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BATTLEFRONT & OTHER STOCK CLEARANCE SALE - to 12/10/2012

 Post subject: BATTLEFRONT & OTHER STOCK CLEARANCE SALE - to 12/10/2012
PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 10:43 pm 
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Are you aware that Maelstrom Games are having a sale?

From an email to TRC,
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Hi there,

Here at Maelstrom Games (http://www.maelstromgames.co.uk) we have decided to clear as much of our hard-earned stock as we possibly can over the next few days - and therefore generate some much-needed cashflow - in order to ensure we can fulfil the orders that you, our valued customers, have placed over the last few weeks. To that end, we have decided - in consultation with our trading partners - to sell our remaining stock of Battlefront Miniatures (at 25% off), Perry Miniatures, Victrix, Plastic Soldier Company, Artizan Designs, Gripping Beast and Great War Miniatures (all at 30% off). All other ranges' stock will now be sold at 40% off UK RRP - We hold good stocks of Gamezone Miniatures, Dark Age, Cool Mini or Not and Scibor Miniatures, and there's a fair bit of Privateer Press and Malifaux left too. As well as that, from this moment onwards we have decided to stop any customer from placing orders for items that are not in stock, simply so that we can clear the orders that have already been placed.

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We have not made this decision lightly, and please note that we have absolutely no issues with any of the above manufacturers or suppliers; we are simply trying to sell off stock in order to clear older orders and ease any worries our customers may have regarding the speculation that is currently rife on the internet. As well as that, we believe that our retailing model must now change to selling products that are in stock at the time of purchase, and as such that will continue to be in place in the future, once our orders are cleared and our stock is sold.

I would ask all of our customers to remain as patient as they can with Maelstrom Games and, indeed, our staff, for we will use the money generated by the sale of our stock to ensure all of your orders are fulfilled in their entirety as quickly as possible. We remain committed to servicing our customers first and foremost and will continue to do so in the future.

YOUR STOCK CLEARANCE SALE VOUCHER
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To recap, we're clearing our remaining stock of Flames of War products at 25% off UK RRP, and clearing Perry Miniatures, Victrix, Plastic Soldier Company, Artizan Designs, Gripping Beast and Great War Miniatures at 30% off UK RRP until this Friday, 12th of October 2012 at midnight (GMT). Everything else is at 40% off UK RRP bar Templar's Forge products, which are being cleared at 50% off UK RRP, please note.

These kind of sales do not occur very often and we would hope that you take advantage - and remember, our stock will be sold on a first come, first served basis so you will have to decide what you want very quickly as we suspect it will sell very quickly!

The voucher will work on all the items in our webstore that are IN STOCK ONLY, but it will NOT work on any out of stock items or pre-orders, nor anything within our eBay store.

Your voucher code is: WAREHOUSE-MOVES

To use this voucher simply register on the webstore, http://www.maelstromgames.co.uk (if you haven't already), copy and paste the code into the Voucher field in your basket when you have selected the items you want, press 'REDEEM', and the webstore will do the rest. You are not limited to one purchase and, indeed, we would ask you to recommend us to your friends with this voucher!

Remember though that this voucher is intended for the webstore only - it does not apply to any of our auctions or Fixed Price items on eBay.

Happy Ordering!



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 Post subject: Re: BATTLEFRONT & OTHER STOCK CLEARANCE SALE - to 12/10/2012
PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:14 am 
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They've been having a sale pretty much all year, and the warehouse move has been going on for the past 3 months. Interesting times at Maelstrom I think.


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 Post subject: Re: BATTLEFRONT & OTHER STOCK CLEARANCE SALE - to 12/10/2012
PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:23 am 
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The impression I get is that they over-invested in their "Banelegions" range, and it's hurt the main Maelstrom retailer at the same time as GW have clamped down on their worldwide sales (new trading rules banning them from selling outside of the EU).

Their short term strategy seems to be:
- Dump most of their existing stock at or near cost price, perhaps even at a slight loss.
- Use the generated cash to set the business solvent again
- Retrench the company with a smaller range of models on sale in the medium term

There must still be money sloshing around in some part of the company, because I've recently completed a freelance contract for them that will cost megabucks to put into production because ***redacted due to NDA***.

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 Post subject: Re: BATTLEFRONT & OTHER STOCK CLEARANCE SALE - to 12/10/2012
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One word, Kickstarter.

Banelegion's owning company has been renamed, the event side of the business now running out of Eye of the Storm not Maelstrom. All things to ponder I guess.


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 Post subject: Re: BATTLEFRONT & OTHER STOCK CLEARANCE SALE - to 12/10/2012
PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:29 pm 
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Many Maelstrom Games customers have complained in the few last months about very very long delivery delay... I don't know if MG is in good health or not but I know many persons who have claimed a refund after waiting 3 weeks or more to get their stuff...

Maybe they need some cash not only to clear the orders that have already been placed but also to refund all the customers who canceled their previous orders. Letting customers placing orders on items they did not have in stock was probably a bad idea, may work well while suppliers are fast to deliver but may be a disaster if the supply chain fail.


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