Queerbay Issues

[Linus]

What about having people link their products to a picture in their Gallery?

[little man]

Originally Posted by Linus

What about having people link their products to a picture in their Gallery?

would this not also tax the server storage?

flickr is a free deal for the basic level and tied into your yahoo (if memory serves).

[Mindy]

I would definitely be ok with a percentage of the sale or even a set amount of each sale going to the site. Maybe a set listing fee would come out of the item if it sells and go to the site, and an option to donate more if the seller wanted to donate more to the site than the set amount? I definitely think that the site should get something from it. Right now I'm not working and it would be hard for me to come up with the money up front, but if it came out of the selling price it would work for me. I'm not sure how that would work, if you could set it up to auto pay you for the listing or not. If not maybe an honor system where we have to pay if it sells and if it's not paid you can't list again? I dunno.

[little man]

you know, i read somewhere today about starting a scholarship fund for folks who can't afford to attend the reunion, or artist grants and the like. perhaps a small percentage of sales taken for the art grant? i can't really think of any artists i know who would balk at helping other artists out. if the site is in good enough financial shape that you wouldn't need it to keep things running, i really like the idea of the money going into a fund to help fund artists for projects or whatever. is this doable? maybe you could do a survey and see if people would be willing to slice a percentage off for that?

i'm sure this should have had paragraphs or something, but my mind is a mess and i have to get ready to leave for work.

[Medusa]

Originally Posted by little man

you know, i read somewhere today about starting a scholarship fund for folks who can't afford to attend the reunion, or artist grants and the like. perhaps a small percentage of sales taken for the art grant? i can't really think of any artists i know who would balk at helping other artists out. if the site is in good enough financial shape that you wouldn't need it to keep things running, i really like the idea of the money going into a fund to help fund artists for projects or whatever. is this doable? maybe you could do a survey and see if people would be willing to slice a percentage off for that?

i'm sure this should have had paragraphs or something, but my mind is a mess and i have to get ready to leave for work.

I like this idea Wil! It is highly appropriate to the idea of Queerbay since we want to start encouraging Queer artists to do more work and become more visible. If there were small (or even large) grants for supplies and such, I cant even imagine the amazing work that could be produced in this community!

Right now, any percentage from sales would have to be on the honor system. I have already had one person who wanted to donate a percentage of her sales to the site. I think its a fabulous idea! (and very generous)

Im not opposed to the honor system and can set up a donate button with no problem in that area if people want to do that.

Other thoughts?

[Mindy]

'Dusa, I can't wait for it to be ready! lol... I'm making some of my boxes to sell. I'm planning on making some up and getting pics together and then letting people order custom made boxes, giving a little chart with colors available and they can pick colors and then I'll paint it up and send it to them. I painted a couple and took them to Vegas for a raffle um.. about 3 years ago I think. Arwen has one of them, and I don't remember who has the other (it was blue with fishes painted on it). So I'm busy as a bee getting a couple examples ready to photograph and put up as soon as it opens! whoot!

[Mindy]

Originally Posted by Mindy

'Dusa, I can't wait for it to be ready! lol... I'm making some of my boxes to sell. I'm planning on making some up and getting pics together and then letting people order custom made boxes, giving a little chart with colors available and they can pick colors and then I'll paint it up and send it to them. I painted a couple and took them to Vegas for a raffle um.. about 3 years ago I think. Arwen has one of them, and I don't remember who has the other (it was blue with fishes painted on it). So I'm busy as a bee getting a couple examples ready to photograph and put up as soon as it opens! whoot!

Ok, so I had a stupid moment and wrote fishes when it should have just been fish... boy do I feel stupid, and Wolfy is giving me all kinds of crap over it!