I have a counter to that proposal. If they had in fact shown the actual size of the object, how many of said object do you think they would have sold in comparison to how many they have actually sold already? Does that make what they do acceptable? Not in my opinion, but I do not buy anything from the BLB so there is that. :woman_shrugging: Is it deceptive? Yes. But that is the way of marketing in the real world as well. They sell you on “expectations” not on “actual results”.

Which they can easily explain away as a matter of perspective. One image is against a drop screen with nothing else near it to use as a judge of scale. The other image is on a set of foundations (or ceiling tiles), and next to another small decoration object thus showing scale. One is also a much higher resolution image (the one used for marketing). So in all, it is simply a matter of perspective. It is much the same way that in movies they can film miniatures to give the illusion of large scale epic scenes.

And this goes directly into what I had said above. Had they shown the actual scale of the object how many people like yourself who had bought the item would not have? I think it is fair to say a good percentage of them. So by cleverly disguising the size of the object without actually saying that the object is larger than it actually is they can project the illusion that it is in fact larger but legally speaking not ever make any such claim that it is. Thus people such as yourself will purchase said item and then be sadly disappointed with the end result and threads like this are the result.

This is not the first time such an item has be, shall we say, not exactly as advertised. I am sure that it will not be the last time either. And I am not even talking about the items that either had missing pieces (pieces shown in the image but now included like in the aquilinian bath set, but were later added I believe), or pieces that just straight up didn’t work until they were fixed at a later date. I am only talking about item that either were not of the size they appeared to be shown as, or of the quality they were shown as, or did not even function the way they were eluded to (but never explicitly said to).

The BLB is an EXTREME case of BUYER BEWARE! As @Kikigirl suggested, you are better off waiting to see a review of the objects offered by content creators who are often gifted said items.

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