So a while back I got mail from this company that puts on art/fashion/music/whatever shows. They wanted my art in their show!
I replied noting that I work digitally, currently have pretty much nothing printed, and am not interested in putting in the time and effort to remedy this; if they could deal with making that happen we might have something to talk about. Oh, and what kind of price range is moving at their events, and about what percentage of stuff is moving?
The first was a dealbreaker for them, and they never answered the second question.
This past week a new person at the company with a pretty amazing name contacted me. They're putting together their next show! They want my work!
I asked the same questions. I wonder if I'll get an answer to the second one this time.
(Googling the company suggests no; apparently their deal is that showing requires you to sell about $200 worth of tickets, and there's really not much sales happening to an audience that is mostly the friends and family of the amateur artists/musicians/clothiers/etc exhibiting. Sounds like a great deal, sign me right up! Always do your research on deals that sound too good to be true, kids.)
Sounds like the classic pay-for-play scam that’s been a scourge of indie musicians for years. Not to mention vanity poetry collections and fiction anthologies and the “who’s who” books etc.
Yep! If I get a reply talking about how much exposure this will get me I am going to laugh.
I was contacted by the same company about a year ago, also did the google-search thing and came to the same conclusion. It was going to cost ME hundreds to be in their show and would likely sell nothing. No thanks. And I didn’t want to sell tickets to friends because, well, I’d like to KEEP them.