Urban Art Association

Certainly pictures help to sell a piece. Even when it's a print everyone knows well.

Prices, well, it can be tricky to judge price sometimes on items with little sales history... although 99% of the time I think you're right about people thinking they're holding mini auctions.

Its a debate that we've had on here more than once.

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Pictures certianly help, in my case, to sell an item. I'm more apt to buy it... it's a visual thing.
As with prices. I skip most sale threads without them for the most part.
UNLESS, I know the piece and I really want it then I'll message them for a price they want for it or I have already researched the piece and know what might be a going rate for it at the time...
I'm not at all against silent auctions. Just state it as so...
IMHO

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Do you really think that is true. I am in full agreement with the OP, particularly the picture idea. I have posted in many pictureless sales threads, asking for pictures to be posted. How are you supposed to even know if you are interested in a [fill-in-the-blank] original, if you have absolutely no idea of what it looks like? Yes, I know you can PM the seller, but I think that such sellers are selling themselves short [pun left in] by failing to put the sales item right in people's faces on this board.

Maybe five or six out of ten people will PM for pictures, but there might be one in the other group, that would have bought the piece, if they had actually seen it.

Price can be another thing. For multiple prints, between expressobeans and elsewhere, a fairly accurate price history of a particular item can be ascertained. For original pieces, it can be a little tricky. As a seller, you know that once you post a price, you have set the ceiling, and people will try to work downward from there. A number too high will chase everyone off, but if you set one too low, and the item is bought immediately by another member, it will leave you with the nagging feeling that you lost out on some funds.

The use of "offers above $XXX.00" is probably the best solution. It sets a ceiling, but high enough that the seller would be happy to let it go for that price, and it gives the buyers at least some idea of what the seller wants for the piece. My $0.02 or the equivalent in pence.

Im guilty of not posting pics in my recent sales thread. The main reason was that I was too lazy to take pics of everything and post them all up. I personally would want to post as many pictures as possible in order to show the quality and condition of the piece. If someone were to ask for pics then I would take a fair few pics and post them on my thread and PM the pics.
I can understand why people want pics. I was just being naive in thinking everyone would know the images and would only want condition photos.

I totally agree that pics do help the sale.

I agree images will help the sale, I would add them if I new how, any advice will be appriciated Ty