Ebay puts Stone in their place.

The most interesting gossip of the last few days is the Peter Stone Company's auction and store being pulled from ebay due to violations. The most asked question being why? In my opinion? Karma! This is for all the crap they produce, and then expect consumers to pay full price for. What goes around, comes around. Make good high quality models, that actually make hobbyist happy without having to pester the company about fixing their sub-standard models, and good things will come to them. Make crap, that hobbyists have to return for repairs time after time, and get crap in return. Maybe they will learn from this experience, that contrary to popular belief, they are NOT the end all, be all, omnipotence that they seem to think they are. Though I won't hold my breath. This is not to say that they don't make some nice horses, but they seem to be fewer and father between. As it stands the prices they are expecting are exorbitant and out of the range of most hobbyist . This is one case where price SHOULD equate quality, but has been falling short in far to many cases. Hairs, fingerprints, scratches, gouges and blisters are unacceptable in my book and do not constitute quality when most if not all can be avoided. Hairs I can see happening on occasion, sometime no matter how hard you try they show up, I know this from experience, but come on this is becoming a common occurrence with them. And fingerprints! Give me a break, simple fix, WEAR GLOVES and gee don't touch wet paint, who would have though. People shouldn't be expected to pay full price for models with these kind of problems, yet that's just what Stone has been getting away with. Right now there are a couple of Stone's that I would love to be able to add to my collection, but since Stone no longer sees the need to produce regular runs for those hobbyists like myself who don't have unlimited wealth, they are well beyond my means, and don't even get me started on all the supposedly LE's, show specials, FCM's and EFCM's that abound. I'm sorry but I'll stick with my Breyers where I know I can get a quality model for the hard earned money I'm paying.