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Post by enternalvoid on Dec 30, 2015 17:37:53 GMT -6
Apparently with Fantasy Flights merger being announced some info has come out from the new CEO. Most of it is that Fantasy Flight will remain a fairly independent element in the company as it has been doing its job well but apparently one of the things hit on was the Online distributing system for the games. Fantasy Flight had allowed online retailers to deal with them directly and because of it get a fairly decent discount, thus why online prices for X-Wing at Miniature Market is like 33% off on a lot of stuff. From the sounds of what some of what is being said is this discount rate is going to get slashed and from other people's estimates it will be more like 20% if not a little less. Also they are going to cut down the number of distributers as well. One of the articles though it goes over several topics icv2.com/articles/news/view/33370/icv2-interview-asmodee-north-america-ceo-christian-petersen-part-1So I am debating a Miniature Market order to round out a few things in X-Wing and seeing if there is anything else I might want to pick up at Miniature Market. Not sure of the timing on this, but I doubt this pricing matter is going to start changing any time in the immediate future as the two companies have not finished ironing things out yet.
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Post by lordzombie on Dec 31, 2015 11:33:37 GMT -6
Yup, part of the buy out from Asmodee. They want more people to buy from brick and mortar stores than online and will put a modifier on stuff sold that way. Game stores are not going to stay in business if people don't shop them. Think about the last time you guys dropped a large amount, at least equal to what you spend online, at the Lair.
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Post by enternalvoid on Dec 31, 2015 17:52:18 GMT -6
True been a while since I have done a big purchase at the Lair but my last 4 smaller purchases have been the lair and if you add them together they equal about the same as my last online order *Not counting Wyrd's Black Friday, the 4 together is actually more than that*. While I might drop a larger one online, I tend to do several smaller ones at the Lair in turn. If they up the online price it just means the end of big X-wing purchases likely, instead it will be a slow smaller rate rather than random big shots.
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Post by therat on Jan 1, 2016 14:01:22 GMT -6
Interesting.
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