Forum: Fractals


Subject: Sales

marcusbacus opened this issue on Mar 16, 2003 ยท 11 posts


marcusbacus posted Sun, 16 March 2003 at 4:32 PM

Perhaps this isn't exactly the best place to ask this, but here I go. This is more targeted to the fractalists that sell/have sold their works: what's a reasonable price for a printed image? I've seen several different price ranges, some quite surprising - one person on Ebay was offering images for as low as $0.01, and all he was doing was sending the images (supposedly with an acceptable quality for print, but who knows) by e-mail to the bidders, and they would take care of the printing and framing themselves. Others were selling prints for around $20, and you could easily notice that some of them were done probably at home (due to the 8" x 11" print sizes), and therefore with a much lower cost (but is the quality good enough?). I'm asking this because I've been through several different situations, and I really can't see how I can set a "standard" price range, and be "competitive" at the same time (read: have no money loss in the process). One of the most complicated issues I've been through is if one wants to buy one framed work, but the buyer lives in North America/Europe (I live in South America). If I send it by regular mail (therefore cheaper), there will be LOTS of risks, be prepared for some damage. If I send it using some company like DHL/Fedex, it gets way too expensive - they've asked me US$400 to ship one framed image to Europe, and if it wasn't enough, the guy on the phone said that I would have the same risks as if sending them by regular mail - "you know, a turbulence can broke the glass, and we can't be responsible for that". Of course, selling the images unframed fixes most of these problems, but still I can't find what's a good price range for this kind of work.