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Originally posted by DavidDeb:
and about the Dark Willow, it's an oversized incentive, supposed to be given out like that (cuz we don't want to cut the hand; I decided to take the other Willow as AR in the end, but considered this one)

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Originally posted by DavidDeb:
and about the Dark Willow, it's an oversized incentive, supposed to be given out like that (cuz we don't want to cut the hand; I decided to take the other Willow as AR in the end, but considered this one)

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Originally posted by DavidDeb:
and about the Dark Willow, it's an oversized incentive, supposed to be given out like that (cuz we don't want to cut the hand; I decided to take the other Willow as AR in the end, but considered this one)

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Originally posted by hammer:

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Originally posted by Raven:
There are a lot of rules to these things and its all designed to get artists more money without really paying them. Maybe there should be less compensation and more money upfront.

But if they paid the artists the value up front that gets passed to the collector in box prices! At least this way artists can get some decent money and individuals can commission the character that they want (subject to approval )

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Originally posted by wolfie:
The bottom line here is that Rittenhouse need to make money and the dealers they sell to need to make money. The collectors who actually want the cards come in a very poor third.

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Originally posted by X:

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Originally posted by wolfie:
The bottom line here is that Rittenhouse need to make money and the dealers they sell to need to make money. The collectors who actually want the cards come in a very poor third.

It's an interesting point, and in my gut I agree - I think there is something very wrong about sellers asking a minimum of £600 (with many an average asking price of £1k) for any/every sketch card.

I can only say fair enough at dealers trying to recoup investment and make a profit because of how RA have released the sets, but ignoring all that, what does it say about all those collectors who ARE paying those prices?
Maybe to them, RA are giving collectors a really good quality insert and do not treat collectors badly like Topps do when it comes to sketch cards? Topps sketches may come in packs/boxes but the quality is a joke.

In the same way many keep saying these Buffy autos aren't worth the asking price, RA have produced sketch cards worth the big asking prices, to (some) collectors anyway.

Despite all that, I'd be interested to know how many are being bought by the same people because there are some fanatical collectors with very deep pockets and annoyingly they can end up pushing prices up for everyone.
Personally I do think that RA have shortchanged the 'average' Buffy fan who would love a good quality sketch from their favourite show but rightly can't afford or justify the extravagance.
*By 'average' fan I mean those who consider the Buffy sketch prices ridiculous (I would imagine the majority?)

I wouldn't have thought the market was there for Buffy sketches, at this level anyaway, but I guess it is. In some parallel universe I'd love to know if the exact same sketches would sell for less had they been released in a regular box format.

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Originally posted by MarcG:

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Originally posted by DavidDeb:
and about the Dark Willow, it's an oversized incentive, supposed to be given out like that (cuz we don't want to cut the hand; I decided to take the other Willow as AR in the end, but considered this one)

David... your work is incredible!

You could do a whole set of sketches by yourself.

We need a David Desbois Sketch Set!

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Originally posted by DavidDeb:

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Originally posted by MarcG:

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Originally posted by DavidDeb:
and about the Dark Willow, it's an oversized incentive, supposed to be given out like that (cuz we don't want to cut the hand; I decided to take the other Willow as AR in the end, but considered this one)

David... your work is incredible!

You could do a whole set of sketches by yourself.

We need a David Desbois Sketch Set!

thanks for the praise. Was really happy to participate; Buffy was the first show I followed back then even if I didn't
understood much of it at that time (French vs English). Brings back good memories. I only do 1 or 2 sets per year, so I
pick them with care.

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Originally posted by BornToBeAPopstar:
Anyone else think it's funny that RA's website is down amidst this release? I went to see if they updated the sketch artists yet and all I found was an error message lol

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Originally posted by Logan:

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Originally posted by BornToBeAPopstar:
Anyone else think it's funny that RA's website is down amidst this release? I went to see if they updated the sketch artists yet and all I found was an error message lol

It's down for me also but I checked earlier today and saw that Warren Martineck is now on the list.

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Originally posted by Logan:
New Lee Lightfoot sketch...