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Are you going to make regular production Gold Laps and Fledgling Dragons ever? Just curious so I know what to tell my customers. 😀
emerald212 wrote:Are you going to make regular production Gold Laps and Fledgling Dragons ever? Just curious so I know what to tell my customers. 😀
Well, I am undecided.
We sold those as signed, limited, something or others , and I didn’t want to make production ones to devalue the “rare” ones, at the time. When I did those golds I hadn’t intended to do the gold as production. I didn’t know it would be that popular.
However, I do have a loop hole. The original golds look very different from the production golds because we added a good amount of brown and violet to the production ones. If the laps and fledgies were painted like the gold sitting Spectral, for example, then the rares would still be very different in appearance.Mmm . . . not to mention the fact that a Lap or Fledge done in the modified gold, with browns and violet added in, would be very tempting. I was not wild about the somewhat monochromatic appearance of the “straight gold” Lap, but I really like the gold Old Warrior and Sitting Spectral. So a Lap or Fledge that looked like those would be a big draw for me, at least. 🙂
I don’t like the gold color, but I LOVE the sitting spectral in gold. All that brown he has on him makes him look awesome. If the rest of the golds had that much brown I’d be sooo tempted to buy.
Barrdwing wrote:Mmm . . . not to mention the fact that a Lap or Fledge done in the modified gold, with browns and violet added in, would be very tempting. I was not wild about the somewhat monochromatic appearance of the “straight gold” Lap, but I really like the gold Old Warrior and Sitting Spectral. So a Lap or Fledge that looked like those would be a big draw for me, at least. 🙂
That kinda makes the ones I have even less valuable if they come out with enhanced ones at regular price. No one will want the monotone ones. The signature may persuade some… though the fact that they are still in stock and have been for a year kinda makes me wonder.
I tend to agree with Ski. I think that even though the color is a little different, that the special ones should stay special, since they were sold with the implication that they would remain rare.
Plus you have SO MANY other things you can make, why add more fishes to the sea if those fishes are troublemakers? 😉
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My art: featherdust.comI think you should make them as regular production. Sorry, Ski. The people I usually sell to at conventions won’t go to the Windstone website to buy them at a higher price (even if they are signed, and especially if they look different than the rest of the line). It may even stop them from starting to collect the Golds at all, since they technically couldn’t get them all.
I also have a hard time directing people to this website, since it is now competition for my business. I originally set up my website to be a back up for people who couldn’t afford the Windstones at the convention, but would perhaps buy one later. If they find out that they can buy directly from Windstone at the same price, they probably will just skip my website and buy from here. So I don’t tell people about it anymore. Sorry, but I gotta do what I gotta do to stay in business.
emerald212 wrote:I think you should make them as regular production. Sorry, Ski. The people I usually sell to at conventions won’t go to the Windstone website to buy them at a higher price (even if they are signed, and especially if they look different than the rest of the line). It may even stop them from starting to collect the Golds at all, since they technically couldn’t get them all.
I also have a hard time directing people to this website, since it is now competition for my business. I originally set up my website to be a back up for people who couldn’t afford the Windstones at the convention, but would perhaps buy one later. If they find out that they can buy directly from Windstone at the same price, they probably will just skip my website and buy from here. So I don’t tell people about it anymore. Sorry, but I gotta do what I gotta do to stay in business. No problem. We aren’t trying to steal business, we encourage folks to shop at real stores if they can. We just feel that we should be the online store people use if they are out at the far reaches of the planet,and not anywhere near a real store.
skigod377 wrote:Barrdwing wrote:Mmm . . . not to mention the fact that a Lap or Fledge done in the modified gold, with browns and violet added in, would be very tempting. I was not wild about the somewhat monochromatic appearance of the “straight gold” Lap, but I really like the gold Old Warrior and Sitting Spectral. So a Lap or Fledge that looked like those would be a big draw for me, at least. 🙂
That kinda makes the ones I have even less valuable if they come out with enhanced ones at regular price. No one will want the monotone ones. The signature may persuade some… though the fact that they are still in stock and have been for a year kinda makes me wonder.
That’s a good point, and certainly nobody wants to devalue the special ones. It is ironic that further experimentation with the gold color scheme resulted in a version that is so popular. Well, thankfully, there are so many other great production pieces out there, and so many “wish list” hopefuls to squeak for, that I’ll be kept busy even if there is no “brown gold” Lap. 😉
I agree with Ski. There’s more in the shop. And as for retailers, like Emerald, there are many other pieces avaliable for purchase in a real, tangible store, I think its pretty fair how it is. Special things direct, and regular things from retailers. Just my $0.02 though.
I probably agree that there should not be regular gold laps and fledges, just because they have already been done special and lots of people would probably have problems with doing regular ones…but I do think it’s a shame, because I think they would be MUCH prettier in the new version of the gold color! ;_;
What about doing just 10 of each for ebay in the “special” gold, like you did with the regular production dragons?? Then nothing would be devalued and at least some of us could have pretty gold laps with purple accents! 😀
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-J R R TolkienArlla wrote:I probably agree that there should not be regular gold laps and fledges, just because they have already been done special and lots of people would probably have problems with doing regular ones…but I do think it’s a shame, because I think they would be MUCH prettier in the new version of the gold color! ;_;
What about doing just 10 of each for ebay in the “special” gold, like you did with the regular production dragons?? Then nothing would be devalued and at least some of us could have pretty gold laps with purple accents! 😀
Alternatively, maybe Melody could just start doing the limited production gold laps in the new version of the gold color?The color schemes of the production pieces have evolved over the years (e.g., old brown) apparently without negatively affecting the value of the older pieces, so the same would probably hold true if the color schemes of the limited production pieces evolved also, as long as the gold lap/fledgling remain limited production.
And given how popular the new version of the gold color seems to be, I wouldn’t be surprised if the gold laps/fledglings started selling a lot faster if they were painted with the new version of the gold color.
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