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I watched this auction from the word go. I was shocked that it did not meet the reserve. Oh well. If I had that kind of money to spend on a Windstone I would ask Melody to do a personal one of a kind SK commission. I think she would probably do it! LOL Anyway I would love a Black Grand but with that kind of price I think I will have to cash in my 401K at 68 and I am only 26! lol
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ruffian wrote:OK I guess there were 18 and they sold for $405 to $1,525.
If there are 18 of these why would anyone pay that much for him? I mean the SK’s are rarer and THEY don’t fetch this much… 😯
lamortefille wrote:What was the highest price a Windstone has sold for?
I thought it was $2,300 something or $2,400 something, but poking through the ebay gallery, Olympia’s Cinnamon Pearl SK went for $2475, but above that, apparantly one of the Emerald Peacock OW’s went for (can this be right?) $4,550? 😯 In which case, THAT is the most expensive Windstone that Windstone has sold….and I think its probably safe to say the most expensive Windstone EVER. Even the brown Emperors only maybe hit $1100 or so. Below the EM Pea OW,
$3611 Nam’s Male Sun Griffin
$3150 Olympia’s Red Gold SK #1
$2475 Olympia’s Cin. Pearl SK
$2382.87 Olympia’s Spr. Grn. SKDROGO wrote:ruffian wrote:OK I guess there were 18 and they sold for $405 to $1,525.
If there are 18 of these why would anyone pay that much for him? I mean the SK’s are rarer and THEY don’t fetch this much… 😯
And too, with the SK, she’s taller, more dragon for your $ and more work went into painting her multi colored scales than the simplistic black on the unicorn (don’t get me wrong, I want a black grand too, but not for several grand!)
Greater Basilisk wrote:But there are overall more SKs than black grand unicorns…
Umm…no. There are only 10 white SK’s, 6 Green Sunsets, 6 BEP…etc…same sculpts but different colors, and none in regular production YET! Not to mention the still rarer artist editions. There are a ton of white grand unicorns…and 18 blk ones…
There were more SKs sold – and options of many more to come – than there are black grand unicorns. As I said.
😯 That’s insane! The seller is crazy not to jump on that money. Big time increase in profit like GB said.
Holy wow! How strange to see it go so high, when the special one of a kind pieces are ending with such low prices lately.
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My art: featherdust.comGeez….must come from longer “want times”. Maybe the folks bidding have been lusting over one of these for several years…? 😯
We are thinking like poor folks, here.
You and I (the collective you, I mean; I’m not singling anyone out, here) would be happy to sell an art treasure like this for a few hundred dollars more than we paid for it. Heck, if we didn’t need the money, we probably wouldn’t be selling it. And this is where our vision fails us.
If I were financially sound (rather than as I really am, *sigh*), I’d buy artwork. I might even do a bit of buying and selling; investing in some favored artist in the expectation that her work will become sought after by other collectors and become not only pleasing to look at, but valuable too.
If I had the money, I might have bought a couple of those limited edition Grand Unicorns. I’d keep one for myself, and hope to sell the other for enough profit to at least pay for both. It may take a while, but I’d be in no hurry; it’s not as though I’d be selling because I need ready cash.
So although I can understand the gasps that come from seeing how much this auction got to, I don’t understand the criticism of the seller for wanting more.
What Windstone needs is more collectors like ultdragonian. Whenever something like this happens, the people with money take notice. The more people there are who are buying Windstones because they seem to promise a good return for the investment, when sold on the secondary market, the more people there are who will buy primary market statues (which is where Windstone makes their money). This is, as far as I can tell, the goal of the Windstone company; to sell fine art to people who, for whatever reason, appreciate fine art.
Windstone Editions could sell a whole bunch of Dragons by reducing the price, making them out of cheap resin, assembly line painting them, and distributing them through the less prestigious chain stores. Windstone could be quite profitable doing that, and I’d imagine they’d hate every dime that came in.
You wouldn’t buy their “sculptures”, and I wouldn’t sell them, but there would be a million people out there who would jump at the chance to own a piece of crap dragon for $24.99.
I say all power to ultdragonian for setting the reserve price at what he thought the statue was really worth.
The Castle [Dave wrote:“]We are thinking like poor folks, here.
You and I (the collective you, I mean; I’m not singling anyone out, here) would be happy to sell an art treasure like this for a few hundred dollars more than we paid for it. Heck, if we didn’t need the money, we probably wouldn’t be selling it. And this is where our vision fails us.
If I were financially sound (rather than as I really am, *sigh*), I’d buy artwork. I might even do a bit of buying and selling; investing in some favored artist in the expectation that her work will become sought after by other collectors and become not only pleasing to look at, but valuable too.
If I had the money, I might have bought a couple of those limited edition Grand Unicorns. I’d keep one for myself, and hope to sell the other for enough profit to at least pay for both. It may take a while, but I’d be in no hurry; it’s not as though I’d be selling because I need ready cash.
So although I can understand the gasps that come from seeing how much this auction got to, I don’t understand the criticism of the seller for wanting more.
What Windstone needs is more collectors like ultdragonian. Whenever something like this happens, the people with money take notice. The more people there are who are buying Windstones because they seem to promise a good return for the investment, when sold on the secondary market, the more people there are who will buy primary market statues (which is where Windstone makes their money). This is, as far as I can tell, the goal of the Windstone company; to sell fine art to people who, for whatever reason, appreciate fine art.
Windstone Editions could sell a whole bunch of Dragons by reducing the price, making them out of cheap resin, assembly line painting them, and distributing them through the less prestigious chain stores. Windstone could be quite profitable doing that, and I’d imagine they’d hate every dime that came in.
You wouldn’t buy their “sculptures”, and I wouldn’t sell them, but there would be a million people out there who would jump at the chance to own a piece of crap dragon for $24.99.
I say all power to ultdragonian for setting the reserve price at what he thought the statue was really worth.
Well said!
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