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Voss wrote:

decker_cky wrote:

 OldPeculiar wrote:
Got my voucher & repeat offer, applying through October

I can confirm that buying virtual vouchers worked - order those on Wednesday and haven't bought anything else from the webstore for a couple of months

Yeah, I bought a virtual voucher and received the bonus voucher. The updated terms and conditions explicitly reference virtual vouchers as being eligible purchases:

"This Offer is limited to physical purchases from the Games Workshop web store and purchases of virtual vouchers only, excluding purchases of any discounted bundles."

I wonder if you can use month 1 virtual vouchers to purchase month 2 virtual vouchers to get the second bonus voucher.

No:

Legal stuff link wrote:Virtual Vouchers provided under this Offer:

1. must be redeemed within one calendar month from receipt;

2. can only be redeemed against products on the Games Workshop web store; and

3. cannot be used for purchasing additional Virtual Vouchers.

Doesn't actually state that in the updated terms and conditions (you get updated terms and conditions when you get the new voucher), but what I was referring to:

Month 1, spend $80 to buy a virtual voucher. Receive bonus $12 virtual voucher.
Month 2, spend $80 virtual voucher (not the bonus $12 virtual voucher) to buy $80 virtual voucher.

Only a little generally. With free shipping limit so low it's easy to avoid spending much. I'll get 25e voucher. That alone　covers free shipping. Ogre artillery is 30e. Gw gets　5e from me.

Slightly better discount all told than flgs which normally can't even discount the items　i got.

 Super Ready wrote:
Something that I can't believe only just occurred to me - this offer is not only bringing GW a little influx cash right now, it's also setting up some extra cash for next month too.
Think about the amounts on those vouchers, and how most of them don't even meet the price of a single model. How many receiving a voucher are going to spend up to or under that voucher's value, getting just a couple of paint pots or something? Hardly seems worth it, right...?

Now - how many are going to spend more than the voucher next month?
Admittedly, I can imagine quite a few of you were going to get one or both of the new 40K Codexes when they're available anyway, but that's still a sale that might otherwise have gone to a FLGS.

Yeah, it's a pretty smart marketing ploy. One that I will fall for as I can put money through the till at my local GW AND get a bit of a discount. best of both.

It is pretty sneaky though, for sure. Allows them to test discounts/targeted marketing and will definitely bring in a wave of influx orders people wouldn't be buying if the multiple vouchers weren't there.

Expect to see this in the future.

 Super Ready wrote:
Something that I can't believe only just occurred to me - this offer is not only bringing GW a little influx cash right now, it's also setting up some extra cash for next month too.
Think about the amounts on those vouchers, and how most of them don't even meet the price of a single model. How many receiving a voucher are going to spend up to or under that voucher's value, getting just a couple of paint pots or something? Hardly seems worth it, right...?

Now - how many are going to spend more than the voucher next month?
Admittedly, I can imagine quite a few of you were going to get one or both of the new 40K Codexes when they're available anyway, but that's still a sale that might otherwise have gone to a FLGS.

Erm, yes, this has been discussed from the very start as it relates to the realistic discount the vouchers offer. This is especially true when wanting to order enough to get over the free shipping threshold, as the total amount you will be spending is first the minimum order to get the voucher, and then enough to get free shipping; not just something that's exactly the same amount of the voucher.

Which brings me to a question... how does GW actually calculate the free shipping? Is it for orders containing products to a value of X, or should there still be X worth of products to pay for after vouchers have been applied? E.g. if you were to have a £20 voucher, can you place an order for £20 of products, redeem the voucher and have the order shipped for free (£20 is the free shipping threshold), or would you have to order £40 worth of products, so that the order still costs you £20 in order to qualify for free shipping?

 Coenus Scaldingus wrote:

 Super Ready wrote:
Something that I can't believe only just occurred to me - this offer is not only bringing GW a little influx cash right now, it's also setting up some extra cash for next month too.
Think about the amounts on those vouchers, and how most of them don't even meet the price of a single model. How many receiving a voucher are going to spend up to or under that voucher's value, getting just a couple of paint pots or something? Hardly seems worth it, right...?

Now - how many are going to spend more than the voucher next month?
Admittedly, I can imagine quite a few of you were going to get one or both of the new 40K Codexes when they're available anyway, but that's still a sale that might otherwise have gone to a FLGS.

Erm, yes, this has been discussed from the very start as it relates to the realistic discount the vouchers offer. This is especially true when wanting to order enough to get over the free shipping threshold, as the total amount you will be spending is first the minimum order to get the voucher, and then enough to get free shipping; not just something that's exactly the same amount of the voucher.

Which brings me to a question... how does GW actually calculate the free shipping? Is it for orders containing products to a value of X, or should there still be X worth of products to pay for after vouchers have been applied? E.g. if you were to have a £20 voucher, can you place an order for £20 of products, redeem the voucher and have the order shipped for free (£20 is the free shipping threshold), or would you have to order £40 worth of products, so that the order still costs you £20 in order to qualify for free shipping?

Just to the value of X. So in your example, a £20 voucher spend for £20 of product gets you free shipping.

Thanks, that's good to know for the future!

How do you get alerted that you've got your voucher?

Needed to do some pre-orders today through my local GW. Logged in to the online terminal, spent the £50, got confirmation email on my phone, but nothing about voucher, and nothing existing in my virtual vouchers section on the site.

Since it's only a fiver I'm not that bothered, but its a nice to have.

Something to do with going through store?

It SHOULD come to you as a code you'd redeem, arriving in the email tied to your account.

Upon placing the relevant order I got nothing. Only confirmation I got was yesterday when I simply got the code in the mail.

Decided to spend my €12,- on the new Getting Started magazine, perfect gift for someone else.

Though I am a bit miffed that this voucher is only good for a month, after which you lose it. Would've been a nice thing to save up over the months that they run this and get something nice and big in the end.

I ended up exerting some willpower over myself and managed to not spend anything. But it got me thinking.
GW could do a rolling discount for regular spenders. Spend $'X' one month, get a 5% discount the next. Spend the same (or a bit more) next month, and your discount jumps up to 10% for the month after. Keep going like that till you reach say.... 25%, maybe 30% discount. Then if you miss a month, start again at the base discount and work your way back up.
People would spend big to keep that sort of thing going and GW aren't going to lose any money on it really. If other stores can do up to a 20% and still make profit, GW certainly will.

It would incentivise people to use their webstore again and again. And how many people aren't going to chuck in an extra pot of paint or a brush, if it bumps them up over the threshold for a bigger discount later on.


I mean, I don't think they'd ever adopt that model. Especially not to a discount level that high. But I feel like it's a model that could work quite well for them.

Ideal would be to not have the vouchers be valid for a single month.

They'd also need to work on their timing, when this first dropped the window to purchase something and get the voucher was quite small, as opposed to the month-long window we've got now. But this may very well be part of the predatory FOMO / "Act now or lose out!" mindset that a lot of companies use to get people to spend-spend-spend! these days.

As is right now, spending €80,- for another one isn't that bad for me personally and with a month to do it, I can wait until the end of the month at least, when I get paid. With no FLGS to go to and a my GW store of choice having poor stock levels, not to mention worrying that they'll have to lock up again soon, I am ordering more online anyway. Only real downside is that home delivery is a poor choice due to how utterly horrible Royal Mail is as a delivery choice.

I buy almost exclusively online and Royal Mail has never given me the slightest problem.

Just a reminder, the final day to use vouchers earnt last month is tomorrow. Tomorrow is also the deadline to earn any vouchers for next month.