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2014/12/05 03:38:30
Subject: How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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The closest thing I've ever seen to a discount was a 20% off Atomic Comics sale on Black Friday.
Where are you people getting these $50 Landraiders?! Interrobang!
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Peregrine - If you like the army buy it, and don't worry about what one random person on the internet thinks.
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2014/12/05 04:07:17
Subject: Re:How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Sacrifice to the Dark Gods
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A local store near me sells for 20-25% off retail price all the time. And another one does a Buy 2 get one free offer (Basically 33% off if you buy all the same priced items). I think how it works is they get the merchandise from a distributor at 50% then they set their price at 75-80% of GW's retail.
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2014/12/05 04:11:00
Subject: How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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By not buying directly from GW
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My Armies:
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2014/12/05 04:47:17
Subject: Re:How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Stoic Grail Knight
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One game store I used to go to in NC had an automatic 10% off all products, including GW. Plus, for every $100 you spent, you got $10 in store credit, so that's 20% pretty much right there, they were great!
Where I am now in Indy, there's a game store that offers the same $10 for $100 of merchandise purchased, but I haven't seen any other stores offer below retail price on GW.
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2014/12/05 05:28:06
Subject: How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Veteran Knight Baron in a Crusader
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The war store has 20% off GW all the time.
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2014/12/05 06:05:22
Subject: Re:How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Hellish Haemonculus
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Independent retailers, from what I've been told, get GW at 60% of MSRP. Some of them sell online (or in store) at up to 20% below MSRP.
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2014/12/05 06:40:02
Subject: How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Colonel
This Is Where the Fish Lives
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My FLGS sells all GW models at a 10% discount. You can find better deals online, but I prefer to support my local store.
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2014/12/05 07:08:40
Subject: Re:How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Blood Angel Terminator with Lightning Claws
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From Neal @ The War Store!!!!
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Crush your enemies, see them driven before you and to hear the lamentations of the women.
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2014/12/05 07:10:59
Subject: Re:How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Experienced Maneater
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If I don't need a model tomorrow: Ebay. You can get up to 50% on new-in-box items.
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2014/12/05 08:08:02
Subject: How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Executing Exarch
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Don't really understand the question, do you mean besides online discount retailers?
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2014/12/05 09:50:43
Subject: How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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[DCM]
Moustache-twirling Princeps
Gone-to-ground in the craters of Coventry
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I usually buy from GW. But when I want a discount, it's one of the many web-stores. like Element Games.
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2014/12/05 10:14:21
Subject: How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Thermo-Optical Hac Tao
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Yup. Online webstores. Over here in the UK I've used Element Games, the Outpost and Gifts for Geeks with success. I'm not sure about American ones though.
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2014/12/05 12:18:44
Subject: How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Posts with Authority
I'm from the future. The future of space
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Verviedi wrote:The closest thing I've ever seen to a discount was a 20% off Atomic Comics sale on Black Friday. Where are you people getting these $50 Landraiders?! Interrobang!
I'd recommend Discount Games Store Inc. or Doc's Discount Games as I think it's now known. http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=discount_games_store&ftab=AllFeedback They have a newsletter that goes out where you can place pre-orders by email for a further 3% discount. http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=9ce74d675e09da3396e475a18&id=245b101220 https://www.facebook.com/discount.games.store https://twitter.com/discount_games_ EDIT: I'm not sure what GW's current state of fulfillment is as I've largely moved on from purchasing GW stuff. From what I understand they have started shorting their independent trade partners on their preorders. I know Discount Games Store has had to get really conservative in their estimates of available product.
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Balance in pick up games? Two people, each with their own goals for the game, design half a board game on their own without knowing the layout of the board and hope it all works out. Good luck with that. The faster you can find like minded individuals who want the same things from the game as you, the better. |
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2014/12/05 13:08:48
Subject: How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Brigadier General
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Buy or trade for used product.
A bit of elbow grease and a bucket of "Purple Power" and you can have an army for a fraction of the MSRP.
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2014/12/05 14:50:37
Subject: Re:How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Did Fulgrim Just Behead Ferrus?
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I get all my GW discounts from The Warstore.
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2014/12/05 17:49:51
Subject: Re:How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Dakka Veteran
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What do you mean, "you people"?
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2014/12/05 18:42:21
Subject: How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Satan and I have an... agreement.
And by that I mean I provide Tom Kirby with sexual favours in exchange for discounts.
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Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
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2014/12/05 18:43:50
Subject: How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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The Daemon Possessing Fulgrim's Body
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 Avatar 720 wrote:Satan and I have an... agreement.
And by that I mean I provide Tom Kirby with sexual favours in exchange for discounts.
The sad thing is, he gets 2.5%.
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We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. - Frank Howard Clark
The wise man doubts often, and changes his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubts not; he knows all things but his own ignorance.
The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!” Professor Brian Cox
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2014/12/05 20:40:29
Subject: How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Mekboy Hammerin' Somethin'
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Avatar 720 wrote:Satan and I have an... agreement.
And by that I mean I provide Tom Kirby with sexual favours in exchange for discounts.
Oh, so you work for GW? 
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2014/12/05 20:43:49
Subject: How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Executing Exarch
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A few ways to do it.
- Get a friend that works at or owns a GW or LFGS, big orders once in a while go under the radar.
- Do commissions, the money you earn goes to more models.
- Ebay
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Rick Priestley said it best:
Bryan always said that if the studio ever had to mix with the manufacturing and sales part of the business it would destroy the studio. And I have to say – he wasn’t wrong there! The modern studio isn’t a studio in the same way; it isn’t a collection of artists and creatives sharing ideas and driving each other on. It’s become the promotions department of a toy company – things move on!
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2014/12/05 20:45:31
Subject: How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Badass "Sister Sin"
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Frontline does some pretty big sales occasionally.
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2014/12/05 21:07:26
Subject: Re:How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Contagious Dreadnought of Nurgle
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GW used to do sales....
What? Why are you looking at me like that?! They did!
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2014/12/05 21:17:31
Subject: How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Regular Dakkanaut
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I'm still friends with a few people I worked with at GW, who still work there, so if I want anything they buy it for me and I reimburse them or trade something for it.
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2014/12/05 21:21:01
Subject: Re:How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Anti-Armour Swiss Guard
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He's right.
When they opened a new store or reopened a store after moving it, there'd be a sale. Hasn't happened here in over 15 years, but it did happen at one time.
Started out as two for one, then it became buy two, get cheaper one free, then three for two (cheapest free) and finally, they gave you a free receipt for all full price purchases.
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I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
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2014/12/05 21:31:24
Subject: How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Dakka Veteran
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I recall a GW scratch and dent sale in VA one time. 50% off but as I understand it, the manager got reamed since it wasn't really authorized for him to do.
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2014/12/05 21:35:08
Subject: Re:How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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The Daemon Possessing Fulgrim's Body
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 chromedog wrote:
He's right.
When they opened a new store or reopened a store after moving it, there'd be a sale. Hasn't happened here in over 15 years, but it did happen at one time.
Started out as two for one, then it became buy two, get cheaper one free, then three for two (cheapest free) and finally, they gave you a free receipt for all full price purchases.
Got a whole Nid army for Epic on 3 for 2 blisters when GW Exeter opened.
Must be... 17 years ago?
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We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. - Frank Howard Clark
The wise man doubts often, and changes his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubts not; he knows all things but his own ignorance.
The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!” Professor Brian Cox
Ask me about
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2014/12/06 03:31:06
Subject: How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Boss GreenNutz wrote:I recall a GW scratch and dent sale in VA one time. 50% off but as I understand it, the manager got reamed since it wasn't really authorized for him to do.
Poor guy... Automatically Appended Next Post:
Wheels of Steel deal best deal.
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Peregrine - If you like the army buy it, and don't worry about what one random person on the internet thinks.
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2014/12/06 09:19:55
Subject: Re:How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Joined the Military for Authentic Experience
On an Express Elevator to Hell!!
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chromedog wrote:
He's right.
When they opened a new store or reopened a store after moving it, there'd be a sale. Hasn't happened here in over 15 years, but it did happen at one time.
Started out as two for one, then it became buy two, get cheaper one free, then three for two (cheapest free) and finally, they gave you a free receipt for all full price purchases.
Yup! Remember buying Space Marine (the Epic boxset), the 'Armies of the Imperium' expansion and then getting the Orc and Squat Warlords boxset for free 
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2014/12/06 09:31:14
Subject: How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Grizzled Space Wolves Great Wolf
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Better yet, get a job that pays decent money
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2014/12/06 18:33:35
Subject: How Do You People Get Discounts on GW?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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 hungryp wrote: Avatar 720 wrote:Satan and I have an... agreement.
And by that I mean I provide Tom Kirby with sexual favours in exchange for discounts.
Oh, so you work for GW?
Let's say that some satanic companies outsource a few of their... 'projects'; I also provide... 'services' for companies such as Ubisoft and EA.
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Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
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