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May be I'm just expecting something I shouldn't be entitled to but i thought if you buy a box set of something you'll get a small discount for buy bulk. So went on line and saw the "Iyanden Ghost Warrior 1-Click Miniatures Collection" and though that looks great I wonder how much that will save me ... add every thing it has to the basket and ... Nothing. Now its a one day sale and you'd think you'd get something special ... but no.

So I just can't see any reason in buying a box set. No discount ... so i might as well buy them separately. Any one got any idea about this? Is expecting a discount on a box set wrong?

(edit for the epic typo in the title)

... so i look for another dealer and www.waylandgames.co.uk have a look at there miniatures and guess what? GW £407 ... WLG £298.40 ... saving of £108.60 ... saving a quarter by not supporting Games workshop directly.

WHY THE ON EARTH IS THAT SAVING NOT ON THEIR WEBSITE?!?

oh and

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
They do, war walkers come in packs of 3 for 75$.
It just if you buy an entire army at once, it isnt a discount.

Games work shop £47.50 for three ...WLG its £15.36 per war walker for 3 its £46.08 .... still saving you money

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
it probably takes all of 5 seconds to set one of those bundles up. If they trick just one person with it, its paid off more than likely.

Nearly reflex purchased the deal myself ... I'm just glad i checked.

Aben Zin wrote:


Just read this and thought "Ooo! Wonder if they have Wood Elf Wild Riders on a discount?"

waylandgames.co.uk wrote:RRP: £36.00 Now: £41.40

Sigh.

Az

Yep it looks like they get a discount for ordering bulk and then pass some of that discount on. Older ranges don't seem to get all that much business so go up in price. That said hats off to them for actually listing GW price so you know which is better.

Games workshop should be more open about this, i don't think i would have been this upset if i'd known ... No what am i saying, Games Workshop should take at least 10% off, every where else give a discount hell even other companies selling GW products do discount. If they want to do 1 click items they should go into the basket as the individual items so people can make their own changes.

 Ailaros wrote:
But they don't HAVE to.

Also, I've always wondered how much the fact that bulk is cheaper isn't because by-unit has been arbitrarily made more expensive, not that bulk has been made arbitrarily cheaper.

Plus, there are plenty of things you don't get bulk rates on. If I go to the jeweller's and ask to buy a pair of wedding rings, they're not exactly going to offer me 10% discount if I buy three...

We're not talking about one, two or three models/boxes ... its 11 items. I would put good money on most shops being able to negotiate a discount ... heck if you go into a jeweler and ask for 10 weddings with a discount they'll be open to the idea.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

No, I'm not. I did not get any impression from that offer that you got any sort of monetary discount, and please don't resort to ad hominem.

Not the fact it was limited time only? Maybe i buy from e-buyer too often but limited time offer = discount.

Then again what was exactly limited? Being able select them all in one go? isn't that more of a negative? I know i wouldn't pick extra Wraith lords since i all ready have 4.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Tri wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

No, I'm not. I did not get any impression from that offer that you got any sort of monetary discount, and please don't resort to ad hominem.

Not the fact it was limited time only? Maybe i buy from e-buyer to often but limited time offer = discount.

Does the limited time offer you are familiar with tell you that there's a discount? In my experience, whenever there is a discount it's mentioned somewhere. So to me limited time event =/= discount, discount mentioned = discount. The fact that it's for a limited amount of time does not matter to me. I look for numbers, not marketing hype.

I counter this with the fact that GW had never openly told people how much their box set save. Eldar Battleforce is £70 and to buy them sperately it would cost £89 ... you will not find this figure on this page Eldar Battle Force. This is the whole reason i checked the price of the individual products, to see if it was a good saving ... it wasn't.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Ah, I see. Well then, I guess there's no reason why GW can't have sales :/

... yep. Now just humor me and go look here www.waylandgames.co.uk .

Notice that many of the products are discounted. In order to do this Games Workshop must be making a profit and so must Wayland Games ... So if Games Workshop is happy to take a smaller cut ... why don't we ever see that? As i mention earlier i add every thing that was in the Games Workshop 24hour bundle and got it for £298.40. Now if i went and placed that order, Games Workshop would get much less as they are sharing less money with another company.

I would also have been a happy customer because the one click bundle would have saved me £108.60. So the other way of looking at this is every body that purchased the bundle was ripped off by at least £108.60 if not more.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
That is a good point...out of curiosity, did you factor in shipping?

£7 Uk, £18 Usa ... oh and £11 France

Just a recap on this because i don't want to start another i hate GWs Pricing thread ...

Don't buy the Apocalypse Formations.

Windrider Host £210.00 ... Contence 1 Eldar Autarch on Jetbike Upgrade Pack; 1 Eldar Jetbike; 6 Eldar Vyper Jetbikes; and 4 Jetbike Squadrons.

If you buy separately on the GW website that's £194.00 ... it also raises the question why would any one buy a single jetbike even for an autarch upgrade. Its only an extra £12 for 2 more jet bikes ... oh and £206 so still cheaper then the one click select...

I think I've given up on the GW website now.

YakManDoo wrote:
words

EA is The Worst Company in America ... however they do discount.

I have on and off been a supporter of GW since 3rd Edition of 40k ... that's almost 15 years. In the old days ...
I got discounts in from staff for buy lots of stuff
They would help the kid make their army (often letting them use glue and spray models)
If they wanted to shift more of X, they reduce the price a bit and/or have a painting/modeling competition (popular one had a prize of a dread)
If you got a box set there was a discount.
There were sales.
You could order individual parts for conversion.

In short I felt GW was a small company, that cared about having me as a customer. That's gone all that's left is the smiling people behind the till.

Have a nice day now.

YakManDoo wrote:
GW does discount their product, and consumers can take advantage of those discounts...they happen to be with the stockists...

.... rrriigghhttt ... So that why they've changed their terms of trade, making it harder for those stockist? GW wants one price across the board. They don't want you to split up sprews, they don't want you using third party parts, they want your money. (Don't get me wrong I'm personally in favour of their idea of there being a shop to go to ... just not their method)

At the moment they're failing simply because they greedy. Little discounting here and there would make all the difference.