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I ordered a second wolf when Windstone lifted the limit, and my second wolf apparently decided to tour the country before coming home. Last I checked tracking he went from Oregon to Maryland (I guess he wanted to see all the snow out east) where’s he’s been stuck for days. I paid for Priority Mail 2-day & he was supposed to be delivered Saturday, but he’s still in Maryland with no update on estimated delivery. Isn’t it great that USPS charges extra for Priority Mail delivery services! :((
*jumping up and down for joy* My wolf came today!
I felt super guilty ordering him and was just thinking this morning that I’d probably sell him as soon as he gets here. I NEVER get lucky with grab bags-the really amazing ones go to other homes and I never have anything exciting to trade….
but luck finally smiled on me! I got my #1 pick!
She’s amazing, and I absolutely love her! I literally hopped around in circles, clutching her to my chest. My mom brought the box to me and watched me open it, she was laughing at me 😛
Thank you Melody for painting some like this and THANK YOU PAM for not swiping this one for ebay. I have a feeling she would have gone far far beyond $91 and I could have only dreamed of owning her.
Wolfen, Love that merle you got. Congratulations!
Natasha, beautiful grab & love the look on his face (like if he did something wrong & is asking for forgiveness). 🙂
… in the past when there were extras, they were either put back in the store or sold to people who missed the batch. I know because in the past when a couple friends and I had just missed a batch of grab bags, Susie was nice enough to email us and tell us she had a leftover one for us because we had asked. …
For some reason I find the idea that people were able to buy through Susie after the “Notify” button went up very disturbing. I know that Susie is great and does her best to make Windstone customers happy, but I would rather see a policy that any leftovers go to ebay or back into the store if there are enough … not be sold behind the scenes.
Grab Bags are a gamble by definition and I think it should be “Sorry … if you missed them in the store, you missed them”.
Etruscan, I agree with you on this issue. It has the potential to create lots of bad feelings if some people can miss the GB & still get the piece & others would be out of luck because they missed the GB sale. I like your idea of any leftovers going to ebay or back to the store restocking. JMHO
Easiest solution to me is that the preview photos ought to be stopped and the only photo with a batch is the store photo. Then it truly is a grab bag.
I don’t think Windstone needs to stop the preview photos because they build “buzz” & excitement about the upcoming releases. As long as they don’t include held back Ebay pieces in the class photos, I think that might solve the confusion issue.
After all, if we’ve seen preview photos & don’t see it in the class photo, then we know to expect it on Ebay, if we wish to bid for it there.
My wolf & foxes arrived and I couldn’t be more excited! My wolf is gorgeous shades of browns with white face and I’m still trying to find an appropriate name for him. Thanks to Melody for creating such beautiful sculpts!
Well I didn’t get anything again so I checked my other folders and it went into my promotions folder again with gmail. This is frustrating as I never look at that folder!
Kim, you can set the priority of emails in the promotions folder just by clicking on the button under “primary”. It teaaches gmail to learn that the message is important to you & shouldn’t be flagged as “promotion”. It should go to your “inbox” folder, the next time you get a message from Windstone.
Hope that helps.
I got this latest test announcement, so it seems its working good.
I’ve been getting PM’s, but haven’t gotten any Windstone announcements for quite some time.
As best I can tell, it has been almost two months since a Windstone announcement was sent out for new items in the store. So you may not have missed anything. 🙂
True, but I’d really hate to miss out on the pebble wolves. ;( This will be my first wolf & I’m very excited about it!
Etruscan, sounds like you got yourself a good deal on that ruby lap.
Does it seem prices are somewhat depressed lately on ebay? I’ve been noticing that some of the Windstone ebay items are going for less than I’d expect. Or, I should say going for much less than a few years ago prices. Good thing for bargain hunters.
Punxsutawney Phil says 6 more weeks of winter. Since PA got the blizzard after it left Chicago this morning, I’m not sure how Phil was able to make it out of his hole today. We got 20″ of snow from the storm yesterday. Too much winter. I want Spring!!!!!
I don’t pretend to be an expert on valuation of Windstones, but usually when I’m making an offer on anything, I look to sold ebay listing for an idea of how to value pieces.
There’s a damaged lap dragon that sold on ebay for $150 plus steep shipping charge (close to $200). It was a test paint, so it’d probably be valued higher than peacock lap.
