Reply To: Shopping on Temu

[Wolfie65 1272xp 0]

@limburger – If you truly believe the things I have listed are ‘conspiracy theories’, you must live in a very, very dark hole under a lot of rocks. Time to pull your head out of the sand and smell the coffee.

Far from ‘whining’ about GW, I am simply stating facts. While their business model was always very aggressive, it wasn’t always monopolistic, White Dwarf even ran ads and reviews of other companies’ products in the beginning, believe it or not. You used to be able to special order all kinds of parts and oop miniatures from the Mail Order Trolls, IIRC, they stopped that practice sometime in the early Noughties. Citadel miniatures and GW games were never cheap – even in the very beginning in the late ’70s when Minifigs, Ral Partha, Grenadier, TSR and Avalon Hill were the biggest names in the hobby – but they didn’t turn into outright highway robbery until they quit making metal miniatures and replaced them with all-plastics, which cost MORE than the metal ones…….something I find patently ridiculous. I am always glad that I have never lived anywhere where there was an official GW store, because I have a feeling that visiting one might be worse than going to FEMA-Mart (formerly known as Walmart) or the mall…..

Are there toxic substances in the Dragon suncatchers I bought from Temu ? The 3D printed miniatures ? The little leather-bound notebook I now have on my painting desk ? I don’t know, I guess I’ll find out when I get desperate enough to eat them….