Why the Rise in Cost?

[ultimatetheropod]

Hi Guys
I wanted to know why GW has made all the tyranids more expensive. I understand why the Finecasts have risen in cost but the trygon, carnifex, and many others aren't Finecast and they've risen at least ten dollars.

So does anyone know why these units have risen in price?

[Bot]

I think this should have been in the "Other Games Workshop stuff" board.

Anyway, GW makes a Price increase every year. And of a reason that I don't fully understand yet, they decided to release the resin at the same time as the Price increase. So now lots of people think that the price increase have something to do with resin models. I must admit that I thought the same to begin with. It made me really angry... now I just think they are a little stupid... But what the heck.

[The Tomato]

Thats what gw do these days. That and let Matthew Ward write all of the codeces. Just hang back and enjoy the ride while you can.

Also: You are on your way to destruction... You have no chance to survive please make your time....

[pandabonkle]

Supposeeeeeedly GameWorkshop keeps coming out with moer and more plastic models so they can lower the prices of warhammer 40k. So far prices have doubled in the last 10 years and continue to rise. It sucks. I get too stressed out even thinking about wasting money on warhammer 40k. I just draw my own stuff to get the aesthetic pleasure without the stress. Much much better.

[Overread]

I will now point out that Hormagaunt - original ones - used to be all metal

GW does a price rise every year to fit in with inflation and other factors. In addition over the last two or three years everyone and pretty much everything has risen in prices (that's what a recession tends to do). Plus, at the bottom line, GW is an expensive hobby choice (at least sometimes - its far cheaper than photography!)

[infornography]

All depends on your level of obsession. You can make a hobby out of photography with a few hundred dollar camera and couple hundred dollars worth of accessories. But there is a higher ceiling certainly.

Take a look at what you can do in the realm of backyard telescopes some day.

[killercroc]

But seriously some of their price jumps are ridiculous. Warriors just went up 7 dollars... $7!!! and for no good reason, I did not see another warrior in the box. Carnifex is up $5. In all actuality, I would SAVE money by smoking pot.

[N.I.B.]

It's the annual GW price hike. Sure as the sun coming up every morning.

[jocke01]

Because they can, this happens time to time but nowdays it's getting out of hand. My local gaming group have even stopped buying models and play with the armies we have and started new games that are affordable like firestorm armada.

[Hunger]

Jul 1, 2011 0:21:54 GMT Overread said:

GW does a price rise every year to fit in with inflation and other factors. In addition over the last two or three years everyone and pretty much everything has risen in prices (that's what a recession tends to do).

People, stop putting GW's price increases down to inflation and economic recession - they do not account even slightly for the massive increases. If inflation was around the same level as GW's year on year price rises we would be carting wheelbarrows of money down to the shop to buy a pint milk. GW is not based in Zimbabwe or 1920s Germany. Allow me to elaborate:

The UK inflation rate has increased steadily from 0.84% in May 2002 to 4.46% in May 2011. What this means is that the purchasing power of the £ has dropped over this period of time, so a £ last year buys less of Item X this year, therefore the cost of that Item X must increase. The inflation rate shows the cumulative percentage increase of these costs each year.

Just to put the scale of GW's increases in perspective, the most recent increase was somewhere in the region of 20% across the primary lines. Assuming they implemented the same price increase consecutively over the last three years, a miniature that cost £10 in 2008 would cost £17.28 by 2011.

However, using the previous three year's inflation rates (2.2%, 3.3% and then 4.5% www.rateinflation.com/inflation-rate/uk-historical-inflation-rate.php?form=ukir) we can see that the equivalent rise in living costs over that period means that the cost of £10 worth of living expenses increases to £11.03.

Significantly, this means that although GW's raw materials costs, transportation costs, the salaries of its staff and so on should roughly increase in line with inflation, its profit margin grows by a monstrous 36% - thats an extra 36% of naked profit on top of whatever profit they were making before the increases, paid for by us.

Clearly there are costs involved with launching a new line of miniatures, and there's tax to pay on everything, but there is no way to justify price hikes of this magnitude using inflation. GW's increases come from the simple fact that a large number of people like the hobby and will cheerfully spend large sums of money on it. If you don't like the increases, or GW's pricing strategy, vote with your feet and stop buying their miniatures.

[randoman11]

One word: capitalism

[notanoob]

Jul 1, 2011 16:19:16 GMT Hunger said:

Jul 1, 2011 0:21:54 GMT Overread said:

GW does a price rise every year to fit in with inflation and other factors. In addition over the last two or three years everyone and pretty much everything has risen in prices (that's what a recession tends to do).

People, stop putting GW's price increases down to inflation and economic recession - they do not account even slightly for the massive increases. If inflation was around the same level as GW's year on year price rises we would be carting wheelbarrows of money down to the shop to buy a pint milk. GW is not based in Zimbabwe or 1920s Germany. Allow me to elaborate:

The UK inflation rate has increased steadily from 0.84% in May 2002 to 4.46% in May 2011. What this means is that the purchasing power of the £ has dropped over this period of time, so a £ last year buys less of Item X this year, therefore the cost of that Item X must increase. The inflation rate shows the cumulative percentage increase of these costs each year.

Just to put the scale of GW's increases in perspective, the most recent increase was somewhere in the region of 20% across the primary lines. Assuming they implemented the same price increase consecutively over the last three years, a miniature that cost £10 in 2008 would cost £17.28 by 2011.

However, using the previous three year's inflation rates (2.2%, 3.3% and then 4.5% www.rateinflation.com/inflation-rate/uk-historical-inflation-rate.php?form=ukir) we can see that the equivalent rise in living costs over that period means that the cost of £10 worth of living expenses increases to £11.03.

Significantly, this means that although GW's raw materials costs, transportation costs, the salaries of its staff and so on should roughly increase in line with inflation, its profit margin grows by a monstrous 36% - thats an extra 36% of naked profit on top of whatever profit they were making before the increases, paid for by us.

Clearly there are costs involved with launching a new line of miniatures, and there's tax to pay on everything, but there is no way to justify price hikes of this magnitude using inflation. GW's increases come from the simple fact that a large number of people like the hobby and will cheerfully spend large sums of money on it. If you don't like the increases, or GW's pricing strategy, vote with your feet and stop buying their miniatures.

Just to further explain his point, GW is gouging us for more money because they want their revenue to stay steady to cover up for their decreasing sales. Chances are they are just to (please do not swear) brain dead to realize that the price hikes have something to do with this, as the cost of getting in is just too high for even whiny kids to shake their parents down for, so they're loosing out on new customers, forcing out old ones who are already loyal, while targeting people who can't afford their products. It won't be now, but in say 5-10 year GW will collapse upon their own stupidity.

[elackqu95]

Agreed, if they lowered their prices by 10$ for each type of unit, I would buy 1000 points of guys within a week, I could use more termies, gargs, and warrior bodies to build primes. I also need a new hive tyrant since my dick head friends thought it made good target practice and took their chance when I left my house for 10 minutes to go buy us all some monster.

[killercroc]

I do not get their price increases either, it makes no sense at all. "we are selling less models, so we raise the prices on everything, so we make 20% more on everything purchased... even if we sell less overall due toe the increase" Makes total sense. What they should do is lower the prices, this way they will make more sales. True they would make less profit per sale, but they would get more sales so it would even out. But seriously, who runs their business department, a brain dead monkey?

[elackqu95]

They probably have fragging George W. Bush up there, smoking pot or some ****, while he jacks off to pictures of some fugly chick.


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