2014-12-01

Merry X-mas from Games Workshop: Thirteen dwarves for 330 AUD.

You can get the "bundle" for exact the same it cost to buy each pack. There are no savings on www.games-workshop.com, only war and death. I imagine Games Workshop like Gandalf on the bridge of Khazad-Dûm, when someone wants to pass on savings on the customers (and increase the customer base and their spending in the long run): "You shall not pass! Whaaa!"
    And then he breaks the bridge and everybody dies.

Picture from Games Workshop's webshop. Games Wokshop. Games Webshop.
    For the nifty price of 330 AUD you can get 13 models. They are all very characterful. 330 AUD in SEK is 2086. If we change the price back to SEK, they will sell the 13 models for the slim price of  1430. Well, not really, because when I look at GW:s page, it says 1,430 SEK (notice the comma). So, rounding up the "ören" (which we used to call the fractions of a krona, kronor and ören are sort of the pennies and pounds), we can get thirteen models for 1 SEK. Now that's a good price.
     I am sure they meant 1430 SEK.
    Without prices we couldn't buy anything, so be happy that there are prices.

9 kommentarer:

  1. They'll be on my wants list, but I don't think I will be rushing to buy them immediately...

    SvaraRadera
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    1. I will expect to see them on your paint table later next year :D

      Radera
  2. I will buy just one blister because they are very expensive for me.
    Panagiotis

    SvaraRadera
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    1. As el zorro say below: "I need that dwalin model" - I could settle for one blister, as you say Pana, and that blister would be the first of all the rest of the blisters. I do not see myself as a collector in that regard, but if I were to buy just one, I know I'd "have" to have the rest. No self discipline when it comes to completness... :(

      Radera
  3. I really don't understand why GW keeps shooting themselves in the foot with these prices... $13+ USD per model? really?

    that said, I need that dwalin model... somehow.

    SvaraRadera
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    1. Hehe... Just the one model... You know how it goes, you get one and then you think... "hmm... he is awfully lonely AND incompatible with the plastic 13 dwarves, might as well pick up the rest" ;)

      Their pricing is weird but it works for them I suppose. Strange.

      Radera
  4. In Britain we use a comma between groups of three figures so we write 1,000 and 1,000,000 etc. We would use a full stop (decimal point) to indicate decimals: 1.430 (meaning just over one) but 1,430 would mean 1430. That said, younger people here are being taught to leave out the commas. We'd never use a comma instead of a decimal point, though, like is common in Europe.

    Still the prices are staggering!

    SvaraRadera
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    1. So the comma used to be used in every group of three? I thought it was a new way to facilitate reading bigger numbers, beyond a million.

      One live and one learn.

      I spend so much time reading and typing in English that I confuse myself when it comes to these traditions with using a comma or a point/decimal/full stop when I try to express numbers in Swedish.

      In the end I get worse at Swedish and still haven't learnt proper English grammar.

      Minor hindrances in one's daily life.

      Radera
    2. Your English is much better than my Swedish and part of y family comes from Sweden!

      Radera