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What Cut the Retailer Takes?
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Hi there! I am planning to sell my photos in the near future in coffee shops and retail outlets. Can anyone tell me what percentage of the overall retail price of the produce I should offer the retailer? What cut they usually take/expect?
Kevin :?:
Hi Kevin,
While not trying to be too cynical but who are going to buy your images?
I’m probably wrong here but it isn’t I would assume the most opportune
time (I think) to be selling photography. I appreciate the tourist
industry in Kerry would be a lot better than most other parts of the
country but is that who you intend to sell your images to?
Best of luck to you in your efforts!John.
Usually a retailer would remove the vat off the price you are selling your prints to them at, then double the price then add back on the vat to get their retail price.
That is if they are doing things right!
Hi Kevin
I presume the coffee shop isn’t buying the pics from you but allowing you to hang them on their walls to sell??
For example if you want to make €50 per print and your costs were €30 to print/frame then the price the coffee shop will sell the pic for is €147.55. This breaks down as €30 for costs, €50 for you, €50 for coffeshop and €17.55 VAT.
As you can see it’s a reasonably high price to pay for a low return to you but if you can talk the coffee shop into a lower fee then it’s better for you. The costs to them are pretty much zero and they also get art for their walls so it should be pretty easy to talk them into a lower fee.
Aindreas
I currently have paintings for sale in my coffee shop from a local artist and I charge her 10% on her price. Is not much but fills my walls.. In the last 10 months she sold one…
Ballyman wrote:
Hi Kevin
I presume the coffee shop isn’t buying the pics from you but allowing you to hang them on their walls to sell??
For example if you want to make €50 per print and your costs were €30 to print/frame then the price the coffee shop will sell the pic for is €147.55. This breaks down as €30 for costs, €50 for you, €50 for coffeshop and €17.55 VAT.
As you can see it’s a reasonably high price to pay for a low return to you but if you can talk the coffee shop into a lower fee then it’s better for you. The costs to them are pretty much zero and they also get art for their walls so it should be pretty easy to talk them into a lower fee.
Aindreas
If langan was to register for vat, which I doubt he would if he hasn’t sold anything yet, he’d have to add 23% and not 13.5%.
hi kevin,
in the past i had arranged for local coffee shops etc to sell my prints, most of the time they dont handle any of the sales part at all, they just give your contact details to interested buyers. you get to sell your prints and they get free decorations for their walls. nice way to increase exposure. but not a great way to make a living im afraid. you would be lucky to sell one every two to three months.
stew
Thanks for that Stew. At the moment I’m just looking for outlets for selling my landscape photos. I feel it is a good way of exposing my work outside of my website. I realize that sales from such a venture will be poor, but as they say, nothing ventured nothing gained. Hard time to make a buck!
Kevin
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