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| Tweet Topic Started: 5th September 2007 - 11:06 AM (1,341 Views) | |
| Mallekha the Overwhelmer | 5th September 2007 - 11:06 AM Post #1 |
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Civil War's Sneakiest Player of 'em All
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Hi, I've just received a letter in my mailbox this morning from my local reatil store, to say that they are closing down. Due to GW, in a way. Let me explain how they said it. Due to dissapointing sames, and becuase of the gain margin that dropped alot lately due to rising prices, they don't get enough money to cope. It's the biggest store in my area, they have the whole gamma of GW products next to alot of other things (mostly roleplay and board games). Now they are going online. This sucks alot man. Even though i didn't go there alot to buy stuf because of the prices, i went there for the atmosphere and since there is no GW store in Antwerp, that was the next best thing. Is this something that happens everywhere? That store had the biggest stock of GW roducts and still they can't cope because GW gets too damn greedy. Way to go to lose your consumer base. In a couple of years we'll all be just a bunch of geeks who can only buy our products in front of our screen. Yay community. Sorry for the rant, but have you gotten independent stores near you closed aswell due to this? |
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| Bodacious | 5th September 2007 - 11:14 AM Post #2 |
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We had 2 independant stores in Eindhoven close a few years ago, but that was mainly due to bad management on the side of the shopkeepers. Now we have only 1 store left that sells games (with games I mean miniature games, board games, card games, etc). The store started out as a mailorder company and as a place that hosted tournaments and stuff, but now that all the customers from the old stores have flocked their way they've started focussing more on selling miniature games. They've been smart though and have chosen to stock up on the full range of privateer press games instead of GW products. They've got the whole customer base playing warmachine now and allthough they've still got GW available through mail-order, the store stores nothing from them except the most basic boxes. But yeah, the situations dire.. I really hope GW cleans up their act soon before it's too late. Cheers, Bodacious. |
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| Acrux | 5th September 2007 - 11:27 AM Post #3 |
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There used to be 3 independent stores within a 40 minute drive of me and 2 GW's within an hour. Thats relatively close for me out here in the sticks. Within the last year/year and a half or so they have all closed down. Luckily for me another store close by just started carrying warhammer a couple months ago. He doesn't keep alot of stock but will order anything for you. The only reason that he can make it is because hes not really a game store. It's just a small store that happens to have warhammer because the owner plays. He looses money having the GW stuff there. Hopefully they figure it out before its too late. Acrux |
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| Skaven Lord Vinshqueek | 5th September 2007 - 11:34 AM Post #4 |
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There are currently (still) two retail stores in Leiden, which is about ten kilometres away from where I live and the only stores in the region that are 'worth visiting' in regard to the range of products they're selling. One of them is for the past months simply selling off their entire Games Workshop products range (with discount sometimes, though I'm not too sure on that one), as the shop(s) simply can't any longer make a living by selling those products. Therefor, you suddenly see an influx of Mongoose Publishing, Privateer Press and Rackham products, next to RPG games. (Still sucks there are so few Specialist Games gamers in that shop). It is however quite a common thing in the Netherlands to see shops trying to minimize the Games Workshop stock and instead offer the service of mailordering stuff, as they need to ensure people remain visiting their store to buy the newest stuff that is released from various companies. Greetz |
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| Blood Vixen | 5th September 2007 - 12:46 PM Post #5 |
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the only one on the isle of wight that ha dgaming tables closed down because of it now if i want to go to a game place i gotta spend 20 mins getting to the boat a hour on the boat and another 30 mins getting to the gw and then its about £60 return for the bloody boat) so basically im in the process of tarting up a evening club once a week to get my gaming in
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| Mebob | 5th September 2007 - 03:16 PM Post #6 |
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I've enver really been to many stores that stocked Warhammer stuff (apart from GW) so i don't know much about them in my area.. Except for one that was in Birkenhead about 1 or 2 years ago a friend shown me. It was small and welcoming, the store owner there was very very helpful gave me quite a few terrain and modeling tips even when he knew i wasn't going to buy anything.... I didn't go there often so i'm not sure what happend to it. All i know is that its not there anymore. So i'm presuming it closed down I agree with Bodacious Gw really need to sort themselves out quickly, there loosing interest fast and are making it worse for themselves. In a couple of years time if GW doesn't change, then warhammer will probably never be half as big as it was. |
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| Morkskittar | 5th September 2007 - 03:28 PM Post #7 |
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There used to be six or seven in my area.... now there are three, and when of them had to downsize and move. The one I go to, about 15 minutes away, has been de-emphasizing GW products lately, even though their games are their favorites, but the store is still going relatively strong,. although they are losing some money over GW.... Pillz |
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| Mallekha the Overwhelmer | 5th September 2007 - 05:13 PM Post #8 |
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Civil War's Sneakiest Player of 'em All
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hmm so it seems it happens everywhere aswell. For me what bums me out the most is that the store has always been there, i read that they had first opened in december 1988... shame they are closing down. |
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| semi-normal | 6th September 2007 - 10:08 AM Post #9 |
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So they close down because of disappointing sales AND you don't buy anything there... hmmm... are you sure it was Games Workshop and Games Workshop alone that closed down the store? Could it possibly be that the locals did not support their local store? Maybe you need to learn to stop blaming GW for all the wrongs in you life and take a good hard look at your own actions All this and you say they are going online... you just need to get used to the fact that they are changing their business model to suit their local customer base. I mean they are obviously not getting any sales from the people who are visiting their store so they might as well close the store. |
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| scrivener | 6th September 2007 - 11:36 AM Post #10 |
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My conspiracy of the Nemesis Crown being a geographical activity survey continues.... :ph43r: I do understand why they're doing it, though. GW isn't the kind of store where you just walk in for some window shopping and buy stuff on whim. And their effective customer-gathering methods wouldn't be by attracting kids to walk in and deciding to join up. They are changing their business model, cutting down on fixed costs while finding methods that still provide the same availability of products. I don't think anyone was blaming GW for all the wrongs in our lives, though? I don't think I've yet started blaming GW for failed romances, crap jobs or bad hair days.
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| .:WarWolt The Mad Engineer:. | 6th September 2007 - 11:52 AM Post #11 |
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"With this Childrens TCG card I will rule the world"
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Tradition used to sell alot of awesome roleplay, miniature games and cardgames and that kind of stuff. Mostly GW. Now it sells only TV games. And this is in whole of sweden.. |
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| Mallekha the Overwhelmer | 6th September 2007 - 12:24 PM Post #12 |
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of course i don't buy anything anymore from stores because its so damn expensive. Don't get me wrong, i do want to support the store, and did so by going to thei rorganised tournies and events (that required payment!!!) but buying minis - no no. That's exactly what they say. They don't blame their customer base for their dissapointing sales, because franky i can't help it. I have a limited amount of money for my hobby and free time, but what i don't have is 35€ for one unit box. It used to be almost half of wha tit costs now, but im not getting into a price rise rant right now. Their price margin is too small for them to cope, thats what they said. Its not my fault that GW ups their prices so that i can't buy anything. I did however try to support the store whenever i could, so don't go blaming and pointing at people when you don't know what is happening. And also, people don't just go to the store to buy things. Have you ever been to a store? It's all about getting to know people, playing pick up games, chatting about th hobby you like, and having fun. People even used to go to the store to just talk to the owner 'cause he was excellent, or just to go and paint there, because they have all the paints available for everyone. No, it's not just about buying mini's, sir. |
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| Mebob | 6th September 2007 - 01:30 PM Post #13 |
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Could i jsut add something to that. Your saying they're closing down of disappointing sales and the fact people arn't buying there, which is causing their disappointingly sales (its practically the same thing, so i don't know why you've listed it twice..) But you have to look at the reasons why noone buying things from there. If we go back, way way back to when i just started the hobby as a child, a regiment box of 16-20 models was a lovely #12. Now my parents complained to me that #12 for a bit of plastic was too expensive and tried to convince me out of the hobby into a cheaper one. So with people believing #12 to be fairly expensive for the models would act as a deterrent to people buying them. When they were upped to #15, thats even worse, more people feel its too expensive everyone else grumbles and carries on. Then it became #18, thats when most of my gaming friends dropped out of the hobby, out of 5 only two still play, and both of us buy alot less than we used to, therefore we spend less money on GW products. When Gamesworkshop then began bringing out more new releases at #12 for 10 and #20 for 20. Now any idiot can see this has increased well beyond inflation (provided the idiot knows what inflation is). So due to the increases of the prices our already expensive hobby is even more expensive and with each price hike more and more people quit the hobby alltogether, and many more simply can't afford to buy as much as they used to, therefore thier profits decrease, Gamesworkshop suffer, and the people selling their products suffer because people are no longer buying them. All in all looking at this at face value, gamesworkshop are to blame for closing down Mellekha's local retail store along with many others On another note slightly on topic: when companies begin loosing money and less people buy their products don't they lower the prices to encourage more spending? Looks like gamesworkshops done the opposite. |
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| Sebrent | 6th September 2007 - 02:09 PM Post #14 |
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Yeah, with how much cheaper you can get things online, many small stores (which many gaming stores are) are being closed down. It's just a product of the way people are purchasing things these days. Many of you have any advocated and/or admitted this about buying online. Games Workshop doesn't help this much, but they feel the effects of it too (think about Ebay). It's not just other gaming stores closing either. In Nashville, TN (20 miles south of my hometown) the Games Workshop store in the Opry Mills Mall (one of the largest malls in the US) closed. Now, if you're in one of the largest malls in the US, a highly trafficked area, and having to close, that says something about your customer base. I think that something is that many Games Workshop customers are shifting to buying online and not always from Games Workshop. |
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| General Vorg | 6th September 2007 - 08:59 PM Post #15 |
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adding onto stories about GW being stupid... ...There was a store called CyberCafe, really cool place. The upstairs was for tournies, the mainpart looked like a GW store but with every miniture from every miniture game ever (and every card game ever), also, there was a fast food reserterant in it (called CyberCafe for a reason). I love that place, I used to play YuGiOh in there when i was 10, then when i was 12 some guys were playing warhammer fantasty, and Ive been playing ever since (3 years). But sadly, they shutoff all of their GW products, cuz it was to expensive... Now I was angry about this, but you have to give GW a break. Theyre losing money. Im sure that theres a whole bitch load of issues down at the GW HQ. So I know that they have valid reasons for rasing the prices. This may be bad for us, but I'd rather have an expensive clanrat regiment than no regiment at all squeeks |
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and then its about £60 return for the bloody boat) so basically im in the process of tarting up a evening club once a week to get my gaming in






I don't think I've yet started blaming GW for failed romances, crap jobs or bad hair days.
