8th Ed. salamander becoming obsolete?

It was marked $61 in my local GW store.

 

That is insane!

Anyone that is paying these kinds of outrageous prices send me a list of what you want and I will go to my local and price it out for you. If it the total + shipping turns out to be cheaper, you can PayPal me and I will gladly send figs to you.

$61 is just ludicrous!

If you cannot tell this really irritates me.

 

Yea, I double checked yesterday and I was correct. $61 for scar vet, $86 for stegadon and a whopping $155 for LM battalion. Thanks for the offer Sandiego, but I'm holding any model buying until we get finecasts of stuff (slann and terradons I'm looking at you ).

I really hope, as a community, we can help each other. There really is no reason why Australians should pay 2x the price for the same things.

 

Grab that battalion while you can elmo - it's listed at $170AUD on the GW site. AU price for the Steg is $83 so they're bumping the RRP there, but I've no idea which Oldblood/ScarVet they've got at $61, that's a gouge if ever I heard one.

 

This becomes a flawed line of thinking when you find out that the material is cheaper than the old metal. You're paying more "because".
For example, the finecast carnosaur (that you have to buy with kroq-gar now) is $66. Two plastic mournfang cavalry riders are $35, roughly the same size, are far more customizable, and plastic plates are a more expensive investment than resin/metal ones. Oh, and the cheaper Empire Griffin, Goblin Spider, and Vampire Counts Zombie Dragon/Bat and "Crazy Carnival Carriage" all tower over it. Then we've got silliness like no longer being able to get specific models, so now anyone who wants a full squad of Harlequins needs to buy two boxes and a shadowseer/deathjester/third box.
Privateer Press can sort of get away with this model, because their game systems have no alteration beyond unit size, so worse comes to worse you shell out for 10 models when you only need 6 (and might use the rest in a higher points game). There is no buying 5 boxes of the same unit because you want 10 harlequin kisses, for example (I'm not counting second-hand/trading because the business itself doesn't see a dime from it, nor should you have to scrap around for 1-piece models).
As annoyed as some of the lore and rules writing can get to me, it's the business side that's more than often the real killer for me.

 

What do I care what the material costs? I get a better product, that's all that matters to me and that's what I'm paying for.

I agree that plastics are the best, and so does GW, but it is simply not possible for them to produce full plastic ranges yet. With the 8th edition army books at least, you can get most of the big stuff and units in plastic and just a handful of finecasts to complement them. I expect this to happen to all armies as they redo them.

 

I checked Wayland games. Steg costs 24.80 pounds, krog-gar costs 34, finecast oldblood costs 6.40. By the gods these are cheap! Anybody from UK willing to help me get some of these? I'm looking to add a steg and the old blood to my lizardmen army.

In regards to resin vs metal, I do realise that in raw form, metal is more precious. But resin can produce more detail and it is lighter. In my opinion, resin/plastic is the way to go. It all look the same after you paint it anyway, with only the finecast having more detail. What I'm paying for is not the material of the product, but the fine details of the product. To me, that matters more than what it is made out of. In terms of the "feel" (metal is heavier so it feels more sturdy), I'm thinking of weighting down my bases. Hopefully that will simulate the weight of metal minis in my plastic ones.

 

I live in the UK and could probably help you, only issue is the shipping cost, sending anything worthwile over would cost £40-60 i believe

 

wayland games said ages ago that they were working on a way to send GW products to outside europe, and it would arrive shortly after the new warehouse did. Well, the new warehouse is here, so I guess we can only wait and hope.

 

Thanks everybody who's willing to help us Aussies. eBay is my friend right now, just got a stegadon for AUD35 yay!

 

Yeah I stopped buying from local stores a while ago. Neither 40k or Fantasy are priced anywhere near reality anymore, and they often have no stock either. Even if I wanted to just get it right away and damn the savings, I have to wait for them to order it in anyway.

 

GW told me i should check website on Saturday for new fincasts for lizardmen

 

Probably just a gap in inventory as they switch to "finecast" resin, you know, the stuff with all the bubble holes in it