I wonder if it is better for sales than ugallery. I was on ugallery for about 8 months with no sales and dropped it.

The listing process isn’t as smooth as Etsy or even Ugallery. And I’ve had two customers, so far, contact me about glitches. So far I have sold more there than on Ugallery, but I tend to list larger items on Ugallery so I think that’s why.

The thing I like is #1 It is juried, so you don’t get buried under a lot of, oh I don’t know, kids drawing Amy Winehouse portraits or whatever.

2 It is an attractive site. It showcases you well.

3. It’s free to list, so other than taking the time for listing and the initial getting in, there’s no risk in trying.

As for promoting, there’s this thing where you can “follow” another artist. (Similar to Etsy and Saatchi) and whenever you list your followers get an email. The email is combined with all the artists the person follows. They also send out promotional emails. I was featured in one last week-the very, very bottom painting and my views that day went from 50 average to 250. Didn’t sell it, but everything adds up, I figure. They also have a contest thing, I haven’t looked very deeply into that. There’s the major social media buttons available to you when you list. They also tweet all new art from their twitter, and it’s an attractive tweet with a picture included. I usually get a few retweets from those, just because they are pretty. So that’s pretty much all the promoting I do there, and I’m not getting rich by any means, but in the grand scheme of it all, I find it worth doing. I get more sales from Etsy, but when you consider the time I put into Etsy, my pay-per-hour is better from Artfinder. :P Hope that helps!

Oh, and one last thing, when I did have to contact the administration about a glitch, they got back to me quickly. That is important to me, especially when a customer is waiting on you. So I wanted to mention that last thing. :P

I just had a look at the site but every time I go to view a new page an enormous pop-up descends and blocks the screen, trying to persuade me to join up. It is very off-putting having to close the pop-up in order to see each page and I would have liked to have a browse without being a member first.

Presumably it doesn’t affect everyone this way (maybe it’s because I’m using Firefox rather than Explorer?) or they wouldn’t have any customers?

Edited to add: I see onefinepint had a similar experience.

Ditto on that experience.

I had been with artfinder since 2014. It was fine in the beginning but they kept changing the rules making it difficult to sell. Payments were held for one month. artist is responsible to put the cost of shipping up front. If the customer does not like the painting and it is returned the artist is not re-reimbursed for shipping. They refuse to return messages when there is a problem and simply ignore you hoping you go away, which eventually I did. I would not recommend any artist sell their work there. I would describe the site as a thrift store selling platform. There were really so many questionable practices that I would steer clear of this site.