Reply To: Plastic Crack Prices

[jamescutts 7052xp 3]

Those mantic kits are cracking value, especially with the amount of gameplay you will get out of them, and on sale too!

In terms of cost GW know they can charge higher prices, and have always been “expensive” compared to other companies in the hobby, its a bit of a done to death discussion. Like them and can afford them, buy them, otherwise don’t 🙂

As for producing plastic kits they are far from cheap, there’s huge overheads in setting up the tooling, 10’s or 100’s of thousands, and while a individual sprue might be low cost in material, it has to cover the cost of that tooling overhead, and then there’s Quality Control, packaging, etc. those all add up, on top of that retailers also have to have margins, so while the likes of business daddy might be offering 20% off they also need to make a cut too.   In short, material cheap doesn’t equal a product being cheap.