Selling Prints (Different than the rest)

03/24/2005 07:24:41 PM · #1

I have a question on how to go about selling prints to the public or locally. I have prints online, but I know this wont yeild as high a dollar amount as would selling them on the street as say being a vendor would and with so many sites online selling prints it is hard to find say "the best online" place to sell your prints. Does anyone know how to go about asking stores if they can show your art? Is selling them on the street legal? (say I just set up a booth and started selling) I am not sure if I am clear on what I am asking or not... If anyone has any questions on clarifying what I mean or an answer to my question that would be GREAT!
-Ryan-

Canon EF 55-200mm f/4.5-5.6 II USM

03/25/2005 11:09:57 AM · #2

I am guessing this wasn't the best of questions to ask?

bod

03/25/2005 11:19:05 AM · #3

Where are you? That might help get you some useful responses.

Originally posted by Brantner:

Is selling them on the street legal? (say I just set up a booth and started selling)

In the UK, no. You would have to get a license from the local authorities.
Do you have craft fairs and the like? They may be worth investigating.

orussell

Canon EOS Rebel T6s

03/25/2005 11:22:47 AM · #4

You might try going to you local art galleries and asking them to take some on consignment. That's what I've been doing lately, but sales haven't taken off either; I'm hoping that when the tourist start to come around things are going to look up.

Another thing I'm doing is targeting a market sector, ie. tourists and ex-pats. I'm gearing my prints toward Newfoundland themes. Tourist buy up tons of this type of thing every year here (you've probably guessed by now I'm from Newfoundland).

Prof_Fate

03/25/2005 11:29:23 AM · #5

I am into model trains, and last weekend we had an annual railfest with clinics and whatnot. One gent there is a model train photographer. He does ads and such, product and catalog shots, etc, and sells prints.

He is selling matted, framed color 8x10s for $100 (at shows, $125 on the website) Seemed cheap to me, so i picked his brain abit. Both about HOW he does it and how he keeps his prices so low.

He buys all very similar frames (in color)from a local frame shopo, in bulk. he has the 8x10 prints, and 5x7 and 4x6. He has them all double matted and behind glass. The glass he buys at a hardware store - the thinnnest and cheapest stuff unless somone requests (and pays for) non-relfective glass. Glass is less cost than plastic. The mattes he cuts himself, and he assembles the whole thing. Still seems cheap to me, if he is intending on selling them and making a profit.

He gets tables or botth space at train events like ours and sells there, as well as on the web.

His site //www.oscalemag.com/pix/index.html - Check out the pics - these are HO and O scale model trains. He builds the dioramas, does the lighting and smoke effects, etc. It is done on film - NO PS!!

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03/25/2005 01:06:23 PM · #6

Originally posted by bod:

Where are you? That might help get you some useful responses.

Originally posted by Brantner:
Is selling them on the street legal? (say I just set up a booth and started selling)

In the UK, no. You would have to get a license from the local authorities.
Do you have craft fairs and the like? They may be worth investigating.

I am in PortTownsend, one of the biggest tourist spots in the US (45 mins outta Seattle) We have TONS of fairs and stuff throughout the year (Rhody, Wooden Boat Festival, tons and tons more)