Selling prints on ebay

[Edwardv]

From what I understand "EW" sold his prints for $35 for the longest time. Was happy that people liked and brought them. Sometimes I wonder, "do we really price ourselves out of reach to many who would like to buy our work?" The bottom line, people will buy what they like no matter what the cost is as long as they have the money and like the photograph. As for me I would like to sell some just to recoup the material I used to buy more. And is some cases just give the prints away to people who enjoy my work. Or maybe I am just CRAZY!!!!!!

Note: I didn't read all the comments just jumped around.

 

[Early Riser]

From what I understand "EW" sold his prints for $35 for the longest time. Was happy that people liked and brought them. Sometimes I wonder, "do we really price ourselves out of reach to many who would like to buy our work?" The bottom line, people will buy what they like no matter what the cost is as long as they have the money and like the photograph. As for me I would like to sell some just to recoup the material I used to buy more. And is some cases just give the prints away to people who enjoy my work. Or maybe I am just CRAZY!!!!!!

Note: I didn't read all the comments just jumped around.

When Weston was selling prints for $ 35, that was the equivalent of a weeks pay for many people.

 

[Rob Skeoch]

I've noticed a lot of people who were trying to sell prints in the $100 - $400 range no longer do so.... I guess they've made tons of money and have gone to the beach to retire... or the return wasn't worth the effort and they've moved on.
-Rob

 

[Alex Hawley]

I've noticed a lot of people who were trying to sell prints in the $100 - $400 range no longer do so.... I guess they've made tons of money and have gone to the beach to retire... or the return wasn't worth the effort and they've moved on.
-Rob

More likely they moved on. I sold a fair number of Azo prints for $50. Then after raising the prices up to $75-$100, nearly zilch. Most E-bay buyers would rather buy $12.99 nudes on RC paper. Very hard to compete with that if one doesn't do nudes.

 

[panastasia]

When Weston was selling prints for $ 35, that was the equivalent of a weeks pay for many people.

EW sold prints for $5; Fred Picker sold his 8x10 prints for $25, and thought selling our fine art photos could never be a business. As we know, his business was in selling photo equipment/supplies via mail order and workshops.

 

[WarEaglemtn]

Two of the worlds finest regularly get the prices shown below. Their philosophy works for them. eBay was not around when Michael started or maybe he would have tried it? Is is certain that if it did not pay he would have moved on. Check out their work at http://michaelandpaula.com and be rewarded in the images and especially the writing and information on how two of the best in the world do it.

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Photographs: Silver Chloride Contact Prints
Now that we are not printing from older negatives (except in a very few instances), prints from these negatives are now editioned. The edition number is different for every image: for some photographs it may be as few as 4 or 5; for others it could be 12, or 17, 26, or 33, or some other “odd” number. Although we have never before editioned our photographs, we have always assigned each print a unique number and have kept exact records of how many prints of each image we have made.

Each year we expect the photographs that fall into the “older” category to change by one year, although that is not rigidly fixed. We may consider certain work “current” for more than two years or we may consider it to be current for only one year. Here are prices as of January 1, 2007.
* Current photographs (2004, 2005, 2006):
Michael: 8 x 20 $3,000. Paula: 8 x 10 $2,000.
Color 8 x 10 $2,000. 5 x 7 $1,000.
4 x 5 $1,000.
6x6/6x7 $750.–$1,500.
Multiple 6x6 and 6x7 $1,250.–$3,000.
* Older photographs (pre-2004):
Michael: 8 x 10 $2,000.–$10,000. Paula: 8 x 10 $2,000.–$5,000.
8 x 20 $3,000.–$10,000. 5 x 7 $1,000.–$3,000.
18 x 22 $4,500.–$10,000. 4 x 5 $1,000.–$2,500.

The price for Michael’s 2' x 5' silver print enlargements, made directly from his 8" x 20" negatives is $6,000 except for the two prints from which half the edition has sold. Those are priced at $7,500.

* Platinum prints: Our large platinum prints, in editions of ten with two artists’ proofs, begin at $15,000 for Paula’s prints and $10,000 for Michael’s prints.

 

[jd callow]

World's finest what?

 

[mark]

I think he means photographers, though I don't agree.