Profit On Owner Purchase

If you are singned in and order, you will not get charged for the markup that is your profit.
You will only be charge the base cost.

Ok....that makes sense...thank you. I sold Two shirts not sighed in and it came up no profit. When emailed them they said the mark up prices hadn't been listed. I asked them to add the profit since I am new to site and apparently made mistake when adding the images. Do they correct those kind of mistakes.

You may want to get in touch woth Abbie.
If the markup price is not listed when you are not signed in... then it is not good.
Because, it is like some one else trying to order and if the markup price is not there, you will not get the profit.
You want make sure you have mark up price.
If you want to purchase for your self then sign in to your accout and order so they only charge the cost.

You click on Abbie Shores avatar and then click on contact, then privat message.
Send her an email asap and see if she could correct that for you before it too late.

Even if you are signed out it might still be able to identify you as an owner purchase. Your IP address could have had something to do with that.

I take links from my site when I’m not signed in, those views mostly don’t show up as views that’s because of IP address.

I think that is the is the answer to your issue.

I believe Douglas is correct. As I understand it FAA recognizes your IP address and automatically deducts your markup.

I may be misunderstanding the situation, Debra, but I think it's as follows:
1. You had left the mark-up blank
2. You bought the shirts, presumably charged $18 each (the base price for all except the 2X and 3X shirts).
3. You paid $18 for each shirt.
4. You received no "profit".

You WANTED to have marked the shirts up $5 (say) and to be charged $23, thus being "paid" $5?

You have now added the mark-up and want Customer Service to go back and charge you an additional $5 for each shirt so that you can "make" $5 on each sale?

I certainly cannot speak for CS/FAA, but IF this is the situation and were I on the staff at FAA, I would say no, we can't do that.

no. the profit and any extras the site adds in beyond the base price, you won't get the profit. it wouldn't really make sense if you did.

if you didn't add the profit in before hand - no they won't give you money. you have to make sure the prices are filled in. but you shouldn't have been able to buy the shirt unless you filled in $0.00 . because then its set for no profit.


it may just be that you were logged in. if you go to behind the scene and click on purchases - if you see 2 shirts, it means you never logged out.


----Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

I won't make any difference if you pay the profit or not. If you buy it from a guest account or a different account you get the credit for a sale and you get paid the "fee" (profit) back on the appropriate pay day. The net cost to you is exactly the same.

But if you buy it from your artist account it is a self purchase and it will not give you credit for a sale.

I only buy my own stuff from FAA on rare occasions but I always buy from a guest account or a different account so I get credit for the sale.

All markups are input in USD.

You can charge $10 for an 8.0" x 6.4"... $25 for a 12.0" x 9.6"... etc. We charge for our products and add your markup for the licensing of that image at that size

The final prices are a collaboration of

1. What you put in your markup. That is what you will actually earn for a sale.
2. If your markup is $50 or under, we add $5. If your markup is over $50 we add $5 + 10%
3. Plus Our Printing costs

All of our wall decor is custom priced and produced based on your unique image sizes. So the easiest way to figure out base costs for your unique image sizes is to set all of your print markups for that image to $1. Then just see the resulting retail prices by size, and subtract your $1 markup by size to figure out our base costs for each.

Because our ship prices are also specific to your custom image sizes, the easiest way to figure out shipping charges is to add one of your images as a canvas print (or any other wall decor option that you want to figure out ship costs for) to a cart on our FAA or Pixels.com site, enter a US or international shipping address representative of where your customers are likely to be shipping your orders to, and see the ship price that our site shows you.

The Price and Dimensions area should be totally ignored if you are not selling original sculptures, paintings etc. We do not charge or take commissions on these.

If you choose not to sell something, leave the space for markup totally blank. Not even a space.

You cannot choose between canvas OR paper prints etc. Only the products or all the prints. You are not selling the products, we are. So we price the product and you price your image which you are licensing to us to use on all prints

Search pages (such as particular product searches) take 24+ hours after the prices added to be shown

Use DEFAULT SETTINGS to set your markup for future images
Bulk Image Edit, for existing prices

We will not pay you for a sale you either did not add a markup to, or for a self purchase. Just know for the future.

Abbie
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Artists Community and Technical Support Manager | Shopify/Pixels Representative
"When nothing is going right, go left."

Use Fine Art America if only selling household goods
Use Pixels if you want to sell everything

Abbie, if you make self purchases from a different account, you get paid the fee, as I understand it and have experienced it. I have been doing it that way because years ago we were told that the sale then counts towards what ever a sale is worth in the search ranking.

Does it not work that way any longer?

I think it is confusing and causes misunderstanding by calling it a mark up or a profit and not explaining it as a fee. IMHO the words profit or mark-up should never be used.

It is, as I have said before, a MARK UP

It is a mark up above the price we pay. It is the price, marked UP

It is a mark up. The artists markup

If you think taking money out of your right hand and putting it in your left hand is profit - go for it. (but it's not).

Not sure if you are talking to me Roy, but I was not suggesting it was a profit. I was saying the net, no matter how you do it is the exact same. I was suggesting that the difference was you get credit for the sale for what ever value that is worth.

Here in FAA it is called the 'MARK UP'
That is what the Artist get.
Now you can work on the terminology.
Call it , Profit, dividen, perks, extra income, bonus,
wins...
whatever, in FAA world that is what the Artist get on their image and it what one fill out on the pricing form and it says 'MARK up'
Hope thats clear. :)

Very simple unless you try to make it more complicated than it needs to be.

Markup is the difference between the selling price of a good or service and cost. Our cost is FAAs base. Our markup is what we choose to add.

Cost + Markup = Price

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Profit depends on the time and materials + overhead required to create the image. Who knows what your profit is - someone people plow thousands of dollars into camera gear, gas, travel and will never see an actual profit.

Profit - a financial gain, especially the difference between the amount earned and the amount spent in buying, operating, or producing something.

Sorry...didn't mean for my question to turn into a debate. I'm new to this website and just learning how it works. Thanks for all the input...I think I understand now...sorta...lol

Debra

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/breathe-out-debra-desersa.html

Please read carefully

If you sell an image we will refuse to print if the image shows.......

Pixellation
Blockiness
Noise
Bad cropping
Blurriness not in keeping with the image (ie not meant to be there)
normal font signature (Arial, Times New Roman etc)
signature cropped half off the image
large watermarks
noticeable camera flash
Upsized images

We do not do quality control until you sell so, it is your responsibility to quality control your images carefully before uploading. You do this by zooming in a photo editor to 100% and then carefully going over the image, checking for the above defects

Read this thread for original art copying techniques https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2764654

Abbie
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Artists Community and Technical Support Manager | Shopify/Pixels Representative
"When nothing is going right, go left."

Use Fine Art America if only selling household goods
Use Pixels if you want to sell everything

Hey Debra
This forum is like google search.
Just put the word out and you will be swamped by all kind of information.
Then you will need to weed them out and select the one you are looking for. Lol
Enjoy ! It will get better.
🍻

Tony, please don't say that after my post. People need to read my posts and take note.