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Quote from: hlbmlp on February 16, 2012, 01:24:09 PMyeah... i was kinda mean... but from a financial standpoint i think they could have made more money with a reaaallly beat up mountain boy. :/ and i am sad about it... but i AM thinking about bidding so i can have a mountain boy... if it goes for cheap enough that is... then i'd probably make him look back to his original state.... but that's just what id do. I know it would be customizing a custom, but for the right price that may be the only way i will ever get a mountain boy. IMO this behavior would be way worse than the sellers. I mean at this point the ponies are already customized - they have already lost all that is original about them. For you to even consider buying one and stripping it down to re-customize it is just disrespectful. Someone put a lot of work into those.
yeah... i was kinda mean... but from a financial standpoint i think they could have made more money with a reaaallly beat up mountain boy. :/ and i am sad about it... but i AM thinking about bidding so i can have a mountain boy... if it goes for cheap enough that is... then i'd probably make him look back to his original state.... but that's just what id do. I know it would be customizing a custom, but for the right price that may be the only way i will ever get a mountain boy.
Quote from: Snapdragon on February 15, 2012, 11:31:15 PMI ... cringe at those posts. ALWAYS. Mountain Boys are pretty dang rare, so they must have gotten them from a car boot sale or something, for them to be cheap enough to be worth baiting. But still! It's like people who wreck vintage toys for Etsy sales or art - you might have gotten more money for the thing as it originally was, and you're just going to have collectors face-palming at it, to boot. My thoughts exactly.
I ... cringe at those posts. ALWAYS. Mountain Boys are pretty dang rare, so they must have gotten them from a car boot sale or something, for them to be cheap enough to be worth baiting. But still! It's like people who wreck vintage toys for Etsy sales or art - you might have gotten more money for the thing as it originally was, and you're just going to have collectors face-palming at it, to boot.
They look like customs with a specific plan in mind. Those where the baits that fit the mental image. So they used them. Mounain Boys are sought after, but they are not rare. On any given week, there is at least one MB auction. To me, they are in the same group as mimic....pricy but accessable.
Customising has become so popular, and with such a huge influx of new FiM fans, people just don't think that anything could possibly be rare, they just see a pony and they want to make it "pretty" for some money.It's infuriating, and really really sad, but eh, what are you gonna do? The damage has already been done
Quote from: NoDivision on February 16, 2012, 02:47:39 PMQuote from: hlbmlp on February 16, 2012, 01:24:09 PMyeah... i was kinda mean... but from a financial standpoint i think they could have made more money with a reaaallly beat up mountain boy. :/ and i am sad about it... but i AM thinking about bidding so i can have a mountain boy... if it goes for cheap enough that is... then i'd probably make him look back to his original state.... but that's just what id do. I know it would be customizing a custom, but for the right price that may be the only way i will ever get a mountain boy. IMO this behavior would be way worse than the sellers. I mean at this point the ponies are already customized - they have already lost all that is original about them. For you to even consider buying one and stripping it down to re-customize it is just disrespectful. Someone put a lot of work into those. Well, it was her pony and her choice to customize a Mountain Boy ... so if you turn that logic around, once she sells it to someone, it's now their pony, and their choice what to do with it whatever they want - display or restore. I'm not one to encourage people to de-customize ponies, but - technically, once you own it, it's your property, and if you wanna throw it on a bonfire in sacrificial worship to the Almighty MOC Mimic Goddess, then that's your choice.