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hey guys, there is an event I found on Facebook, which is basically to boycott Games Workshop for a day. I, personally think it's a great idea, as this would send a clear message to Games Workshop to lower the prices, if they d[b]on't they will find there sales decrease as you guys show that this unescecary rise will not be tolerated. If you feel strgonyly enough about this, then attend the event! its simple, on that one day, don't go into games workshop and don't purchase anything! Please spread this information, and you can make a difference! :six


http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=226381417388469

Because buying it the next day has that much of an impact.

For those of us who do not subscribe to faceplant could you post the details.

We decided to do it for one day, then tell Games Workshop we'd redo it for a couple of weeks, because of course, like you said that one day wouldn't make too much of an impact, but if we tell Games Workshop the numbers, it may create an impact, hopefully.


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Ok, its 04 July at 00:00 - 05 July at 00:00
Basically don't go into Games Workshop and buy anything, for one day, then if enough people have decided to join this capmpaign then we were going to increase it to a few weeks, to create a much larger impact.

No, it won't.

Even if they got the message, they'd still be obligated to do what's good for their shareholders and not what a small percentage of whiny customers say.

Terrible idea. Has no impact. Entitled people who can't stop buying plasticcrack and think a 1 day boycott entitles them to getting all their wishes to come true!

Boycotting for a day in a business who expects customers to hibernate for months even years when their desired 'army' is not front and center, a 24 hour boycott does nothing to GW...

Just more people who want their cake and to eat it to. They are drug addicts who can't walk away.

I don't go into GW and don't buy anything most days. Forgive me for asking, but doesn't this just defer income by a day, any amount of times it happens? If the customers are still buying the items on other days, there's no loss for GW. Stating to them 'I'm not buying on this day' is tacitly saying that you will be buying on other days. No loss for them at all.

With less sales Games Workshops share price will fall, and if one puts aside the thoughts of, 'its never going to work, the numbers will be too small. Then it will work, and the share price will fall, after a few weeks, or more. Games Workshop have already suffered some hefty losses, which is bad for every company.

Isn't July the 4th a national holiday in America anyway? I assume all the shops are shut?

But even so, a single day is utterly pointless. If you want to make a statement, give up buying from them entirely.

Ok, how about a month? A month with a large proportion of British customers taking a seat would lower their income, quite a bit, there shares are already quivering, and have been predicited to crash about now,

I just thought I would point out that July 4th falls on a Monday. Most GW stores in the USA are closed because they take Monday and Tuesday off. GW probably does not get daily sales figures from FLGS. Thus GW would probably be totally unaware of the boycott, with the exception of websales, and most people are probably not buying from them on the web given the finecast problems and the discounts other retailers offer.

... or switch to another gaming company.

Delaying your purchases is still giving GW money. And as we all know, the internet doesn't seem to reach GW's core market - 13 year old boys spending their parents money, meaning its impact is further reduced from the extremely minimal to pretty much negligible.

If you really want change, stop buying from GW, convince your friends to start different games and to stop from buying at GW as well.

libstermiles wrote:Ok, how about a month? A month with a large proportion of British customers taking a seat would lower their income, quite a bit, there shares are already quivering, and have been predicited to crash about now,

Sure, why not. Tell you what, I'm not gonna buy anything from GW in June. I can't say as I have a lot of faith in this working and not, perhaps, bankrupting GW if it does, but you can count on me not to buy anything from GW this June.

How about boycotting GW for a year or two? That would get them sweating. They won't even notice one day.

I have changed the event to the whole of July 1st-31st, this is a high point for Games Workshop. if everyone is in the frame of mind ' not enough will do it, it cant work.' then it won't, we need as many people to attend as possible.

What about online sales....so, people don't go into stores, but buy online instead....plus, I think this would have a way bigger impact if you could "somehow" persuade independant retailers to get involved and place no large orders for at least two weeks....

My point is this, for this to have any impact, there would have to be NO sales what-so-ever across all of their distribution portals....not just no attendance in stores.

This isn't like a petrol boycott.

Some people have boycotted GW for months (I've been one of them for a while). Others still have been doing that for years. What's one day? Or even one month for that matter?

It's not that "not enough people will do it", it's just that this kind of thing has been attempted before (last year or the year before in fact, probably both), and...GW didn't even flinch over it. In order to get GW to care, you'd have to somehow convince damn near the entire fanbase to quit making purchases/going into stores for a considerable length of time, and that really is impossible because some people don't care what GW does and keep buying anyway, some others love them and defend them to death no matter what they do, and lots and lots of people don't bother with online forums at all so you'll have a hard time even reaching them all.

One day huh? Maybe if it was a month, or three months you would have an impact.

Always remember although Games Workshop has a spanning sphere of influence they aren't worth a huge ammount. A month in summer is enough to catch anyones attention, so long as the people attending are determined enough


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I see where you guys are coming from, something would have to be done about the independant retailers, the ones selling stock at %20 off.........

This is nearly as sad as the fools boycotting L4D2.

Seriously Guys. You dont like GW then simply leave permanently. Just boycotting them for a week, a month hell even a year will not do that much damage cause you fail to realize that GW has a bigger market then you lot (lil kids for example).

Problem with July is that kids are off school for quite a bit of it, they'll be going in and nagging the parents to buy stuff.

lol I heard about that, didn't over half the people end up buying the game on release day anyway?

Form a investment group, by gamers for games and buy a majority shareholding in GW?

This "one day boycott" has about as much impact as trying to stop a rampaging, wounded elephant by shooting it with an elastic band.

nevertellmetheodds wrote:Form a investment group, by gamers for games and buy a majority shareholding in GW?

Yeah, I'm, uh, setting one up now infact. Just send your money to my offshore bank account, and you'll get a official looking certificate for all the honestly genuine shares you now 'own.' Speak to my associate who appears to be smiling a little too much for details.

KnightOfTheRaven wrote:
Seriously Guys. You dont like GW then simply leave permanently. Just boycotting them for a week, a month hell even a year will not do that much damage cause you fail to realize that GW has a bigger market then you lot (lil kids for example).

Yep, I'm with you on that. I must admit, where it's valiant to seek change...I really believe the change needs to happen with the gamers as opposed to the companies.

Even if we rid the world of the Evil Empire that is GW, someone else will rise up to take their place, maybe PP, maybe Corvus Belli, perhaps even Cypher Studios who knows....I know people may think, those other companies would never go down the same road, but look at how GW was when it started out compared to now....growth and power will do that to you.

As long as gamers subscribe to the "One game to rule them all" theory, then there will always be a risk of this happening again.....

GW won't just disappear though. It's still a viable money maker, they'll be bought out by a larger, more successful company. Like WotC and Hasbro.

Hopefully a company that knows what they're doing, unlike GW's current management.

I've been hearing a lot about GWs shares being 'shaky' recently. I have an extraordinarily low level of knowledge when it comes to economics, but looking at this chart, it seems that for the last 3 years, GWs shares have been doing pretty damn well?

http://www.lse.co.uk/ShareChart.asp?sharechart=GAW

I really dislike most of the talked about policies that GW has rolled out recently, but it doesn't appear to be affecting their share price, or the value of the company as a whole.

While I applaud anyone who makes an effort to try and change something they are unhappy with (regardless of whether or not it will be successful) really, you are competing against the bullet that GW has already fired into it's own foot (the 'dum-dum' type of whatever the name is, that would make the foot explode) - their prices are becoming so high, that their 'core' target (younger teenagers) simply will not be able to buy into the hobby any more, or will find one of the increasing number of other leisure activities to throw their money at instead.

Add to this the atrocious quality control we are hearing about on the new finecast products. It doesn't matter that GW is good so far as exchange and return policies go - how many kids will have their mum bring them back a blister pack from GW, and then be knotting their eyebrows in consternation while they wonder if Corteaz should have only one hand and a giant bubble on his forehead? It will still mean a trip back to the store (if the kid decides to carry on) for an angry parent, not every miscast is going to be caught by staff members on the way out of the store.

Although it pains me to say it, I would argue that he companies own horrific decision making over the past month will have more of an impact on their sales than any organised action to boycott them could possibly have, not least the number of customers they will have lost by bearing their ass to the customers living in Australia, New Zealand and the like.