Edinburgh Games Workshop

For the third time.. Edinburgh games workshop know when they opened.

Having only 1 months membership to this forum in no way makes the plain accurate truth any less relevant..

Please do behave, your ridiculous attempts at insults are just making yourself look silly.
 
LeJosh said:
How?
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Charging £20 for a box of models that cost 1p to manufacture, oh and this:

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:p
 
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Ascendancy said:
Well for a start, I've yet to find one that doesn't stink of teenage B.O.
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The Milton Keynes branch, the Hemel Branch, the Luton Branch....unlike at least one chain of games retailers;)


Energise, the models cost considerably more than that to make, even just in terms of materials, and that's before the equipment needed, or other costs are taken into account...A video game DVD costs less in raw materials but costs much more retail.:p

I do find the irony of people who spend a lot of time playing video games going on about people who play war games quite amusing.
 
They're a business to make profit ofcourse they're going to sell higher than it costs to produce, but for one I seriously know it isn't 1p to make them. Cmon credit crunch. >_>
 
I was exaggerating, but seriously though they are a rip off for what they are which is why I among many others stopped buying them, prices increase ahead of inflation in most cases as well. The raw materials represent only 4% of revenue according to games workshop, so thats 80p of the £20 box.

EDIT- Make that 96p of the now £24 box. Or rather 2x £12 boxes which is gw's usual tactic to make people spend more by selling models in boxes too small to make a unit.
 
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If you think GW's cost compared to the raw materials is bad, you should look at some of the stuff from the likes of Japan ;)

IIRC GW spend rather a lot on the equipment to make the models (they've got some very expensive scanning and automated milling stuff these days), and they are a relatively niche market (which raised costs) running a chain of specialist stores (which cost a lot of money for staff but are needed to help support the hobby).

I think they are getting better on some prices, mainly because they're starting to be able to make more complex plastic models (reducing the cost per model compared to the metal ones, whilst getting close to, or improving on the quality of the metal ones), but to do that involves a huge outlay in new moulding equipment

Unfortunately whilst GW is fairly big, they've got an extremely high cost overhead in supporting the hobby :(

But yes, they are expensive, but then so is buying any niche models with the sort of detail they've got.
 
I used to like GW, some amazing stuff.

I also can't believe how rude Alan! is being for a lot of people giving a list of valid answers.

Rich
 
Ascendancy said:
Lets just say that the way you're behaving, plus the fact that you created this thread instead of asking them for the information tells me your intelligence is on par with their average clientele.
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Step away from the personal attacks please.

3rd Edition
wiki; said:
The Third Edition of the game was published as a single hardback book in 1987. It had the most in-depth and complex movement and manoeuver system of any edition. Other improvements included a variety of new specialist troop types, rules for war machines and a more finely tuned system of representing heroes and wizards. It kept the same magic system and open-ended army design system as the first two editions. However, by this stage the use of army lists was very much encouraged. Army lists for this edition were published in a separate book called Warhammer Armies in 1991, until then use of the 2nd Editions Ravening Hordes list was encouraged. This is partly because it was the last edition published before Games Workshop took a different commercial approach, leading to competition from former GW employees in the briefly-published competing Fantasy Warlord.

The third edition was expanded with the Realm Of Chaos and Warhammer Siege books.
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So your probably looking between 1987 and 1991 if that helps.
 
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Energize said:
The raw materials represent only 4% of revenue according to games workshop, so thats 80p of the £20 box.
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Stuff like this reallly annoys me.

im no GW fan boi, but you post shows a lack of understanding of costing

the 80p argument would be fine. if you just buying the raw materials.

lets look at costing

1. Before a model is made, it has to go through the design process,
a designer is reletavitly well paid at about 30k

2. Raw materials: we can use your figure of 80p

3. The moulds for casting or Capital investment
You have to build a mould, a complex precision task, which takes many
hours.
But im forgetting, in order to get that stage you need a CAD designer to
turn your design into a mould design add his 40k salary
Also who builds the mould, a tooling engineer another 40 salary

4. Labour
5. Art work packagin
6. Shipping

Ive mande some gross generalisaions here, but the basic principal is the same.

I would be suprised if GW made more than £5 profit per tank for example.

Remember, the models ahve high investment costs and sell relativitly low volume.

toothbrushes only operate on 40-50p profit per unit but sell in millions, gw tanks dont
 
Lol, the manager of GW Edinburugh is called "Rich Packer" :D

Anyway, 0131 220 6540, ring that and ask.

If they don't know try ringing here: 0115.91.40000 and ask them, or drop a mail to [email protected] and someone will ensure the right person gets it.

Failing all that:

Games Workshop
Willow Road
Lenton
Nottingham
NG7 2WS

Its pen an paper time. Get writing.
 
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Alan! said:
Anyone know when the Edingburgh Games workshop officially opened?
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About 10am?

Energize said:
I was exaggerating, but seriously though they are a rip off for what they are which is why I among many others stopped buying them, prices increase ahead of inflation in most cases as well. The raw materials represent only 4% of revenue according to games workshop, so thats 80p of the £20 box.
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By that logic, console games should cost about £2 each. What's the raw materials cost for the Mona Lisa? I'm thinking about buying it. :p
 
It's been there ages. I used to go in when I was about 10, which would be 96. As you said though, you've been in before that. So basically this post is pointless.
 
Energize said:
I was exaggerating, but seriously though they are a rip off for what they are which is why I among many others stopped buying them, prices increase ahead of inflation in most cases as well. The raw materials represent only 4% of revenue according to games workshop, so thats 80p of the £20 box.

EDIT- Make that 96p of the now £24 box. Or rather 2x £12 boxes which is gw's usual tactic to make people spend more by selling models in boxes too small to make a unit.
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Raw materials of plastic models are low, yes. But Plastic model moulds cost tens of thousands to make. On the other had, the metal models have a high cost of materials and low mould cost.

The models dont make that much of a profit over the cost of production.
 
Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Lol, the manager of GW Edinburugh is called "Rich Packer" :D

Anyway, 0131 220 6540, ring that and ask.

If they don't know try ringing here: 0115.91.40000 and ask them, or drop a mail to [email protected] and someone will ensure the right person gets it.

Failing all that:

Games Workshop
Willow Road
Lenton
Nottingham
NG7 2WS

Its pen an paper time. Get writing.
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Good hunting! I did think as I walked into work that possibly head office email / phone / letter would be the way forward to find out.

Out of curiousity why do you want to find out when it opened?

Rich
 
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