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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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#77 ·
I don't buy anything direct from GW any more, haven't in ages. Like a few others have mentioned already, I stick to picking stuff up off of Ebay and the like.

I don't think we've reached the point of them pricing themselves out of the market yet but if this continues I can see it happening in the fairly near future. Little Johnny's spending power will only go so far, I've already seen parents wince at the price of minis in store and drag their kids out to shop for toys elsewhere.
 
#79 · (Edited)
there is a price increase, miniwargaming talked about it a bit, according to them the increases range from 5-20%. Sorry, wasnt sure if that actually got settled yet or not.

Personally I havn't bought a single thing from GW in like two years now I think. I got a few dark eldar for Christmas the year they came out but thats it.
 
#80 · (Edited)
I haven't bought anything for myself from GW in over 2 years, I've bought direct only items for the people at the local club who can't do it themselves but other than that nothing. I pretty much only buy from ebay and bits sellers now.

The only thing I've done in a GW has been when Necrons came out, in November I traded in all my unopened SM stuff and last month I traded in all my unopened Tyranid stuff, €1000 worth in total and got Necrons stuff instead. I will be going next month to turn in some unopened IG stuff and to exchange some Necron boxes as I've managed to buy 3 canoptek spyders for $9 each, stalker for $15 and bikes for $15. Will continue to rack up the ebay purchases until I go there and exchange what I have too much of.


I'm looking forwards to the Australian market loss numbers this year, if I'm not mistaken it has gone down by +10% per year over the past 2 years. So if sales have gone down by 10% per year and it's another 10% this year sales will have gone down by 27% or such over the last 3 years. Ebay is all I can say to you Ozzy players.
 
#81 ·
I talked to my FLGS owner today (where i pre-ordered an ork fighta (@ 20% off :so_happy:)) and he told me that his rep couldn't figure out the price increase either, its too drastic for inflation (which would be closer to 3-5%). so he guesses that its prolly because GW just decided to up the price. He is pissed, but he also expects to get a lot of business before the 1st, and then nothing until 6th.
 
#82 ·
the overal percentage would look like 3% if you averaged it over the whole range. but gw doesnt put every price up only a selection. This means some stuff may go up 10%,20% whatever and others not alot, and then most of the range stays the same. obviously if you only happen to want stuff that goes up it will have a bigger impact on you. when you think about it 3% wouldnt even cover the increase in petrol cost this year, which gw pays on all its products to get materials to its factory, then again to ship out to stores, retailers and homes.
 
#87 ·
the overal percentage would look like 3% if you averaged it over the whole range. but gw doesnt put every price up only a selection. This means some stuff may go up 10%,20% whatever and others not alot, and then most of the range stays the same.
It is very hard to work out what the average increase is across the range, because you would have to know the relative sales of the different kits to calculate it accurately.

As an alternative one can look at the long-term price increases. I recently found a receipt for a visit to Games Workshop in March 1997 - 15 years ago - when among other things I paid £10 for a space marine attack bike. This is priced at £15.50 as of today. If we work out the average price increase per year then it is just under 3% per year.

The Bank of England have a really cool inflation calculator - see http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/education/Pages/inflation/calculator/flash/default.aspx - which will calculate how the average price of items has changed over the centuries. I can put £10 in for 1997 and it tells me that on average inflation would increase the cost of such an item to £14.93 in 2011, with inflation running at an average of 2.9%. That's very close and it also compares the 2012 price with 2011 inflation, and doesn't include all of the price increase due to the VAT rise.

Obviously this is just one item in a large range, and perhaps price increases have been larger for other things (army books and codices spring immediately to mind), but on balance it looks to me as though GW price increases have been fairly reasonable, once you take the long view.

It's also worth noting that I bought some knights panther on the same day. At the time these were metal riders on plastic horses, and the knights in the current plastic box set are still cheaper per model then the price I paid back in 1997. I paid £3 per knight in 1997, and today it is £20 for eight knights, or £2.50 each - so we're still benefiting from the reduction in price due to the conversion from metal to plastic.

Inflation is unpleasant, particularly if your income does not keep pace - my pay is down about 10% relative to inflation over the last few years, and it's only going to get worse - but Games Workshop do not look particularly villainous in this regard.
 
#83 · (Edited)
just checking people understand how the whole australia and canada thing works. you realise there money is worth more than ours, so technically they earn more than we do. therefore an equivilent of a £14,000 a year job here earn someone $20,000 in aus, so the tank you buy for £40, actually cost them the equivilent of £28 when they were allowed to buy with our currency.

so when gw sells to a stockist in aus and they pay say £24 for the tank, plus the cost of importing it and their own rent, wages etc... they actually pay more than it costs it order it from a net company in the uk. who mearly unpack a box and relabel it to make their profit and put independent stockists out of business the other side of the world.

I have 2 friends who run independent stockists and they both think gw are doing the right thing by them, and although many wont say this to the customer who walks in moaning about "evil gw and there awesome products i want" as you pay them your money, it means that in 5 years time there will actually be a player base in AUS, and Canada and the uk, as people can actually get into this hobby.

its exactly the same thing wizards of the coast did a few years back, and after a few years of the evil wizards fist rasing, magic the gathering is now back into growth in the uk. again we "earn" more than the americans so if we could buy direct from them, it would be hugely cheaper than buying from the local store in the uk.
 
#84 ·
just checking people understand how the whole australia and canada thing works. you realise there money is worth more than ours, so technically they earn more than we do. therefore an equivilent of a £14,000 a year job here earn someone $20,000 in aus, so the tank you buy for £40, actually cost them the equivilent of £28 when they were allowed to buy with our currency.

so when gw sells to a stockist in aus and they pay say £24 for the tank, plus the cost of importing it and their own rent, wages etc... they actually pay more than it costs it order it from a net company in the uk. who mearly unpack a box and relabel it to make their profit and put independent stockists out of business the other side of the world.

I have 2 friends who run independent stockists and they both think gw are doing the right thing by them, and although many wont say this to the customer who walks in moaning about "evil gw and there awesome products i want" as you pay them your money, it means that in 5 years time there will actually be a player base in AUS, and Canada and the uk, as people can actually get into this hobby.
1 AUS$ is worth 62.3p, £1 is worth $1.60AUS so how exactly is their money worth more?

And even if it is more, we currently pay £41 for a land raider, Aussies pay $110 which is best part of £68.50. Is Australia really 67% more expensive than the UK?
 
#85 ·
The high prices will not ensure a player base remains in Australia in 5 years. Have you not seen the annual sales dropping consistantly in Australia? The constant increases in prices is only diminishing the player base and preventing more people from getting into the hobby

GW needs to look at lowering their cost rather than raising the prices to cover the cost.
 
#88 ·
I think there is a big problem with the overall squeezing of budgets and the truth is that in the current economic climate to invest in a 1500 pt army- or multiple armies in GW systems is very expensive - Yes there are people who can afford the prices but many of us faced with wanting a better bang for our buck will and are switching to more affordable systems. I know my GW collection is on hold for the time being. I just cant justify paying the prices (even at discounted stores like Dark Sphere - 25% off).E bay and second hand figures are also suffering from rising prices.
 
#91 ·
Hmm, so that's:
Predators £31 -> £35 (+12.9%)
Stormraven £41 -> £50 (+22.0%)
Razorbacks £20.50 -> £25 (+22.0%)
Codex £20 -> £25 (+25%)
Battleforce £60 -> £80 (+33.3%)
Dark Angels Vets £15.50 -> £20 (+29.0%)

Are you sure the last three are not new releases? £80 seems a big jump for the battleforce and £25 is the price point for the hardback Fantasy army books, so it could be for a new hardback Space Marine codex..?
 
#96 ·
well if thats the entire list im pretty happy, hardly worth any upset to be honest,battle forces are a bit of a kicker, but nothing to write home about to be honest. also i think some of those have gone up in price because of the cost to mail them has increased significantly in the last few months.



 
#97 ·
Assuming you split the cost of AoBR with a friend, starting a SM army at the minute realistically costs £110 before paint (AoBR, codex and battleforce for a roughly 1000 army)

That is going to cost £135 after the price rise, which is sheer madness.

And the battleforce going up to £80 is disgusting. For 25 infantry and a tank? Assuming the tank is counted as 10 models (only a rough guideline, by no means accurate) it makes it over £2 a mini, for plastic!
 
#101 ·
I think the big brand asda apples are over rated. I get English Grown apples delivered to my door for around 10p each when bought as part of a local produce fruit and veg box. I would struggle to believe the asda 75p a piece ones were really that much better.
 
#102 ·
Yes, but asda has stores, which is a proven business model. You can even go there and chat with someone that knows a bit about apples, but will mainly try to sell you the apples on the poster. It's how apple are introduced to apple-hobbyist. Trying to buy apple from around the corner and have them delivered is evil and asda should try and prevent that...

Phil
 
#104 ·
Ah but no!

While some people will buy their apples from the stall around the corner, for less. Asda still sells a lot of things that that stall doesn't. Bananas, mangos and cherries. You can't currently get these fruit at that stall, so asda is still going to get custom for those.

Now if asda were to lower the price of their apples, not down to 10p, but perhaps to 50p. A LOT of people would return to asda for their apples, because their nicer than that stalls apples, and they are affordable.

The stall is then force to sell things that asda doesn't currently sell, exotic fruits perhaps? That way people benefit from lower prices in asda and more variety overall. And in 6 months time, Asda will only raise the price of apples again anyway. . .
 
#105 ·
No, I swear, the stall around the corner had better price and the same choice as asda. They even delivered. But, unfortunately, that stall bought it's apples in bulk from asda. Now asda has forced that stall to stop delivering to my place because it wants me to go to the nearest asda. It's a lot more expensive, but they have those shiny apple displays and posters. You can even taste an apple with the staff. Now, I've eaten and cooked apples for years, so I don't need that, but asda insists. They say it's better for me and apple-lovers at large.

Phil
 
#111 ·
I win on the apple front.

I buy mine from Aldi and pay roughly the equivalent of 20p per apple at most and they taste the same as the apples from bigger supermarkets but are cheaper because they have a brand name that no one knows about.

The 75p per Apple bits pays for is mainly for the Asda brand more than anything else.
 
#114 ·
I win on the apple front.

I buy mine from Aldi and pay roughly the equivalent of 20p per apple at most and they taste the same as the apples from bigger supermarkets but are cheaper because they have a brand name that no one knows about.

The 75p per Apple bits pays for is mainly for the Asda brand more than anything else.
No I believe I win, I get mine for free from work and they get them from Coles.
 
#113 ·
It's all gone pear shaped, why couldn't everything go back to being peachy?
 
#116 ·
When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give You lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
 
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