Pet peeve suppressed, Essex 15 mm pictures

[Conquistador]

Essex 15 mm Fantasy pictures anyone?

So few (relatively) on company website makes me hesitant to point someone to these (found these items  while looking for something entirely different.)

Gracias,

Glenn

[blackstone]

They're very much like the 28mm stuff but scales down. Alot of Bob Olley sculpts if I'm not mistaken.

[dijit]

I never buy anything where I can't see pictures of what I'm meant to be purchasing, so I share your pet peeve. The other one is of miniatures that are so badly painted its hard to see the detail.

[Elbows]

I share that pet peeve...and find it absolutely inexcusable today.  I think the same for companies who stick to a 1998-era Geocities style page.  It's incredibly easy to set up company page today...and posting pictures is absolutely cake.  I shudder when I think about the amount of business some of these small companies lose when they fail to do stuff like that. 

[Conquistador]

I share that pet peeve...and find it absolutely inexcusable today.  I think the same for companies who stick to a 1998-era Geocities style page.  It's incredibly easy to set up company page today...and posting pictures is absolutely cake.  I shudder when I think about the amount of business some of these small companies lose when they fail to do stuff like that. 

Well, a lot of miniatures buyers don't seem to mind.  Many, I suspect, have seen enough of the figures in games or others armies that they feel comfortable trusting the figures to be similar in sculpt/casting.  This obviously is easier if you are not shipping across oceans...    I admit I feel that way about GZG figures from past game experiences/viewings of other forces.

Still, I have downgraded my pet peeve from 1) rant to occasional (sadly) snarky comments in general and 2) "I'll never buy" to a cautious policy of asking others for pictures (again unless I have seen the figures in the flesh... metal.. whatever...)  Each persons situation is unique and if they are doing well enough without the labor (time is money argument has merit) of adding pictures then my rants won't effect change.  Who can actually show statistical (as opposed to anecdotal) correlation to pictures = increased profit (and how much) in real life?  Not me or I would have presented the numbers as a consultant (paid in metal figures) a long time ago.

Still, if I had my druthers...

Gracias,

Glenn