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Taken from a facebook thread about the pricing of the Iyanden Supplement:

The owner of the No Mans Land games store in Maidstone, England, appears to believe that his customers are MUGS:


He also appears to not know the difference between copyright theft and 'personal use'.....

Sounds like a stereotypical rich donkey-cave bragging.

I'd take his comments with a pinch of salt, as with most self avowed "rich" people. If you meet a bloke in the pub who within ten minutes of chatting says "Oh I own my own business and I'm worth over two million" (I have) then nine times out of ten hes just a braggart, and Id reckon this blokes just trying to wind people up in that vein.

I mean feth me, how big was their dividend again? 24p a share? With shares at 6 quid a pop you would need to have a feth load of shares to make 12k on them a year. If this guy was being honest he must have...er.. what... about £350,000 worth?

To have that in simple GW stock he's either a fething millionaire, or he's a lying bastard, if the former, why hasn't he retired?

LOL the guy bragging is just a troll and a liar.

The May 22, 2013 announced dividend was 16 pence per share.

Games workshop's share price is 735.00 British Pound Moneys.

Assuming quarterly dividends, that's 3000 per dividend pay-out. Let's also assume 16 pence per share per payout.

He'd have to own 18,750 shares to get 3000 British Pound Moneys per pay out.

That's 13,781,205 British Pound Moneys in stock. I call bs.

The thread has gone now, but he basically claimed that as a shareholder, he was entitled to torrent GW books!

His store is: https://www.facebook.com/nomanslandmaidstone?fref=ts

Don't think he's the entrepreneur he thinks he is...

Well he's not wrong, lol!!

He may not be wrong, but I can't think I've ever seen a LGS owner admit it in such a brazen manner....

 kronk wrote:
The May 22, 2013 announced dividend was 16 pence per share.

Games workshop's share price is 735.00 British Pound Moneys.

Assuming quarterly dividends, that's 3000 per dividend pay-out. Let's also assume 16 pence per share per payout.

He'd have to own 18,750 shares to get 3000 British Pound Moneys per pay out.

That's 13,781,205 British Pound Moneys in stock. I call bs.

Haha! My math was a little out then, he's either a lying bastard or worth 14 million pounds in GW stock alone.. I reckon I called it right regardless.

Plus, I doubt someone so dumb that they think owning shares makes it legal to torrent files would have the brains to operate a computer, let alone become a self made multimillionaire.

 kronk wrote:
The May 22, 2013 announced dividend was 16 pence per share.

Games workshop's share price is 735.00 British Pound Moneys.

Assuming quarterly dividends, that's 3000 per dividend pay-out. Let's also assume 16 pence per share per payout.

He'd have to own 18,750 shares to get 3000 British Pound Moneys per pay out.

That's 13,781,205 British Pound Moneys in stock. I call bs.

I suspect you mean 735 pence per share, I don't think many companies would have shares at £735.00

EDIT Nope, I stand corrected. Feth me.

It gets better - I hadn't reaslised that I had the thread open on a different tab on my Mac - Managed to grab another screenshot where the LGS owner REALLY shows himself in a great light:

Mod edit: If you want to post that pic here on Dakka, you need to black out the swear words.

Wait.. shareholders get free mugs? like for coffee? I want one!

 Necros wrote:
Wait.. shareholders get free mugs? like for coffee? I want one!

They never gave me a mug. I don't own anywhere near the amount of stock this guy claims to but I used to buy an army each time I received a dividend payment..

Have just reposted the image on No Mans Land Games Facebook, a 5 month old company, asking if it is the same individual. Admittedly its a generic name, but it could be....

So it turns out his comments are in direct violation of his trade terms with GW - such a shame they'll find this out....

There's one thing believing that a company has high prices, it's another to brag that you're fleecing your customer base. To me he's no better than a certain FW bits seller...

Nothing on their Facebook wall about the incident that I can see...

And because GW is a hive mind, this applies to every employee of their's?

I don't think so...

Isn't this the sort of thing, and worse, that the senior management supposedly say about customers anyway?

Apparently 'he was drunk' and 'apologises' for his remarks....




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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
And because GW is a hive mind, this applies to every employee of their's?

I don't think so...

He's a Indie LGS - NOT Games Workshop....

It's just amazing.

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
Isn't this the sort of thing, and worse, that the senior management supposedly say about customers anyway?

Just so - but said senior management also loses their job when they say it within earshot of said customers. That said, if he's a multi-millionaire who runs his LGS for fits and giggles, he's slightly removed from the usual salesperson-customer paradigm. That being the case, the only negative consequences that can be impressed upon him are impact to his personal reputation and character. Which is, as far as I can see, what's happening here. And thus we are all joined in the great circle of profit. All hail Nagus Rom!

Mythal wrote:
Nothing on their Facebook wall about the incident that I can see...

Been deleted.

Internet + booze do not mix! In amongst all the people being locked away for typing stuff that they shouldn't, people really need to stop and think before they hit the enter key..

 Pacific wrote:
Internet + booze do not mix! In amongst all the people being locked away for typing stuff that they shouldn't, people really need to stop and think before they hit the enter key..

In my experience, and I've spent more than a bit of time tending bar, all alcohol does is make people say what they think and act like they are.

The "I was drunk" defence is paper thin at best, these words came out of the same brain, just with its inhibitions chemically reduced.

His apology has now been deleted....!

Eh, the "my customers are idiots, but they make me rich" attitude is pretty much standard across corporate America (and anywhere else with similar attitudes towards business). Hell, many corporations (and executives/shareholders) have the same attitudes towards their employees.

The smarter ones just know never to actually say so publicly... especially when your product is a luxury good.

Case in point: there's a "luxury T-shirt and jeans" company in the US (I can't remember which one, it's in the vein of Abercrombie/Fitch). Instead of cloaking his feelings in a believable story of "we don't carry 'plus sizes' because we don't want to spend the extra money to produce a size range we might not sell as much of", the CEO very publicly stated "we just don't want fat people to be seen in our clothes".

Completely idiotic, and completely avoidable.

It was in fact A&F that said that. Sometimes I like to walk into their store, shout (well, say loudly) 'Wooba wooba wooba', walk in a circle, then strut out.

Piracy is not theft.

Piracy is copyright infringement.

Stealing an item from that guy's store is not the same as torrenting a product.

That being said, that doesn't excuse that guy from going into a Romeorage. He doesn't know what he's talking about.

I hope his store really becomes a no man's land, or just go in and ask if he has No man's land 7

 azreal13 wrote:

 kronk wrote:
The May 22, 2013 announced dividend was 16 pence per share.

Games workshop's share price is 735.00 British Pound Moneys.

Assuming quarterly dividends, that's 3000 per dividend pay-out. Let's also assume 16 pence per share per payout.

He'd have to own 18,750 shares to get 3000 British Pound Moneys per pay out.

That's 13,781,205 British Pound Moneys in stock. I call bs.

I suspect you mean 735 pence per share, I don't think many companies would have shares at £735.00

EDIT Nope, I stand corrected. Feth me.

No, you were right, stocks on the London stock exchange are listed in pence. Otherwise GW shares would be worth more than Apples.

 Absolutionis wrote:
...going into a Romeorage. He doesn't know what he's talking about.

That's one worth keeping in the lexicon, right there

 Dawnbringer wrote:

 azreal13 wrote:

 kronk wrote:
The May 22, 2013 announced dividend was 16 pence per share.

Games workshop's share price is 735.00 British Pound Moneys.

Assuming quarterly dividends, that's 3000 per dividend pay-out. Let's also assume 16 pence per share per payout.

He'd have to own 18,750 shares to get 3000 British Pound Moneys per pay out.

That's 13,781,205 British Pound Moneys in stock. I call bs.

I suspect you mean 735 pence per share, I don't think many companies would have shares at £735.00

EDIT Nope, I stand corrected. Feth me.

No, you were right, stocks on the London stock exchange are listed in pence. Otherwise GW shares would be worth more than Apples.

Ah. The share price currently shows 730.00. I mistakingly took that to be seven hundred thirty British Pound Moneys. If it's 7.30 BPM, then he owns 137,812.05 BPM in stock. Certainly plausible, I suppose.