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Pricing one's images to be sold Quite recently and fourtanetly I have been selected or asked to display some of my images in a gallery and a few shops and I was hoping for any input or thoughts in figuring out how to price your own work. Any thoughts would be GREATlY appreciated and most welcome. Thank you.
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Pete H |
Hello Curtis, There are MANY threads on this subject. Pricing of photos is dynamic. What are the prices of similar photos in the gallery? The selling of photos has little to do with quality and aesthetic value, but more directly to marketing and salesmanship. Pete
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Mark Feldstein |
Yep. I agree with Pete in that it comes down to marketing and salesmanship. For those reasons, among others, what I'd do if everyone around you is selling prints for $20 bucks, I'd charge at least $200 bucks for mine. Why? It's what the customer perceives as good value. $20 bucks is cheap, relatively, in the overall scheme of things. $200 is a bit pricier. $2,000 bucks and that's REALLY something valuable, an investment, a hedge against inflation and an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a buddy photographic star. Get the picture? Anyone wanna buy a bridge?
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Pete H |
Wow Mark! Using that ratio, ummm, I should have a net worth of about $4,256,918! (Heh-Heh) Ya' think I might be able to call all my customers and charge retro- active?..Kinda' like a "pro-forma" thing with my bank. LOL I DO agree with Mark though; and after careful thought, ya!...Go for it! Charge a lot more and see what happens. As always, Pete
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A C |
cheap clients are higher maintenance. Don't ever ever ever sell your stuff for low prices just so you can be "competitive." You'll end up hating what you're doing, and you won't get any appreciation. You don't want that.
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Mark Feldstein |
$4,256,918! I missed a buck somewhere, I came up with $4,256, 917.00 LOL !!! There comes a time in every great photographer's career, I think, when ya just gotta tell clients who balk at a fee or cost or bid that "I'm as good as the best and better than the rest." And yeah, that's salesmanship, but you have gotta learn to blow your own horn. If you don't, how can you even think about getting someone else to do it for you, like your rep???
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BetterPhoto Member |
Thanks a million for everyones input...I greatly appreciate it. While I have gone over the above ideas in my head it is greatly appreciated to hear this from experienced or displayed artists. After reading your above input I am just going to "sell" myself as much as "selling" my images with pricing that is appropiate to the area and the gallery or shop. With the above said, I will display images with prices that are above other artists that I am hoping keep me competitive, respectful of the other artists, and a variety of different size prints with slightly cheaper prints than the framed and displayed versions. Maybe even display one at $4,256,919!!) Again, Thank You to everyone for taking the time to comment...your comments have helped in making my 1st step a bit easier. All my best,
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Mark Feldstein |
I'm sure I speak for all of us when I say, our pleasure Curtis !!. Remember too, when you raise your own standards bar, you're at the same time, raising the bar for everyone else in the same exhibit. That's a good thing, I think. Afterall, we should be striving at least for excellence, if not downright perfection. LOL !! Sell a million !!! and Be well
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