Okay heres my run down of what you have said in this post.
There a company with alot of staff rent bills and many over head cost that most people do not take into account, so a price rise will happon every company dose this at some point or another.
Yes i know GW do it alot as for the region part i think this is a good thing and my point of reason is it will help indi stores in other places that lose there bussness to internet site with in the uk or where ever.
The amount of people that are complaning about it are a small amount of the GW player base as i really dont think that most people in there early teens care when they have mom and dad paying for it.
Also most of these people will bitch and moan about this but still go out and buy all there products.
This would of been sorted befor all this stuff hit.
I agree this would be good for smaller companys to do stuff like this making the buy in for there games even better.
I would like too add i stoped playing most GW games as i thought they where boring I'm not sticking up for them but there are alot of things that people do not take into acount.
Pete