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Actualy if you do email the buyer before the sale is done and he contacts the seller about this you could get in trouble with eBay for interfering with a sale. It’s against eBay policies. So be careful if you do. 😉
Blackdesertwind wrote:Actualy if you do email the buyer before the sale is done and he contacts the seller about this you could get in trouble with eBay for interfering with a sale. It’s against eBay policies. So be careful if you do. 😉
Quoted because it’s important. Not only is it against eBay policy, but it reflects poorly upon Windstone- since they sell on eBay too. Don’t email the buyer, please.
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My art: featherdust.compurpledragonclaw wrote:Sigh, I don’t want to get in trouble, so I won’t touch it.
I don’t see how you could touch it even if you wanted to. The “bidder information” page doesn’t give any information that would let anyone know who the bidder is or how to contact them.
eBay wrote:To help keep the eBay community safe, enhance bidder privacy, and protect our members from fraudulent emails, eBay has changed how User IDs display on the bid history page. Only you and the seller of the item can view your User ID, all other members will see anonymous user IDs, such as x***y.
In order to get anything done you’d have to ask eBay to do it. But given the remarkably thorough pictures that the seller posts, a potential buyer would have to have NO IDEA about Windstone Editions sculptures, or even sculptures at all, to fail to realise that the item is not actually signed, and is therefore unlikely to have been painted by the sculptor herself. It’s a small leap from there to thinking “And maybe it’s not even rare.”
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The Castle [Dave wrote:“]It’s a flea market boast. We are the cognoscenti wandering through the flea market hoping to find a remarkable piece that is under-represented, and instead we are irritated to find an unremarkable piece that is over-represented.
Very well said! 😉
Blackdesertwind wrote:She had relisted it previous to this one and it was taken down. But oviously she found a way to relist it anyway.
Does John have access to his emails yet?
And did somebody already report it to him?The auction wasn’t ever taken down before, it just ended with no bids. The male dragon sold for less than retail value. I felt like telling her WHY her dragon didn’t sell for much, but she obviously wants to bite the forum member’s hands that WOULD feed her, so she’s basically an idiot. She is alienating what could be a large customer base, if that is what she intends to start selling on EBAY. But Ebay told me that only a Windstone staff member can call them to actually get the ad removed.
I agree. I bid on the Emerald Male, but I bid because the photos made it look darker, like Jade. But I had a limit of how much I would spend, and it went over that. I didn’t know if she’s answer nicely if I asked her if it was really that dark or not.
49ER wrote:Blackdesertwind wrote:She had relisted it previous to this one and it was taken down. But oviously she found a way to relist it anyway.
Does John have access to his emails yet?
And did somebody already report it to him?The auction wasn’t ever taken down before, it just ended with no bids. The male dragon sold for less than retail value. I felt like telling her WHY her dragon didn’t sell for much, but she obviously wants to bite the forum member’s hands that WOULD feed her, so she’s basically an idiot. She is alienating what could be a large customer base, if that is what she intends to start selling on EBAY. But Ebay told me that only a Windstone staff member can call them to actually get the ad removed.
I had the auction in my watch list and when it ended she relisted it since there was a “see relisted item” link. I went to see and there was a message that the item was pulled from ebay or was no longer available.
I don’t really see much of a problem with the auction. She’s making the dragon seem way more special than it is, of course, but collectors know the difference, and she’s starting it at a decent price. But that’s not half as bad as some other stuff floating around on E-Bay.
Greater Basilisk wrote:I don’t really see much of a problem with the auction. She’s making the dragon seem way more special than it is, of course, but collectors know the difference, and she’s starting it at a decent price. But that’s not half as bad as some other stuff floating around on E-Bay.
I agree. It certainly isn’t worth all the to-do over it.
And some of them are actually, ignorant. I corrected one the other day, and I don’t know if she changed the auction, but she did put my question on the bottom of the listing. Better then nothing I suppose.
But since this is the second time around, she (the actual topic of this thread) obviously wasn’t ignorant this time
I see that signed by M. Pena a lot. They honestly believe that the Pena carved in the base is a signature. Most people are honest, it’s the bad ones who give ebay sellers a really bad name, because they are 1. trying to cheat you and 2. not very nice when they get caught
It’s ashame that not everyone in honest. 😕
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Simple Google searches will actually yield threads like this. If you can’t be bothered to ask questions/research and just blindly bid because the seller says something, well.. *shrug*
Gross misrepresentation is a different story though.
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