It’s always a pity to see prices go up, but hey 15mm war gaming is always going to be cheaper than 28mm war gaming so I can’t really complain!

All of Battlefront’s minis are, IIRC, made in a factory in Indonesia and so they have some added transport costs

they will still be better value than GW, who once again aer raising prices on everything, most recently Gamesday UK tickets from £25 to £30.

The other reason is the value of the New Zealand Dollar to the Dollar, Pound and Euro. The US Market is their #1 market, #2 is Germany and #3 is England (I may have those two reversed.) Their currency takes a beating like the dollar over round Europe. When I typed this the NZD was 1.99 to the Euro, and 2.52 to the GBP. Yikes. Add shipping using NZDs, bad times.They also have to buy metal using NZD, again ouch. Just a thought.

All price increases are due to greed, pure and simple. Isn’t Flames of War run by the old GW guys who said they weren’t charging enough for GW product, after something like a 25% increase? As a long time player of FoW I’m insulted by this increase. I shouldn’t have to pay 10% more to line their pockets. They should lower prices so I can buy more and new players can afford to play.

GW can sell its models at 50% off to its customers and still make a profit. The margin on miniatures is huge. The cost of materials is miniscule to the overall cost of manufacturing. The only reason for a price increase is to gouge the customers out of more money. They know that most people will be sheep and pay the extra cost.

When you sell to employees you make no profit on the deal, its purely a means of keeping your employees happy. Because happy employees get more done and screw you over less. For discounts to minis look at GW starter boxes. They are priced to be a loss to the company because each player they hook more then makes up for the cost of the box, even for the fantastic new 40k box due out this fall.

If you want to look into the reason for increases in cost for minis look at the commodities market for tin and the other components of pewter, look at the price of oil since it impacts both plastics and shipping costs, look at the cost of start up for getting a mold made and cast.

Oh and dont forget economic issues, all the gamers in the US are getting hit by price increases for overseas games, not because of gouging simply because the dollar is weak.

General Hobbs: I think you may want to be careful to try and differentiate the size of the companies you’re speaking of. If you want to talk about GW etc., I have no idea where you’re getting these numbers from, so I can’t say if think you’re right or wrong.

But if you’re speaking of a smaller company eg. Hasslefree etc., then I think you are way off the mark calling their price increases greed. From the comments those guys make, it looks like they are making only razor thin margins (witness the recent shutdown of Olley’s Armies.)

I think you should be careful to differentiate which companies you speak of.

You are wrong.

And your evidence to this effect is where? Don’t make comments like this unless you are backing them up with direct evidence and even in that case don’t be so brusque.

Greed, pure and simple.

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