Buying miniatures online

[Ricochet]

Does anyone know of good places to order Games Workshop miniatures online in the UK, USA or Canada?

The reason I don't use Gamesworkshop.co.uk is because of the hefty postage for orders outside the UK. So anyone know some good stores?

 

[NewJeffCT]

Does anyone know of good places to order Games Workshop miniatures online in the UK, USA or Canada?

The reason I don't use Gamesworkshop.co.uk is because of the hefty postage for orders outside the UK. So anyone know some good stores?

Try www.thewarstore.com

Neal, the owner, is very good and they have no postage on orders above a certain amount ($40 or $50, I think) They are based in New York.

 

[Ricochet]

Try www.thewarstore.com

Neal, the owner, is very good and they have no postage on orders above a certain amount ($40 or $50, I think) They are based in New York.

Thanks, but there offer isn't valid outside the US.

I live in Denmark

The best store I have found so far is: http://www.wargamesdungeon.com/

Anyone have experience with these guys, it seems pretty professional..

 

[JiffyPopTart]

I'm not saying you CAN'T purchase GW miniatures from non-GW sites online, but its darned hard to. Last year they decided to declare a Jihad against all the online stores and banned them from carrying product unless they also had a brick-and-mortar store as well.

I'm not sure what their reasoning was for this Jihad, but my theory is that it was to eliminate the "online discount".

Good luck finding a cheaper merchant, however.

DS

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I'm not saying you CAN'T purchase GW miniatures from non-GW sites online, but its darned hard to. Last year they decided to declare a Jihad against all the online stores and banned them from carrying product unless they also had a brick-and-mortar store as well.

I'm not sure what their reasoning was for this Jihad, but my theory is that it was to eliminate the "online discount".

Good luck finding a cheaper merchant, however.

DS

With the result that I, at least, stopped buying GW miniatures. I think they were hoping that the online buyers would come to GW directly instead.

The Auld Grump

 

[Treebore]

With the result that I, at least, stopped buying GW miniatures. I think they were hoping that the online buyers would come to GW directly instead.

The Auld Grump

Unless the "supply chain" is totally outside of the norm, GW's reasons must have been to protect retail stores. On-line only stores still have to buy from a distributor, at the same price a "normal" store would. The only reason an on-line store can give such a steep discount is because they do not have thre tremendous cost of a store front, usually have fewer employees, and can have a higher volume of sales.

They cannot buy the product any cheaper than anyone else, unless they steal it from GW themselves.

The only other way to cut your costs is to meet certain buying plateau's, also called "jobber prices". Say you buy ten boxes of X, you can get them for $50.00 each. If you buy 25 boxes of X you can get them for $43.00 each, and so on.

So the only reason I can see GW doing what they did was to protect their retailers. It did nothing to increase their profit margin. In fact, it may have caused it to drop, if the retail stores did not pick up whatever sales would have been lost due to the on-line stores. LGS's and other retail carriers of GW products are definitely jumping up and down for joy.

Now if they could get WOTC to make Wal Mart and Amazon stop underselling, and pre-selling, their product, they (LGS's) would be ecstatically happy.

 

[hrafnagud]

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[Elder-Basilisk]

I've ordered from Great Canadian Miniatures http://www.gc-minis.com/ several times. I've always been pretty happy with them though now that the exchange rate is in the toilet (for those of us in US--my Canadian friends are pretty happy about it) it might not be such a good deal for me.

I don't know whether they're a good deal compared to Denmark or not.