Thursday, February 21, 2008

More Price Increases

It's almost as if the government acknowledgment of inflation has let loose the flood gates. Days of Wonder just raised prices on many of their games, some by 20%. I think this will finish some of these titles, as they're just not good enough for such high price points. They write:

While we have resisted raising prices over the past few years, fast-rising fuel and raw material costs, combined with a weakening dollar, have led to significant increases in our production and shipment costs for games. These issues have finally reached a point where we can no longer ignore them. We have made the decision to offset these costs by increasing the MSRP on a number of Days of Wonder titles. Below are the products that are changing, along with their new MSRP.

Mystery of the Abbey
$60.00

Pirate's Cove
$60.00

Shadows over Camelot
$60.00

BattleLore
$80.00

Colosseum
$60.00

Ticket to Ride (almost forgot this one)
$50.00

I'm also getting news that Vallejo paint prices are going up by about 10%, based entirely on currency adjustments. Paint bottles have risen from $3 to $3.29 to probably $3.59 soon, all over the past three years. Vallejo is from Spain, while Citadel standard paints are made in the UK, with foundation paints made in China (Shanghai).

7 comments:

  1. Those new MSRPs might mean more to me if I knew what the old MSRPs were :-P

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  2. $10 raises on each title if I recall how much I paid for most of them.

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  3. So, now you tell people that a board game costs the same as an Xbox360 or PS3 game, instead of an Xbox or PS2 game. Most people will still get a lot more plays out of the board game than the video game (except for us obsessive compulsive collector types).

    Just don't bring up the Wii...

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  4. I get a Wii call about once a day; people looking to find a system. If I mentioned a Wii it would be to point out that our games are actually IN STOCK.

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  5. One thing I didn't mention in my post was that it's a very good thing for retailers that DOW raised their prices rather than shrinking their margins (again). Taken on its own, I think a 20% increase is the highest percentage yet.

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  6. Oh, the games are in stock, but it's kind of hard to play them without the console ;-)

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