Not really sure why it would cost more overall. I’m an Australia and when I buy from the UK they take off the 20% VAT. Assuming Americans also lose the VAT (which they do) even a 10% Tariff means they’re still paying less than the locals are.

So all the companies saying “Sorry guys you need to pay more” are actually just saying “Sorry guys your 20% discount just became only 10%”.

using other distributors is kind of how they finally ‘solved’ the Brexit issues …

Heck, it’s how car companies got around similar concepts ages ago. Ship the parts to Europe/USA and do final assembly (or whatever they can get away with) there. You think Coca Cola actually ships bottled cola across the world ? (they don’t)

However it does require these (small/one man) operations work together as they don’t have the scale to do this on their own.

@elessar2590 a ‘loss’ of a discount is still an increase in price for the consumer. It’s very rare for a company to simply eat the costs. A few kickstarters might do this as a ‘reward’ for their backers if they’ve got the funds, but most companies will simply pass the cost to the customer.

Buying from the US to the UK is even worse. After the shipping (which is ridiculous no matter which country you are in), you THEN get hit with a 20% “import duty” (or the government charges VAT on good coming into the UK). BUT if you haven’t paid the import duty when paying for your order (which is then paid by the international vendor, more on that later), you then get hit with another £18-£25 (depending the carrier) “handling fee” (to collect the VAT from you). It gets even more mind boggling once you find out that all vendors outside the UK MUST set up an account with HMRC (so even sellers in the US), and then PAY HMRC the VAT/import duty on each order if they are trading in the UK on a regular basis (I really don’t get this part), making a financial and administrative hurdle for the transaction to go through (even some of the smaller US and Canadian vendors have stopped sales to the UK). They then can claim the VAT/import duty back from HMRC at the end of the tax year (as VAT isn’t applicable on goods outside the UK (although the import duty paid by the UK customer is, and can not be claimed back)), meaning the UK government can sit on these charges for anything up to a year before paying back the international vendor. So basically sending from the UK to the US the US customer pays 10% less than the UK customer and sending from the US to the UK the UK customer pays 20% more than the US customer. You got to love BREXIT, and the fact that the Politicos that clamoured for it to happen had absolutely no plans for “how” they were going to do it (the current system for imports and exports being a mess, rushed into place and confusing to all involved (I’m hoping I got my facts right, although I’m probably wrong, but then I have been hit for 20% import duties and “handling charges” multiple times) 🙁

As I was told once playing soccer as a kid, after getting carded, “Attack the ball and not the player”.

The political decisions made impact business which then come down to my wallet. International business is in upheaval and our hobby industry is being hit without any buffers to it. Being in the US I’ve come to terms with any figures that I buy of interest are generally made outside my country. All of this comes at a cost to me and this niche market just gets to be more expensive.

No one is crying foul on the behalf of GW as we generally have a collective bitch session on that company. The herd of devotees to that brand will see more pain all over and analysis/opinions can be spouted like projectile diarrhea from a collective prolapsed anus into the void ad nauseum.

It is the indies that are hurt by a cost of doing business with US customers that have a demand for hobby and entertainment. US gamers will lose  out on knowing the rest of the world and the global gaming community now. I see the US is on track with Oz to see minis being more niche and needing to find ways of dealing with the demand of gamers.

It sucks on all fronts and makes me ask, how can we keep gaming from being a thing of the past?

GW is eating the costs. Business and prices as usual.

for now. Let’s face it they’d be raising prices eventually anyway. Years of price increases to fuel profitability has left them a nice buffer to be able to look good vs indies who have much lower profit margins. They’ll have their price increases in due course.