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The FW items that are insanely priced are probably just items not ready for sale yet. They added them to the store, but instead of making you not able to buy it, they just set the price way too high.

Or they're out of production.

I would have said either canis wolfborn or the Imperial Guard Valkiery (I didn't spell it right) @ 70$ can.

Illumini wrote:

And, the price of Leisure activities/products has skyrocketed across all genres.
Example 1: In 1990, I bought the MB board game 'Axis and Allies' for $25 at my local Walmart.
Last week, I saw it in my local game store for $75. Difference? Avalon Hill.
Example 2. : In 1995, I paid $4.50 to see the movie 'Braveheart'
This summer, they wanted me to pay $9.25 to see transformers.
Example 3. : First run Space Hulk, (My first GW purchase ever!!) $44.99 in 1992.
Current release of Space Hulk... you get the picture.

It is called inflation. In 1920, you could buy a car for what we pay for a couple of boxes of termies, does that mean that prices on cars have skyrocketed? No, wages increase every year too, not just the prices. You also get much more in the boxes from GW now than before, and the switch to lots of plastics make army-building much cheaper, I'm betting that it wasn't actually any cheaper to buy 5 metal termies than it is to buy the current ones, and now you get lots of extra bits too.

The hobby is also made cheaper by the introduction of internet trading, you don't actually have to pay GW prices for most stuff

I am aware of inflation, and the value of the Dollar has not gone down 80% in the last 15 years. Some of it is calculated on the value of the dollar vs. the GBP, and we in the states have lost a bit in that area. However, were we to have experienced inflation on that scale, our economy would have completely crashed in 2000-2001. It is always a part of life, but to state it as the only reason is, IMO, an oversimplification. However, I do agree with you on the aftermarket trade. Ebay and other similar venues have saved me a penny or two, over the years.
They also contribute to the rise in cost of new product...

Sidstyler wrote:Or they're out of production.

Why not remove them? That seems insanely absurd

I've never seen a picture of the bunker except on the FW website... how big is it? $168 000 for one item is simply...


I'm convinced it is a database error or a typo, unless this is life-size

There are a lot of things that GW makes that are overpriced.

My question is - is anything worth its weight in gold yet? I remember someone saying that Epic Land Raiders were, and we joke about Goldswords and Goldvermin and the Steam Nugget, were you to weight these and compare them to gold, which would be more expensive, the gold, or the models?

Everything FW makes is overpriced. Everything.

Manchu wrote:Which Eldar can you more easily afford?

I just realised that the Retribution guys are upside-down Eldar:

Eldar - Pointy hats.
Retribution - Pointy cod-pieces.

Great Unclean One wrote:I thought that the Forgeworld Chaos ogryns came as a full model, not a conversion kit O_o

He said upgrades meaning the stuff thats like nurgle iconography/ style heads and stuff packs thats make 10 of the models and then you need the gw models so your looking at £40 for 1 squad.

Steam tank, £35 for something smaller than my fist, without the awesomeness of most overpriced models.


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HolyCause wrote:

Sidstyler wrote:Or they're out of production.

Why not remove them? That seems insanely absurd

I've never seen a picture of the bunker except on the FW website... how big is it? $168 000 for one item is simply...


I'm convinced it is a database error or a typo, unless this is life-size

But ive seen one of those, pretty high on the awesomeness-o-mastat

just looked azagh £50 for one guy

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Everything FW makes is overpriced. Everything.

I'm not bitching, and I'm not going to stop building it, but my DKoK army has cost me more than my 135-man Black Templar Army with 6 Land Raiders and an upwards of 15 Rhino based vehicles (if I decide to make the Vindicators).

For me , over priced is judged on material cost : price.

I know a great looking model is more tempting than an ugly one , but its really rude to customers to price a product that way .
Same goes for judging it based on point value . ( for example termies vs grots )

What i find over priced : majority of character in blisters + new azhag the slaughterer .

Box set of 10 SoB = £23

Blister containing 1 SoB w/HeavyFlamer = £8

C'mon GW, i knew i'd have to pay through the nose for my army but that's just an oversight surely....It's not even a character, just a 12pt upgrade for a basic troop unit. Why on earth does it have to cost four times as much as a Sister from the box set?

At least we get the best vehicle kit in the range (Go Immolator!).

The LOTR plastics are usually well priced, but the metals are not so. I appreciate that GW pay a licence, but the figures are top end prices and frequently for things that are very small. A blister with a foot and mounted character is £15. Golly. I recall when they came out that individual foot figures were £5 a pop, it's too expensive to buy more than the odd couple. Last time I looked Celeborn and Galadriel with their bowl was £12. Phew, they're nice figures but hardly sculpting masterpieces, galadriel is a nice but fairly straightforward sculpt I'd have thought. Gimli sitting on a dead Uruk is now £9.80 on their site!!

Everything on GW is over price, everything. We pay premium for a hobby. It waste of money. Then I go and pay for a new mac machine, iphone, ps3 game, latest LCD Tv, ipod and see that they are not that bad.

Except the great swords, those puppies are muchos chavos out of my pocket.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

I just realised that the Retribution guys are upside-down Eldar:

Eldar - Pointy hats.
Retribution - Pointy cod-pieces.

The new Stormvermin. Just-the new Stormvermin.

Azhag the Slaughterer is actually the worst model ever. He looks a bit dorky, is not much bigger than Kroq-gar and is most likely to lose to him anyway.

Has there been typo and been fixed of Epic Bunkers, or why I see only 5.85 as the price...
On topic, Blood Knights, Greatswords, Dragon Princes and new Space Hulk. The reason I didn't buy it? I looked at the price before I clicked Order

Necromunda Spyrers. £10 a pop for a model that has been around for how long?
They aren't even very big!

Don't you get two of the spyrers in a packet though? They are pretty cool models though and they kick pretty much anything in the game

Web site says only one per blister.
If anbody knows different I would love to know.

I seem to remeber the malcadon and jakara came with 2 in eack blister when they were released (yes, i do feel old). The Orrus and Yeld were both a little bigger/had flappy wings and came as singles.

As for now... Surely GW wouldn't let you buy 2 minis for a measly £10

The reason I didn't buy any grey knights was because of the cost. The Terminators are obviously the most popular pieces and are age-old in the fluff right back to my Space Hulk days. But they are matched by being incredibly expensive, the box set means the figures work out at a bargain £7 each and individually in blisters they cost anywhere between £8 and £10. Which is frankly phenomenal for a single figure that isn't even a one-off character.

At least they are metal though, the plastic Terminators work out at £5 each in the box set. Terminators are massively popular and mass produced if in plastic, but they still can't make them cheaper than £25 for a box of just five figures? That's the annoyance of plastic, they make more and more stuff in plastic which is cheaper for them but don't pass any of that saving on to the customer. They cast in plastic because in the long run it has lower costs and it's easier to sell to children. Rarely are plastic figures actually better detailed than metal so the end result is a reduction in overall quality under the same price.

My main beef with GW pricing is that it doesn't primarily reflect the costs of production, but really of the use in the game. It seems that all the best characters and vehicles are marked up so if you want anything more than a basic army you have to be a rich kid. That's why plastic dreadnauts and terminators cost a bomb. Why else does a box of 10 Marines cost nearly double what a box for 10 Orks does when they both have about the same standard of sculpting and mass of optional parts for customisation?

because 30 orks=10 space marines... or something like that

What about the Deff dread same price as landraider.. metal model but still... 70 pt model or 240 pt model hmmmmm

I don't think points costs = $$$.

And nor should it ever.

Spyrers have always been singles. I bought the original Necro Spyrers as singles back in the day.

Ok.

Steam tank is the price of the landraider, as much sprue as which is in the SM Commander Kit.

Heck, while we're here - the SM commander kit is grossly overpriced for a model.

Wraithguard are even more expensive than Immortals, for a not so vital unit - they would have to be the stupidest unit to leave in metal.

Sidstyler wrote:Azhag the Slaughterer (of your wallet).

+1

It's a nice model, but I don't know about $82.50. Maybe seeing the model in person would change my mind, but I highly doubt it.

The price of the Balrog flattened me back when it was first released - £40?!

If company A produces the rulebook, and the models.
Then says you must use there models to play in tournements.
your not going to get competion in pricing.

Bloodthirster arn't cheap either