Scalpers are everywhere these days, ruining hobbies left, right, and cenny in order to make a quick buck. What’s worse, it’s working, as scalping continues to be a problem with every limited release and short-supplied product that us normies want to get our hands on. From 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon cards to gig tickets, scalpers have the software to skip the online queues and buy up as much stock as possible. Unfortunately, some regular punters have the spare cash to pay the vastly inflated prices that the scalpers then charge. Whether it’s a PS5 or a plastic miniature, you’re losing out.
It may surprise you that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Warhammer is being scalped. Surely Games Workshop can just, you know, make more models? It’s not quite that simple. The problem st𝕴arted wꦑith a boxed game called The Cursed City. Games Workshop announced it would be a limited edition product that you’d only be able to buy at launch, and once stock was gone, it was gone for good. It basically looked like Warhammer Bloodborne, so the excitement in the community was palpable. Then it got scalped.
There weren’t enough copies for real players who wanted to build, paint, and play the game for themselves, but sure enough copies quickly went up on eBay at eye-watering prices. But at least this scalp made sense – it was a limited run game that was sure to be incredibly popular. So why have scalpers targeted the latest release of Dark Angels Primarch Lꩵion El’Jonson? It’s a cool model, powerful on the tabletop, and sure to be popular, but it’s not limited. Games Workshop wi♕ll keep filling its moulds with molten plastic until there are no Dark Angels players left or it has come up with a bigger, better model for the Emperor’s firstborn.
Put simply, there’s only so many Lions that Games Workshop can make at once. The company has likely been making them for a while now, but there’s only so much warehouse space a new release can take up. It also doesn’t want to overestimate demand and end up with a million leftover lumꦑps of plastic nobody wants to drop £65 on. So, it makes a sizable amount at first, enough to hopefully satisfಌy demand but not so many it’s got loads left over. However, it underestimated demand.
Scalpers descended on Games Workshop on Saturday morning, plugging in their scalping robots or whatever it is they do, and bought up as many Primarchs as they could. I was more annoyed that I missed out on the 2,000-copy limited edition🌸 novel also released at that time, but at least I understand why that was scalped. It’s rare. The Lion is only rare if you need it right now and can’t wait a month or so for it to come back into stock.
This hasn’t stoppeཧd the price gouging. Sold listings on eBay show that the model has sold from anywhere between £70 (what’s even the point of scalping to earn a fiver?) and £395 (including postage from Norway, but that must be money laundering, right?). For the most part, the model has sold on eBay for about twice its RRP.
It’s baffling to me that Warhammer models are being scalped. Not limited edition models, not anything particularly rare, just a sought-after big boi. Is this going to happen to every Warhammer release from now on? Why aren’t companies working on protections so genuine fans can get their hands on the models they want? Ticketmaster has added some measures to tackle scalping, and while it still happꦛens with▨ the company’s gig tickets on a smaller scale, it’s better than nothing. Warhammer was already an expensive hobby, and scalping will only make it more inaccessible for millions. Games Workshop needs to take responsibility and nip scalping in the bud before it strengthens its roots in the hobby any further than it already has.