I went Professional and my sales have crashed! Do you know why?
Summary: The thread appears to contain an initial question from vonbalden about why his sales dropped after he went pro. However, the specific contents of the posts are marked as "None", suggesting that there are no further details in the discussion itself.
There are two reasons. The first is that as a private seller offering a few paintings, you had the appeal of a seller
offering preserved family pieces. For better or worse, the observer can see them as old relics from a bygone era. With their charm and the patina of time on the canvases. The second reason concerns the presentation of the paintings: aseptic, formal, as if they were ball bearings for car wheels. Measurements, condition, beautiful, ugly, stop. Like a little assembly line that, in itself, rather than bringing you closer, pushes you away. Everyone does the same things, everyone says the same things. Since it's art, it takes pathos, you have to draw the observer into that wonderful world enclosed within the narrow space of the frame. You need to know the style, the painter's dynamics. It's obvious that I'm not selling a Wassily Kandinsky, but I can't hope that things will sell themselves just because I put them up for sale. Remember, make the viewer vibrate with sensations.
mocer-75
·1 year agoAh, if all this effort spent whining about how ugly and evil eBay is had been put into getting compliant with the current regulations instead of acting like an unauthorized seller...
heavenwelkin
·1 year agoHi Von
They should continue to have both coexist on the platform ...
The professional one for a series of reasons and the private one for another good series of reasons.
When you contact a professional seller, they hardly ever reply, and if they do reply, they give you a handful of verbs.
When you find the passionate private seller, they explain everything and more about your question in detail, and sometimes the virtual conversation continues and you even become friends.... staying in touch even AFTER the sale...
A professional and a private seller can coexist on the platform without getting in each other's way.
The problem is the private sellers who sell new items in the same way as the professionals; they should focus only on the latter, avoiding a witch hunt that affects all private sellers indiscriminately.
Kind regards.
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