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What would you say is a decent price for a 10 man, plastic, multipart space marine tactical squad in US dollars?

Fifteen to twenty clams. I'm not a big balla, a shot calla, and I certainly cannot afford twenty inch rims on my Pontiac Vibe, so I have to lowball it. Honestly though, I understand that most models will be forever slightly more expensive than I am willing to pay for them.

20-25$ methinks. That makes about 2$ per mini plus all the extra parts and upgrades which go into the bitz box.

I think today's price at the GW store is on the upper limit of what's fair. In Norwegian Kroner it's around 300NOK, which is around $50-55. I would gladly pay that, but not more.

I'm going to go with... anywhere from $15-$25.

There's a lot on the sprues that really isn't necessary, and could be taken off and put onto a 'bits' sprue. At the same time, the box doesn't contain everything a Tactical squad can take, which is also a turnoff.

I put 10 to 15, to be quite honest, look at the rogue trader era plastics. 30 marines for ten pounds, and now that it's only ten marines, but the quality has risen, i think 15 dollars makes sense. But 35 bucks for ten marines when i could have gotten 30 for 10 back in the day is flat out unreasonable, and I personally like the rogue trader marines more anyway.

infinite_array wrote:At the same time, the box doesn't contain everything a Tactical squad can take, which is also a turnoff.

QFT. The only reason I'm reluctant to give GW my money, but then again it's a big reason. Very very annoying.


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privateherbert24 wrote:I put 10 to 15, to be quite honest, look at the rogue trader era plastics. 30 marines for ten pounds, and now that it's only ten marines, but the quality has risen, i think 15 dollars makes sense. But 35 bucks for ten marines when i could have gotten 30 for 10 back in the day is flat out unreasonable, and I personally like the rogue trader marines more anyway.

Is that taking inflation into the calculation?

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privateherbert24 wrote:I put 10 to 15, to be quite honest, look at the rogue trader era plastics. 30 marines for ten pounds, and now that it's only ten marines, but the quality has risen, i think 15 dollars makes sense. But 35 bucks for ten marines when i could have gotten 30 for 10 back in the day is flat out unreasonable, and I personally like the rogue trader marines more anyway.

Is that taking inflation into the calculation?

That depends. Are we talking real inflation, or GW's 'inflation'?

Lol. The regular inflation that has an effect on everything. I think you're being purposefully obtuse.

SgtSixkilla wrote:Lol. The regular inflation that has an effect on everything. I think you're being purposefully obtuse.

GW's prices have been shown to have prices inflated past normal inflation. Hows that for purposefully obtuse?

In my opinion I think it should be somewhere around 10-15 dollars.

infinite_array wrote:I'm going to go with... anywhere from $15-$25.

There's a lot on the sprues that really isn't necessary, and could be taken off and put onto a 'bits' sprue. At the same time, the box doesn't contain everything a Tactical squad can take, which is also a turnoff.

Agreed!

I really wish they would quit selling them by squads and just sell a box of 10 Marines with Bolters and another box with Bolt Pistol/CCW. Then sell an Assault Weapons box with 1 of each and a Heavy Weapons box with 1 of each. You decide if you are building Tac, Assault, Dev, blah, blah... but no, that would be too easy and require too much thinking ahead.

Sigh

Who is voting for $30-35? Are you insane?

$20 is about all I'll go for 10 marines considering the box doesn't come with everything the squad can take.

25 USD is the very maximum they should be, and every other box and blister should be adjusted appropriately. In fact, that's roughly 2/3 the current price. Considering the average full 2000 point army clocks in at ~$600, this adjustment would make an army roughly $400, which is, IMO, reasonable.

The three of you who voted $40+ are clearly insane and should be institutionalized.

I may not be an expert in manufacturing & buisness, but I do know a little bit about plastic manufacturing. I fix machines that make other things out of plastic. Yes an injection molding machine can cost over a million dollars US. It can also produce thousands of pounds of product a day for a few hundred dollars of cost. So something that weighs a few ounces like a sprue of toy soldiers should without packaging only cost them less than $1 US. So I voted for the $5-$10 range to be fair. I guess this is my round-about way of ranting & complaining about GW prices.

Obviously, I'd love to see them sold for a pittance, but it's a niche hobby, so you can't really expect "reasonable" prices, in the same way you can compare loaves of bread from one market or another. I'd say $25 for a tac squad is the absolute upper limit of what I'd call a "reasonable" price. Make it closer to $15-20 and I'd drop the quotation marks. Any lower than that and I'm as giddy as a schoolgirl (who hasn't yet realized that she has a beard).

About $2.00 per model for something I can put together how I want with some flexibility is reasonable. So, $20.

I would rather they had one or two additional heavy weapons in the box (MM or LC), but that's a coment for another thread...

Can you imagine how much money GW would make if they sold the Marine box for $20-$25? That's just the limit for impulse buying.

People would be snapping those things up left and right.

Damn. I thought I was unreasonable. You guys would HATE IT in Norway. I'm severely anti-corporation, and even I don't demand that they take a loss for me to buy their products.

SgtSixkilla wrote:Damn. I thought I was unreasonable. You guys would HATE IT in Norway. I'm severely anti-corporation, and even I don't demand that they take a loss for me to buy their products.

Take a loss? On what, the $3 sprue that they happen to sell for $37 in the US? And that's in one of the more reasonably priced areas of the world.

$15-20 seems fair. $2 per marine seems right.

Yeah, I don't think people realize just how cheap they make these plastic bastards for...it costs them very, very little to make a tactical sprue.

They sell them for $35, and it doesn't even include all the options that the squad can take.

They broke even on those molding machines a longass time ago.

I just did some currency checks for how much 10 spacemarines around the world cost. (exchenge rates correct at 12-8-2011 at 9:43 UTC)

I converted every thing into USD for simplicity so here we go:

US- 37.25
Euro Zone- 42.75
GB- 37.47
Norway- 50.83
Australia- 64.08
Canada- 45.38
Denmark- 42.99
Japan- 66.48
New Zealand- 60.41
Sweden- 43.19

So there you have it when converted to US dollars the US has it the cheapest which goes to show that GW hasn't checked the exchange rates in some time. They make it out to be so difficult but my FLGS manages to do it with all of it's stock when it does the pricing.

I have been building and buy this kind of stuff for 42 years. GW has been the best producer of minis and I have yet to see anything in plastic that can match them. So I don't mind the prices. BTW, they are still in business and the other guys I use to by from are gone. What does that say?

Karon wrote:Yeah, I don't think people realize just how cheap they make these plastic bastards for...it costs them very, very little to make a tactical sprue.

They sell them for $35, and it doesn't even include all the options that the squad can take.

They broke even on those molding machines a longass time ago.

I don't think you realise how much cost there is other than just raw matirials.

$2 for a marine sounds about right.




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20-25 dollars for me.

20-25 dollars works for me.

15 Dollars for Guardsmen Squad.
30 dollars for average transport vechiles, 32.50 for regular vechiles like the razorback, then increase it by 2.50 per armor upgrade. there we go. even and easy to buy. that means a land raider is 40$ which is beautiful and the Storm raven is 30 dollars hehehe.

I picked 5-10 , i can go to the store and get more green army men for alot less....granted ik there is alot more that goes into making a GW product, including bits and options that you get but it all comes down to one thing. THEY ARE PLASTIC, i might go buy a mold machine and start putting them out lol. GW has staff to pay and a business to run so they won't cut anyone a break so im with the majority of the people on the forum, 2$ a model i can deal with. I don't agree but ik in this economy (for all you U.S. folks) they are struggling. This still doesnt expalin the price increase on all models but thats another thread.

BTW, they do make the best minis and are great so i can't complain, but i won't be happy until plastic tanks cost 15-20 bucks not 60

20-25 Seems ok to me. $2.50 for a normal sized figure is about the upper limit of "reasonable" to me.

Fantasy needs a lower limit though, considering you need 3X as many to make a "reasonable" unit. That would probably be closer to $1.50