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Jacko4smackos wrote:The GW staff had given me no previous warning, just a straight up "your now banned from using our stuff". So be it,

It's alright I'll just bring in my P3 privateer press glue. Apparently staff members have an average value per transaction KPI they have to meet. I could buy individual pots of paint one at a time...

Are you 13? Because that is exactly how you are acting. If they were letting you use their materials before it was simply a courtesy. Misuse that courtesy, expect it to be taken away.

When they toss your ass out, make sure you make another post screaming about how their hatin on you because your asian.

As a white guy who frequently finds himself on the racist end of the stick from Asians (especially where I live) any sympathy I would have if this was even close to a racist act is gone.

Buy your own glue, and don't be a spoiled brat. Not all white people (or asians) are racist. In fact, most people are not racist. The only people that are racist are the idiots that immediately throw down the racist card at some imagined slight.

Vancouver is pretty much the China-Town of BC.

I went there briefly to see a concert, can't say I'd stay there. Vancouver Island though is lovely.

Shadowbrand wrote:Vancouver is pretty much the China-Town of BC.

I went there briefly to see a concert, can't say I'd stay there. Vancouver Island though is lovely.

Used to live on the Is-Land. Loved it there. However, I'd stay in the Vancouver/Burnaby/New West area, just because it has anything I could want in arms reach. The Canucks, Lions, etc. all 30m away.

Honestly I don't blame you. Victoria may wear the title of BC's capital formally, but they didn't held the Olympics there!

I would love to take the girlfriend and I to the Island though, after I put myself through school. I see lots of profiles in the Vancouver area, good gaming there eh? I''m moving further north so I may see less and less of that. But GW's pricing this poor man out, and the only person up in Terrace whom gives a damn about Warmachine is my girl.

Perhaps I'll get those Celts from Warlord Games...

Crazyterran wrote:

Shadowbrand wrote:Vancouver is pretty much the China-Town of BC.

I went there briefly to see a concert, can't say I'd stay there. Vancouver Island though is lovely.

Used to live on the Is-Land. Loved it there. However, I'd stay in the Vancouver/Burnaby/New West area, just because it has anything I could want in arms reach. The Canucks, Lions, etc. all 30m away.

My dad lives up there. I always enjoy visiting, real nice area. Great food up there as well, though apparently they don't have any decent ramen shops. Seems you can't find those anywhere outside of Japan.

djones520 wrote:

Crazyterran wrote:

Shadowbrand wrote:Vancouver is pretty much the China-Town of BC.

I went there briefly to see a concert, can't say I'd stay there. Vancouver Island though is lovely.

Used to live on the Is-Land. Loved it there. However, I'd stay in the Vancouver/Burnaby/New West area, just because it has anything I could want in arms reach. The Canucks, Lions, etc. all 30m away.

My dad lives up there. I always enjoy visiting, real nice area. Great food up there as well, though apparently they don't have any decent ramen shops. Seems you can't find those anywhere outside of Japan.

Los Angeles. Fantastic Ramen shop a block from where I live.

So first you freeload, because you think that the product you keep on purchasing is so defective that they "owe" you free glue.

And when they call you out on it, you cry about them picking on you because you are asian.

I don't think it's because you are asian, I think it's because you are cheap.

But what do I know.

Now, don't take this the wrong way. I am a fat guy and I love food all kinds of food.

But Ramen makes me sick to my gut.

I feel this link needs to be in this thread.

https://www.google.com/search?q=super+glue&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&client=firefox-a#q=super+glue&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=D3Y&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&tbs=p_ord:p&tbm=shop&prmd=imvns&ei=Q1vhT4zENejA2gX0mKG3Cw&ved=0CCIQuw0oAQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=95d8ad60d17382aa&biw=1680&bih=878

Shadowbrand wrote:Now, don't take this the wrong way. I am a fat guy and I love food all kinds of food.

But Ramen makes me sick to my gut.

MAN UP!

People tell me Pho is just like it, I think their insane. Sapporo style Negi Miso Chashu Ramen has no equal in this world.

I'd like you to tell me to man up when you see how many pancakes I can eat.

Mmn, and I just bukkake them in syrup.

Pancakes,bacon and eggs and breakfest sausage and ham. Thor be praised!

Shadowbrand wrote:I'd like you to tell me to man up when you see how many pancakes I can eat.

Mmn, and I just bukkake them in syrup.

Pancakes,bacon and eggs and breakfest sausage and ham. Thor be praised!

I'm quite tempted to sig that...

You guys get free glue and paints! LUCKY!

Wouldn't be the first. But i've been on Dakka for a few years and spend -far- too much time here.

Now I want pancakes.

Or Waffles.

Or Chocolate Chip Waffles w/ Syrup.

God damnit.

SoloFalcon1138 wrote:So, asking people to not be bums and to buy their own supplies is now considered alienating the vets? You do realize that those supplies are not free, right? And the "vets" should have their own supplies anyway.

I agree. The vets should have their own paints - I do, but mine are all Vallejo, and I doubt GW would LET me use them in their store even if I did deign to darken their doorstep.
Most of the "GW" vets at that store barely qualify as out of noob-hood (Most started with 5th ed - with the BA or SW codex) and most are just moochers and freeloaders anyway. The actual vets go to the FLGS down the road.

No, making them buy their own stuff is not what I'd consider "alienating" the vets - cancelling the vets events was one way to alienate them. Bringing them back but allowing the munchkins in as well, was another. There are only so many times you can hear "but they can't be Blood Angels, they're not red" before thoughts of stuffing them into a shredder bubble to the surface.
GW don't care about veterans anyway. We don't buy enough new stuff. We don't have to because after 20+ years of this stuff, we have a room full of stuff we rarely use as it is.

The games workshop paints and tools are basically a quick-fix and newbie related stuff. If someone's meltagun/arms fallen off, you can use the house glue. However, trimming and gluing a land raider or a baneblade....Thats misusing free supplies and it hurts not just you, but all of the OTHER people at the store.

You are unusually quick to try the racism card, and in my GW we have the same problem - people misusing supplies and getting cut off. most of them aren't asian, and those who do build big armies instore buy glue.

The store is a store as well as a hobby center, they are not obligated to supply you exclusively with free paint, glue and tools.

clippers from an electronics store. 3 bucks. A set of files. 3 bucks. A hobby knife. 1.50 from spotlight. glue is generally much cheaper from spotlight as well. If you are too tight to buy GW glue, go get it from the corner shop/general store.

curran12 wrote:

Eilif wrote:

Overall, while I'll agree that no one is entitled to any products for free, I see it as just another sign of GW's backwardness that they both increase their prices and pare back their perks.

Seriously? By not giving out free modeling/assembly tools and materials they are backward? Jeez, how entitled can you get.

They charge a premium price for an average product. They have an opportunity to make up the 'difference' through excellent customer service which could include free paint, glue, modelling and painting tutorials in-store, free-for-all bits box, in-store coffee with free re-fills, lounges, etc. They certainly wouldn't have to do all of it, and aren't obliged to do any of it, but some kind of perks would go a long way to improving their public relations image, the way customers feel about their brand, and their bottom line.

The fact that they would refuse to do any of that is backward, and has nothing to do with entitlement.

Kaldor wrote:

curran12 wrote:

Eilif wrote:

Overall, while I'll agree that no one is entitled to any products for free, I see it as just another sign of GW's backwardness that they both increase their prices and pare back their perks.

Seriously? By not giving out free modeling/assembly tools and materials they are backward? Jeez, how entitled can you get.

They charge a premium price for an average product. They have an opportunity to make up the 'difference' through excellent customer service which could include free paint, glue, modelling and painting tutorials in-store, free-for-all bits box, in-store coffee with free re-fills, lounges, etc. They certainly wouldn't have to do all of it, and aren't obliged to do any of it, but some kind of perks would go a long way to improving their public relations image, the way customers feel about their brand, and their bottom line.

The fact that they would refuse to do any of that is backward, and has nothing to do with entitlement.

Has it been established that they do not? Given the attitude of the OP, it's not a stretch to guess that he is someone who was abusing the stores complimentary hobby supplies, and was asked to stop.

chromedog wrote: Their aim is to alienate the weird smelly guys who hang around in the shop all day in order to scalp more noobs.

FTFY

I think the original subject matter of this thread is dealt with now.