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Annual Price Increase, List in first post

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
Welp, Annual Price Increase came in...

$82.50 USD for a Stormraven Gunship...

Increases on just released Finecast...

etc etc etc

*Sigh*

MadCowCrazy: List of what is said to go up in price

Product
Old RRP
New RRP

Uruk-hai Warriors
£13.50
£15.00
Galadhrim Warriors
£13.50
£15.00
Warriors of Minas Tirith
£13.50
£15.00
Mordor Troll
£20.50
£25.00
Space Marine Razorback
£20.50
£25.00
Space Marine Drop Pod
£20.50
£22.50
Chaos Terminator Lord
£14.00
£15.00
Imperial Guard Chimera
£20.50
£22.50
Tyrannin Carnifex
£31.00
£32.50
Necron Warriors
£20.50
£22.00
Tau Empire Fire Warriors
£20.50
£22.00
Chaos Daemon Prince
£20.50
£25.00
Chaos Knights
£18.50
£20.00
Fine Detail Brush
£2.80
£3.00
Detail Brush
£3.10
£3.50
Standard Bruish
£3.30
£3.50
Basecoat Brush
£3.60
£4.10
Large Brush
£3.85
£4.10
Small Dry Brush
£2.80
£3.00
Medium Dry Brush
£3.10
£3.50
Stippling Brush
£2.80
£3.00
Dice Cube
£4.10
£5.00
Modular Movement Tray
£6.15
£10.00
Citadel Water Pot
£3.10
£3.50
Citadel Hobby Tool
£4.10
£5.00
Citadel Hobby Drill
£8.20
£10.00
LoTR: The Free Peoples
£15.00
£17.00
LoTR: Kingdoms of Men
£15.00
£17.00
LoTR: The Fallen Realms
£15.00
£17.00
LoTR: Moria & Angmar
£15.00
£17.00
LoTR: Mordor
£15.00
£17.00
Warhammer: Vampire Counts
£25.00
£27.50
Warhammer: Orcs & Goblins
£25.00
£27.50
Warhammer: Ogre Kingdoms
£25.00
£27.50
Warhammer: The Empire
£25.00
£27.50
Warhammer: Tomb Kings
£25.00
£27.50
Codex: Black Templars
£15.00
£20.00
Codex: Space Marines
£20.00
£25.00
Codex: Tau Empire
£15.00
£20.00
Chaos Marauder Horsemen
£15.50
£17.50
Empire Pistolliers / Outriders
£15.50
£17.50
Vampire Counts Black Knights / Hexwraiths
£18.50
£20.00
Orc Boar Boyz
£15.50
£17.50
High Elf Dragon Princes of Caledor
£18.50
£20.00
Dark Elf Cold One Knights
£18.50
£20.00
Space Marine Bike
£7.50
£8.00
Space Marine Attack Bike
£15.50
£16.50
Space Marine Scout Bike
£7.50
£8.00
Chaos Space Marine Biker
£7.50
£8.00
Ork Warbiker Mob
£23.50
£24.00
Chaos Daemon Seekers of Slaanesh
£15.50
£17.50
Easterling Kataphract
£22.00
£22.50
Riders of Rohan
£16.50
£18.00
Uruk-hai Scouts
£13.50
£15.00
Moria Goblin Warriors
£13.50
£15.00
Morannon Orcs
£13.50
£15.00
Easterlings
£13.50
£15.00
Rangers of Middle-earth
£13.50
£15.00
Warriors of Rohan
£13.50
£15.00
Warriors of the Last Alliance
£13.50
£15.00
War Mumak of Harad
£51.50
£60.00
Skaven Hell Pit Abomination
£31.00
£35.00
River Trolls
£27.70
£28.50
Beastmen Minotaurs
£27.70
£28.50
Tomb Kings Warsphinx / Necrosphinx
£31.00
£32.50
Giant
£31.00
£32.50
Chaos Warriors
£5.50
£6.00
Skeletons
£5.50
£6.00
Orcs
£5.50
£6.00
Space Marines
£5.50
£6.00
Chaos Space Marines
£5.50
£6.00
Ork Boyz
£5.50
£6.00
Eldar Guardians
£5.50
£6.00
Imperial Guard Cadian Guardsmen
£5.50
£6.00
Termagants
£5.50
£6.00
The Lord of The Rings Rulebook (not available in English language)
£35.00
£40.00
Ruins of Osgiliath
£15.50
£18.00
Dreadstone Blight
£18.50
£20.00
Citadel Wood
£17.00
£18.00
Arcane Ruins
£15.50
£18.00
Basilica Administratum
£15.50
£20.00
Aegis Defence Line
£15.50
£18.00
Empire Celestial Hurricanum / Luminark of Hysh
£30.00
£32.50
Vampire Counts Coven Throne / Mortis Engine
£36.00
£37.50
High Elf Tiranoc Chariot / Lion Chariot of Chrace
£16.50
£18.00
Space Marine Predator
£31.00
£35.00
Space Marine Rhino
£20.50
£22.50
Stormraven Gunship
£41.00
£50.00
Chaos Space Marine Rhino
£20.50
£22.50
Ork Trukk
£20.50
£22.50
Dark Eldar Raider
£20.50
£22.50
Tau Piranha
£15.50
£18.00
Warriors of Chaos Battlaion
£60.00
£65.00
Empire Battalion (May 2012)
£60.00
£65.00
Vampire Counts Battalion (Feb 2012)
£70.00
£75.00
Lizardmen Battalion
£60.00
£65.00
Orcs & Goblions Battalion
£60.00
£70.00
High Elves Battalion
£60.00
£65.00
Dark Elf Battalion
£60.00
£70.00
Ogre Kingdoms Battalion
£60.00
£65.00
Dark Angels Ravenwing Battleforce
£60.00
£70.00
Space Marine Battleforce
£60.00
£80.00
Space Wolves Battleforce
£60.00
£65.00
Blood Angels Battleforce
£65.00
£70.00
Chaos Space Marine Battleforce
£60.00
£80.00
Ork Battleforce
£60.00
£65.00
Eldar Battleforce
£60.00
£65.00
Cadian Battleforce
£65.00
£75.00
Tyranid Battleforce
£70.00
£75.00
Necrons Battleforce (Feb 2012)
£65.00
£70.00
Dark Eldar Battleforce
£60.00
£65.00
Tau Empire Battleforce
£60.00
£75.00
Chaos Daemons Battleforce
£65.00
£70.00
Empire Flagellants
£15.50
£16.00
Dark Angels Company Veterans Squad
£15.50
£20.00
Eldar Guardian Squad
£20.50
£22.00
Tyranid Warrior Brood
£25.00
£28.50
Tau XV25 Stealth Team
£14.00
£16.00
Chaos Lord on Manticore
£31.00
£32.50
General & Captain of the Empire
£16.50
£18.00
Empire Battle Wizards
£15.00
£18.00
Skaven Screaming Bell / Plague Furnace
£36.00
£37.50
Orc Warboss & Big Boss
£16.50
£18.00
High Elf Prince & Noble
£16.50
£18.00
High Elf Archmage & Mage
£16.50
£18.00
High Elf Lord on Dragon
£31.00
£32.50
Dark Elf Dreadlord on Black Dragon
£31.00
£32.50
Necron Catacomb Command Barge / Annihilation Barge
£20.50
£22.50
Knights of Minas Tirith
£16.50
£18.00
Warg Riders
£16.50
£18.00
Mordor Orcs (Feb 2012)
£13.50
£15.00
Wood Elves
£13.50
£15.00
Dwarf Warriors
£13.50
£15.00
Warriors of the Dead (Feb 2012)
£13.50
£15.00
Winged Nazgul
£36.00
£37.50
Garden of Morr
£25.50
£30.00
Imperial Bastion
£18.50
£25.00
 
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#5 ·
Proof at all, mate? A $16.50 price jump on a single kit seems excessive, even for as much as we all like to bitch and moan about GW prices.
 
#9 ·
Seen the email from GW today with mine own eyes, price points will be officially released next week.

Land Raiders are at $75.

Heck even the Triarch Stalker got a bump. Necron warriors as well.

Some Battleforces are going up too- Blood Angels, both Guard, Chaos.

It's a long list.



Baneblade and shadowsword kits are up as well.

- and I expect rep from all you naysayers when I'm right. Lols.
 
#16 ·


Yup.
 
#13 ·
I couldn't make it up if I wanted to.

The stormraven and the landraider are the egregious examples that are the attention grabbers. Most saw the usual 5% bump. You know, the $44->$49 'rs, or battleforces ringing in at $120+ (catachan, for example)

Shit, even *Stealthsuits* are seeing a mark-up.

I will personally rep everyone who calls shenanigans in this thread to my max if I am wrong, but it doesn't matter because there is nothing "rumor mill" or speculation about it. I saw the excel sheet.
 
#18 ·
I think this is the 2011 Sales Reort?

Reported sales decreased by 2.7% to £123.1 million for the year. However, on a constant currency basis, sales were down by 2.9% from
£126.5 million to £122.8 million; progress was achieved in Emerging Markets and Japan (+2.1%) and in the Other business units (+7%) while
sales in Continental Europe (+0.6%) were flat. UK (-6.3%), North America (-4.8%) and Australia (-11.8%) were in decline.
 
#21 ·
I just had an epiphany.

Would it not be equally plausible for GW to leak a false rumor of a price increase to hype people into buying their overpriced crap* while it's still "cheap"?

*note that I only use "crap" here to emphasize the word "overpriced."
 
#23 ·
dont know why it suprises me every year that people make a massive fuss over the fact theres a price rise. It happens every year people get over it already
 
#24 · (Edited)
It will come im sure of it. Just think of all the new releases in june on like new rule book which we will have to have we will be ripped again. LOl imagine if players world wide stopped buying for one month and see how GW would manage then.
i was a gw store seller but i gave up as i can buy stuff from the states full retail at the same i would buy wholesale that just stinks
 
#29 ·
yes it sucks ass, nobody wants to pay more, price rises are normal in retail,they are a business,sucks to live down under,the world has ended, im selling up and playing (insert non GW game here), this will kill the company.

did i miss any?i figure if i just list replies from previous years to this news we can just get back to more fun stuff like looking at Orky flyers



 
#31 ·
The annual price increase is scheduled for June. Whether the above prices are accurate, on the other hand, is harder to say. But wouldn't really surprise me-- the trend is to raise prices by around 25% on selected kits and hobby supplies. 16.50 is 25% of $66, so $82.50 would follow their price increase model.

You know what's really funny about this? Forge World is -cheaper- than Games Workshop in some cases, and it's comparable elsewhere. Case and point, the Tartanus-pattern Terminators-- they're the same price as a regular box of Games Workshop terminators. $75 for a Land Raider makes the Forge World Land Raider kits seem increasingly reasonable...
 
#37 · (Edited)
This^

More and More of my 40k is coming from FW rather than GW, i own copious amounts anyway but its starting to outweigh GW products by a margin.
$75 for a Land Raider from GW would get you either a Helios or Prometheus for just a few dollars more from FW and $97 will get you a MKIIB, which are far better looking than the standard pattern.

I remember when FW models were at a premium, they were for the serious Veterans or enthusiasts. We took great care in cleaning, dry fitting, building and painting them, painstaking hours went into their completion; If this keeps up, we are going to be seeing kids wondering around with them, in poor paintjobs and dropping them on the floor with no more regard than a Tonka Toy.

/rant Sorry, it just miffs me off.

Alice
 
#36 ·
Well thats cool Hobo, but GW cant run a business based on worrying if you will spend with them or not, they have to draw a line in the sand ,it costs x amount to run GW down under so we need to sell x amount of product to break even/make a profit, sales are down? why is that? because our customers buy from wayland games, boom embargo.
and here we are a year later and i still dont think Wayland are doing ROW gw sales, wonder why that is?



 
#48 ·
I'm not disagreeing with you about why GW did what they did, and it no doubt made great business sense to them. I'm sure that GW were expecting the drop of sales and factored that into that particular business decision, but in the end many Aus-based (and NZ as well) gamers, even those of us who bought heavily into GW over many years, were worried about the prices, hence our own personal embargo on continuing to hand over fistfulls of money.
There's also an emotional side to this of course, as we're all passionate about our wargaming hobby, and/but GW aren't the be-all-and-end-all are they.
Time will tell whether GW Sales pick up in Aus, and I hope they do....I'm pretty much done though as are many others I know. But hey, GW have had about $15/20K of my money over the years, so I and them have had a good run. Plus FW will continue to get tons of patronage as it's actually cheaper to buy from them than from GW Aus, although I used to but their product even when it was double the price:biggrin:
 
#38 ·
Am I surprised by the hike? Of course not.

Although to be honest GW raising it's prices means nothing to me because I don't really buy anything from them any more, other than paints.

When there was all this business last year with price rises, fine cast and the embargo, I was firm on the "burn GW" train, since then, I've spent a total of around £25 (excluding paints, as I said) on GW minis, when I brought some army of the dead from firestorm and the IoB griffon from ebay. Even with paints, I doubt I've even spent £80 in total with GW in the last 12 months, which is less than I've spent in a year in the 10 years I've been in the hobby.

In that time I've started a mantic undead army for K.o.W which must be coming up to 500 models now and I've been buying more and more 3rd party stuff to paint.

Don't get me wrong, I love GW models, always will, but for what they are, they are too expensive for me when there are cheaper alternatives out there.


Will this price rise kill of GW, of course not. But maybe 2-3% of players drop GW totally in favour of something else. And next year, when there's another price hike, perhaps another 4-5% jump ship. With the ever increasing number of quality 3rd party companies emerging, one day, GW will be threatened. But it's not today, not this price hike.
 
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