Yesterday I got the Spider-Woman LSB.
This bust is a thing of beauty, but as you can see, it looks as though she has a couple of chipped teeth. Not the most becoming feature for a bust of a lady, I'm sure you'll agree. Especially one without pupils to hold your attention.
The weirdest thing about it, though, is that both on the bottom of the inner box and and on the base the number is 147/200. Now, the edition size for the exclusive is 200, while that of the regular is 300. I ordered a reg piece, and as a matter of fact, it didn't come with the name plate, even though there seems to be a hollowed-out space for it on the polystyrene, complete with the small indentations meant for that particular nameplate. I don't know whether both the reg and the ex come with this depression or not, but it came empty anyway.
The inner box doesn't have the Exclusive sticker on the sides, but the ES sticker on its base could have easily been replaced. As a matter of fact, it looks a bit crumpled on one end.
What puzzles me, though, is that the brown shipper box clearly states it's NOT an exclusive either, and the usual felt-tip pen-written ES number on it is 147 too, with no signs of anyone having crossed out a previous number or anything. It's a clean 147 right there where it should be.
But something else is making me wary here - there was no yellow QC sticker to be found. What I did find was quite a bunch of unidentified hair on the polystyrene, not to mention there was some sort of soft smudge grease on one of the cheeks, all of which has me thinking this has been displayed before.
So there you have it. Do you think I've been sold a gold brick? This came from the same foreign ebay/online store to whom I had previously sent a PF back, though I'm sure that once they weren't to blame.
This time, though, I really think I've been had.
Suggestions, please?
This bust is a thing of beauty, but as you can see, it looks as though she has a couple of chipped teeth. Not the most becoming feature for a bust of a lady, I'm sure you'll agree. Especially one without pupils to hold your attention.
The weirdest thing about it, though, is that both on the bottom of the inner box and and on the base the number is 147/200. Now, the edition size for the exclusive is 200, while that of the regular is 300. I ordered a reg piece, and as a matter of fact, it didn't come with the name plate, even though there seems to be a hollowed-out space for it on the polystyrene, complete with the small indentations meant for that particular nameplate. I don't know whether both the reg and the ex come with this depression or not, but it came empty anyway.
The inner box doesn't have the Exclusive sticker on the sides, but the ES sticker on its base could have easily been replaced. As a matter of fact, it looks a bit crumpled on one end.
What puzzles me, though, is that the brown shipper box clearly states it's NOT an exclusive either, and the usual felt-tip pen-written ES number on it is 147 too, with no signs of anyone having crossed out a previous number or anything. It's a clean 147 right there where it should be.
But something else is making me wary here - there was no yellow QC sticker to be found. What I did find was quite a bunch of unidentified hair on the polystyrene, not to mention there was some sort of soft smudge grease on one of the cheeks, all of which has me thinking this has been displayed before.
So there you have it. Do you think I've been sold a gold brick? This came from the same foreign ebay/online store to whom I had previously sent a PF back, though I'm sure that once they weren't to blame.
This time, though, I really think I've been had.
Suggestions, please?
