My Recent B'day Gifts

[Illithid]

Just got these last night. My mate had bought them off some Chinese site apparently and was worried about receiving them.

They looked like recast, but the detail is superb - but he only paid $70(AU) in total for both. Fairly pleased and bought a further two more Malanthropes today for a total of $44(AU):

[Hivefleet Oblivion]

hmmmmmm.....

one-off casts when you've lost a part or it's not available is one thing. but your friend is encouraging thieves.

[Illithid]

May 5, 2012 8:21:01 GMT Hivefleet Oblivion said:

hmmmmmm.....

one-off casts when you've lost a part or it's not available is one thing. but your friend is encouraging thieves.

Who are the thieves? GW or this seller. The way I see it with GW's current pricing policy here in Australian, I am happy to buy them and may do so again in the future.

If I could get the prices paid in the US or UK, I would happily support GW, but as it currently stands, it is not going to happen.

In fact, not a single piece of my army has been bought from an Australian seller, as overseas prices are generally 40-60% lower off eBay.

[sebastianthefrog]

As much as I hate violation of intellectual property (I.E casts) I also think that the price can get put of hand. I live in NZ and the prices put huge monetary stress on me, and yeah, the pricing policy in other counties is probably one of the worst thing GW has ever done.

[Illithid]

The biggest thing is, my another friend bought me a GW gift voucher for $50. I had to spend it in Australia. I was able to buy a Broodlord.

So,
$50 in Australia = 1x Broodlord
$70 Internationally = 1x Scythed Heirodule and 1x Malanthrope

See the dilemma....

[jinx]

OMG is everything that costly in australia?
buying nids must be costly then,here a broodlord is 20 euros,the hierodule costs alot more tho

[Elof Valantor]

Comparison between USA and Australia

Looks pretty unfair to me.

[emoge]

I am one that is very against copyright infringement and basically think casting is stealing of intellectual property and should never be done. It's tealing and making money off it is even worse.

That being said, I 100% support Australians (and only Australians) purchasing recast miniatures like this because the prices they are expected to paya re just plain stupid.

[swarm492]

The prices GW issues are just stupid in general regardless of where your from, and I agree that they are just plain thieves at this point. The last thing I bought form gw was our latest codex, the rest is from ebay

[emoge]

May 5, 2012 16:48:18 GMT swarm492 said:

The prices GW issues are just stupid in general regardless of where your from, and I agree that they are just plain thieves at this point. The last thing I bought form gw was our latest codex, the rest is from ebay

Eh, I have no problem with their pricing in the U.S. It's a hobby.

[captainbirdbum]

it maybe recasted. but to cost only $20 more than a broodlord is totally rediculus. gw deserve ip infringement imo

[kalmbeforetheswarm]

Amazon seems to work pretty well for me. Unless its finecast, you usually save about 10 bucks on a box of models/single model, even after shipping. I buy paint and codex's from GW and that's all. I'll always go for the better deal, but this seems a little.....what's the word? Wrong.

[swarm492]

Yea that is pretty crazy cheap, cant say I wouldnt cast them myself if I knew how though.

[Illithid]

May 5, 2012 17:59:34 GMT captainbirdbum said:

it maybe recasted. but to cost only $20 more than a broodlord is totally rediculus. gw deserve ip infringement imo

You have to take into account, if I was to buy from a UK or US ebay store, I normally can pick up 7x Broodlords for the price of that Heirodule, so perhaps it is in the ball-park of what it is worth.

The $20 less part only comes into account if I buy one thing here and one internationally.

[TheContortionist]

how would you go about casting these or any models yourself? that would be amazing.