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That’s true, there were rumors of the curlies going up in the store the previous week, and Susie got slammed with phone calls the next day about them, yet she told me that nobody could tell her where they saw anything definitive that they were supposed to be in the store. She said that from the looks of the curlies, they were not anywhere near ready to go out, they didn’t even have their eyes yet, and unless you see an announcement in the “store announcements” section, by her or Pam, then any speculative threads otherwise are not based on fact.
you’re right about that–there is no advanced notice, unless you have signed up for an email from Susie when they are being released. But the reality is, they always sell out within a few hours, or even much less, before the one per person rule, so as a business, it is just not something they need to do to get people to buy their product. I think the email alerts only apply to 2nd batches or later though, not things that have not been in the store at all yet. Besides, we have all heard the 1 or 2 weeks prior to the release that they were coming soon, Pam put a notice in the thread about where they were in the processing, and said it would be the following week, so we didn’t have to keep “refreshing the store” the previous week, and we knew to look for an announcement on the forum site in the following week, and Susie put it up, right after putting them up in the store.
This is Really Bad But…
One Sunday, I was riding the bus, and a lady said to me, “Have you heard the “good news”” and I said, “No, are Oprah and Steadman going to finally get married?” and she said, “No, there is a revival at the new Christian church, and preacher is going to speak about God sending his only begotten son, Jesus, to live on Earth among us. Would you like to come to it?” I said, “No, I can’t go, because I’m Jewish–I guess you haven’t heard the Bad News!” XDAs Johnny Carson would say, “I did not know that.” I checked, and I do NOT have the Prototype… :shout:
same here, I was going to get one for somebody else who had to work on the forum who asked for somebody to get one for them, but due to the one per person rule, I couldn’t do it.
well ebay selling is what you do to make money, same as if somebody has a store, and you sell things for what a buyer is willing to pay for it. If you list the curlie, and the bidding gets “spirited” and goes up to $150.00, does that make you a bad person? I don’t think so. I sell concert tickets on Ebay, and maybe people think I am scalping, but again, it is what I do to make money. And I don’t sell for nearly as much as the others, I have a much lower reserve, and I have done all the “legwork”, such as waiting out in the cold for several hours for the ticket office to open. A lot of people don’t want to do all that, and would rather pay a few extra bucks to get a premium seat without working for it. Nobody has to buy or trade for these curlies right now if they don’t want to–they can wait for the next batch! If they don’t want to wait, or they want one from the “first” batch, of course, they can expect to pay more…
Well, nonetheless, we will be seeing these on Ebay soon, because for better or worse, these are the hottest item right now, and the sellers want to sell what people want to buy right now for the fastest return on their investment. It does a seller no good to have something around collecting dust, even if it is more valuable than the curlie, if they can’t sell it right now. Windstone does not question everybody about why they bought it, or make them swear on a bible that they will never sell or trade it, so that is just the reality. If you are going to buy “collector items”, you have to understand those factors, and you can actually use it to your own advantage if you play your cards right. 8)
I was wondering if the OW LP dragons that Olimpia painted over the last 2 years were from the original castings where they have more “injuries”. I have one, but it doesn’t look like it, but I don’t have a Production piece to compare to… :scratch:
