Stupid Email of the Week
Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints. And before you ask, yes, this is a real email and this person is sincere (if nothing else).
why are you charging 15 dollars for a tiny picture of a squirrel .. is there some kind of special feature to it or animation because i see no real value in this at all.?? Do you have a LOT of people actually buy this?? Im sorry but i see this as a rip off and unfair to people that actually work for a living instead of selling tiny pictures to people for unfreasonable prices. And no im not one of those people that sit at home all day and complain but im looking for a picture to get a tattoo of a squirrelll but cant print this one out without paying 15 dollars for it?
do u draw these yourself cause i just found one exactly like yours for free on another website if so so goodluck trying to make money on petty things.Free file sharing should be the way to go..thats what the internet is all about these days.. get a clue
For reference, this is the cartoon squirrel picture she is talking about.
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Heh. “I want to put your picture on my body permanently, and I love it so much it’s worth exactly zero to me to be able to do that.”
Wow. I hope she pays more than $15 for the tattoo. Unless it’s done by a hack it’ll cost 15-20 times the price you charge for the royalty-free, unlimited rights to the image. Something tells me this may be a teenage girl, one who’s in for a bit of a rude awakening.
Cool squirrel.
Lovely. The “actually work for a living” bit is priceless. I’ll bet she isn’t a big patron of her local art museum.
Seems to me that she is looking at your squirrel as a mass-produced retail product. Your “competition” in value is anything she can buy at Walmart for $15.
It is easy to see why “starving artist” is axiomatic, if not just redundant. :)
People can be so naive. I wonder what she “does for a living” because I bet she wouldn’t give you her services for free. Maybe you’ll see her in the McDonald’s drive-thru and not only can you ask to see her way-cool squirrel tatoo, but maybe she’ll up-size your fries for free!
I love your art. Wish more people could understand the talent behind the computer screen…
What is more stupid, the e-mail she sent or you publishing it? You show right of the bat you are highly unprofessional here…..sorry dude..you just turned me off…..
(and FYI I agree with her complaint about the price, 15 dollars is way to expensive, there are numerous sites where you can get better designs for not even half of the money…..)
Daisy,
Do you know how to capitalize your name? Do you know that you should have used the version of the word “to” spelled “too” when saying “too expensive?” An ellipse uses three periods, not two (or is it “to” or “too”), and certainly not five. You might want to be careful about throwing the word “stupid” around in the future.
Brad is incredibly talented and his pricing is a bargain. I’m glad this “stupid” e-mail was published so people can become more enlightened about the true value of art. And, by the way, cartooning is one of the more difficult art forms to master.
I don’t know what “unfreasonable” is, but I think it should enter the lexicon. Some of Dubya’s made-up words should be introduced into the mainstream too. How about “unreasonablificationment”?
You know what? I’ve just re-read this lady’s post and I agree with her. You want to charge her how much for the squirrel drawing? Clearly she would be a fool to consider paying you (or the tattoo artist for that matter) when she can simply catch a squirrel of her own from the local park for free, strap it to her arm with strong rubber bands, and draw round it with a permanent marker.
Fitz, you should be ashamed of yourself.
This is an interesting little controversy – I suppose it really depends on how one looks at it and how we want to use the image. If we’re looking at it as a separate piece of art to place in a collection or something, then I can see where someone might value it at $15 or more. On the other hand, if I just need an image of a squirrel to put in a blog post somewhere, I really can’t see myself paying $15 a pop for this.
But either way, as long as we have some semblance of a free market, you should be able to charge whatever you want for it, and if you can find enough buyers you can probably do pretty well.
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