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Recasting is illegal, but unless your country has specific laws against buying counterfeit product, it’s almost impossible to police. GW will never be able to legally attack small Chinese operations, and once a recast model is painted there’s no way to know its provenance short of destructive testing. Which makes the legal argument fascinating but irrelevant.

That means it’s just a moral issue, and hence purely subjective. You have to ask yourself, ‘am I comfortable with buying a product where none of my money supports the designers and other overheads, but where I don’t have to pay stratospheric prices?’. That’s all there is to it.

If FW is going to go and say ‘well we’ve got them by the balls, so we can charge international customers a 40% mark up because f*** them they can’t stop us’, is it immoral to say ‘in that case I’ll buy a recast, because f*** them they can’t stop me’? An eye for an eye may not be good for the world but it is morally defensible.

Personally I’m at a middle ground. I won’t support recasters because it hurts the hobby long term, but those f***ers at FW aren’t getting one bent Aussie dollar out of me. I’ll buy in £ and pay people to post it to me from the UK. I’d pay more not to support their spiteful treatment of down under and Middle Earth.

But buying through a courier service is still supporting FW... I mean you are circumventing their crazy OZ prices but they are still getting your money.

I think everyone that really has an issue with this should support a hard boycott. The only thing that is really going to make GW/FW take notice is cold hard sales numbers.

 SickSix wrote:
But buying through a courier service is still supporting FW... I mean you are circumventing their crazy OZ prices but they are still getting your money.

I think everyone that really has an issue with this should support a hard boycott. The only thing that is really going to make GW/FW take notice is cold hard sales numbers.

That's like saying if you don't like RRP on plastics you shouldn't buy any models at all instead of getting them somewhere that sells them 20% off RRP. I think I'll stick to getting my models at a discount and playing the game.

It still supports FW, but at the same time all its doing is showing that the fairer UK prices sell and that the overseas prices are reducing in sales.

Meanwhile those who were buying who are not buying are also affecting FW sales

Whilst those who never did buy or only bought once and are now getting from recasters are generating stats that FW has no knowledge of (or at least no real means to test).


So supporting the recasters not only doesn't help the hobby, but its not even data that FW will ever actually see unless use of FW models becomes commonplace at every major event to such an extent that its clear that it can only be recaster supply - ergo at a point where recasters dominate the market.