MWG Closing

[Liazardman]

Not sure if anyone has posted this elsewhere but Miniwargaming up here in Canada looks like it is one of the first casualties of GW's new policy's. I'm not sure who has heard of/visited this store/site but it has been great for hobby support and all kinds of other things for years.

Here is the official announcement, if nothing else its a great point by point walk through of GW's new policy and its potential effect on at least one company's business model.

[URL="http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnPpfs120DA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnPpfs120DA[/URL]

[Badtucker]

Its not just about gws change in policy.

[LordGrise]

Linky no worky!

[gresha]

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnPpfs120DA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnPpfs120DA[/URL]

[Kawauso]

Sadness. =/

[Deadlift]

It's the store closing, the excellent website and vault will still be available. I encourage anyone to sign up as its a great resource of videos etc.

[TheBitzBarn]

He made some excellent points in the Video. Really Ripped GW reasons to shreds showing them to be moron or Liars. Not sure which is worse.

[Wolfshade]

Doesn't this kind of emphasis GWs point.
The firm is closing because they had no diversity, or the diversity in range was not enough to cover their costs, so the only thing that they did was to route GW sales via a third party.
A company that is soley dependent on one supplier is always going to be at risk if the supplier changed their way of working. Similiarly what would they have done if GW stopped the trade discount althougther so they had to buy at RRP, or decided to wind up operations.
It is ashame for the owner, employees and users, but the goods i.e. GW stock is still readily available elsewhere, albiet at an increased cost.
The resources they provided video tutorials etc was above and beyond what some online sellers produce but in themselves not a money making resource and arguably not adding any greater value than that of a fan site.

[jgebi]

I just want to say GW is a company so it's up to them theirs not point *****ing about it, and as most people should know business is war and in war their are always casualties. Well not for the necrons but any way the point still stands

[Tyrendian]

Doesn't this kind of emphasis GWs point.
The firm is closing because they had no diversity, or the diversity in range was not enough to cover their costs, so the only thing that they did was to route GW sales via a third party.
A company that is soley dependent on one supplier is always going to be at risk if the supplier changed their way of working. Similiarly what would they have done if GW stopped the trade discount althougther so they had to buy at RRP, or decided to wind up operations.
It is ashame for the owner, employees and users, but the goods i.e. GW stock is still readily available elsewhere, albiet at an increased cost.
The resources they provided video tutorials etc was above and beyond what some online sellers produce but in themselves not a money making resource and arguably not adding any greater value than that of a fan site.

kinda agree to your first point - MWG were at risk because they depended on GW sales for a lot of their revenue... though that doesn't make it any nicer of GW...
And that increased price for the products will probably cost GW a lot of customers in CA (and elsewhere as more stores follow MWG's course)
But one correction: as Matt pointed out clearly, they ARE making money (and a reasonable amount it sounds like) with their videos - their Vault to be precise... let's hope that's enough to keep them alive together with Dark Potential, because the vids they do are great...