STRAT Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 hehehehe, sorry guys, had to share this thread with you from another forum - http://www.maxforums.org/forum/forum.asp?t=173956&r=26 it's amazing the cheek of some ppl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kid Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 I remember a year or two ago, a Maya NURBS sphere on ebay. I think there was about 15 bids on it, it reached about US$35 but I think the reserve was set at about a US$100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 Strat, That means that you could have sold me that model of that low-poly escalator for about $20,000.00 Hehehehe..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted September 19, 2003 Author Share Posted September 19, 2003 hey, you bugger, that wasn't low poly!!! seriously tho, i modelled loads of usefull architectural standards, praps i should see into selling them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 okay okay... thats true... I had to re-model some parts to make it lower poly... And selling that kind of models would be a good idea i think... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 We have modelled some nice scenes with over 5 million polygons... x 12€ each is... mmm... We retire next week! nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 seriously tho, i modelled loads of usefull architectural standards, praps i should see into selling them. See that 'eSTORE' in the CGA site banner? You can list your models there. So far I have put up two models--the collection of liquor bottles I made a few months ago after failing to find one, and then a grand piano made for the same reason. As far as I know no-one has bought either model yet, but I didn't make them for that purpose. I listed them so next time someone needs bar bottles for a rendering they will actually FIND some. Over time I might make a few bucks in sales, but I don't really care either way. Of course if thousands and thousands of you buy them I will buy myself a new car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego Rosales Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 This is outrageous!! Doing arch viz? Why model your walls when you can buy them prefab!! Short budget? Need a plane? No problem!! (At this price I would also consider buying the real-life) I don't know where to point my fingers, to the site owners or to the people who pay for them. As said, at this rate I'm retiring tomorrow. /Diego Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Jeff Mottle Posted September 19, 2003 Administrators Share Posted September 19, 2003 This is exactly why our store will be better in the long run. While we are identical in many ways to TurboSquid, we filter everything so we don't get $1000 army men and a box. Oh yeah did I mention shop.cgarchitect.com? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Erthal Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 Thats just ridiculous! A few months ago i was checking for car models and at digimation, some of them were beig sold for around 5k. An outrage! I really doubt anyone buys it. Btw.. Is any of you guys interested on a plane? It has 3 poly counts lo - 1 poly $25 med - 10 poly $250 hi - 100 poly $2500 I mean, its good stuff... really perfect flat plane, can be used on animation. And if you buy now, you can have the amazing default max grey matte material applied for free!!! call now!!! :ngelaugh: :ngelaugh: :ngelaugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Eloy Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 I really don't know if I laugh about it or cry over it....Really a shame people out there think they can sell that kind of "objects"...and for that price! :gebigeek: ARGH!!!! :???: [] Rick (for as low as US$ 99.99!!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 Thats just ridiculous! A few months ago i was checking for car models and at digimation, some of them were beig sold for around 5k. An outrage!And on the other end there is that Japanese site that has very good car models for about 5.5million yen each--but when you get the dollar conversion it costs about 8 bucks. It's actually TOO cheap. I feel like I'm stealing if I buy it. Maybe the owner figures they will sell so many they can be well paid. Anyway, not all models being sold on turbosquid or the CGA eSTORE are overpriced. Take the bar bottles and grand piano for example... The point is it should be less expensive to buy a pre-made model than to make it yourself. If something I need is $100 and it would take me two or three hours to model, the purchase makes perfect sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 words of wisdome to remember: The point is it should be less expensive to buy a pre-made model than to make it yourself. If something I need is $100 and it would take me two or three hours to model, the purchase makes perfect sense. That is if the models are usefull, well-built etc. Anyway... we had the same story with the lowpolygon3d-cars, we bought last summer, just a few weeks after their first release... At first the price was 35$ for the first set, few weeks later 70-75$, another few weeks later 85$... We bought them at 75$... BUT with the launch of the lowpolygon3d-website, prices dropped to 24$ for the first set!!! Believe me this guy was pissed as we had bought three sets on turbosquid at that time already!! Basicly, I'm not mad at paying for good stuff, but paying triple for the same goods is insane. And of course I've never had a reply on my mails to lowpolygon... I still like the models of lowpolygon, but ow ow turbosquid... I prefer the CGA-store!!! nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 BUT with the launch of the lowpolygon3d-website, prices dropped to 24$ for the first set!!! Believe me this guy was pissed as we had bought three sets on turbosquid at that time already!!Basicly, I'm not mad at paying for good stuff, but paying triple for the same goods is insane.It is, but the difference is minimal. We should always remember to put a value on our time. I probably wasted many hundreds of dollars worth of my time trying to find models of bar bottles. So I had to build them myself, which included researching what they look like, how big they are. In the end they cost me a lot. But now I have them and will use them in my current project. It was for the current project that I had to build the piano--you see three of them in various spaces. How much time do you spend worrying about the best price? I wish there were more models available for sale on sites that were easy to find them. What's the point in spending all day searching the web for a model that you can build in that time? The opposite is why spend $750 for a model you can make in a morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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