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Quasistellar wrote:

 CragHack wrote:
3-2-1...10/15% price hike gooo!

Wow, FW is deleting comments again. Such a nice way to manage things <3

Looks like about 20% price increase in USD on the couple items I checked.

About 10% here. At least shipping change helps a bit to compensate.

Something like that, yeah. MAAAYBE a bit more than that.

(Reply to comment about pre prexit levels)

Wow, they've gone to flat rate shipping for UK. Nice! About time, that 12% tax was brutal

 zedmeister wrote:
Wow, they've gone to flat rate shipping for UK. Nice! About time, that 12% tax was brutal

Hey you had it easy. Try 15%.

Old system. I buy spartan. It would cost me total 143€ shipping included.

New system. I pay 145€ shipping included.

So change actually hurts most when I try to order enough for free shipping.

I never understood people who would pay that much for shipping. Just find some friends and make a combined for 250 express.

How are they working the prices out? lucky dip? magic 8 ball?
An Eldar Cobra is $370, current exchange rate is $280. $90 mark up is just stupid

 zedmeister wrote:
Wow, they've gone to flat rate shipping for UK. Nice! About time, that 12% tax was brutal

Holy ****. That policy has kept me from buying FW stuff for years, now they've fixed it just in time for Adeptus Titanicus goodies!

 zedmeister wrote:
Wow, they've gone to flat rate shipping for UK. Nice! About time, that 12% tax was brutal

And about two weeks ago I caved and made an order that cost me about £12 in shipping. Oh well, at least at a standard of £3.50 going onwards I can actually justify it to myself now. That 12% was so goddamn stupid.

I don't buy a lot of Forgeworld, and when I do it's almost always at the bigger events like Adepticon and Nova, so I'm used to going by the catalog for prices.


Which seems to work out now, because most things took a small price drop from the catalog. So there's that!

 xttz wrote:

 zedmeister wrote:
Wow, they've gone to flat rate shipping for UK. Nice! About time, that 12% tax was brutal

Holy ****. That policy has kept me from buying FW stuff for years, now they've fixed it just in time for Adeptus Titanicus goodies!

And stuff like Necromunda Weapons packs.

Sucks for those further afield, but I’m sure there’ll be good egg gamers out there willing to act as a middle man?

I always waited with my order until I my cart reached 250 to get free shipping... that means all price increases fully effect me ... ouch

Fw just deleted their original post, replaced it with another one

Glad I placed one last big other for a while last week. Finally got the GUO, comes out to like $160 last week using the original price, but he's $190 US. We did a big enough order for the express shipping, it'll be better on Friday. I don't think I need the orders to come faster than that, certainly not for the price hike. Going to make Titanicus support a little rocky.

I ordered the Admech knight 2 pack before the change, and it looks like its within $10. Not as bad as I thought it would be honestly.

Leviathan body in Oz is 33% more expensive than UK.

The £18 Necro Bounty Hunters are 66% more expensive in Oz.

Mastodon is AUD$720 before shipping, when yesterday it was AUD$550.

I think I'm going to write FW a letter...

So the new Scoria has a 20% price hike if you pay with US dollars, instead of using the real conversion rate? Cool models but I hate being ripped off on a luxury product of an already luxury product.

The price hikes are roughly 15% here in Canada. I ordered some Aquilon Terminators two weeks ago, and it ended up costing me about 107$ after taxes and shipping, If I were to make the same order today, it would cost me 137$...

 CragHack wrote:
3-2-1...10/15% price hike gooo!

Wow, FW is deleting comments again. Such a nice way to manage things <3

Apparently they can’t delete reviews on their page.......

Here in Sweden our currency has gone to gak and is very low against the GBP. However, this means that the price hike hasn't affected us much, the price in Swedish krona is only about 3% higher than in GBP. But as soon as the krona recovers the difference will be enormous.


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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Leviathan body in Oz is 33% more expensive than UK.

The £18 Necro Bounty Hunters are 66% more expensive in Oz.

Mastodon is AUD$720 before shipping, when yesterday it was AUD$550.

I think I'm going to write FW a letter...

If I were you I would probably ragequit FW at this point, although I guess you guys are used to the same from GW... or source from other places.

FW, apparently, removed the star rating at their fb page as well, when the negative 1 star ratings started to flow in

The thing is, I can get a flat 20% off GW prices no issue. So that doesn't bother me.

Forge World only has one source (two once they get their US set up operational). We are now paying more for the same product, but it's coming from the same location, to the same location. That's insane. That's... just wrong.

To get FW cheaper you basically have to go to shall we call them "unofficial" vendors. I hate that that's the only way forward. Such options shouldn't be viable. Worse, they shouldn't be the only viable option.

On their Facebook page they stated that you won't have to pay import taxes, as you are charged in the local currency.
I know this isn't true for the EU when receiving from outside the EU, regardless of currency used.

But is it true for you AUS/NZ guys?
Because that probably would make up for a bit of the price increase.

Import taxes aren't that high!

The most I have ever paid for import taxes was when we did a combined order that went above the tax threshold. It cost us an extra 10% of the cost of the order. It was painful, but we learned our lesson and kept our orders to beneath that ever since.

10% is significantly lower than the (now average) 50% price increase FW are lumping on us (worse in NZ, less so in other places such as some EU countries and Canadia).

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Import taxes aren't that high!

How much are they?
It's 19% in Germany.

And do you still have to pay them or is it really covered when paying in local currency?

The changes work out well for us here in the UK. The % shipping was BS, the switch to a flat rate will see me making more smaller orders, instead of saving up wanted items and maybe making 1 order every other year.

Rest of the world seems to have been screwed by GW's BS made up conversion rates.

This really feels like an internal effort to kill FW.

Mr.Church13 wrote:
This really feels like an internal effort to kill FW.

More likely trying to get casting under control imo. Must have been overwhelmed with demand, so now they’ll have it more managed with fewer orders.

I am not sure if I am more angry or sad.

Angry because it's brazen and ridiculous.

Sad because it's killed my interest in pursuing my FW armies only to be ripped off for the privilege/sin of living in another country.

I need to go away from all this right now, it's soured my day and soured my recent positive view of GW. I'm a married professional, my wife works full time, we have no kids and few overheads and I am struggling to justify the expense.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Leviathan body in Oz is 33% more expensive than UK.

The £18 Necro Bounty Hunters are 66% more expensive in Oz.

Mastodon is AUD$720 before shipping, when yesterday it was AUD$550.

I think I'm going to write FW a letter...

You should. So should everyone else complaining (justly!) about it; I wouldn't be surprised if this was out of pure incompetence, so there's a chance that enough complaints, with examples like yours, will help.

Move to 3mm wargaming already!