Hey, Let's sell our original art!
Yeah, yeah, I know! We can sell our prints and our artwork on a whole bunch of awesome products, but how about being able to sell your actual paintings? Or jewelry? Or any other crafts? The idea has been brought up various times, and while I'm not the catalyst who restarted it this time, I
am offering simple way for everyone who desires a dA Artist's Marketplace to make their voice heard-- and make it count!
As artists, we're always looking to branch out to sell to a wider audience, and many of us have created accounts on other websites to conduct transactions so we can sell our jewelry or plushies or even our paintings. It makes sense that deviantART would enable and empower us to sell our artwork in its true form without having to go to another website.
[link]Let us know its something that you'd love to see! If you want to go into more detail, let us know what you'd sell if you had the opportunity to use dA for your selling. If you like BUYING, sign it too and tell us about all of the amazing people on dA you'd love to buy from! Every signature counts, and hopefully one day in the future we'll be able to buy directly from our favorite deviants and sell directly to other deviants without ever having to navigate away from our beloved deviantART!

End Note: Please remember that this is just a jumpstart. Feedback, planning, building and execution are things that come after we get the idea on the table. Right now, lets focus on making this idea a possibility!
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but the key word is "facilitate". a buyer is more likely to purchase something if it's easy to do so. and he is less likely to buy something if it requires writing notes, wrestling with manual payment on paypal, and not knowing when the item has shipped.
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I've seen some brilliant glass art and findings for beading and the like here, plus original paintings that you KNOW are going to be so much better in person than in print - and it would be just wonderful to be able to purchase on the spot.
I would bet that people would also get a lot more impulse buys... Clicking to go from DevArt out to someone's personal site is often one click too many for potential buyers. Plus, some artists just don't have their sites organized well enough to find specific pieces right off the bat - so people often just give up before getting to point of sale.
As Aun-Juli said, the feature would require lots of smart design and analysis before anything got pushed out. And perhaps there ARE other 'more important' things for DevArt to implement first. That's fine - I don't know what the "DAToDo" list looks like or what its priorities are. But this would be good to have put on the DA Wish List.
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