Tell us on what occasion you have been priced out by GW

[sarabando]

when i  saw the price of a box of troops(berserkers)  hit £40 i knew it wasnt long for me. 

i dont mind getting the big boxes as im happy to budget for a larger box and spend longer doing it but they are now harder to get  and even they are getting out of hand. 

[Frogian]

for me selling off stuff i don't want has massively brought down what i've spent overall, as well as trying to pick stuff up 2nd hand 

 

i've got half my kill teams from the double boxes where i've sold off one of them. its been a good way to get the ones i want cheap, as well as the rules/tokens/terrain. 

selling my plague marines and necrons also got me back what i paid for DI and Indomtius. I'll sell my tyranids at some point and get back a big chunk of the cost of leviathan (95% of my space marines are from a new edition set or hachette mags).

when i got back into necromunda i managed to get a copy of Ash Wastes off facebook for £125, sold the terrain and the nomads on for basically what i paid - i think it ended up working out as £10 for the orlock basic gang + the orlock vehicles + the templates/dice/rules. i think that was less than what the necromunda dice cost. 

 

i've not played AoS yet, but i've got some slyvanth and goblins, and again - all from hachette (or facebook/ebay buys of people selling hachette stuff)

 

i really try to avoid just buying regular boxes of single units as much as possible, and just not keep stuff that i'm not really bothered about. 

[Karhedron]

4 minutes ago, Frogian said:

as well as trying to pick stuff up 2nd hand 

 

Always handy when possible but in effect someone else's over-buying is subsidising that discount.

[Orange Knight]

On 9/26/2025 at 3:36 PM, Frogian said:

for me selling off stuff i don't want has massively brought down what i've spent overall, as well as trying to pick stuff up 2nd hand 

 

 

This has helped me a lot as well. I'm a decent painter- nothing amazing, but I have been in the hobby for 30 years.

Occasionally I will sell a unit or two, and they will cover the price of my purchases. For example, I used to have 3 Redemptor Dreadnought. I sold one of them and an infantry squad that I felt was redundant in my collection and was able to buy the Leviathan set at the start of 10th with the money I made.

[Doghouse]

For me it's a value thing.

 

I stopped buying because I no longer feel that I am getting value for my money or investment in time with the newer kits, whether it's expense or the shear amount of time I have to spend making a model only to be heavily steered to making them how GW want me to.

 

I've shifted more into the 3d printing world and expanded my horizons beyond what GW currently offer so I've outgrown their products I guess which further makes their prices seem distasteful to me. Instead I am quite happily sat creating my own little game system and miniatures from scratch which has been very rewarding and allowed me to get back to what I consider to be the true roots of wargaming as a hobby over what has become an overly priced competitive tabletop game to me.

 

I think that you can get some decent deals from box splitting as some have mentioned but I really do not want to become a reseller in order to make back money that I feel I should not be paying in the first place.

 

I'd much rather feed my imagination than fill their coffers.

[Xenith]

They haven't priced me out completely, and most things with a 20% discount I will still buy, however clear red lines for me, in terms of things I will not buy are:

 

£24 single miniatures unless special characters

£14-18 single troop miniatures like death guard icon bearer or champion.

Any unit at over £12 a model from forge world - suzerians, crimson paladins Lerneans, etc at £75 for 5 models are insanely priced. I aaaalmost once bought a set of angels tears at £58 for 5, and maybe if i liked the models more I would have, but they're ugly, and now out of scale. 

The kratos at £85 is too much. I did buy one at £75 with a 20% discount on top.