Are those prices true?
- Thread starter Lone Gunman
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2nd_ed_hiffano said:
Which is the point, really. We had a lot of complaints from UK gamers about how our models were cheaper in the US than over here. They had a point - there has to be a penalty for having such a weak currency, and while it may only be CTA models today, tomorrow it may be all sorts of things.
Complete parity is not possible on all things, even in the Mongoose range, but where we can do it, we will.
Lord David the Denied
Mongoose
Should have dropped our prices instead of hiking theirs... :wink:
Lord David the Denied said:
We certainly considered it - that suggestion was right up there with giving everyone a crisp ten pound note. We would have been better off!
Surely the UK prices should represent the production cost plus the distribution cost plus any other costs, added on to a healthy margin for Mongoose and distributors/resellers? And the US price should represent the same, but with different production/distribution costs?
Raising US prices to stop UK people complaining, sounds like price gouging to me.
Raising US prices to stop UK people complaining, sounds like price gouging to me.
Shadow Queen
Mongoose
I have seen prices go up and down like a yoyo, just the other day i was paying for the shopping 70p for a brick of butter.
They said its the price of wheat, But Cows dont eat wheat.
its the Pound £ Vs. the US $ its the money value right Matt??
They said its the price of wheat, But Cows dont eat wheat.
its the Pound £ Vs. the US $ its the money value right Matt??
Shadow Queen
Mongoose
to put on toast .... men what a pain in the butt.....
Lord David the Denied
Mongoose
Burger said:
Been in the knife box, Burger?
Shadow Queen
Mongoose
2nd_ed_hiffano said:
How is your mothership Hiff??
Anybody using euros € ? ;-)
For guys here wherever it comes from it is always a matter of $ or £.
We are getting used to see prices changing up and down each time one of
these currency exchange rate is changing (versus €).
If your currency is low lot of people are going to buy your goods and if it's high you are the one able to buy. It's a kind of tradeoff you cannot win on both side.
Let's say next time you'll be the one getting cheap minis ;-)
Without changing producing costs and margin it seems difficult to drop prices just to "adjust" currency rate pbm. (even if we all would like it of course
)
For guys here wherever it comes from it is always a matter of $ or £.
We are getting used to see prices changing up and down each time one of
these currency exchange rate is changing (versus €).
If your currency is low lot of people are going to buy your goods and if it's high you are the one able to buy. It's a kind of tradeoff you cannot win on both side.
Let's say next time you'll be the one getting cheap minis ;-)
Without changing producing costs and margin it seems difficult to drop prices just to "adjust" currency rate pbm. (even if we all would like it of course
)
2nd_ed_hiffano said:the mould is being re-done to hollow it out, seems a full metal one weighs as much as a a big lump of, well, metal
It also had a tendency to warp - and you can bet, after all this time, we are going to be giving Hiff a pristine Mothership, hand-wrapped by Claudia Christian, and presented on Andrea Thompson's thigh*
* Miss Christian and Miss Thompson may not be included in this presentation. Void where prohibited. Narn need not apply.
Burger said:
Except that distribution in the US, even if you actually _produce_ the models in the US, tends to be more expensive anyway.
This is something that is causing us a great deal of headaches with our books right now, and we are looking at a major shake up in the way we trade with America. As things stand, it is barely worth our while (in a financial sense - we have no intention of abandoning our fans across the Atlantic, whatever the PTB do).
Lone Gunman
Mongoose
Not a nice trend.
The Avenger went from 9,95 to 17,95,
the Nova from 12,95 to 17,95,
the Sagittarius from 8,95 also to 17,95 as most other ships of the same levels.
I have to pay in €, so the prices are $ = € at no discount or anything. And to pay between 30 to 50% more for the same miniature is not a good option. Seems like the radom pricing of another British miniature producer with the lotr license. Don't get me wrong, as metal prices increases so the minis who are produce have a right to, but a gross rise in this scale?
I think I'll buy less miniatures at this rates. Sorry, but as most mould did not change I don't see a reason to pay this dramatically increased prices, nor have a possibility to due to my real live.
The Avenger went from 9,95 to 17,95,
the Nova from 12,95 to 17,95,
the Sagittarius from 8,95 also to 17,95 as most other ships of the same levels.
I have to pay in €, so the prices are $ = € at no discount or anything. And to pay between 30 to 50% more for the same miniature is not a good option. Seems like the radom pricing of another British miniature producer with the lotr license. Don't get me wrong, as metal prices increases so the minis who are produce have a right to, but a gross rise in this scale?
I think I'll buy less miniatures at this rates. Sorry, but as most mould did not change I don't see a reason to pay this dramatically increased prices, nor have a possibility to due to my real live.
