<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "Codex Space Marines first book to be shrink-wrapped?"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/69.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Codex Space Marines first book to be shrink-wrapped? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6032267.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6032267.page GMT Codex Space Marines first book to be shrink-wrapped? FLGS shrinks wraps new arrivals ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6032273.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6032273.page GMT Codex Space Marines first book to be shrink-wrapped? FLGS tonight, and I'll post again if that copy was also shrinkwrapped.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6032286.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6032286.page GMT Codex Space Marines first book to be shrink-wrapped?
I understand why they shrink wrap the White Dwarf magazines but I think the codexes should remain unwrapped. Having said that I'm sure there's a reason for wrapping them up. My guess is too many people are coming in with camera phones snapping pics of stat lines and wargear so that they don't have to pay the full price for the book.


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Also, my space marine codex was shrinkwrapped at my FLGS]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6032294.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6032294.page GMT Codex Space Marines first book to be shrink-wrapped? 40k book was not. It's only a matter of time before they just do this with all the books honestly.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6032307.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6032307.page GMT Codex Space Marines first book to be shrink-wrapped? WoC for fantasy in feb I think and then fantasy daemons were, then that was it I think.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6032474.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6032474.page GMT Codex Space Marines first book to be shrink-wrapped? SM codex comes shrinkwrapped from GW. I asked at my FLGS when I bought mine, and I was informed it's GW doing it.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6034029.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6034029.page GMT Codex Space Marines first book to be shrink-wrapped? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6034048.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6034048.page GMT Codex Space Marines first book to be shrink-wrapped?
 drock403 wrote:
My guess is too many people are coming in with camera phones snapping pics of stat lines and wargear so that they don't have to pay the full price for the book.


That doesn't make much sense. If you want to steal the book it's much easier to download a scanned pdf, which is usually available as soon as the book is released, if not sooner.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6034053.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6034053.page GMT Codex Space Marines first book to be shrink-wrapped? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6034057.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6034057.page GMT Codex Space Marines first book to be shrink-wrapped?
lord_blackfang wrote:Surely every store worth its salt will have one copy open for store use?

Not... necessarily.

The FLGS I play at is more of a confederacy of several gaming groups that use the space. The problem is that someone has to pay for the property taxes and for the couple of employees, and to keep the lights on. And, at least on the 40k side, we're all a bunch of cheapskates.

The store has to scrape pretty hard to get by, which means that they do things like offer everything 40k at full retail price. Because they have to. It also means that they don't for example, have a bunch of free stuff for 40k users to use.

Now, with MTG, it's a slightly different story (they have a big box of land cards you can just draw from), but, then most of the income of the store comes from MTG.

Also, I think it kind of depends on the makeup of the store. I've played 40k in 6 FLGSs over the years, and there is a distinct difference in attitude between stores where 40k is the primary deal and/or the owner of the store is very into 40k, and stores where 40k is just another thing on the shelves, and the owner sees it as nothing more than a revenue stream.

One of the places had every employee very into 40k and fantasy, and so yeah, it had store copies of codices and rulebooks, and great terrain. At the place I play now, some, but not all of the workers play 40k, and the owner actively midldly dislikes it. No store codices or templates or anything, and he begrudgingly gives us space to house terrain, but we have to buy/make/maintain it completely on our own.

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So always good advice..wrap your stuff up!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6034093.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6034093.page GMT Codex Space Marines first book to be shrink-wrapped?
 Ailaros wrote:
(they have a big box of land cards you can just draw from)


Well, the difference here is that lands are free since most MTG players will throw all their spare lands/commons in the garbage if the store doesn't want them. Once you're out of your newbie days every time you draft or get a tournament prize you're getting piles of cards you don't want and can't sell. Keeping a basic land box costs the store nothing and makes draft/sealed tournaments run more efficiently, so why not do it?

A codex, on the other hand, is a $50 book. You don't want someone damaging it and preventing you from selling it, and you don't want people using the store copy as an excuse to not buy the $50 book from you. Allowing you to borrow a store copy is a service you buy by spending money there, and as a group of cheapskates you don't give the store owner any reason to do it.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6034106.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6034106.page GMT Codex Space Marines first book to be shrink-wrapped? 40k i saw was the dark angels 6th.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6034458.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6034458.page GMT Codex Space Marines first book to be shrink-wrapped? GW has taken so long to do this.
Pretty much every FLGS I've been in has done his with all their books as a matter of course. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6034529.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6034529.page GMT Codex Space Marines first book to be shrink-wrapped? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6034705.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/551135/6034705.page GMT