A good friend, Monica Linville, uses them and has been happy with the site but she also aggressively markets her work and most sales have come through her efforts elsewhere and not necessarily the site. I’m close to using it myself because of her experience.

Diane

I’ve been with them for a few years now but have only had one or two sales… and nothing really worth while…..
I’m considering not re-newing as it just seems to be very few sales on there.
Although one does keep hoping :rolleyes:
Cheers
Sharon

Based on the positive sales experiences of a fellow photographer (from another forum), I’m planning to try FAA, someday soon. FAA is free to join and exhibit your work, but $30/year for POD service (plus a personal website).

Here’s a link to a review of FAA from Digital Image Magazine — the ‘Comments’ section is especially telling, with many FAA artists chiming in with their thoughts.

[url]http://www.digitalimagemagazine.com/blog/featured/marketing-a-review-of-fine-art-america/[/url]

FAA has grown significantly over the last few years, and, from what I’ve read (recently, articles about FAA are popping up [I]everywhere[/I]), their features and traffic have increased at a rapid pace.

I’ll order some print samples of my own work, before I join — if the quality is good, I’m willing to invest $30 for a year. That’s a pretty affordable experiment, in the scheme of things. If nothing else, I’ll get much more than $30 worth of exposure for my work. When I consider some of the opportunities which have come my way through my galleries at Zazzle and RedBubble (sales, shows, having my work published, etc), this seems like a win/win deal.

As for uploading high-resolution images, online — that’s a leap of faith you’ll eventually have to take, if you’re serious about selling art through any online POD service(s). I’ve been selling online for more than five years and haven’t had any problems, yet . . . that I know of, at least.

Thank you very much for your considerable feedback!

I have been a member for some time but only recently shelled out the $30 for the chance of selling prints. I figured the cost was minimal so if it doesn’t get results it won’t break the bank.

Good luck to you!

I recently signed up for a printing account with fineartamerica and really liked the ease of creating my site. I was super impressed when I received an inquiry from someone out of the country wanting to purchase one of my paintings that I had just listed. We corresponded back and forth for a couple of days (haggling over price and shipping issues)….to make a long story short it turned out the “buyer” was from Togo and presented me with a money order for $600 more than the purchase price. Nigeria scam all the way Since then I’ve received a bunch of very nice comments from other artists on the site but zero sales. I’m on the fence about renewing when the contract ends.

I am very sorry to hear about your bad experience.

I joined it just over a month ago. I’ve been trying to draw traffic there through facebook and twitter. I’ve had a decent number of ‘visitors’ to my work, and some very nice comments, but no sales yet. I’m hoping friends/family and other contacts who won’t buy an original painting might buy a print or some notecards.:o

aglasschick- sorry about your bad experience, I’ve heard of several other artists running into scammers like that on the internet recently

Kurt, nice to hear about your success with FAA! I missed a couple of sales this winter because I was relocating and off computer for awhile. Someone wanted larger prints than my images would create. FAA contacted me but I didn’t find the messages until a month later. I do know of another artist who has sold quite a few prints from the site…you can check out his work. Don Maier, watercolorist.

I haven’t ordered any prints of my own but now that I have a place to sell them, I will.