BBFigs.com is now open!

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:06 am

Its small at this point ... but BBFigs.com is now open! ( http://www.bbfigs.com )

At present we have the Chaos, Nurgle and Vampire teams in the store.

I'm hoping over the next week to add in the Chaos Dwarf, Goblin, and Orc teams to the store.

The remaining 15 teams will slowly be added to the store with hopefully all of them being in stock by the end of June.

Galak

frogbear · Post by **frogbear** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 3:06 am

This is awesome Galak.

Please keep us updated as new teams get loaded.

Also, are you getting any big guys such as the Kroxigor?

Cheers...

skritter · Post by **skritter** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 3:56 am

How do you see continuing stock supplies for this Galak.
Are you going to run out in the near future or will the stock supply stand up over a long period of time.

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:06 am

frogbear wrote:This is awesome Galak.

Please keep us updated as new teams get loaded.

Also, are you getting any big guys such as the Kroxigor?

Cheers...

Big Guys will be stocked as well. Minotaurs and Nurgle Beasts will very soon be in the store as they are on the way to Valen now.

Lizardmen should go into the store at the same time as Kroxigors (same with Trolls for Orc and Goblin teams).

Prices for Australia are tricky for me as I have nothing on the OZ website to use as a marker .... so I'm trying to be fair.

Galak

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:32 am

skritter wrote:How do you see continuing stock supplies for this Galak.
Are you going to run out in the near future or will the stock supply stand up over a long period of time.

I wish I knew the answer to this question.

I've found so far that GW is carrying very low quantities of BB ... so I've had some items not being enough in stock when I order. My last 2 orders have been 100% filled though so I have hopes.

The biggest risk is being shut down. In the USA, GW has a policy to not allow online retailers of their merchandise at all (absolutely zero). In the UK, GW totally allows online retailers. So to keep this venture totally legal we are having BBFigs.com only run out of the UK. All shipments of orders made in the store are sent from the UK. The payments are made only from UK bank accounts. We believe this means we are 100% following the GW rules to sell the figures. However, we've already had grumbles through the channels that GW US isn't sure if they won't oppose us selling the figures anyway.

Now I'm hoping this doesn't happen. The whole point of the GW US policy is to protect brick and mortar stores for their sales of GW merchandise. But very very very few brick and mortar stores carry Blood Bowl and with the new changes at GW ... none of them now carry individual figures (which is where we are aiming our store).

So we'll see what happens guys ... I'm in this for as long as we can. All we want to do is help GW sell Blood Bowl figures and help the community get access to the individual figures. So I would hope GW agrees that this is an effort to help them and their fans and we'll go from there.

Galak

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:33 am

Oh and to start with we only have enough figures for 10 of each race in the store. So depending on how successful this is ... we could have to put Out of Stock on some of the items in the store pretty quickly as we order more.

Galak

Virral · Post by **Virral** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 5:58 am

GalakStarscraper wrote:Prices for Australia are tricky for me as I have nothing on the OZ website to use as a marker .... so I'm trying to be fair.

Galak

The Australian prices seemed fair to me. I assume you've worked it the same way as Impact and factored in the long-distance postage costs to the price?

I certainly wouldn't have any qualms paying the prices on BBFigs if I wanted a full team, especially given a flat postage cost and the fact you actually get the correct miniatures to fit the roster (neither of which Aussies have gotten when ordering from GW US or UK).

Keep up the great work

Virral · Post by **Virral** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:02 am

So, can we live the dream that GW UK may some day allow you to order some of the currently defunct star player miniatures, or is it going to be limited to purely what is available on their website?

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:30 am

Virral wrote:or is it going to be limited to purely what is available on their website?

Only if these guys ever start seeing me as a pure force of good would I have any chance to get them to do an older mould casting run. And I don't think that day is soon.

However don't give up hope ... I'm not the only person working on the changes to the way BB is carried by GW.

Galak

BigD · Post by **BigD** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:59 am

Sure as hell hope GW USA don't get their knickers in a twist. They'ld be effectively killing the USA market entirely at that rate. Either that or just pushing up the prices on Ebay.

I've already seen 2 characters buying up big only to resell and its made getting some figures particularly hard to pay a reasonable price. The only real successful way at the moment seems to be to contact the seller directly and make an offer, which works the bulk of the time but not always and I don't have the time to get into a bidding war with others, at least not at the moment anyway

Really appreciate what Galak is doing with the store. It'll be getting my support and I'm passing the details onto friends as well.

BigD

Marlow · Post by **Marlow** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 7:06 am

Keep us updated when then "Chaos Spawn part number 99120102024" comes into stock. I want to do a Nurgle team and would rather give you the cash than GW!

Now is there any chance of you getting the Chaos and/or Skaven Mutants in stock? The US Catalog still has them for sale but the UK site does not seem to have them anywhere...

howlinggriffon · Post by **howlinggriffon** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:09 am

Excellent news Galak. With you starting this venture, I finally stand a chance of owning a full version of every team.

coma · Post by **coma** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:58 am

Brilliant Galak! I love to see some starplayers and such

fen · Post by **fen** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:23 am

It's brilliant that you're doing this. Quick question, No Vampire #4?

MerchantDragon · Post by **MerchantDragon** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:33 pm

I appreciate what Galak is doing with the store and of Blood Bowl.

It'll be getting my support and I'm passing the details onto friends as well.

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