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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 2710360" data-attributes="member: 307">Appealing to ebay as a panacea for curing the ills posed by random packaging really doesn't get you very far. Leaving aside that for many people, ebay simply isn't a viable option (people without regular online access, or younger people who do not have credit cards or other viable means of buying items online), using ebay is, for many people, quite simply a headache. Finding a sale, bidding for the item, exchanging e-mails for shipping, waiting a couple of days to get your product on the faith that the dealer will be honest, and so on. It is so much easier, and satisfying in many ways, to simply pick an item up off a shelf, pay for it, and go home. Telling people "you can always use ebay" is a nonstarter. Most of them don't want to use ebay, or they would be using it already. They want to buy the product they want without having to go through extra hassle.Prepainted sets of minis were supposed to make it easier for a gamer to use miniatures while gaming. Relying on the cumbersome method of ebay auctions doesn't make it easier to get what you want. It just puts inconvenience in the way of many buyers.</blockquote>