I can tell you, where I live there was a minor price drop for some items!
basically the cause for that is probaly the € gaining on the £
They just had to adjust that, because no one would buy from there anymore since shipping had become cheaper
And the Rumil and new Haldir blister are here in Belgium cheaper then regular oneheroblisters (like Twilights and Halbarad capt o/t North)
I buy my stuff at local GW because that way, our shopkeeper let us use shop-stuff for painting and modelling, actually he aided someone to make an Ent from Aluminiumfoil, a free Entµ
my moddeling/painting costs: €0,00, beat that
I don't agree with some things GW does (a lot of actually) but there staff at our place is very good, and while they sometimes charge ridiculous prices (like spear of Sigarus: €890
) they do sometimes lower their prices, especially when currency values change!
And some price-raises are IMHO not even that bad
I've got a set of both Galadhrim Knights and Galadhrim Warriors and the boxes are IMHO way better then most I already had
I actually used a spare sword from the Knights (I used the banner, a banner in a plastic 6 cavalry set, better then Rohan) to modify an archer from the Warriors to make a fine Haldir GoHD and still had spare equipment left from both the Knights as the Warriors, they increasded like 3£ here with us (€3,5 actually) and in exchange I lost one knight and one warrior to gain 2 usual blisters, a mntd bannerbearer and Haldir, wait I lost 2 knights for WOTR making one other a captain with a spare head from the Warriors, even without these cheap gainings so basiccaly just 6 normal knights and 24 normal soldiers are €/pts cheaper then RoR or Orcs for me!
sorry for this blabbering but GW is IMHO not a matter of black-white, it's really not all bad (not all good either, thats a point worth striving for
)
regards
Philippe