Danny, you can't help yourself can you.
Well. I
did come here to say RuleBritannia's comment was very poorly worded, and could be interpreted as rudeness.
Then this above came from the supposedly professional head of a million-pound sterling operation. I expect remarks based on personality to come from underlings in large companies ( As the whole "Anyone who dislikes our direction of product line must have severe mental issues" style remarks, which I
know have come from Wayland/Warcradle staff ), neverthless the top management is expected to perform to a higher standard
surely. Rich1231, did they not teach you the old adage at school " Play the ball, not the man/player"? Especially when you may well consider that person to be some doolalay stig? One wonders if you went to one of those dreadful Incomprehensives instead of a decent place
However, that behaviour aside, I find it very odd you shoudl be so flippant about such a grevious pricing error; Suppose that had happened on your Age of Sigmar listing online- Would you still be so sanguine about it? Even if the Warcradle Classic line isn't a huge seller, you've lost some large amount of money on the deal - For one trivial example, the Kingdom of Britannia Peregrine dive bombers, one of the items that went up in that infamous GBP1.00 lot, would probably have fetched about the price of a Merlin each ( GBP 2.80). Now, I
didn't take a screen shot of the catalog at that point, but if memory serves me well, there were about 12 units available of this item; So, if my maths is correct, instead of receiving GBP 33.60 ( Yes, I
know that's not all profit, what with VAT, etc - bear with me ) the total loss of the sellout ( And they
DID sell out, did they not? ) was 33.60 minus 12.00 or GBP 21.60.
Maybe that's a mere bagatelle of loss for a company the size of Wayland, however, it has been my experience that the larger the company, the more closely they look at even the smallest losses. So, you'll forgive me if I find your statement a bit rum from that point of view.
And from another point of view - How would such an error even occur in what is constantly being described as "The leading mail order games company in Europe"? My own business requires that all client reports are checked twice - Manually on written sheets, and again on the computer when being transcribed - before being passed on to clients. Errors are caught at those stages and corrected. And should a major error occur after all that, well . . . A written warning would be pretty much
automatic for the person responsible. Not a flippant "Oh Dear how sad never mind" approach as seems to be here.
In either event, the system there looks to be lacking in the level of quailty control and quality assurance that the plethora of excellent reviews on the web would suggest.
As to the popularity or otherwise of the Warcradle Classics, there are some other issues I woudl raise, while I have your ear, Rich1231. I'll preamble them with recorded facts then ask each -
1. The releases of each wave of reissued models was announced all over the web in 2018, and with much fanfare. However, this was true only until November 2018 with Wave VIII, after which the only way to find what was newly up was to go to the store itself; At that point, there were about 170 Dystopian Wars products*. There are currently some 353 products "available to order" - Not all of which are in stock - on the website now, meaning fractionally under
half the items produced and available were advertised publically. ( I won;t count the ones that have been removed or have sold out, I have no accurate figures). QUESTION ONE; Why stop advertising when new items were still coming on line to be sold? One could say "Good money after bad" but one can counter with "Recoup losses with a small effort" since web advertising is a relatively minor cost.
2. The majority of the GBP1.00 miniatures were highly sought-after items in the main - Mostly Kickstarter items; The Peregrine as mentioned, the last Covenent of Antarctica items including the Menedalus repair vessel ( Which I know a person paid the equivalent of GBP151.00 for not two weeks earlier on eBay, and that was not a high price according to WorthPoint.com ), and a slew of rare items like two of the larger Republic Of Egypt vessels, having which makes the still-available escorts finally
worth purchasing. Beofre the Facebook fan pages were
purged saved from negativity, the pricing of the Classics was much discussed - Both which items had gone
down in price compared to Sp*rt*n and which increased; There's an old joke about the divorced wife who sells her ex-husband's car for a ridiculously small cost, because the money is going to him; It's practically a legend. So QUESTION TWO; From an outside standpoint, and bearing in mind the earlier details can be found on the web about the value of these models, would an unbiased observer
not question whether something odd is happening?
That's all I have to say on the matter for the nonce.
*And while with the launch of New Improved DW 3.0 certainly justifies dumping the older models if such be the intention, will the Firestorm:Aramada classics get the same treatment at the same time, despite the fact that your announcement recently suggests it could be several
years before replacement miniatures and new rules see the light for
that?
