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Amanda Bates

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New and used art dealers... anyone used / come across these new kids on the block? (Been going since February) http://artrehome.com/

Pat Harrison

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Interesting but seems to have a few snags. You can get a free listing as an artist if you get three of your friends to join the site. You should upload images with a 2MB file size which makes them prone to theft. You pay them commission of between 7.5% and 15%. It was not clear to me which one applies when. You should not communicate with the buyer other than through them. Their provenance rating system charges 25 GBP for every work rated. It was not clear to me whether you can only sell once your work is rated.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Doubtless I'm being thick, but I didn't quite understand this site, at least from the point of view of the artist. It's apparently about re-selling work - how is that applicable to us? It refers to downloading work from the site.... hence the size of image required, I suppose. But - why would anyone want to download a painting? What's to stop anyone downloading it for free, anyway? Once my stuff is gone, I don't get it back - how can I "re-home" it? I'm not at my bonniest and brightest today and this is certainly dulling my brain, or pain-killers are: but I'm obviously missing the point in a rather big way.

Alan Bickley

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After reading all the comments, including what appears to be a very confident explanation from 143, presumably Mark, I will be signing up. I have checked out the website and feel comfortable with all that has been said, and it has the appearance of being very professional, I like it... As a prolific artist since leaving college in the late 60's, I have many hundred's if not thousands of paintings that have never been on display to the public. There are only so many works that you can sell in galleries and exhibitions and I consider this to be a good opportunity to have a shot at re-homing some of them. I also have many works from other artist's that I no longer require. It's probably no different than my gallery on A&I, and that works reasonably well for me, selling the occasional few, which all helps. Thank you Amanda for bringing this site to my attention, I hadn't heard of it before.

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Pat Harrison

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With 9816143´s explanations I have taken another look. It may be worth a try. No registration fee and just 7.5% commission. However I have not detected any "sold" items but then I have not looked at every single page yet.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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I need to look at it again - I was being a bit dense before, because at the time I had need of a large amount of opioid pain-killers, and even when you don't realize they're doing it, they make the brain sluggish. And some of us don't need our brains to be any more sluggish than they were already. Will perhaps give this a go .... perhaps Alan you'll let us know how you get on.

Mark Hatwood

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Thanks for your comments. Like most online retailers (eBay, Amazon, etc.) we don't show works that have been sold; there's little reason to. We only show works that are still for sale. Also, an advantage of signing up as an artist is that if any piece of work accredited to you goes live, you get an email so you can track its progress and/or buy it back before anyone else sees it, if you feel you'd like to. This is another free service we provide to help support artists and the industry. The reason some of the artists show no picture or copy is that these are profiles that haven't been populated by the artist, but by someone selling a piece of work by that artist. As such, the actual artist hasn't signed up and 'claimed' that profile as yet. Once they do, we can allow them access to it so they can attach their name to the profile and add a picture. I hope that helps and feel free to email [email protected] if you have any questions you'd like answering and we'll happily get back to you.