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Here’s Argo, a silvery white zebra-striped Uni. His gems are amethyst, but I cannot quite decide on his eye color. They are not light blue; maybe periwinkle?

Like most everyone else, I wanted a fantasy GB and am definitely not in love with this one. If you are, he will be for sale or trade.

A HAPPY ENDING: Argo is now in a home with someone who loves him.

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The weather finally decided to cooperate enough to let me get pictures of my armadillo. The day was very cloudy, but at least the snow is now gone.

The outside light picked up some red in him, but I can barely see it under my inside lighting; I thought he was an almost solid bronze color.

I was hoping for a brighter color (a much brighter color), so feel free to PM me if you prefer this more natural color.

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Be sure to check your “bill to” and “ship to” addresses. My default billing address was correct, but my shipping address was someone’s I had once shipped to. It wasn’t an address I had used recently either; it was used a few years ago.

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I’d love to have a bat-eared fox painted like that baby. 🙂

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drag0nfeathers wrote:

My Crown Jewel <3

Jennifer did some beautiful Griffins, but her Flame Point is my all-time favorite too; he’s exquisite. It’s hopeless pining for him, but I might try talking you out of that hot pink Young Uni someday. Guess who has the Caribbean Sunset Spectral? 😉

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Here is part of a message I received from Karen’s niece, UnicornBlues.

quote: I sure will. She is in the Hospital due to the flu gone bad!!! Honestly, all she had to do was rest and let us take care of things and she refused SO…. pay back is a BITCH!!! LOL!!! She should be home tomorrow or Tuesday and I think I’ve gotten everyone’s trades going the right way. crossing fingers!!

I will be taking some boxes to mail tomorrow. I still have to track down 2 trades or sold that I’m not sure who it is. quote

If you don’t hear from her, contact her by PM. Putting the title of your piece in the subject line would help her zero in on the specific ones she is looking for.

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I didn’t realize how adorable those boars are; I’ve never seen a good picture of one before. I love that snout.

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The pictures drag0n posted are a drop in the bucket; she has an amazing collection. She did an online video of it a few years ago, and it was a jaw dropper. Her collection was over 400 pieces then, and it must be considerably more by now.

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July1988, I love your Dragon Leaf small wizard. I just sent pictures to someone of some of my favorite pieces, and he was one. The back of his robe is gorgeous.

For those who have never seen him, here’s a closeup I saved from his Windstone auction.

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I only post pictures for Grab Bags, and not even for all sculpts. I have many pieces issued prior to Windstone’s gallery, wonderful pieces that many members now do not know exist. Members used to post pictures a lot more, and I enjoyed seeing their “home” pictures. People seemed to be genuinely happy for those who won pieces; now there seems to be more negative comments when people do not win a piece …. envy, compaints about how many pieces someone has won, why they want so many, etc.

No, I do not like to be “tracked” by these negative people; I agree with Scathach and Chloe. However, I also agree with Etruscan. I do track the auctions I bid on; if I wasn’t interested in the item, I wouldn’t be bidding. If I do not win, I am still happy for the person who did. Of course it sometimes takes me a bit longer to get to that happy state; 🙂 but there is only one time I didn’t, the Koi Pond Male Unicorn. 🙁 I still mourn that one.

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But if it sold for $500 I would honestly be ticked I even spent the time watching the auction because if someone thought it was worth that much then why wait until the last 10 seconds to bid that?

Because they did not want to pay $600 or $700 for that item they won for $500.

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Please read ALL the comments in this thread, and you will see that my remarks and observations were in response to multiple people saying pretty much the same things. The only one that was directed solely to one person was the one about not having a smart phone to bid at the end, and I have a solution for that; I am sure there are others too.

You can use a sniping service (google it) if you cannot be home or change your schedule in order to bid, or you can have someone else bid AS you. By that I mean that you give your sign in and password to this person, they sign into eBay with your info, and they then bid as if they were you. If they win the item with your winning bid, you can then pay with PayPal when you get home from work. The “winning” email is sent to you, the request for payment email is sent to you, and the item is sent to your address.

I have done this for two people, and it worked exactly the same as if they had been bidding themselves. Obviously you need someone you trust implicitly; you are giving them your password and access to your eBay account. You can always change your password immediately afterward if you wish to be sure your account is safe.

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This topic is always a hot button for me. People bid on an item, see they are leading for five days, get emotionally attached to it, and then are crushed when they do not win. First of all, it is not yours merely because you are leading in the bidding, and you cannot “lose” something that was not yours to begin with. Bidders should not allow themselves to fall into that mindset; you are not entitled to the item unless you are the ultimate winner.

I would also like to set the record straight about all the people “losing” by only a few dollars. You usually have no idea how much the winner had as their max bid; the bids have to fall a certain way for you to know that.

If my max bid is $500 and yours is $200, my winning bid will show as $205 because $5 was the amount of eBay’s automatic bid increase in that price range. The $205 you are seeing is a far cry from my actual bid of $500. You did not lose by $5; you lost by several hundred dollars.

If my max bid was $203 and yours was $200, eBay cannot fully raise my bid by their automatic $5; so my winning bid would be $203. This time you can see my actual max bid. In order to win, your max would have to be at least $203.01; and you did lose by a few dollars. However if you think you should have time to bid again if you are sniped, why shouldn’t the sniper also be able to bid again?

People from all over the world can bid on the various eBays; all they need to do is register. It is a business, not a friendly little club. Why should a person think they have the right to an item just because they say they want it? Others want it too, or they would not be bidding on it. And why should I let others know what I will bid so it is easier for them? I am bidding with the hope of winning at the lowest price, not a higher one. When I bid, it is not to win at any cost; it is to win at the price that item is worth to me. In other words, I put in the maximum bid that I am willing to pay. Not the amount I want to pay, the max I am willing to pay if it reaches that max. I do not just throw in a ridiculously high bid thinking no one else will top it, because I have seen that happen; and if I win it, I pay for it.

Check the eBay tips; they tell you straight out to bid your maximum. If you do not do that, blame yourself, not the person who put in a higher maximum than you did. And yes I know that not everyone is at the same time and place financially. I sympathize; been there and done that. But do you really think people should not bid higher just because you can’t? If so, then you should not be bidding either, because I am sure there are others who cannot afford what you can.

Also, I do not have a smart phone either, only a dumb one. And no sniping service either.

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This is my last blind trade to arrive. I was hoping for one entirely different from my others, but he isn’t. He’s gorgeous though, so right now I’m undecided whether to keep him or trade him. If you are interested and have a cougar to trade, let me know. He definitely isn’t for sale. If I don’t find a trade I love, he’s a keeper.

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I received this cougar today as part of a blind trade from the Store. Unlike my first cougar, this one looks like her picture; she’s in the top row of page 5, fourth from the left.

She’s one of the more natural cougars. She looks pretty close to her picture, but both the class picture and my pictures tend to accentuate her stripes; they are a bit lighter in person.

While she is pretty, and I do like her face, this little lady will be looking for a new home. I prefer the cougars with more contrast, and there are so many cougars I like.

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