desist order first!



Ghidorah

Vice_Grip wrote:What about stores other than GW's, such a boycott could hurt them too. Actualy why not buy stuff from the nonGW stores, GW doesnt get as much profit from them.

Not as much of a dent, but it can be made to happen without a boycott, simply lower the price by $5 or so for a couple of months.

Infact if the price drop is significant enough, it could infact incourage people to buy the product at the discoulnted price, apon seeing a lose in sales, GW management looks for a solution and sees the nonGW stores selling out the wazoo, GW then attemps to make more sales by lowering the price.

IF they(GW) are smart enough to listen to whats going on.

Nope, if they see discounters selling more of their product, they will work to curtail those sales, not drop prices. That's easily shown through past and current actions.

I like your option to shop at your local non-GW better. Everyone should rush out that day and skip the GW stores, and buy from your FLGS.
A biased opinion, obviously.)

mikhaila wrote:Everyone should rush out that day and skip the GW stores, and buy from your FLGS.

That won't hurt GW one bit. They're still selling product which means they're still making money.




Ghidorah

Ghidorah wrote:

mikhaila wrote:Everyone should rush out that day and skip the GW stores, and buy from your FLGS.

That won't hurt GW one bit. They're still selling product which means they're still making money.
Ghidorah

Who cares? The boycott thing is silly in the first place. July 4th is not a good day for it, with most GW stores closed, and many independents as well.
I'm not worried about hurting GW, as it would hurt me as well. Most gamers don't care either, the ones who want to buy models will still buy models. Waiting until the 5th doesn't really send much of a message.)

I just like the idea of all the guys who go to GW stores shifting sales to support their LGS.

Platuan4th wrote:

htj wrote: don't go into games workshop and don't purchase anything!

I promise that I won't go into a GW store and not purchase anything.

almost died laughing

A friend brought this thread to my attention, and I thank him for that. The dripping "sarchasm" in this thread is amazing.

On another note, I'm also an owner of a FLGS and would like to bring a point to light that you may not be away of:

The orders are done on a weekly basis! Amazing, but if you boycott one day, and then go in the next to buy the stuff you didn't get, it will not impact numbers at all. This goes doubly if it's on a holiday, like July 4th.

Even if the numbers were examined, they would say: "Oh, look, the sales were down on July 4th. Must be because of the holiday. Yep, we see a rise in sales the day after. I guess people wanted to spend time with their families on the holiday and waited until the next day to buy their stuff."

For the FLGS, the product on their shelves has already been paid for. When they order the product, the either have to pay GW directly for it, or they have to pay the distributor that they went through. If you boycott a day, a week, or a month of GW sales at your FLGS, the only people you are hurting are the people that run the place you play. I order a restock of everything that sold from the pevious week every Monday. When I order it, the store pays for it.

Every day is a boycott day.



I don't buy much GW...

mikhaila wrote:

I like your option to shop at your local non-GW better. Everyone should rush out that day and skip the GW stores, and buy from your FLGS.
A biased opinion, obviously.)

I agree here, in no way shape or form do I desire to harm the FLGS, who allows me a place to buy my gaming producs, and at the same time might allow me to use a table in order to play a game if they have the space.

I have a better idea. Just stop buying their models. I like their rules, and I love Warhammer, but I don't need Citadel miniatures for what I want to do. I'm currently building a Warriors of Chaos army using no GW miniatures. I'm doing it as a Viking army, and using the excellent Wargames Factory plastics for Marauders, and using models that I've found from Reaper, Warlord and other companies to make up the small units of Warriors, Chosen, Warhounds and Marauder Horsemen that I'm using. Not a GW model in sight! But this isn't in protest, it's simply doing what I love with cheaper, better products. If GW were to put out models that I liked for competative prices, I would buy them. So although I'm not boycotting GW, the effect is the same, and in a lot of ways I think more indicative of what is happening throughout the community.

I have to agree with idea of boycotting GW products full stop rather than boycotting them for short period of time. The average 40k customer would probably go a week to a month in between sales anyway so GW would still be winning in the end. Given new content for any particular faction is usually 4-5 years in between, it’s not like players would be missing out on new stuff anyway if they were to boycott for an extended period of time.

Plus once you’ve experienced the customer support, rules support and frequent rules updates from companies such as PP and FFG, there’s no turning back.

As many people have already said if you don't like the company stop buying their products. period. It's really simple. There are loads of other miniature companies and games systems (some free) out there.

The only thing that annoys me about this boycott is that 2 of the 3 facebook accounts who set it up are anonymous (ie not using their real names, and ironically one is using loads of GW fluff as their bio http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=226381417388469#!/profile.php?id=100001827596482 ), and these guys are asking real people to put their real names to a petition that 2 of the event organizers wont sign with their real names themselves.

I'd like to see a price reduction too but the logic of asking a luxury item company (and warhammer/40K is a MAJOR luxury item) with a niche market not to raise prices during a global recession escapes me