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limburger
you say ‘GW is ripping off people’ … but how sure are we about that ?
Without a breakdown of costs and their margins you can’t be sure.
For all we know they do a pretty damned good job at setting a price that is reasonable for the amount of effort involved (and the overhead they have). I wished they made better games, because I know they can do it if they wanted to but I also know that isn’t what they are here for.
These copycats can afford to sell at 1/3 cost *because* they didn’t need to pay someone to create the original design and do the work to turn that into a mini that could be produced at scale. Let’s not ignore that there is a huge difference between a design that you can print a few items of and one that needs to produced in the thousands with zero human control …
Temu and Alibaba (Etsy. Ebay and Amazon as well because there are plenty of questionable source on there as well) have done nothing to protect consumers from buying things from sources that have rather questionable ethics. They rely on things being soo cheap that the cost of sueing them quickly outstrips any losses on our end.
One cannot compete against a platform that saves cost by ignoring quality control and copyright laws (to say nothing about worker rights …), because anything you do by following the law will always be more expensive.
btw: if you were into the hobby before GW existed then you ought to know what GW does what it does … so you really shouldn’t be surprised that they sell minis with games attached (unlike other companies …).
We should not need to go over descriptions in webshops with a magnifying glass to spot the lawyer speak that allows them to sell something that was never meant to be the thing the title claimed it was.
Yes it is ‘ha ha’ funny when someone sells the empty box of some expensive item to someone you dislike for whatever reason.
It’s not funny when that buyer is an elder relative who got duped simply because she wanted to buy something nice for her kids.
We need consumer protection to help those who can’t protect themselves from falling into these traps.
And that includes the future versions of us as well …
And we as a community need to look out for our fellow beings as that helps us all.
/rant
