The Loose Association of Wargamers

No, it's more specifically EB himself.

I suppose an unexpected benefit from the price rise is that anyone with Warlord figures to sell 2nd hand can expect them to have slightly higher value

Well, the new prices are up. Interesting that the number of third-party sellers of Warlord stuff (eg on eBay) appears to have dwindled quite considerably.

They're probably doing a GW and restricting availability to resellers

They've been getting more GW all the time. I cancelled by endless spam emails from them as Ive lost interest. Its all flash in the pan stuff these days. Not what I'm interested in.