The Warhammer Scalping Scandal Just Got Worse
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- Let's talk about scalping in Warhammer - and how it can be solved!
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GW fight against scalpers is purely an exercise in PR.
Guaranteed product is sold and no overhead for gw.
The easiest solution would be to make "pre-orders" actually pre-orders... Yeah theyd have to be 6 months in advance, not two weeks and it'd hurt the hype train.
Or a made to order run we know thay can do it become thay did it with Indomatus
This would be the easiest, the cheapest, and the best for both GW AND the customer - that's why we can't allow this kind of solution.
@@warpig_mint9839on signed books….
last preorder first got sent out 12 workdays after the lunch date so yes GW do not have preorders
Yep, I waited about six months for a pair of Nick's boots; made to order exactly the way I wanted albeit the wait times are considerable. However, Nick's got my money and I eventually got a pair of U.S.A. made boots that are resoleable and will most likely last me the rest of my life.
Why don't they make the pre-order an *actual* pre-order. Take all the orders and then they know how many to make for their customers and then scalpers will still get some but the market will be softer. That plus a projected run for retailers and they should be good.
the thing is GW and the scalpers take advantage of the same thing: artificial scarcity gw wants to make "limited edition" things because it sells for more and because its LIMITED people are more eager to buy it because afterall this is your one and only chance, scalpers take advantage of the same thing except they dont buy them as memorabilia but to further profit of it because its limited people who didnt get to buy it from gw officially (because of the scalpers) are willing to buy from the scalpers for a higher price
GW doesn't have any problem with scalpers.
GW loves scalpers.
i don't think they LOVE scalpers - i think they'd prefer no scalpers - but I don't think it bothers them LOTS
@@DiscourseMinis GW LOVES scalpers, because scalpers means that 100% of product is SOLD, out of their warehouses, and on the SCALPER to recover their wholesale investment. If they don't sell from the scalper, why should GW care? GW will already have their $$ on the balance sheet for the shareholders report. Win/Win for the GW bottom line!
This latest move in a HIGHLY niche product is only PR that won't ever trickle down to us lowly serfs.
News flash: The GW FOMO limited printing is BS, and a LOT of folks are falling for it. Hint: Ya ain't gonna sell this crap some years later and send your kid to college nor fund your retirement!
@@thomaskeith2309 that may be true for now and for a while in the future, but in the end people become so blasé and numb to this that it will work against gw.
OH GREAT ANOTHER RELEASE I CAN,T GET MY HANDS ON....oh well.
sooner or later it will eat the hobby away from the inside, as people become so annoyed that they will either
-finally throw themselves on their piles of shame/oppertunities,
-start 3d printing amass,
-or worse go to other game systems entirely.
all 3 are not in geedubs favor..
i notice this with myself as well, as i pretty much only go for the value bigboxsets, and if i can,t get those then i leave it be.(as i still have a plenty to build still on sprue.)
@@thomaskeith2309 Yes this is correct.
@@DiscourseMinis I think GW is jealous of the Scalpers. GW is greedy w/o limit. So they see the "profit" of the scalpers as literally, money they want but don't have....
Every single year since personal 3d printers became a thing i have imagined the GW execs staring grimfaced at each other across a boardroom table and saying, "Well... I guess this is it. It's been a good run chaps, but it seems our days are numbered. I guess there's nothing left to do now but raise prices suicidally high and see how much we can bilk the bastards for to line our pockets with one last round of year-end bonuses."
...And every year they look a little more confused. At this point they just sort of shrug at each other in disbelief and stare vacantly out the window, wondering if they aren't perhaps in some kind of simulation or an extremely strange sort of afterlife.
Yeah it’s crazy. I don’t get why there are still people hating on 3D printers. They’re so easy to use and cheap. I recently printed 25€ worth of resin and it’s more than a full Imperial guard Army, a table worth of minis and tanks and everything
@@viciousyeen6644 I was talking with a friend of mine about it. I think we all understand a bunch of motivations people have for sticking with GW... Mainstream visibility, being assured of finding other players, an officially sanctioned competitive scene... But lately I've been thinking about it as also a kind of sacrificial gesture. Like at some level maybe paying too much money for GW minis is a way of proving your commitment to the community. The wargamer-nerd version of being jumped in.
@@ogreboy8843 there definitely are people who try to brag with expensive models. Most of the time they’re toxic af and will always be „those guys“ about some rules too and stuff like that.
'Luke, here's The Thing' - Brilliant
The twist, GW ARE the scalpers...
They obviously are, its not any different to having the store clerk "keep one reserved"
I worked in retail during the first 6 months of the PS5's release. We told our logistics teams to return any excess orders. Eventually I.T. Altered the website so an address was limited to one console. We also held half our stock for in-store purchase only. Other companies can implement the same strategy, if the products demand is high enough sales won't be affected.
I appreciate the shout out to “Prohammer” - I’ve been longing for the janky template and scatter die game of my youth but lacked a searchable handle to start investigating.
i think the way GW handles this is why so many go to 3D printing the minis
Except GW who could use 3d printers to make everything made to order and even make any part or model from their entire 50 year history
GW could have their initial release of X,000 and then switch to MTO. That would eliminate scalpers.
It also doesn’t help that I had a Heresy book in my cart, ran into a CC fraud protection verification and the item was no longer in stock by the time it tried to finalize payment. If it’s in my cart, I should be given time to finish a transaction before it is taken away.
There would be an other solution: add a visible ID to every limited product.
1. You can ban scalpers.
2. You can identify pictures used in multiple fakes.
The problem with this is you'd need a manual review team. That involves complexity and more importantly time and effort that would slow down their sales time. It also creates a lot of data protection shenanigans/legality around storing personal info. GW doesn't care who buys the product as long as it shifts. What the buyer does after that doesn't seem to overly concern them.
The only real solution is to not buy from scalpers until limited edition stock is released under a regular schedule thus removing the artificial scarcity driving the ebay price up. This will never happen.
“Luke, here’s the Thing” was far funnier than it had any right to be. Almost choked on my lunch. Well done!
Finally someone pointing towards the actual business that created this situation in the first place through apathy and malignant business practices rather than at the customers trying to navigate the shitshow however they can. Feel like I've been taking crazy pills watching the general response be 'just stop buying from scalpers' like this isn't a systemic issue created whole-cloth by GW.
discourage scalpers by flooding the market? Yes please. Also, I pity the authors for having to sign so many books... woof.
I'm ok with the signed copies having a limit (to not overrun the poor writers who have to sign 2500 or so each time), but if they had a non-signed, deluxe edt made-to-order would not only defeat the scalpers, but it would appease even more customers and BOOST GW REVENUES! It would also take out the guesswork of both underprinting like most current product, and overproduction like what happened with the AoS Dominion box. You could even still maintain your FOMO strategies by limiting the window of time to order.
Quit playing GW games! Quit buying GW product. It's the only way to save yourself.
I did, 20 years ago... Absolutely no chance of me getting back into 40K as the entry point is so ridiculously expensive
The only Games Workshop game that I buy or play now is necromunda I've invested all of my Warhammer money into 3D printing and supporting creators on patreon
All of my models are either ones I had from years ago, cheap ebay bargains, kitbashes and proxies, 3d prints and on the very rare occasion I want something GW that's newish, I have gone to a 3rd party shop. I never ever buy from gW shops or website.
They are a shameful company. The HQ team are utterly incompetent, greedy and hugely disrespectful to fans.
Get into Battletech instead! Its cheaper and the Classic, Alpha Strike and the Destiny ttrpg aspects rules barely change from each edition making it a more stable franchise. Also there a several eras to indulge yourself with regarding lore! 7 eras in fact
This channel and its comments are so fucking toxic lmfao.
The Hachette Combat Patrol magazine issue 1 (test run) is £2.99 and is £20 online from scalpers. The only place you can get it
That is another area where scalping is a problem. Certain (popular) issues just disappear in the distributor chain and never get supplied to newsagents which have them ordered on a regular basis.
@@TheAndrian463I'm having that very problem with Imperium. 11 issues to go, missing 6 so far. In my country's case, though, I'm fairly sure they're prioritising random large orders from certain newsagents.
I'll wait until its actual release
I have played mini games for about 13 years, got into 40k a few years back and just could not handle the codex tsunami and constant constant meta changes and rules changes everytime I would go to play a game something vital about my army had changed in top of the newest army being disgustingly so much more powerful than mine and then the constant scenario changing for play…. I just couldn’t keep up, felt like I had a second job. No thanks it was no longer fun.
Luke, here's The Thing... I loved your channel! And you're right on the scalping / supply and demand issue. I got into the hobby a bit over a year ago and I've seen it already once and again, missing key releases, too. I want this book, but we'll see what happens.
great video as usual! My friend and I were talking about this and your content on our way to a local store.
hey thanks! good things I hope lmao
I fondly remember when Leviathan came out. Suddenly you could easily get all the units in it for very reasonable prices from local scalpers. They had bought large quantities of the box and couldn't flog it with their uszal crazy mark-up. So they split up the boxes and sold the individual components, hoping to recuperate their losses.
I got two squads of Assault Marines for €20.- each this way.
If GW did the Leviathan 3-4 times in a row, the risk of financial loss would likrly kill a lot of scalpers.
That said, this would be tricky to do for something like a limited run of The End and The Death signed by the author. Having Mr. Abnett sign 10.000+ copies doesn't seem like a feasible option.
For the limited run books, I don't think a lot of people care about the author signature or the numbering, they just want a nice, fancy book version of a novel they've been looking forward to.
Cheers! You always make me smile.
Hey discourse…good to see you. Thanks for the video.
Discourse, I’ve been on and off with you. Sometimes, you ride the hate train too hard. But bejeebuz, GW keeps riding the corpo train too hard, so it’s a wash. As someone who’s been playing 40k since 2nd ed and picked up my first GW game back in ‘93, I really, really appreciate what you do. We need CCs like you, and I really hope making these vids is valuable to you, whether it be monetarily, self-fulfillingly, or both. GW is chasing the ‘let’s go whaling’-trend from always online videogames. As a publicly traded company, they can be sued for making business desicions that do not make money for their investors. I grew up on GW art and IP, and I love it - I will play in this universe until I die. But GW is the worst possible entity to look after this IP, much like Disney is the worst possible entity to watch over one of my other teenage wonders, Star Wars. Thank heavens for gifted, motivated individuals and the democracy of the internet. Third party game rules creators are a blessing. 3D printers go brrr. Gods bless, Discourse.
The last 3 Warhammer 40k purchases i did were reduced boxes, because they were crushed during transport and next to none of the 40k players around grabs these boxes then. They were always fine inside, and with up to 25% off, i didn't feel i was robbed :D
As North says, the box costs more to produce than the plastic minis instead them.
Precise, clear, inspiring and very entertaining, as always!
Thank you Discource 😊
GW really need to clean up their act to support a health community moving forward.
Lots of scalping in the toy industry too. Exclusives, limited releases, and retailers like Target and Walmart were slow to the game, preventing people from ordering multiples at a time. Some scalpers would even say that they would put "99" in the amount, check out, and wait to see how many they fulfill. It's insane.
I would have never looked into recasts if they hadn't put the cool assassin behind a year long WH+ paywall, since then its safe to say I have zero FOMO because im guaranteed to get what I want. People will put up with a lot from GW, but if you physically cant get a product it's a whole lot easier to justify an order to China, once that barrier to entry is broken good luck getting that customer back.
As soon as I heatd about this book "problem" I knew you would be on the case, well done Tabletop Crusader ! ! !
I think you really have a point there with the hype-to-limited-release structure that GW has in place now.
I remember the old and greatly beloved "Start Collecting!" boxes they sold. A phenomenal way to start or bolster an army. They kept them around for _ages_ and they were super popular. But then they replaced them with the Combat Patrol boxes. No longer a useful set of kits, these were supposed to be mini game system in a box with their own game system with models usable in mainline 40K. Except, the kits lacked synergy, the discount was heavily reduced, the sets tend to have to stick to the game system rather than be actually useful, and they _also_ still update them regularly, meaning the fear of missing out is still strong!
So what's next? Are we heading towards a time of preset models and profiles? Are armies going to lose their flavour in favour of uniformity? Could GW go the Pokémon TCG route and rotate out models every couple of editions or so to justify selling new kits? Well we've already seen three big steps that way. Firstly, the move to put units and models into Legends. Why? You can write any set of rules for a miniature you've made, yet you chose not to. Secondly, the move towards ~Power Level~ the new points system. This hurt list building so much. Every unit now must fit into predetermined blocks. Maybe I don't want or need 10 models in a unit? But 5 isn't enough. Too bad. You have too many, and not enough points to put in another unit, leaving you with 45 points unspent. And speaking of rigid models - only having rules for what's in the box. This is already happening with Chaos Terminators; you only get one "paired accursed weapons" in the box. So no more lightning claw Terminators. They don't even get to declare what each weapon is now. I'm worried this will get worse with the new codex. Imagine being able to only run 2 Lascannon Havocs in a unit. It could definitely happen. The aforementioned stuff has...
I, for one, look forward to our new discord evil overlord.
My local shop has old world boxes, legion imperialis. Dark Angel boxes, all kinds of stuff just sitting in the shelf. Maybe I’m the exception but they almost always have stuff.
I just celebrated 1 year with no gw products. I have four new sci fi armies for xenos rampant (about the size of combat patrol) and saved about £200!!
Scalpers wont go away until people stop buying from them. Yes you'll have to miss out on some consumerism.
I like the way you said, Dark Eldar.. im gonna wait til the video ends then go back and listen to you say, Dark Eldar again.. dont judge ME! 🥴
"The Pentagon!" and I choke on my bubblegum and die....
THANK YOU for pointing that out! So many times I've talked with my friends about the whole supply / demand problem GW is feeding into. Imo, it's a very foolish thing GW is pushing. Long term it's going to push away dedicated fans who simply want to play and enjoy the hobby. I can also see it devolving into people just collecting the "limited" run products to sell at a later date with zero interest in warhammer at all. I've seen that happen with magic, yugioh, and pokemon cards, and in recent years, lego (specifically starwars), and transformers (also thanks to the whole FOMO problem) I know businesses see the huge spike in numbers over a short period of time and assume it's a good thing, but it just ruins the enjoyment for everyone who isn't scalping or "investing".
you hit all the points I've been making for years and more. The problem has evolved since I dropped out of the game in late 8th edition. and even back then it was a question of why do I want to spend 50 US dollars on a couple of grams of plastic because this new HQ unit will make my whole army much better. how the release cycle is pushing older models out of the game. treating it like a trading card game and not like a hobby where you have to put hours and hours of work into each individual unit to even put them on the tabletop in a proper setting. it's ridiculous and I don't really regret leaving the games workshop ecosystem.
*The Printing Press, for literal centuries:* "now we can make more and cheaper books!"
*GW:* 😏
I’m SO intrigued by the Prohammer rules. Is the video currently available?
Glad you're back
Love the "Brass Eye" drugs insert =D =D =D
The only way to stop scalpers is to stop the fomo bullshit.
Great video. This topic needs to continue to be brought to the forefront of the hobby. With the added caveat, Games Workshop cares not from where the money flows.
Oh yeah, new Discourse vid!! My only complaint >> At about 8:20,, you missed a huge opportunity to do a cool Discourse cosplay villain!! When are we getting our beloved crazy Discourse back,, what did you do with her!! Damn it!! Really good video btw : )
It’s pretty simple. They put something out for the scalpers then two weeks later they put it out again cheaper and let all those scalpers eat their loss.
I really miss the old days when GW would sit on an edition (and continue to produce it) for more than 3 years, and times when limited edition books/models didn't exist.
Or when you could use a previous codex in the latest edition when yours wasn't available.
And when I could buy 10 Marines for $30AU.... 😭
All I know is I couldn't get Wrath of the Soul Forge King on the old website, and was able to get the Deathwing box on the new website.
Just wanna thank you for that Jingle All the Way reference. :]
this is such great content !!! can anyone suggest me a good alternative (in terms of minis and rules) to Old world...they have been nothing but disappointing to me
Worst kind of FOMO is the kind that hits 8 years or so later, when you try to build a Dark Elf army for The Old World...
mostly interested in painting here, so I have been switching to other companies, as if you just want to paint a dragon theres options
You should do a video on the Guild Ball relaunch. Steam Forged Games has a knack for making low barrier to entry games
GW should be careful about chasing such short-term gains with their false scarcity model.... luxury goods only get away with it because their core customer base have high disposable incomes. It's not sustainable in the standard retail market because eventually people will need to spend their money on necessities over plastic crack, leading to an influx of 2nd hand products on the market which undermines their whole FOMO model. And there will be much rejoicing. (one of my favourite Python jokes btw...love it!)
I'd watch discord minis
mwhahahaha
Why dont they just do it so you register interest in the product and they do a random pick of all they have availiable, with the explicit rule that it your copy is found for sale after you be fined and blacklisted from all future sales of any product.
thank god i watched this video, managed to snatch the last Art of horus heresy.. didnt know there was a new art book!
I don’t think the price of warhammer is that high. My town most shops are now shut due to not making having enough money to stay open. If these prices allow my local store to stay open so people can get together and play. Its alllllll goodd
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 good sarcasm
Open Pre-Orders - print the amount of books needed to meet the number of Pre-Orders (whilst limiting to one per person)
Good deep cut on the turbo man reference.
Sadly, while there is money to be earned, consumers are unlikely to change the way they conduct the behavior. If scalpers buy the items, they still get their money.
FOMO and 'Sunk Fallacy' are dangerous for consumers. They know it. They exploit it. I do hope you can manage to affect some form of change!
And thank you, as always, for the effort that goes into these videos!
It king of reminds me of the collectable comic market way back in the 90s, that went well.
"... yet" Love it!!!
Facts look at charnel throne and Loonshrine ive seen them go for 2x to 3x the price on 2nd hand places
I'ts not a bug, it's a feature. Scalpers drive the FOMO that GW thrives upon
I hate the scalpers. They wrecked my intent to get all the boarding patrols i wanted to collect. That almost made quit my warhammer addiction... and I've been collecting since 1989. Your pretty much on the ball, thanks. Oh at some point Someone new will be the Successor...because of the hobby aspect. Man it was like you got to know the creators. Love your Snarkyness!!.
Took me almost 2 years to obtain 2 boxes of kill team kasrkins for the retail prices . Just absurd
Thid is a classic Problem- Fear Reaction - Solution method.
1. Create the "Problem"
2. Generate fear reaction (F.O.M.O.)
3. Control pre-planned outcome.
REPEAT ! ! !
Governments have been using this method for centuries.
By time you buy a decent army you could just buy a 3d printer and print your own with leftovers. Seems like it makes more sense to just do that instead of pay overpriced cost of buying models from games workshop.
3d printer only have so many hours tell they fail . Resin is a messy expense and it's not as good as plastic to kitbash . But it is super fun to print out your own stuff
Printers aren't always a option , many people live in areas where they couldn't realistically set up a printer
Limited window "print on demand" would severely reduce scalpers whilst also allowing for a small and manageable amount of FOMO (to create a "limited" feeling of exclusivity/rarity).
For example:
Space Marine Death Angel Primaris Lieutenant Extremis Ultra, AUD$80, Single Character: Available for pre-order for a 1 month period. Schedule for release in 6 months.
I didn’t even bother checking in Wednesday. I remember the original story in WD.
Annoyingly I had the Ork Codex hardback edition and now I have moved home I can now not find it anywhere and after a quick search online I found it for sale on a reputable seller who is selling it for £100 and I was just about to buy into the concept of 40k and taking the Green Tide into the WAAAAAGH! but I am not going to buy it again because it’s the quickest way to find the one I already have 😢
edit:
Am I a part of the problem as I have a pink iPhone? If so I didn’t know that and I am sorry 😔
I was looking to purchase a custodes blade champion, when i start to look was the same price the miniature or the joytoy figure, that says a lot
Printed loads of Leviathan boxes.....but only took 4 copies to G-Mex for the demo games.
Agree on all point. Also, yer hair game is on point the day ya filed this one.
Only a supervillain would deny being a supervillain…
This is so stupidly simple to fix, merchants have done it for centuries: "Limit 1 per customer", is not that hard.
i don't get why companies let this happen. There is no value to them to limit the copy of the collector edition. It upsets customers, it ruins experience, people will and do walk away and not participate in the future, for what? Just do pre-orders, fill the people who preorder that collectible. Let the rest of the folks buy regular, profit. Weird.
From what l've seen most of those who buy the latest thing are those that chase the meta.
My mates and l still use set we bought from second edition models ( gotta love metal sisters) through third ( black templars, fourth and fifth ultrameanies) to sixth Dark Angels.
Yes we have primaris but only those we picked up in the Indomitus set and magazines to Leviathan.
We don't chase the meta, we have fun.
I gave up on the Horus Heresy books years ago. Shortly after on The Black Library as a whole. Their products are over priced. The juice isn't worth the squeeze. If I were still into gaming (I walked away from that too in the end) I'd be buying a 3D printer and building my own models.
GW love to use scalpers as a scapegoat.
Make the product so we can buy the product, it's not rocket science.
Also what's this 3rd edition remaster game all about?
To GW, scalpers are a feature, not a bug
10AM more like 2AM in Australia
This didn't come true though did it? I got my copy easily, and it was still on sale for some time after going live.
Why would Games Workshop even do limited runs like this when they know the demand is so insane!?
just started my first army(Kreig) all 3d printed not getting any thing else
Thanks, for the stream.
I seem to recall that GW themselves said in an article on war comm, maybe early last year or 2022, that scalping wasn't as big a problem as we thought. But I guess that opinion changed. Though it makes me wonder if it's convenient to blame scalpers.
I'm not sure we can hang all the responsibility for a solution on GW. Everyone wants this de-regulated market but not the consequences. Things like Air B&B, though good in some ways, are proving to also be a pariah on communities. And in the case of scalping I'm thinking of how we all want to be able to buy internationally to get the best deal, avoid taxes, and so on - and while those platforms are good, they also provide a way for scalpers to easily sell their product.
Certainly, there are things GW can likely do, but if they make a strict system, then a percentage of true fans will miss out and scalpers who are more likely to have the savvy to 'rort the system' will still get their product (as has been seen recently).
I think it is probably unfair to lay all the responsibility for change on GW. I think it is a bigger problem than that. It will require GW to sort out their stock issues. Rethink their levels of production for limited edition considering they are a world wide company (6000 is too limited considering the size of the player base). But, it does require consumers to be responsible and refuse to buy from scalpers. And as this issue seems to affect more than just GW, I suspect a true solution will require some government attention to create more up-to-date anti-scalping laws which are actually enforced.
This kind of stuff is actually making GW seem like an unreliable company. And so, I am hesitant, for example, to get any Old World because I can't trust GW to actually come through with a functioning supported game. I hesitate to buy into smaller games because, like Aeronautica, they might just suddenly and unceremoniously vanish.
How about limiting orders for limited runs to one at a time. After you get your one, you have to queue again. Would that slow down the scalpers?
3:10 okay, just so we’re on the same page the 2,500 signed copies of the book is like absurdly low volume compared to community demand. Almost no one was going to get these. 😅
Sell rare items only through the physical stores.
1. Gives advantage to people who have a relationship within the store. "Regular Customers"
2. If the store scalps product, it helps them to stay open longer. Not ideal, but relatively ositive outcome.
3. Produce copies of rare items for every GW employee who wants to buy them. This prevents internal demand from affecting customer service. Serial number items in order to track abuse. Worse case, an employee is scalping, but also supplementing their income and working harder to stay at GW. Harder worker equals better service/product.
Just some thought off the top. Great content! Keep up the wonderful work.
Selling limited items through physical store only will just send people who don't have easy access to a physical store straight to the resellers, which is the one thing we really don't need being encouraged if we want the reseller problem to get better.
@@phoenixofmetal Admiitedly, you are correct. I'm lucky in that there are a number of shops with GW product nearby. Perhaps, its the balancing of which solution has the least abuse and going that way. There are people who will go to a local store selling certain Legos or action figures, pay retail and list them on eBay. Not sure how successful they are, but if a solution could help promote more visits to hobby shops, perhaps the demand would increase the number of stores and make things more accessible.
GW could also limit realease for a year (or some determined time) and then open sales to be no longer limited. Obviously, it wouldn't work for autographed stuff, but there will always be an exploitable weak spot.
#smaug
#deathstar
You are a great orator 🎉
Do another segment on alternate brand options.
Scalping will only end when people decide that they don't need whatever they're selling, after all. When the scalpers are stuck with a house full of miniatures, books, and game consoles that no one will buy, the scapers will have to find a new (hopefully legitimate) source of income.
Scalping is a direct result of GW's ethos, pricing policy, FOMO encouraging and low volume release dipshit marketing policy
Personally, I just want limited items, like the Christmas Battleforces to be made to order for a certain period of time so that everyone who wants it can get it at least for the already high GW prices.
However, at this point it may be too late, because those who care about the books already got free PDFs online and those who care about building certain armies at a discount might already have discovered 3D printing. Personally, I'm about to go full Ork with a bunch of "trash" I collected over the last years to make the cheapest army I had yet.
Even unsigned books are hit. I wanted the gray nights omnibus and it's going for like 100$
This is why I only stick to books and video games for consoles when in comes to 40k
GW: Don't buy from scalpers
Me: Stop the fucking limiting of products!
It's just another thing that's getting the life sucked out of it for the all mighty investors.
After watching this video I have only one question left unanswered and it is neither who is the real culprit of scalpers taking everything nor what the solution to this problem would be. What the hell is a Dark Eldar?