Price Rises, Cost-cutting rip-off and a Trade embargo - the 3 pronged anal rape of GWs customers

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on May 18, 2011; 5:22pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Price-Rises-Cost-cutting-rip-off-and-a-Trade-embargo-the-3-pronged-anal-rape-of-GWs-customers-tp6378676.html

So another senseless Games Workshop price rise is upon us, Citadel will be switching some of their production over to a cheaper (but only for them) material and an embargo has been placed which not only screws over customers outside the EU and US but also screws over good-honest hard-working independent retailers. A lot of people are pissed off and GW are handling this the only way they now how, denial.

You see GW don't really care about what customers think, they don't take the time to ask any more (when was the last time you saw a GW customer survey in WD or with your Mail Order package?) and if they want a gamer's opinion they give it to them and that opinion is 'the new miniatures are so cool and I'm not bothered by the high prices'

Since the last price rise we saw sales of GW products flat line and then drop 4%. Looking at their profit margins the financial wizards at GW decided the reason they weren’t making as much money as they'd like; wasn't that their products have dropped in quality, or that their staff are rude, ignorant and sales driven, or that high prices are making people turn else-where for their hobby … no no no … they've decided that it's that their prices aren’t high enough. This is no way to run a company and is only sustainable in the short term.      

My message as ever is: remember it's not GW's hobby it's your hobby, Carry on using your old rules books, look for alternative models and spend as little on GW products as possible. If your still not convinced, I'll see you the same time next year when the prices go up again and for every year after until GW sees sense and brings prices down or you find it too expensive to carry on playing their games – every gamer has their limit, even you (and if you don't have a limit then you are a fool – why not go and work in GW management)