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Post subject: Newest GW price changes  Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 6:29 pm |
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GW/US has announced their latest round of price changes. While a good thing for players of the core games -- a lot of the battleforce and battalion sets are coming down in price -- the picture is grim for Epic.
A sampling of price changes for Epic blisters (I apologize for the formatting -- I don't know how to make IB Code do tables or tabbed spaces):
Code Description Old Price New Price
99060301019 EPIC MARINE DREADS $8.00 $10.00
99060303026 EPIC ORK DREADS/KANS $8.00 $10.00
99060305023 EPIC IG FIRE SUPPORT $9.00 $12.00
99060303025 EPIC ORK SOOPA GUNZ $10.00 $15.00
99060303030 EPIC ORK DETH KOPTAS $10.00 $15.00
99060305027 EPIC IG VALKYRIES $10.00 $15.00
99060305032 EPIC IG GRIFFONS $10.00 $15.00
99060305033 EPIC IG DEATHSTRIKES $10.00 $15.00
99060305040 IMPERIAL GUARD CHARA $10.00 $15.00
99060307006 EPIC IMP MARAUDERS $10.00 $15.00
99060301017 EPIC MARINE SCOUTS $13.00 $17.00
99060301018 EPIC MARINE TERMNTRS $13.00 $17.00
99060301022 EPIC MARINE SPEEDERS $13.00 $17.00
99060301023 EPIC MARINE RZRBKS $15.00 $17.00
99060303019 ORK FLAK WAGONS $13.00 $17.00
99060303020 ORK BATTLEWAGON $13.00 $17.00
99060303022 ORK BUGGIES & SCORCH $13.00 $17.00
99060303027 EPIC ORK BTLFRTRESS $13.00 $17.00
99060303033 ORK GUNFORTRESS $13.00 $17.00
99060303034 ORK GUNWAGONS $13.00 $17.00
99060303039 FERAL ORK SQUIGGOTH $13.00 $17.00
99060303040 ORK CHARACTER PACK $13.00 $17.00
99060301020 EPIC MARINE BIKES $15.00 $20.00
99060301021 SM THUNDERHAWK GUN $15.00 $20.00
99060301024 EPIC MARINE VNDCTRS $15.00 $20.00
99060303029 EPIC ORK WARBIKES $15.00 $20.00
99060303032 ORK LANDA $15.00 $20.00
99060305039 IG SIEGE ART BATTERY $10.00 $20.00
99060301013 SPACE MARINE RHINOS $20.00 $22.00
99060303024 EPIC ORK BIG GUNZ $20.00 $22.00
99060303037 FERAL ORK JUNKATRUKK $10.00 $22.00
99060305035 EPIC IG VULTURES $20.00 $22.00
99060305041 IG: RAGNAROK TANK $15.00 $22.00
99060307003 EPIC IMP THNDRBLT $20.00 $22.00
99060307004 IMP WARHOUND TITAN M $20.00 $22.00
Hey, GW... WHY DO YOU HATE US???
I could see some adjustment made to reflect energy costs and so forth, but some of these just seem vindictive. Did some Epic player piss in Tom Kirby's corn flakes or something? Did he get beat up as a child by micro-armor jocks? I'm at a loss. 3 Ragnaroks for $15 was pretty well outside the bounds of reality, but 3 for $22? And the Junkatrukks... if you need me, I'll be curled up under my desk, crying softly.
Thank God for eBay and Chaosorc.
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Post subject: Newest GW price changes Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 6:35 pm |
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Post subject: Newest GW price changes Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 6:42 pm |
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Wow, how can they rationalize 50% or more jumps in price?! It's utterly insane.
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Post subject: Newest GW price changes Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 6:52 pm |
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50%? Hell, the Siege Arty went up 100%.
They are out of their ever-lovin' minds. They're losing market share and revenue, so they think they can make it up with price hikes? Insane.
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Post subject: Newest GW price changes Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 6:54 pm |
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Yep and I am just insane for saying Epic is heading down the great big porcelain swirl. 
- Forgeworld takes epic out of the catalog
- SG stops posting updates to the vault even when Champions have said they have emails showing the new version were accepted.
- Prices going out of bounds for most people
Yah, I am just a doom sayer.
The next Epic Dark Ages is comming and we need to accept it.
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Post subject: Newest GW price changes Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 7:07 pm |
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Oh and one other thing:
>>99060305041 IG: RAGNAROK TANK $15.00 $22.00
Old Glory 15mm Miniature #CD-406 KV-2 (3 / pack) $18.40
More materials in one 15mm mini then in all three Ragnarok's combines.
What a rip off, those damb dorks.
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Post subject: Newest GW price changes Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 7:22 pm |
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Oh this is just way too funny... I'm sorry but it is gents.
Come next annual report I can already see the politely phrased pissing and moaning by GW about how even less independent stockists are carrying their products and therefore the margins on them have decreased and theres even less point in allowing non-GW stores to carry their products.
Given I've yet to see them in the last 4 years manage to connect cause and effect successfully I'd bet money thats the way it's going to play out.
The only downside to this is that unlike last time when Epic went under at GW this time theres no one carrying the figs so I doubt you'll see deals like you did previously as people blow them out.
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Post subject: Newest GW price changes Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 9:12 pm |
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To be fair, since picking up Epic again a couple of years ago I haven't given GW any money for anything from their Epic range. A load of Chaos stuff came from fleaBay, Tau from Forgeworld and "Nids" from other manufacturer's ranges. I haven't even bought a rulebook. The only cash they have seen from me is bits from the core range that I have used for conversions and for the late lamented Fanatic magazine - neither of which will be directly atributable to Epic.
The more observent reader will have noticed that the money thay have lost out on was from models that they don't produce because there isn't a market... I don't suppose it will be long before I crack and buy some stuff from DRM.
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Post subject: Newest GW price changes Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 9:28 pm |
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Post subject: Newest GW price changes Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 10:11 pm |
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| Quote (colonel_sponsz @ 23 May 2006 (13:12)) | | and "Nids" from other manufacturer's ranges. |
And which manufacturers would these be, then? There seems to be a shortage of good 6mm bugs.
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Post subject: Newest GW price changes Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 11:49 pm |
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Just for curiosities sake I went and looked up the price of bulk pewter.
R-92 from this site is probably a rough equivilant to the GW Brand Absurdium flavour of pewter...
http://rotometals.com/Babbitts_and_Pewter_Alloys.htm
And I think it's probably a safe assumption that GW is buying in lots of more than 10 pounds at a time.
So... in the case of the Ragnaroks theres maybe what? 3 ounces of metal in them at the outside?
Even allowing for trying to amortize the costs of the molds and account for labour... in the immortal words of Elmer Fudd "Thewes something scwewey going on awound hewe..."
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?a lot of the old prices shown are a lot less than the UK equivelant
