A Sundance I bought as a bait on ebay is STILL fading outside during the day... I can't wait to go to my puppysitting job this weekend, because it's three full days of sunfading in the pool on a float, which is perfect for the ones who need it. I'm bringing ALL of the ponies who need it with me to take advantage of it!
Anyway, Sundance looked fine to me, so she's becoming a restore instead. I'm getting hair for her and Cotton Candy from the same lot and restoring. They weren't bait. I'm just sad that they were considered bait to someone else. Most of the time, if they can be easily restored (nasty hair, pen/marker marks, yellowing, etc.) and they are a G1, I have taken to restoring them, no question.
If, like MM Windy I asked for advice on a few weeks ago, they cannot be restored fully for one reason or another (I'm a perfectionist by nature... they have to be just right or mighty close), I'll bait them. Windy is currently smurf-blue, waiting to be rehaired and customized to the likings of a young lady with a huge heart who helps me and another assistant at my job with our two down syndrome girls. I have G3's that I could bait out, but for me, if it's a really baity G1 (with windy, I wouldn't have been able to get her MM symbols to be vivid and useable again and her hair was dry and chopped badly), then I have no problem giving a new life to it. Plus, it gives a new person a love for the older generations, when all they have are the G4's (she even said it's so much larger than the other ones she sees.... I had to laugh and tell her that it is a 20-something-year-old pony... easily dating myself).
She's seen Windy since I first brought her in to show her the original state.