"How do you get people to pay this much" Topic

for one figure?

ebay.to/32JmASB

It seems to work!

'Free postage', though …

Phil

Interesting. This is idea. I may sell my painted 1:100 and 1:72 figures with even higher price then.. 110 eur per figure perhaps.. postage included.. ;-)

I see "0" bids ????

1:72 Old Guard Officer available! Only 110 EUR, postage included!
Who want it? :-)

It seems to work!

There are no bids. How is it "working"?

For those who want to know how it is working……
auction

Grimm

The mind boggles. They aren't even that nicely painted a solid tabletop job but hardly top quality. Still a fool and his money and all that.

they've sold figures – here's the feedback

ebay.to/2WeaIFG

Strange that most of the feedback in the last year is from h***c (4388). Perhaps he has built an army of them….

Could be a tax dodge scheme or money laundering involved

I suspect he has found a regular customer who likes the style and collects the figures.

I have a regular customer who spends £350.00 GBP a month with me on 12 foot figures and 6 mounted in 54mm painted and based…

It's like 4 colors!!!!!!!!!

Good paint job but way overpriced. Not worth that kind of money.

The approximately 75 eBay sales annually probably aren't enough to live on. I'm betting his website also generates some commissions as well. Or perhaps this is just a side gig.

There are some pretty nice looking figures in the galleries on the website.

ravenpainting.co.uk

Kudos to Carl at Raven Painting for finding clients willing to pay.

The gallery has some lovely work in there, particularly the 15mm and 10mm. The 15mm guide is also useful.

People will pay what they want to pay.

cheers
Jon.

They are 28mm, metal and all have the same shrubbery!

I suspect it has something to do with the shrubbery!

mmmh shrubs

Perhaps the buyer is reselling them with a huge markup?

They are nicely painted and there is a consistency in how they are painted/based. They would go well together.

It is possible to achieve similar prices, this ended a day or so ago

ebay.to/2q9qGF8

but it's a different proposition.. (I think?)

Interesting to note that the kern is described as "brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item." Shows how reliable ebay descriptions are…

All the Irish have a single bid on them from someone who has bought 2048 items on eBay thus far. I wonder if he has a mate bidding on them in order to try and get others to bid? They aren't £75.00 GBP paint jobs in my eyes, you just have to look at some of the work on eBay by bugsda and others to compare prices and the finished product to see that these are way overpriced.

My experience on Ebay has been the photographs are what sell an item.

The description is the icing on the cake.

The David Imrie figure shown just above has an amazing face painted on it.

Well it seem not to get any bids so it would appear that they didn't.

they do

ebay.to/33zeBIi

I am glad he's got a regular buyer who obviously really likes his work.

@ Doctor X, are you sure that Ravenwife (eBay) and Raven painting (on the net) is the same person? The painting seems a lot better on the Raven painting site…

Back on topic, I also wonder if it has something to do with money laundering on eBay

Look all of you, I was selling figures on ebay for a few years and the prices they sold for got higher and higher as I had established long term bidders who seemed to compete with each other, needless to say I discovered threads like this on wargame forums attacking me( rather more nasty and very hurtful than this thread is Ravenwife i must say!) Accusations of a 2nd bidder, money laundering and even accused of bidding on my own figures!
The reality is there are wealthy people who like this hobby and will part with what is clearly pocket money to them in order to get the figure!
We live in a bad world full of con merchants and thieves and shady bogus companies, all trying to hurt and rip people off, this painter as with most in this hobby is doing nothing to anyone except paint little figures and sell them on Ebay and if he has got a customer who is willing to pay his asking price then bravo for him!

Well, I made this official..
boki.ee/6SHOP/XXX/XXX.htm

I have a regular customer who spends £350.00 GBP GBP a month with me on 12 foot figures……..

You sell 12' figures? I didn't know scale creep was that big a problem.

Now ones like this are worth £35.00 GBP in my eyes. This is fantastic painting. auction

No mate .
I can get that quality for way under a tenner at 28mm.

these aren't even that good. Those prices are ludicrous. You could commission someone to paint them for less. That 1/72 figure isnt impressive at all.

go to a figure or armor modeling expo and you'll will see real talent

Isn't this American capitalism at its finest? I'm confused. Someone sells something, and someone buys it. Free market economy surely? Or are we looking for socialism in the painted figure market

Simple fact:
(Most) War-gamers are notoriously tight when it comes to buying painted figures. I'm no different, just saying.

Marc, no one is attacking capitalism or the free market economy. We are simply questioning the ridiculous prices for these figures.

Value is in the eye of the beholder.