Post #7851 by hanford_lemoore on Sat, Sep 7, 2002 2:15 PM

*tikifish wrote:*And Hanford, thanks for the advice, but I could never do it.

Yeah, it would be a tough one to do, esp. considering how hard we rag on people who do it here.

But simple marketing theory tells me this is why they get 50 bucks for a painting: They get more eyeballs. The more people you get to look at your ad, the better a chance you have that more people who are willing to bid something will see it.

I don't think it's the fact that they've done a piss-poor job of copying Shag's style. I think it's simply the fact that painting have a variety of Hot keywords in them. Shag being one of them. The more people you get to look at your add, the better it will sell.

Tikifish, if you don't want to put "Shag" in your ebay descriptions try putting "Nude woman". It's all about getting MORE people to look at your ad. In fact I think if you put "Shag" (I didn't mean "Shag-esqe", I just something like "if you like Shag you'll like this") Your paintings would get even more money than the ripoffs, since the term "Shag" just attracts the eyballs, but they bid on the painting.

Perhaps I'm wrong.

~Hanford