More price increases. GW lost their minds.

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Ailaros wrote:GW's price increases haven't been greater than inflation over time.

Go to your local grocery store and look at the price of bacon. It will make you feel much better about 40k.

In this particular case, the price hike in a euro-denominated product probably has something to do with the collapsing value of the euro as well.

Can't speak for inflation, but this is the value of the pound vs the Euro in the last five years:

So in the past 5 years, all other things being equal (i.e. ignoring inflation), GW are receiving 13% less money. During 2009 it was about a third less...

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For Australians...

The UK pound vs Australian dollars.
Looks like GW have been taking the piss

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Kroothawk wrote:
Aprion wrote:Actually kroot when I checked the site just a few days back the prices were still their old value. So please spare me that cheeky lip.

Price increase for battleforces etc. took effect 1st June worldwide, and that includes the Netherlands.
See this abbreviated US-list which explicitely includes the battleforces (German list is similar, also including all battleforces):
http://silverspringhobby.blogspot.de/2012/05/gw-2012-annual-price-increase-june-1st.html?m=1

Who wants to work out the average based on sales volumes?

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Trench-Raider wrote:
I did read the post, sport. I also have seen the link to the SoL site. (a favorite of mine) Look at your own link, son. The package scan of the plastic RTB01 Imperial Space Marines shows the sticker price as being 9.99 British pounds. If I recall, the exchange rate at the time hovered at around 2:1. So that box of marine 30 marine models would cost you around 20$US. That's exactly what I stated in my post and is at odds with that you claimed. Now you are just lying....which is not condusive to being taken seriously when it's so easy to check.

According to this inflation calculator that I had to use because the Bank of England's one is down (grr government websites), their price today would be £22.08, which is the exact same price as today! By jove.
Problem is, you get 10 less...
So, do you think a modern space marine is worth 1.5 times as much as one of the old ones? Personally I'd say definitely.
Adding on to that, the price of oil (the main componant of plastic) in 1988 was $14.87. Since the models went from 30p to £1.15, a 3.8 fold increase, we can expect the price of oil today to be $56 a barrel, right?

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Trench-Raider wrote:

I'm going to use US pricing here, so pardon me for that. The price for 30 RTB01 Marines circa 1990 was about 20$US. I recall payng 24$ at my local hobby shop in 1990, but that may be either my faulty memory or the local mark-up. But let's run with 20$. For the pendantic "that's annectotal! Prove it!" sort of poster, about three posts up there is a link to a scan of an ad for the TRB01 box showing it's cost at the time of release. Now flash forward to 2012. Now, for some odd reason my workplace firewall is blocking the GW site tonight, while it was not doing so yesterday. So I'll have to link to Amazon instead. Sorry about that.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CEM3EA/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1/186-6967057-7908015?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_r=0NXJTZV4AJW429YX7CFH&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_i=B000CEM3E0
The full price shown for the Space Marine Combat Squad box is 25$US, which if I'm not mistaken is the same as shown at the GW web store. Now to get the same number of Space Marine models as the RTB01 box provided, you will need to buy six of those Combat Squad boxes at a total cost of 150$US, not including any shipping, assuming you bought it through GW mail order. That is a whopping 750% (my previous estimate was actually too LOW as I was figuring the initial cost at my remembered price of 25$) increase rather than the mere 150% you state above.

That's just stupid. Combat Squads are far more expensive than tactical squads. You may as well compare the old Rogue Trader marines to the Armour Through the Ages pack.

Protip - if you're going to compare the price for two things...make sure they're the same