I think he's pointing out the price changes in the last _5_ years. Nothing=
else has gone up that steep in his list.
I was fortunate enough to get 2 W=
arhost boxes for Eldar just before they ripped SM/TL from the market, howev=
er I still want more of certain troops but am not going to EVER buy their n=
ew infantry boxes unless there is going to be a drastic price change.
Cyril=
Crocker
Dragon Slayer
dslayer_at_...
-----Original Message-----=
From: Mark A Shieh [SMTP:SHODAN+_at_...]
Sent: Monday, November 10, 1997 =
12:44 PM
To: space-marine_at_...
Subject: Re: [Epic] what's in the new b=
oxes ?
"Miller, Chris" <CMiller_at_...> writes:
> >> That's right, you=
get 1 sprue of whatever, where as the previous boxes, =
> >> you got 5 s=
prues for just a bit more. Something seems wring here to me.
> >> Cyril Cr=
ocker
> >> Dragon Slayer
> >> dslayer_at_...
> >
> > While GW=
prices are high, they aren't *this* bad (yet). It's
> >1 sprue, but it is=
twice as big. And 50% is more than just a bit
> >more, IMHO...
> >
> >Bef=
ore: After:
> >5 sprues for $15 2 sprues worth=
for $10
> >
> >So it's only a 66% markup, not a 5x markup. Besides, the E=
ldar
> >Warhost comes with these 5 NEAT NEW WARP SPIDERS!!! AND 2 NEW
> >P=
SYKERS!!! AND A 35 NEW GUARDIANS!!!! THAT'S 42 NEW MODELS FOR ONLY
> >$10=
!
>
> -----> Actually I remember when it was 10 sprues for 10$ (later $12.=
50)
> and 20 sprues for
> 20$, so the "before price" was 3 times the cost a=
nd the current one is 5
> times the price,
> and this was not THAT long ag=
o (up til 1991-2).
Me too, but I'm was thinking of the latest markup, not =
the total
markup over the years.
> Am I paying 5 times as much for movie t=
ickets?
There used to be $1 second run, mom+pop movie theaters a while
ba=
ck. They've all gone the way of the 21 movie-mega-super-theaters.
So price=
s have gone up 5x. Just not quite as quickly, and it's just
as much the fa=
ult of the consumer in this case.
> Computer Games ?
You're paying for o=
ver 5x the man-hours though. In the old
days, computer games were written =
by one person and cranked out in
under a year. Today's games are much flas=
hier and more complicated,
and this doesn't necessarily make them better, b=
ut you are buying more
work. They hire artists now too, which helps. :) C=
oders usually have
better things to do than try to draw icons.
> Books?
W=
hen I was little (I forget how little, unfortunately), paperbacks
were a do=
llar or two. Before that, they were a quarter or less,
though the timeline=
is really fuzzy to me. The prices stopped going
up rapidly a few years ag=
o, but for a while, they were going up pretty
quickly. Paper was undervalu=
ed for a long time. I don't think this
is as much the case with the plasti=
c, but it could be true to a
certain extent. At any rate, I definitely use=
d to pay less for
paperbacks, and my parents may have spent 1/30 of what th=
e cost now
when they bought them 20-30 years ago. It's fun digging through=
the
collection, anyway.
> (who seems to remember that the whole point of =
the plastic minis was
> that they were "less expensive to make, enabling pl=
ayers to collect
> sizeable armies" etc etc. Wonder where that concept went=
?)
Dunno. While they're sure going up *faster* than anything
else I can =
think of off the top of my head, it's not like everything
else has been sta=
nding still too. I'm starting to reach the point,
happily, that I'm beginn=
ing to trade for minis more than buy them.
Ditched some Battlemasters Chaos=
for Megagargants and Titan weapons
recently. I've always wanted a Corvus =
Assault Head. :)
But plastic hasn't appealed to me for a while, though I'=
m
always a sucker for box sets. (stuff like the E40k box, not the
Tyranid =
Swarm box)
Mark
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