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GW just issued a new policy restricting certain retailers from opening products and reselling bits. Will this kill businesses like Horde o' Bits?

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2013/03/40k-news-cya-later-bits-says-games.html

I hope it will not, or maybe GW wants to start selling bits by themselves...

At worst, BattlewagonBits and such that have a GW deal will be going away. For the most part, GW can't do anything about those Ebay stores.

We might see an increase in prices but bits won't be going away.

M.

http://www.miniwargaming.com/content/games-workshop-prohibits-online-sales-sales-bitz-and-more?utm_source=subemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=subemail

This may be worse than just that.

Games Workshop released a new trade policy yesterday, which includes prohibiting online sales....

(emphasis mine)

They've prohibited online sales since 2003.

Anyway, how can they stop that ? those sellers are anywhere in the world, the only thing they could do is asking Ebay to close those account...

Wow, the forums are full of a bunch of chicken littles today...

Retailers have not been able to do online sales for a decade now.

And all this biz thing applies to is retailers. It does nothing to impact 'customers' who buy a product legally, cut it up and re-sell bitz. Only retailers who do it, which is already somewhat common in other industries as retailers have restrictions they need to fullfil to gain access to product at a discount opposed to a customer.

Street dates, Maximum discounts, no repackaging or modification are rules already out there.

Want no restriction? Then buy the product for full price and then you can do what you want as you are not a retailer anymore.

You take the King's coin, you do the King's bidding. If you don't like the terms of selling a product... stop selling the product. If your sole existence is selling that product then you may need to evaluate your business model and diversify.

Bitz are not going anywhere... This is not an actual issue.

 meecham63 wrote:
Anyway, how can they stop that ? those sellers are anywhere in the world, the only thing they could do is asking Ebay to close those account...

IANAL, but as far as i know they cant. they can however say that sites like miniwargaming.com and such can't have online ordering or they lose the ability to order products from gw. At least that is what the document seems to say.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/514316.page

Already has a topic.

 Cyporiean wrote:
They've prohibited online sales since 2003.

Shopping carts. Not online sales.

Already being discussed in the N&R thread linked kindly by Byte, please direct any comments to there. Thank you.