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Selling a Digital Copy?

  • 18-02-2010 8:20pm
    #1
    *eadaoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 628 ✭✭✭


    hey guys, i wonder if any of you can offer me advice here.

    i have a little photography shop on etsy where i sell a couple of prints (not many sales yet, but i'm enjoying it!).

    a buyer from the states just got in contact with me to say that she liked one of my shots so much that she'd like to have it as a big wall piece in her house, she didn't mention what size. i'm currently selling it in a 5 x 7 print.

    i think what she was suggesting was if she would be allowed to buy the 5 x 7 print and then blow it up herself, but i'm not certain how that would actually work. it seems more feasible that i would send her the digital file to have printed whatever size she wanted.

    my big worry about doing this is that she would then have a digital copy that she could just print and use whenever she wanted. i've no reason to believe that she would do anything bad with it, but i'm a bit wary of it nonetheless. it's one of my favourite shots and has gotten quite a good reaction, so i'm not willing to really sell digital copies of it.

    obviously the cost of blowing it up here and sending it to the states would be offputting and i'd imagine it'd be tough to get it to her! but i could look into it.

    do any of you guys have any thoughts on this? i'd appreciate some advice! :)


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  • #2
    AnCatDubh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,393 ✭✭✭AnCatDubh


    not sure what way to advise but one thought - is it possible to utilise a third party that does this kinda thing all the time. I'm thinking here somewhere like fotomoto.com That way you won't let go of the high res, and your potential client will get whatever size they are looking for - payment through the fotomoto site.

    Redbubble would be another site and there are probably lots of them about that will do the same thing.

    That was just a thought - good luck with it, however it turns out.


  • #3
    DotOrg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭DotOrg


    *eadaoin wrote: »
    hey guys, i wonder if any of you can offer me advice here.

    i have a little photography shop on etsy where i sell a couple of prints (not many sales yet, but i'm enjoying it!).

    a buyer from the states just got in contact with me to say that she liked one of my shots so much that she'd like to have it as a big wall piece in her house, she didn't mention what size. i'm currently selling it in a 5 x 7 print.

    i think what she was suggesting was if she would be allowed to buy the 5 x 7 print and then blow it up herself, but i'm not certain how that would actually work. it seems more feasible that i would send her the digital file to have printed whatever size she wanted.

    my big worry about doing this is that she would then have a digital copy that she could just print and use whenever she wanted. i've no reason to believe that she would do anything bad with it, but i'm a bit wary of it nonetheless. it's one of my favourite shots and has gotten quite a good reaction, so i'm not willing to really sell digital copies of it.

    obviously the cost of blowing it up here and sending it to the states would be offputting and i'd imagine it'd be tough to get it to her! but i could look into it.

    do any of you guys have any thoughts on this? i'd appreciate some advice! :)

    don't give her the digital copy, simply use an online printer who does delivery to the USA.

    get her to pay you via paypal or something

    try somewhere like snapfish maybe. or get it printed here in somewhere like: http://360-dpi.com/ and then post it in a poster tube, shouldn't cost more than €10-€15 to post to the usa


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