Reply To: Indomitus alocations to stores is already "sold out" world wide

[phaidknott 7023xp 2]

@Bubbles I don’t think it’s a “GW should be a charity” issue here. It’s actually more “if” you want to buy the product at the price specified you can’t because GW like doing these “limited” marketing ploys using FOMO to drive sales.

Sure it make GREAT sense for GW (means you don’t have to keep inventory on the shelves), however it DOESN’T make great sense for the poor customer (you are now jumping through hoops to buy when GW feel like doing so). It causes frustration for the customer (and great consternation for the FLGS as they only get one chance to order and can have customers getting mad at them if they take a pre-order but GW start to “ration” the supplies which means they can not fulfil the order to the customer).

If they would just stop it with the limited/FOMO marketing tricks and just released stuff as a catalogue code for a STANDARD edition (with no fancy FOMO gimicks/products in the box) then customers and retailers would probably be happier.

It’s not like GW really need to market these things nowadays (they practically sell themselves), but they do seem to be treating customers as a dumb smuck. who can be lead with a carrot on a stick and will jump as high a GW want us too (alas some of the customers are getting tired/frustraited at this treatment). Just take my money and give me the stuff, why does it have to be so hard to buy something?