Old Brown Emperor on eBay

So not cool, 6 days & it is already up there…of course they had to go & be greedy & max out their profits by setting a high start then let it go for a week. It’ll go for over $800 like the last one, then get packed wrong & get broken. Me, bitter, not at all.

Kyrin

Nothing wrong with a seller wanting to get the most out of their investment. For the condition I’d say he would certainly be worth it and the way it was listed it probably the smartest way to do it.

Frankly, I can respect the collectors value of a mint condition Brown Emperor, but on a personal note, I am SO GLAD I am not a big enough fan of the brown to spend near their worth on one ^_^ LOL!

I do hope that he is packaged correctly, but I tend to find in a lot of cases, when someone KNOWS what something is worth, they take better care of them in the packing perspective. I don’t think it would hurt to send along a box though, just to be safe!

Since the brown is the only dragon color I collect & the Emperor & the OW are all I have left to get, understandably I am not wild about the price going into ridiculousness. I really wish I had seen the one you got 4dragonlove, before you did, he would have been mine. So seeing this one already up to what you got yours for I feel it is understandable that I am a little pissed off about it. Cause $550 I might have managed, as much as it is gonna end up, no way in hell.

Kyrin

I have wanted an ultra-lite aircraft since I was 8 years old. Sadly, they always seem to sell for more than I can afford! (lol– like, thousands of dollars more!! Hah!) This is frustrating but is the reality in life when considering luxury items. Maybe I can get one someday, maybe not– but to hold bitter feelings over a luxury item is like holding bitter feelings over your neighbor having a ferrari that you can’t buy.

It’s okay to be frustrated– heavens know that we all get so frustrated sometimes when these things slip out of our grasp! No one is immune. It’s okay to complain about it. We have a great whine thread that is a bajillion pages long, even! But don’t let it taint your life or cause hard feelings against sellers (or buyers) that are doing nothing wrong. For heaven’s sakes, they are just pretty painted hunks of rock.

Just a reminder. 🙂

Sometimes I feel better when things go super high…its like “HA! I’ll find one for a price I can afford, not double what I’d want to spend even if I had it”. I’d love to have a brown Emperor, and wouldn’t *mind* spending $800+ on one, but I dont have that now-and wont for a long time :- But, they aren’t OOAK pieces, so another will show up and I’ll get one one day, when it is meant to find me. Setsunawolf always says, ‘If it was meant to come live with me, it will’ in reference to Windstones. So, if she loses something on ebay, that she wanted very badly, she believes that if she was meant to own it, that piece will find its way into her collection eventually. I love this idea and think its a great way to look at things…and it helps me from being *so* sad when I *do* lose something. The Brown AL OW, Sinbad the flap cat, Fruitcake the Flapcat, and the Barn Swallow rising spectral are all examples of things I lost, was very very sad over, and they eventually found their way into my home 🙂 Sure there’s others that never made it here (or havent yet! mwhahah!) but it just means they weren’t meant to be mine 🙂

I completely agree with this theory! They’re just not worth getting my britches in a bunch over XD I have pieces I want, there is a GB wolf I really want… I know where he is, he MAY or may not find his way to me time, I’m ok with it! If it is meant to be that I get this wolf, he will find his way to me, if not then, I’m sure whoever has him is very happy with him. (For the one who does have him, this isn’t a guilt, just an example, lol)

Also, my emp shipped without his cardboard inserts… he showed up just fine 🙂 so long as the person packing packs him properly, he’ll be all good! though if the buyer can send an emp box for him, that’d probably be a safe move!

Setsunawolf always says, ‘If it was meant to come live with me, it will’ in reference to Windstones. So, if she loses something on ebay, that she wanted very badly, she believes that if she was meant to own it, that piece will find its way into her collection eventually. I love this idea and think its a great way to look at things…and it helps me from being *so* sad when I *do* lose something.

And I do actually believe that. For example I own the Sun male griffin and chick, both sold before I joined the forum and are OOAK. A labradorite griffin chick same deal–sold before I joined. The ALSK, who actually belongs to my roommie, but I get to look at him. A lovely Blue sparkle Sun dragon and Clash the Sun dragon as well. If it’s meant to find you it will. Usually when you are looking at Blackfire kirins 🙂 which I have managed to miss twice….but if he’s meant to come to live w/ me he will.

I have other production pieces that have shown up, but that philosophy really is best demonstrated w/ OOAK pieces because they are OOAK and harder to come by.