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The mailorder I ordered from sent a note last saturday, that they have been informed by GW that the delivery is delayed... they wanted to get back with more info mid week.
Soooo... maybe in time for Christmas? New year? Easter?

Not Online!!! wrote:
considering GW has doubled their production capacity i still find it odd and i'd not put it past gw to artificially create scarcity.

GW's competition is the second hand market.

They have an interest in selling boxes at a premium in limited supply, it's a chance to cash in at full price for things people would otherwise wait and buy at a discount.

By hyping it up and selling at a slight discount, they are capturing revenue that would otherwise go to someone on eBay. Buyers still feel like they're getting a deal.

Dont really know where to post this... but just wanted to let you know that If you live nearby Chelmsford the Space marines heroes Nurgle set, that sold out in less than 24h, can be found in the GW Chelmsford store, I got 1 full box and there was still 3 full boxes there.

Also items that are sold out on online store are there.

Its not technically a Christmas bundle but its nice bundle for Christmas.

XD

OK, just received an eMail from the mailorder I ordered. No boxes. GW has cut the deliveries short and they won't receive what they were promised.
At least they offered to deliver the single boxes, for the price of the battlebox. Mighty nice offer, but it will take a few weeks as the single boxes are sold out too.
My pile of shame is ok with it though and I don't mind if I receive the stuff january/february.
Hope you guys have more luck!

Not an ideal result, but props to your dealer for excellent customer service!

I had contacted GW customer service. I got a response back that things were still moving, but everything was delayed and moving slowly due to COVID. And that's a fine enough answer for now.

But the order still shows "Delivery starts in 6 days"

I'm in the UK, my order only just shipped last night - definitely seems like they've had some issues with these?

 Garfield666 wrote:
OK, just received an eMail from the mailorder I ordered. No boxes. GW has cut the deliveries short and they won't receive what they were promised.
At least they offered to deliver the single boxes, for the price of the battlebox. Mighty nice offer, but it will take a few weeks as the single boxes are sold out too.
My pile of shame is ok with it though and I don't mind if I receive the stuff january/february.
Hope you guys have more luck!

That dealer is a keeper for sure!

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Garfield666 wrote:
OK, just received an eMail from the mailorder I ordered. No boxes. GW has cut the deliveries short and they won't receive what they were promised.
At least they offered to deliver the single boxes, for the price of the battlebox. Mighty nice offer, but it will take a few weeks as the single boxes are sold out too.
My pile of shame is ok with it though and I don't mind if I receive the stuff january/february.
Hope you guys have more luck!

That dealer is a keeper for sure!

Definately. Till GW run him out of business. In this case he's making less money than he should be, and will start to lose customers as well due to stocking issues.

I still find it bizarre that GW invest in making molds that can produce a near infinite amount of models yet choose to make them all limited edition. They may as well go back to metal and use cheaper molds. There's smaller model companies out there that would love to have the ability to make everything out of hard plastic yet GW just waste the advantage they have.

 Gimgamgoo wrote:

I still find it bizarre that GW invest in making molds that can produce a near infinite amount of models yet choose to make them all limited edition. They may as well go back to metal and use cheaper molds. There's smaller model companies out there that would love to have the ability to make everything out of hard plastic yet GW just waste the advantage they have.

just because you can make infinite amount of models does not mean you can do it all at the same time
to produce for a worldwide demand, and include shipping time you need to do things in advance and but not too much at a time because storage space costs a lot of money

so GW has the problem of not correctly guessing the demand, therefore production runs are too small and they are out of models until the next production run for those model series
only of the demand is really high and it will sell better than the other stuff planned, they change schedule

might be the shortage of Christmas boxes was because GW decided to make less but therefore another not planned run of Indominus Boxes

Most of the current stock issues are not unique to GW - they are due to the pandemic. It's impacted a lot of manufacturers at both ends - increased product demand couple with reduced factory output and shipping options.

Everything is under strain and likely will remain so until the corona situation is resolved and GW's factory can picking/packing can get back to normal staff levels and staff being able to work near to each other; over each other and walk past each other etc.... Ergo when we don't have one-way systems; don't have to wear masks; limit people in buildings etc...

When those things are gone I'm sure we'll see GW's stock issues reduce significantly.

 Garfield666 wrote:
At least they offered to deliver the single boxes, for the price of the battlebox. Mighty nice offer, but it will take a few weeks as the single boxes are sold out too.

That's very cool of them to do that.

I remember many, many moons ago, back when GW was doing the original Army Boxes during 2nd Ed, I saved up my pocket money to buy the Tyranid box, only to find it gone when I went to the store. The GW staffers immediately gathered together the separate boxes and blisters and let me buy it that way.

tneva82 wrote:

 zend wrote:

But a billion dollar company that knows there’s going to be a supply/demand issue can and should implement purchase limits with an IP checker and an in cart reserve system on their website. Better yet, if they can’t be bothered to pay someone to do those basic website features, they should just make the product made to order so there’s no supply/demand issue at all! Sure, people won’t get them in time for the holidays, but that’s more of an issue in that they intend it to be a gift product yet only opened up the orders exactly one month before the holiday.
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Assumption there being GW wants to sell DISCOUNT boxes a ton...Rather than selling just some for goodwill PR(the nu-GW is basically old GW with improved PR department) but mostly at full price.

Why sell kit for 70% when you can sell it for 100%?

This has been GW motto in every box set they have sold over the past few years. Make a decent set where people's mouth water to get a deal and then when there is no deal to be had let them go off and complain. I mean bad press is still press... its basically the Kardasian way of doing things. And it works. This year they shouldn't have even called them christmas bundles, they should call them Grinch bundles.

I stopped buying GW stuff over the past year as I used to drop 200 a month but honestly that was my gaming budget then, now it is a lot less and I play games that require less models and are more fun... And the games that require more models are about half the cost of GW. Biggest problem with GW is all the constant rule changes and updates. Every few months it is another $50 for a book that will be out of date before I actually play outside of a friendly game gets to be rediculous.

Was surprised to see our local GW still have a bunch of these left. The Tau and nid one, 3 guard and 2 marine boxes.

My local has the Necron, Tau, Astra Militarum, and Ogor battleforces on the shelf still.

GW Stores are often the last to sell through. Whilst I can’t be sure, I think it’s reasonable to suggest it’s because peeps are keen to get even better value buying through FLGS and Online.

For instance, I got the Gloomspite box. Before boxed set discount, it would cost me £45 for the Squig Hoppers (box and a half), £22.50 for the Loonboss on giant Squig, £40 for the Dankhold, and £70 for the Trolls. That’s a total of £175.50.

So the £120 RRP was appealing in itself. But, by shopping with Element (other stores are available), I paid a relatively measly £96.

Store Loyalty is a thing - but it doesn’t stand up to a near 50% discount!

My local isn't a GW store, its an indy retailer that offers an unadvertised tiered discount between 10 and 25% off msrp. Its just a out of the way hole in the wall surrounded by better stores, so it gets overlooked and holds stock on stuff for months (sometimes years) after things have sold out everywhere else.

Quick heads up, looks like Miniature market got some of these in today. Most have sold through, but a couple of the fantasy ones are still available.

So far I've scored 2 each of the Necron, CSM, and Primaris boxes and 1 of the Gloomspite boxes. I'm kinda tempted to grab a Tzeentch box too now that Slaanesh is getting their mortal range bulked out I kinda want mortal Tzeentch/Nurgle/Khorne stuff to go along with my Slaves to Darkness.

Misread that. Thought you’d bought two score of each!

Does the decimation chaos band have a normal box of CSM or does it use the same models as the start collecting box?

Its the full standalone kit

 Theophony wrote:
Quick heads up, looks like Miniature market got some of these in today. Most have sold through, but a couple of the fantasy ones are still available.

Bought 2 of the Gloomspite Gitz ones after I noticed the same!

Broke down and picked up the starpulse cadre. Figure I'll grab a start collecting soon and go from there. Not sure which way to lean, will have to research Tau.