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 CMLR wrote:
International store: Tzeentch and Necrons flew away in under 4 hours, as did the... Primaris?

Surprised, everyone else and their mothers said it was quite terrible in YouTube or forums.

Maybe they are understocked? Or they might not do as many of this as they used to on the first few years.

Primaris sells out because it's space marines. There's reason the marines are master faction and gets lion's share of focus. They sell.

Necron one was also pretty easy to figure sells out. New codex, lots of new kits so fresh looking line and the contents are pretty decent one without much dud's and top of that not heavy overlap with indominatus box.

Tzeentch one wasn't that surprising to me either. LOC is sweet, tzeentch is one of the top armies in AOS(albeit not sure how useful tzaangors and acolytes are competively) and decent price so I can see people buying those fast. KO might be 2nd seller as they are the competive army atm. Ogre one has giant which is driving people off and goblin one mix of squigs and trolls isn't appealing to all so those not selling out super fast isn't that surprising.

Necrons and primaris I figured would go out of stock fastest of them all.

I figure they sold out that fast because GW is understocked. They can't keep up to stock on anything popular at present - they've more orders and less production going on at the same time.

It's why I wonde rif they'll do a second wave after this because they've clearly sold out far faster than ever before with these.

 CMLR wrote:
International store: Tzeentch and Necrons flew away in under 4 hours, as did the... Primaris?

Surprised, everyone else and their mothers said it was quite terrible in YouTube or forums.

Maybe they are understocked? Or they might not do as many of this as they used to on the first few years.

For a new player, the marine one is less bad. It just has a lot of overlap with the SC: Vanguard/shadowspear box, and reivers have been included almost everywhere. So the “I don’t need more of those” factor is very high for the box overall. But if you don’t already have a bunch, it can be nice to add one you your collection.

 Overread wrote:
I figure they sold out that fast because GW is understocked. They can't keep up to stock on anything popular at present - they've more orders and less production going on at the same time.

It's why I wonde rif they'll do a second wave after this because they've clearly sold out far faster than ever before with these.

Then again these christmast boxes have sold generally pretty darn fast in the past as well. GW has never been fan of doing big stock of discount boxes.

 Nevelon wrote:

For a new player, the marine one is less bad. It just has a lot of overlap with the SC: Vanguard/shadowspear box, and reivers have been included almost everywhere. So the “I don’t need more of those” factor is very high for the box overall. But if you don’t already have a bunch, it can be nice to add one you your collection.

One of the more overlooked bits about the SC: Vanguard set is that those Infiltrators are locked as having an apothecary. The full kit gives you the (in my opinion) vastly superior comms array option.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

For a new player, the marine one is less bad. It just has a lot of overlap with the SC: Vanguard/shadowspear box, and reivers have been included almost everywhere. So the “I don’t need more of those” factor is very high for the box overall. But if you don’t already have a bunch, it can be nice to add one you your collection.

One of the more overlooked bits about the SC: Vanguard set is that those Infiltrators are locked as having an apothecary. The full kit gives you the (in my opinion) vastly superior comms array option.

If you lean into the phobos list and take the right HQs, I’d agree with you. If you are splashing them in to a more generalist list, the helix is better. Depends a lot on what kind of list you are playing.

I’ve been enjoying the heck out of my medic for them in my crusade list.

Triple Helix games still has lots of stock left in the UK for all the bundles except Necron.

Just had an email from Dark Sphere and response to my ticket, my order has been confirmed, which is a relief.

Only the Guard one is still available through the UK webstore, the rest are sold out.
Not surprising given their production issues.

Not that they have lasted long ever. Gw models being expensive limited discount boxes always sell out for years. Gw deliberately keeping stock levels　low doesn't help

tneva82 wrote:
Not that they have lasted long ever. Gw models being expensive limited discount boxes always sell out for years. Gw deliberately keeping stock levels　low doesn't help

Yes thats why I got my Stormcast Christmas deal from last year in the summer.

Less than 24 to be sold out is the new GW and main reason I lost interest in Indomitus, DG heroes etc. Covid or not, understock or not all this means I will not buy. Simples.

 NAVARRO wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
Not that they have lasted long ever. Gw models being expensive limited discount boxes always sell out for years. Gw deliberately keeping stock levels　low doesn't help

Yes thats why I got my Stormcast Christmas deal from last year in the summer.

Less than 24 to be sold out is the new GW and main reason I lost interest in Indomitus, DG heroes etc. Covid or not, understock or not all this means I will not buy. Simples.

It's less understock more underproduction. I'm sure GW would love to produce many many more than they have; the fact they sold out so fast compared to previous years is a clear sign that its part of this years's abnormalities due to production pressure. We've seen that on almost everything produced this year alone, even regular models have been falling out of stock faster than normal. We also don't know if they are going to do production and restock waves or not either; which tye might to try and tease out the production pressure whilst they don't have as many machines and packers able to simply dedicate to the task in one big go.

It's so bizarre that some people want to insist that this is GW standard practice.

GW bundles traditionally last for weeks with the popular boxes and months with the slow sellers. I have a cupboard full of them that can attest to this. Only the stupid limited (notoriously difficult to gauge proper numbers) stuff has, up until very recently, been reliably known to sell out in under a day. The only real black mark was the initial Sororitas release, and even that can be argued was an uncharacteristic underestimation, which was still clearly marketed as limited numbers.

Moan all you want, the Indomitus stuff was out of their hands, and this probably is too.

What time in the US will these go up on the website?

 Theophony wrote:
What time in the US will these go up on the website?

1pm Eastern.

Worth mentioning that there's a 15ish minute window where stuff sometimes goes up early, so start checking around 1245.

JWBS wrote:
It's so bizarre that some people want to insist that this is GW standard practice.

GW bundles traditionally last for weeks with the popular boxes and months with the slow sellers. I have a cupboard full of them that can attest to this. Only the stupid limited (notoriously difficult to gauge proper numbers) stuff has, up until very recently, been reliably known to sell out in under a day. The only real black mark was the initial Sororitas release, and even that can be argued was an uncharacteristic underestimation, which was still clearly marketed as limited numbers.

Moan all you want, the Indomitus stuff was out of their hands, and this probably is too.

Exactly. Last year's boxes were uncharacteristically slow movers. You could get most of them well into the spring and the Stormcast bundle is still available on Amazon with a 15% discount! This year is really off-kilter due to COVID.

The Stormcast boxes have tended to be "meh" and last for a long time. Part of it is being tied to starters and part is that people have already splurged on the individual kits while chasing the meta.

Stormcast ones and otherwise. They normally last longer.
They even do pamphlets with all the Christmas stuff on, a real sort of get your parents to buy you this kind of box.

Already live. Got a Necron box pre-ordered.

Got nothing, please tell me that at least there was a one box per person limit this time so the grifter didnt get all of it?

Refreshed webstore at 1:00, clicked on Preorders, clicked to the 2nd page of preorders, clicked on the Necron one, "No longer available online." I figured they'd go fast, but I didn't think they'd sell out in the US in the few seconds it took me to navigate to it and try to order. Unreal.

Attention: to those of you looking to buy the Christmas boxset from the US.

retail around $200 here in US, its cheaper to buy it overseas from UK/Euro and have them ship it to you as the 120 pound=$160 conversion rate.

Thrown in for a Tau box. Even though the order seems to have gone through not sure if it will happen but have to see. Was thinking about a 2nd but that seemed like pushing my luck.

I think the issues are a combination of stock shortages and the discount is towards the top end GW usually does. I was expecting more like a 10-20% discount rather than 30%+.

sirisaacnuton wrote:
Refreshed webstore at 1:00, clicked on Preorders, clicked to the 2nd page of preorders, clicked on the Necron one, "No longer available online." I figured they'd go fast, but I didn't think they'd sell out in the US in the few seconds it took me to navigate to it and try to order. Unreal.

Same. I was refreshing the page like mad, the Necrons were gone in under a minute. If the one person hadn't shared that they snagged one, I'd have assumed it was a bug and the inventory level started at zero or something. Incredibly popular refresh of the range it appears!

the stuff in the Necron Box was sold out on the German website for a while now (and still is), no surprise that it was gone fast

I managed to snag a Necron box. I have a confirmation email, and nothing contradicting it yet.

By the time I completed the order, I checked back at the item page, and the Necron box was already sold out. It's availability was only for maybe a minute or two tops.

Does GW reserve items in your cart? Or has anyone had an instance where the item was in their cart and sold out before they could complete checkout?

I am surprised that a) it was live at 11:56 cst and b) the Necrons just flat out sold out...

This would be another candidate for: Let’s Print to Order...

But the big draw for me for that box is, as being new to the Necron range...it had units that were not in Indomitus (save warriors) and therefore useful in one batch. And the discount did not hurt at all.

 Big Mac wrote:
Attention: to those of you looking to buy the Christmas boxset from the US.

retail around $200 here in US, its cheaper to buy it overseas from UK/Euro and have them ship it to you as the 120 pound=$160 conversion rate.

From where? Webstores in the Uk sell GW at a discount, and are forbidden to ship outside the UK.


That $50-$60 minimum markup for those of us who don't live under the British Empire is just cruel.

 Sacredroach wrote:
I am surprised that a) it was live at 11:56 cst and b) the Necrons just flat out sold out...

This would be another candidate for: Let’s Print to Order...

But the big draw for me for that box is, as being new to the Necron range...it had units that were not in Indomitus (save warriors) and therefore useful in one batch. And the discount did not hurt at all.

One can hope...

GabrielV wrote:

Does GW reserve items in your cart? Or has anyone had an instance where the item was in their cart and sold out before they could complete checkout?

They don't. I put necron one in cart this morning, went into cart to checkout and it had message saying item in cart was now out of stock.
Luckily I was able to get from firestorm games for cheaper anyway. haha