Fargin\' \'PRO\' painters on ebay .. sheesh ...

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Frustrated Father

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You know, I like looking through e-bay for good deals on miniatures (just picked up the whole Inquisitor line for peanuts) but something I\'ve noticed of late are the abundance of \'pro painted miniatures\'.

C\'mon, gimme a freaking break already.

Seriously, how people get away with calling their paint jobs \'pro\' is beyond me. Now there are some on there, more than a few actually, that more than deserve the title, but the rest of them are just a bunch of twerps trying to sell their stuff. I would be embarrased to say \'pro\' to some of this stuff.

Pffft ... take a look at some of these and tell me whatcha think! Now if for some reason one of these happens to be yours ... well sorry, but saying its \'pro\' is just killing me.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=44127&item=5932408473&rd=1
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=44127&item=5932416810&rd=1
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31400&item=5931944836&rd=1
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=7389&item=5932765991&rd=1
 
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james9487

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I have found it very annoying and misleading, and it certainly does make it more difficult to find the truly PRO painted miniatures.
 
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darthfoley

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This is one of those things that comes up repeatedly, like \'what is nmm\' and \'snipers suck\'.

Basically, anyone who has sold a figure at some point can refer to themselves as a \'pro\' painter. For that matter, anyone can refer to themselves as that whether they\'ve sold a figure or not.

Nothing to be done about it...

[stormtrooper voice]
Move along...move along...
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Frustrated Father

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Speaking of snipers, it kills me to see how people bitch about that. If your item is going to sell then it will start to get some decent bids. Everything I\'ve ever sold that was worth some serious $$$ I expected to get in the last half hour of the auction.

Saw some fellow the other day that posted that anyone sniping his auction would have an automatic 10% added to the overall total of the cost.. Was happy to see his crap sold for only a few dollars instead of the hundred or so that it could have gotten to if people started sniping it at the last minute.
 
ipaintminis

ipaintminis

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Originally posted by darthfoley
I know...frightening how good looking I am, ain\'t it?

:innocent: lol
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psh!

[han solo voice]
boring conversation anyway
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j/k man jay kay!

:D

i like the idea of using a picture as an avatar...of course that does make chrispys job of putting us in the comics harder...being its our faces and all
 
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darthfoley

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Originally posted by ipaintminis
psh!

[han solo voice]
boring conversation anyway
[/solo]

j/k man jay kay!

:D
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[Emperor voice]
You want...this...don\'t you?
[/Emperor]

;)

(all together now...ewwwww!)

@airhead - well, I do still have a Cobra shirt on. I trimmed that avatar out of a picture from DragonCon 2 years ago - with Traci Lords. :innocent:

*edit* *makes the worldwide official thread hijacking YOINK noise*
 
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tidoco2222

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Adding the term propainted to your item for sale usually gets the attention of people who are looking to buy well painted minis as the thumbnails on the listings pages are quite small.
It almost guarantees you a hit on your particular item and who knows if you are soft enough maybe a sale.
But I agree the term is too loosely used, I usually look at these just for a bit of an ego boost as if these are pro then that must make me some sort of painting master.

[ Yoda voice]
mmmmm meditate on this I will
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frenchkid

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Well I think that from what was said in the previous threads about this subject people who really want a pro painted mini don\'t search on Ebay using this term. It would seem the reall propainter don\'t use \'propainted\' to avoid the confusion.
And I never tried looking on ebay for good deals might just have to go and have a look :D
 
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Frustrated Father

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Originally posted by frenchkid
Well I think that from what was said in the previous threads about this subject people who really want a pro painted mini don\'t search on Ebay using this term. It would seem the reall propainter don\'t use \'propainted\' to avoid the confusion.
And I never tried looking on ebay for good deals might just have to go and have a look :D
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I just picked up five boxed sets of inquisitor (the individual mini\'s) as well as the Inquisitor Lord and Lord Cortez sets (five or six models to a box) for about $30 .... normally you could add another zero to that to get the closer cost of it all.

That being said though, usually you\'ve got morons bidding on there and something you could pick up in the store easily enough someone will pay $3-5 over in cost and THEN S/H as welll.
 
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praetorian0_1

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That word, I don\'t think it means what you think it means

lolMaybe pro means the opposite of anti. As in,\"... I am for painting rather than against it.\"
So when you sell plain lead you should post anti-painted miniature. At least according to that standard. Speaking to the great paint oracles they say they are not offended by the term \"painted\" miniature rather than pro. Lots of folks avoid anything that claims to be \"pro\".
 
No Such Agency

No Such Agency

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@airhead - well, I do still have a Cobra shirt on. I trimmed that avatar out of a picture from DragonCon 2 years ago - with Traci Lords.
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You can\'t say something like that and not post the pic!

(not *that* exciting, Lords has been a legitimate actress for a long time now so there isn\'t even much of a frisson of naughtiness around her - hell, she\'s been on \"Gilmore Girls\"!)
 
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finn17

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Not the same sniping, but good point.

Originally posted by Frustrated Father
Speaking of snipers, it kills me to see how people bitch about that. If your item is going to sell then it will start to get some decent bids. Everything I\'ve ever sold that was worth some serious $$$ I expected to get in the last half hour of the auction.

Saw some fellow the other day that posted that anyone sniping his auction would have an automatic 10% added to the overall total of the cost.. Was happy to see his crap sold for only a few dollars instead of the hundred or so that it could have gotten to if people started sniping it at the last minute.
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I think the \'sniping\' referred to was here, on the CMON site.

\'Sniping\' on ebay is a misnomer. It is just bidding...that is how an auction works. I only ever bid in the last seconds of an auction. It isn\'t a crime although some people seem to think it is. In any real-life auction, serious bidders don\'t show their hand at the beginning. They wait for all the amateurs to have their little play first.

The idiot you mentioned above deserves to get a pittance for his stuff. He is also breaking the TOS of eBay and could have his account suspended I would imagine.
 
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