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Krossvain
10-14-2015, 02:58 PM
I apologize if there is already a thread open talking about this.

I was browsing the GW website and noticed a significant price increase on the Ghostkeel(75 to 90 USD) and Stormsurge(150 to 180 USD) and every boxed set that includes these two models has been raised in price as well.

Obviously, no one wants to hear that the price has already gone up, the models are barely even announced. Can anyone confirm that maybe the initial pricing was maybe a promotional price for pre-orders?

I'm interested in at least acquiring one of each of the new models, mainly because I enjoy painting nice models. I don't have much incentive to buy the stormsurge for gameplay reasons, since I won't often be playing enough games that are high enough point cap to justify it(I'm on the fence about it, I like mobility). If anything, I'd break it out every now and then, but expect it to sit on the shelf most of the time.

The Ghostkeel I want to paint and will likely play much more often.

That having been said, I was already hesitant with the initial pricing, so you can imagine the new pricing gives me even more pause. I don't like being the guy that complains about pricing for a hobby that is already potentially expensive, but I can't be the only one who thinks badly of GW already hiking their prices on these models(seems cliche, I know).(Once again, maybe it was promotional pricing...)

What do you guys think?

Rev. Tiberius Jackhammer
10-14-2015, 03:34 PM
'keel's still $75 to my eyes - check to see if you're set to Australian pricing (look for the little flag in the top right of the screen).

This mix-up happens to more or less everyone at some point!

Krossvain
10-14-2015, 03:56 PM
Hmm, seems pricing is back to normal and the USA flag is showing in the top right.

Not sure how that happened, I'm fairly certain I was on the US version of the page when I saw that pricing.

Okay everyone, you can ignore me now.... ( ;) lol)

Edit: Looks like I was looking at Canadian pricing.

Timmoth
10-15-2015, 05:01 AM
'keel's still $75 to my eyes - check to see if you're set to Australian pricing (look for the little flag in the top right of the screen).

This mix-up happens to more or less everyone at some point!
Yeah, I wish Aus pricing was $90, Ghostkeel is actually $125 here...

Kaptain Badrukk
10-15-2015, 05:36 AM
Yup. After exchange rate we pay, on average 24% more here in aus than the hobbyists in the UK do.
Thankfully we earn on average 26% more than those underpriviledged suckers!
And, thanks to the exchange rate shift, now some of our products are actually cheaper than over there, like the Riptide.
Funny old world really.

Psychosplodge
10-15-2015, 06:07 AM
How much you pay for a pint of Hobgoblin Kap'n?

Mr Mystery
10-15-2015, 06:08 AM
£3.80 in my local, or £1.25 in Tesco....

Psychosplodge
10-15-2015, 06:09 AM
An ex-pat I know was moaning its about £8 a bottle or something with it being imported over there...

Path Walker
10-15-2015, 06:10 AM
Yup. After exchange rate we pay, on average 24% more here in aus than the hobbyists in the UK do.
Thankfully we earn on average 26% more than those underpriviledged suckers!
And, thanks to the exchange rate shift, now some of our products are actually cheaper than over there, like the Riptide.
Funny old world really.

An Australian acknowledging that the reason they have higher prices is because they have higher wages and so almost everything is more expensive? You'll be executed as a traitor to your people Kap!

Kaptain Badrukk
10-15-2015, 07:06 AM
I'm a Pommy. I just married a colonial, and decided to slum it in the colonies with the riff raff.
People also fail to notice that without regular price increases on existing product the only way gw can keep up with rising costs is to increase the price by re-releasing sexier versions of things at higher price points.
But now i'm just risking being kicked out of the hobby.
FYI many other companies totally screw us out here, GW isn't one of them.

Psychosplodge
10-15-2015, 07:18 AM
Does she know you talk like that?