Seriously?

wow just wow….

True, I hate to agree with ya, but I’m sure someone will 🙁 .
I my heart of hearts I hope not, for the buyers sake. I hate to see someone get duped into paying more than double on a relatively attainable item. But it’s possible the seller is unaware that the Keeper is actually not as rare an item now. Who knows :scratch: .

I payed about $112 for a blank Keeper once when they were never in the store.

:/

Well, I have to defend the seller of the sculpt, after all – its ALL about making money. That’s what I do every time I list something on eBay, and I always hope I will get lots of the green so I can do whatever I need to do, or want to do. And man oh man do I just HATE those fees!!

Those of you that paint them, and ask $250. opening bid, do the same thing – seriously LOL. No real difference, it didn’t cost that much to paint. Windstone does it when Melody paints a sculpt, sometimes half of you all could do the same job, but bid it up sky high – bravo for Windstone, for making so much money.

To each his own, but yeah I think we all should just be happy that someone might get how much they are hoping for something, whether its painted or unpainted. Now, go bid on my crap so I can go buy more crap – and resell it when I get tired of it LOL

It doesn’t feel much better than when you get your money back on something, let alone make a little pocket lining 😉 I think folks snickered behind my back a bit when I was previously asking ‘too much’ for something too. However, I think I sold all those things by now :)))

I didnt type any of this to make anyone mad – I figure we are all mad already……..especially YOU ::points::

::runs n hides:::
😀

For what it’s worth, I wasn’t belittling the seller. I was saying that you just have to a few weeks for the sculpt. Perhaps my comment didn’t come off that way.
And to Demyx, I saw your other pyo (love him. Would be bidding if I had a job). I thought perhaps that’s why you were selling the keeper for so high, but not everyone will look at your other auctions. This is a good example of that, it seems.

Poems, you’re not looking at it in correct sense. If a keeper sells for $250, take out the $50 you paid for it. $200. Then imagine you spent 13 hours on that sculpt, your “hourly pay” is only $15.00. I know some painters here who take much longer than 13 hours on a single sculpt. 20 hours? Only $10 an hour.
And I’m not even factoring in the cost of paint and materials. Many artists here use Golden paint. That stuff can cost as much as $10 for a single OUNCE of paint. If you want a good amount of colors, you need to spend about $50-$100. Just on paint.
It’s kind of offending to artists. Very offending. That’s a problem every artist gets, no matter the medium (and every artist will bring up at least once). People seem to feel like artists don’t deserve a decent “days” pay. So thanks for telling all artists, including Melody, that they don’t deserve to make a pay that someone who works at a mcdonalds does.

I know I haven’t been around for too long yet, but I felt the need to agree with Kujacker and Koishii. I haven’t yet painted a PYO, but I have been an artist for most of my life, and darned if the first thing that I didn’t learn about paints was that they are expensive. I was given a $100.00 gift certificate for a local art shop when I was in 5th grade and I promptly went down there and spent every penny on about a half dozen paints, 3 brushes, and a single pallette. I actually just went to Michael’s the other day and since I’ve been reading up on other people’s suggestions and the Windstone Staff suggestions, I picked up a bottle of gold interference ($15), Gold Leaf ($10), and some retardent for my acryllics ($8). Just to get *some* of the items that I will need for finishing my first griffon I spent almost 35 dollars. I haven’t even begun to assess my actual paints situation and have not factored in the money it will cost me to get the necessary top coat and possibly some supplies to try antiquing.

As far as paying people for their time, that reminds me of a story – My boss asked me to draw a picture of his girlfriend last year for her birthday. He knew that I’m particularly good at drawing, shading, and creating some neat looking hair, so I agreed. We didn’t agree on a price, and let me tell you that is the last time I do a piece for someone without figuring that out first, because after I handed him the sketch (that took me at least 8 hours of work), he paid me with a smile and a “thank you”. My understanding is that he thought I just like doing things like that for fun. The way I see it is that I got to save him all the time, money, effort, and credit of giving his girlfriend a birthday gift.

I guess my point here is pretty much to back up what’s already been said. It’s NOT inexpensive to paint things, and it’s kind of a shame that people think somehow that it is. I’d rather break my brushes than cheap out on something as beautiful as a windstone piece, and as it’s been said before, it takes lots of time to make these pieces look so drop-dead-gorgeous. $250 may seem like a lot to pay for a painted windstone, but keep in mind that the artists that painted these pieces are selling their time and energy, and after it’s all said and done they may make a small amount of money for their time, or in some cases the only thing they get out of the deal is the enjoyment of painting the piece and giving it to a loving home.