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I'm sure I read a rumour they made like 6 million copies, which sounds like a ridiculous amount to now be sold out. Lots of people are having a go at GW on their social media, but I think there's a big difference between "you should have known you'd sell a record number of these box sets in 15 minutes" and "you should print more copies to stay good to your promise of "everyone who wants one can get one".
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Thanqol posted:Go down to a dollar store and check out cheap necklace chains. But watch out, they might get a rash and have they skin turn green! If so, coordinate treatment with the Apothecarion. 
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Kitchner posted:Bit gutted for a friend as he overslept by 45 mins and now can't by the Necrons he wanted lol those things are gonna be cheap as free on ebay; I wouldn't worry
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I've been converting a Smash Wolf Lord from the Space Wolf Pack box (I gather the meta's moving away from smash captains, but I'm still midway through building him), but what do people suggest I do with the other 9 minis? I was thinking maybe ablative Blood Claws or Wolf Guard. I have one of Mantic's tunnelers, so maybe I'll hold off on the the jump packs and send them into battle via assault drill.
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Jul 11, 2020 13:25
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Hey GW, how about for the first 24 hours you limit purchases of limited edition items to one copy, and then increase that amount afterwards? The drat thing is going to sell out regardless, so why piss off so many people to benefit mostly scalpers?
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Jul 11, 2020 14:10
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Wow, I get the email at 10. Try to order at 10.10, all sold out. Well done I guess but make a mockery of 'everyone who wants one will get one' line. This is my first time trying to get a GW limited edition widget. I'll know for next time they are billy bullshitters. If any of you are in London and are looking to flog your Necrons PM me.
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So do we know what time the neckbeard lottery will be starting in the US? I've heard 10am PST mentioned, but is that confirmed?
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Seems likely as anything. I guess we'll know in 10 minutes. Now that I'm nervous they screwed my (and everyone else's) LGS, I want to try securing a copy until I get confirmation from my guys later today. When do they charge preorders? When ordered or when shipped? E: Well not 10. I wonder if what's selling out is actually the preorder package with the coin. It makes sense that those would sell out quick, and then oops we found more "regular" boxes around back. moths fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Jul 11, 2020 |
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Jul 11, 2020 14:52
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moths posted:Seems likely as anything. I guess we'll know in 10 minutes. I think reddit was saying 10 Pacific, so you may still have a bit.
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Kitchner posted:Bit gutted for a friend as he overslept by 45 mins and now can't by the Necrons he wanted. Serves him right for trusting GW that they would make enough kits and have "plenty in stock" and "everyone who wants one will get one" I guess. I would say that they need to print more after making such a big deal about having enough for everyone, but the box is such good value not sure it is a good business decision or not. I'm not sure how it's GW's fault if someone didn't manage to buy a product they made no effort to buy. But keep on fighting the good fight I guess.
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Jul 11, 2020 15:36
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Airbrush chat a few pages ago was super helpful, but I had one quick question: how often do the Badger brushes go on sale and how cheap do they get? I don't want to spend money I don't need to spend but I also don't want to wait like 6 months to save $10 or something.
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Jul 11, 2020 15:41
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GW's website seems to have implemented a visual captcha tool I have not seen them utilize before. Might be worth it to check in a few minutes before the sale and make sure to get that taken care of, as I think they might sell out within minutes. I have an order in at the FLGS but have heard GW has been cutting down orders to FLGS (via reddit, so maybe a questionable source), so I am going to attempt to get one from GW as well. If I end up with 2 I will give one as a gift for the holidays I think.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:I'm not sure how it's GW's fault if someone didn't manage to buy a product they made no effort to buy. But keep on fighting the good fight I guess. I'm sure that GW will suck your dick any day now
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Jul 11, 2020 15:48
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Really hoping I can get Indomitus. I play both armies, and I would rather go this route than try to find someone in the US who wants to split the Marines side and another wanting to split the Necrons.
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I hope they reprint Indomitus, my boyfriend and I wanted to split it because he's getting into necrons
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Improbable Lobster posted:I'm sure that GW will suck your dick any day now gently caress off? If he was complaining that his mate was online at 10 and didn't get anything then fine, he'd have a valid reason to be annoyed. As it is he's just doing that lovely grog thing of pissing and moaning because of an unfulfilled sense of entitlement. It's not even like he's missed out for good. Reprints were announced last night. And if he'd made the effort he'd have been able to buy it elsewhere for hours after 10:45am. It's pathetic that Kitchner is dribbling poo poo because his mate did nothing to actually secure a copy. Lovely Joe Stalin fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Jul 11, 2020 |
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:gently caress off? If he was complaining that his mate was online at 10 and didn't get anything then fine, he'd have a valid reason to be annoyed. As it is he's just doing that lovely grog thing of pissing and moaning because of an unfulfilled sense of entitlement. That is good that they will be reprinting it, could you possibly link to the tweet/message about the reprints?
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I don't have a link to hand, but it'll be August. Multiple retailers have confirmed it, not sure if if GW have publicly or not.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:gently caress off? If he was complaining that his mate was online at 10 and didn't get anything then fine, he'd have a valid reason to be annoyed. As it is he's just doing that lovely grog thing of pissing and moaning because of an unfulfilled sense of entitlement. Wow a whole 45 minutes what a terrible crime to be asleep Also source pleasr
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:I'm not sure how it's GW's fault if someone didn't manage to buy a product they made no effort to buy. But keep on fighting the good fight I guess. The issue is that GW gave very mixed messaging here. They promised everyone that if we wanted this box set we would be able to get it. Now all of a sudden its apparently a very limited edition run of this box set and no more will be printed. The GW site shows as no longer available online, not the usual out of stock.
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No but seriously, gently caress off. There's always something you can genuinely complain about with GW, but not getting a limited edition item because you couldn't be hosed to be awake when it went on sale isn't one of them. That's just whining.I said come in! posted:The issue is that GW gave very mixed messaging here. They promised everyone that if we wanted this box set we would be able to get it. Now all of a sudden its apparently a very limited edition run of this box set and no more will be printed. The GW site shows as no longer available online, not the usual out of stock. Fair point on mixed messaging, but they made announcements about restricting stock that served as a warning. And in general, these sets always go out of stock. As I said, if Kitchner's complaint was that the guy tried and failed when the sales opened I'd agree it sucks. My point is that complaining that GW breached trust because someone who couldn't be bothered to try and get it in a reasonable time didn't get it, is dumb. Lovely Joe Stalin fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Jul 11, 2020 |
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:No but seriously, gently caress off. There's always something you can genuinely complain about with GW, but not getting a limited edition item because you couldn't be hosed to be awake when it went on sale isn't one of them. That's just whining. Living up to your custom red title.
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https://firestormcards.co.uk/40-01 This site has 151 copies of the box set available as of this post
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I said come in! posted:The issue is that GW gave very mixed messaging here. They promised everyone that if we wanted this box set we would be able to get it. Now all of a sudden its apparently a very limited edition run of this box set and no more will be printed. The GW site shows as no longer available online, not the usual out of stock. They've been very clear that this was a limited run box set for the launch of 9th, not the new starter or a generally available box that will be around for a while. It's also the largest print run of any box they've ever done, they just didn't anticipate the demand being so high. They also had to shut down production entirely for a couple of months due to this whole global pandemic thing. Making more indomitus boxes means that they can't use those machines to make other models, and they're already out of stock of huge chunks of their catalog, so if the choice is "make more of an explicitly limited box set" vs. "restock all the kits that are out of stock so people can buy intercessors or sisters of battle" they're probably going with the latter.
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My LGS hosed up and put the preorder up thursday. I shot him a mail about it and he said “whoops, that wasn’t supposed to be up yet” but he let me keep my order. My first 40k stuff, wanted a painting project
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I said come in! posted:Living up to your custom red title. Funnily enough I got that because we used to have a another thread in TG full of people with broken brains who truly pathologically hated GW because of Sigmar, and years later still couldn't stop making up ridiculous scenarios to blame the world's evils on GW. This thread used to, mostly, reserve it's opprobrium for the actual poo poo they do. I said come in! posted:https://firestormcards.co.uk/40-01 Good find, I'm genuinely surprised they still have that many left. Like I said though, the boxes are still there (for today) if people make an effort to look instead of just crying aobut GW and giving up. As is usually the way with these releases.
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I said come in! posted:https://firestormcards.co.uk/40-01 Just ordered from them but something doesn't feel right about it. They said they have them in stock and ready to ship...
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notaspy posted:Just ordered from them but something doesn't feel right about it. They may have that number confirmed for sure, but saying you're ready to ship these is misleading.
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notaspy posted:Just ordered from them but something doesn't feel right about it. It is a bit odd that they have that many still in stock, but they are a legitimate trader and I've used them before. They are, I think, also primarily a card game shop so perhaps they don't get as much ham traffic. I got my copy of the Titanicus Grand Master Edition through them after Element shat the bed and GW sold out, and that was far more scarce than today's release.
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Firestorm have shifted 65 copies since they were linked here. If you're on the fence make a decision sooner than later.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:No but seriously, gently caress off. There's always something you can genuinely complain about with GW, but not getting a limited edition item because you couldn't be hosed to be awake when it went on sale isn't one of them. That's just whining. Maybe if you took a moment to take a break to breathe in between sucking GW's dick, you'd realise that the point of contention here isn't that they sold out of a limited edition box set in 15 minutes, it's the fact they very literally said, multiple times, "We have made loads of these, everyone who wants a copy will get a copy". If you make a promise like "everyone who wants one will be able to get one" and then someone oversleep by accident by 45 minutes and wakes up thinking "No big deal, they said they had enough for everyone" only to find it sold out half an hour ago, that's not a reason not to feel bad for that person. I have already even said in this very loving thread that you can't hate GW for having a product be way more popular than they imagined, but you can blame them for making a promise like "if you want one you'll get one" and then staying silent all day while they are sold out and, potentially, not making more. Something you insist that they are doing, and if they are then that's good, if they aren't then that's bad because of the promises they made. Sorry I've got empathy for someone who foolishly believed grand promises about limited editions from GW.
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Limited edition stock goes out of stock shock! Tell him to buy from Firestorm. In 45 minutes. It'll be funny, you can come here and complain about GW again.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:Limited edition stock goes out of stock shock! Are you so dense you can't tell the difference between saying something is limited edition, and saying something is limited edition but then literally saying "but everyone who wants a copy will be able to get one, there's loads don't worry"?
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Fortunately I'm just dense enough to have reserved my pre-order ahead of time. Thus not missing out on a limited availability item that was obviously going to sell out in minutes at GW, based on past experience and GW's own stock warnings, by making zero effort to buy it. You did catch the part about them making more didn't you? Your friend will have a second chance to climb the mountain of effort that is "be at the shop when it opens". Lovely Joe Stalin fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Jul 11, 2020 |
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I just wish they'd do a Space Hulk re-release (although only having Smol Terms in the box is probably a hard-stop these days?  ).E: Not that using terminators on space hulks ever made a whole lot of sense, mind you?
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:Fortunately I'm just dense enough to have reserved my pre-order ahead of time. Thus not missing out on a limited availability item that was obviously going to sell out in minutes at GW, based on past experience and GW's own stock warnings, by making zero effort to buy it. So what you're saying is, that my friend who joined the hobby about 6 months ago, is at fault because he believed GW when they very clearly and explicitly said there was enough for everyone to get them? Lol OK.
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:Airbrush chat a few pages ago was super helpful, but I had one quick question: how often do the Badger brushes go on sale and how cheap do they get? I don't want to spend money I don't need to spend but I also don't want to wait like 6 months to save $10 or something. There's some occasional dips to mid-$60 for the Patriot from it's regular upper-$70. They also annually have a 'birthday sale' in mid-January where they sell them for the company age (so $57 in 2021) although fulfillment on those can be 3-6+ months. Given the wait it's less of a deal for a standard Patriot but pretty decent if you want to pick up a Sotar. If one was really looking to be thrifty the Master's airbrush is pretty decent for <$30 if you can trust yourself not to screw up and crossthread the tiny nozzle. Then pick up a discounted Sotar later for real precision work.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:No but seriously, gently caress off. There's always something you can genuinely complain about with GW, but not getting a limited edition item because you couldn't be hosed to be awake when it went on sale isn't one of them. That's just whining. You are being a bit of a dick but at the same time lol at sleeping in till 10:45 on a saturday when you should be up at 6am slam painting your blood angels in anticipation for some shiny new marine/robo skeleton arrivals 
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