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Get a grip its only money, it was only going to get spent on something.

Well, I'm a grown man so my parents have no right to complain. I don't have a wife, and it wouldn't be a problem anyway since whoever I marry will just have to accept that I have unpopular hobbies.

The only real problem I have is trying to justify it to myself. The prices were hard enough to swallow in the first place, and then I found out that they have yearly price increases. It's just too much sometimes.

I tell them it's not like I have a heroin habit! Well, it's not as bad as having a heroin habit.... Ok, so maybe it is kind of like that , but it makes me happpy and keeps me off of the streets, away from decent folks......

Tauzor wrote:Get a grip its only money, it was only going to get spent on something.

No offence but "its just money" type of reply is just.... Nothing to do with any of this

Would you pay a dollar for a thumb tack?

I feel no need to justify whatever I spend my spare cash on, after I paied for my part of the household.
What´s left is mine to spend as I see fit; afterall, I´m the one who worked for the money in my pocket.
Same goes the other way around with my gf, would never ask her for any explonation why she needs
20something pair of shoes, when she still only have two feets. Her choice.

/Grom

Wrexasaur wrote:I will not justify my purchases. They will continue to be at a discount of 20% or more off of standard prices.

Buy second hand, this is the best option.

Or buy from online sites that offer good discounts because they can actually gain the momentum to take advantage of GW's pricing structure.

GW will not get a single dime more of my money than I think they deserve.

Sorry to rain on your parade there skip, but GW make more profit selling via a third party than their own sales channels.

But hey, discount is discount!

HI all.
As GW PLC can not justify the prices they charge , other than 'we are greedy and you are stupid'.
I fail to see how any of thier customers can justify buying from GW apart from 'I want to , so there!'

Its your money spend it how you want to.
I prefer to get better value for money , but thats just me.

Happy spending,
Lanrak.

I don't justify GW prices. It is still cheaper then what I pay for cable every month. I spend more time on my computer then I do watching tv.

rzsanguine wrote:I don't justify GW prices. It is still cheaper then what I pay for cable every month. I spend more time on my computer then I do watching tv.

QFfethingT. How do we justify paying for any luxury item? Because we want it.

LunaHound wrote:

Tauzor wrote:Get a grip its only money, it was only going to get spent on something.

No offence but "its just money" type of reply is just.... Nothing to do with any of this

Would you pay a dollar for a thumb tack?

QFT. The fact that money is made for spending has nothing to do with spending it on... w/e. Spending in such a superfluous fashion is a good part of the reason the recession even happened. Yes... south park was right.

Sidstyler, you my freind are absolutley right. We don't have to justify our hobby to anyone. They'll just have to accept that we have an expensive hobby.
Sory if I sound bitter. That's what the world does to some.



(A very bitter) LLF

In all seriousness, the prices are unjustifiable to the casual passer by. I was in my FLGS a few years back when a mother strolled up with her two kids. We were playing a 1500 point game with fully painted armies. When she took me aside to ask how much my army had cost... I struggled to present it in a way that wouldn't imediately kill sales for the store...

I just repriced the army I was using, and the cheapest way of buying it new, taking FULL advantage of the box sets was still $600+ Cdn before tax. Even after an internet discount of 20%, that's stilll a lot at 1500.

Of course, that's if you do it cheap. My army was an IW army with a converted hybrid vindicator with old metal parts and forgeworld spaced armor - built before there was a plastic vindicator. That tank alone cost me over $100 to build. All my sgt models were techmarines. The terminators in it were converted from imperial plastic terminators with chaos arms and heads, as the Chaos plastics hadn't been released yet. The army used huge quantities of IW bits. Now that bits service is largely gone, I'd never try building an army like this again... it'd put me in the poorhouse for sure!

So... I shook my head and lamely pointed them at Battle for McCragge, which was the starter set at the time... The $75 on McCragge didn't faze her - but the woman was a cunning one though... a few looks at the $45-$55 squad boxes behind it, and she shoo'ed the kids out the door.

I'm still buying, though at a hugely reduced rate.

YMMV.

Wrexasaur wrote:Spending in such a superfluous fashion is a good part of the reason the recession even happened. Yes... south park was right.

Sooo...you're saying if no one spent their money then the economy would have been better off?

Hi Sidstyler.
I think he was saying if people spent the money they have on stuff they need, rather than borrow money they can not afford to pay back , to buy stuff they didnt need , the economy would be better off.

Greed make fools of everyone apart from the 'corperate directors' with 'golden parachutes' apparently.

Wow...

This took a little bit of time to descend into economic theory (which spins as much as a good politition!).

Manchu said it best,
we spend and justify the prices in the end because we want the product and the associated elements around this BECAUSE we want it enough to get over that hurdle.

There are somethings that I cannot justify in price. The Steamtank being the same price as the valk is one (I want both, but only would be able to justify the price to myself for one of them),

If I cannot justify the prices to myself, then I do not try to do so with my wife. That's my simple rule.

A friend of mine said that you're not paying for the figures as much as you're paying for the sheer number of opponents. Pretty much anywhere you go you'll find someone willing to play 40k, while the same can't be said for a number of other systems, even more popular ones like Flames of War, Warmachine, and Battletech.

Personally I find it hard to justify the price for their product although nonetheless I can see the reasoning behind it after all games workshop as a business doesn't generate a lot of money for itself in regards to profit lately so I'm a big fan of eBay let someone else buy at the full price get bored, and then I shall buy it from themn simple the only problem is everyone else seems to be doing exactly the same thing which means that generate it's hard to find bargains.

My parents just know the laws of supply and demand that's the justification.

Its cheaper than the beer I used to spend money on, and less bad for me. Its also less intrusive than the Playstation - I can paint and fake a conversation with the GF, whilst the PS is all absorbing.

Justfying the mess and the space - thats a different story!

1: I buy discount

2: I stopped playing Halo.

Those two combined convinced my wife.

My wife plays the stock market. The money she seems to lose would work out to a new GW army a month. As such, she doesn't complain about my hobby ...

randyc9999 wrote:My wife plays the stock market. The money she seems to lose would work out to a new GW army a month. As such, she doesn't complain about my hobby ...

That sounds ok still , most people i hear that does stock for a living always end up going near bankrupt o_o

The one time my wife asked if buying a $50 plastic tank was a wise investment choice, I pointed to her $600 purse she begged me to get her for her birthday.

Ever sense that shes accepted that what little money I get from my check goes to a hobby that keeps me happy, and one that I can include my daughter in. Something she had a major issue with when I used to play WoW and other video games (Iv cut back to a few hours a week for those, much to her approval)

I just try and not think about it - I never, ever pay full retail for anything other than books and occassionally brushes or green stuff if I need it on the fly.

But its still a ridiculous expense - this is why I'm painting, instead of buying more. The only way I could consider buying anything more at all would be to buy massed armies off of ebay well under their resale value, take what I want, and then sell the rest in small lots to cover the cost.

I myself am trying to get employed so i can pay for it myself, I always say MoM/dad/person with money, would you rather me go on drugs then Warhammer?

I don't have to justify my 40k spending to my wife...half the time she buys stuff for me.

Why?

She knows that I have a stressful and busy job, so she understands that I need a hobby for stress relief. She also sees how happy I am when I am converting and painting new minis.

Plastic Tank $50. Paint and supplies, $20. A few hours of stress relief and happiness....priceless

Nurgleboy77 wrote:"I could be going to the strip club or play golf, honey!"

I wish I had those options when I was a kid!

Would have been so much better invested that the boxes in my garage at the moment.

LunaHound wrote:

Tauzor wrote:Get a grip its only money, it was only going to get spent on something.

No offence but "its just money" type of reply is just.... Nothing to do with any of this

Would you pay a dollar for a thumb tack?

If they came in the =I= shape... yea I would buy a box :-P

combatmedic wrote:The one time my wife asked if buying a $50 plastic tank was a wise investment choice, I pointed to her $600 purse she begged me to get her for her birthday.

What exactly is it with women and spending, anyway? They'll hound you for buying toys or games, but then insist on insanely-priced clothing (or "accessories") and insist on a brand new car every 6 months. And let's not forget that big fething rock she has to wear on her finger because a simple gold band just won't do.

GW puts powdered crack into all of their boxes so everytime you open one you get addicted to the crack and have to buy more.