Anyone Here Use Imagekind or RedBubble?

I am curious if anyone here uses Imagekind or RedBubble and if so, are they worth the time? I know there are a huge number of people selling on those sites, but I don't know if there are actually any buyers. Seems a bit difficult to get your work seen in the mess of artists that they host, but I would love to know if I am wrong. Has it proven to be a decent revenue source for anyone here?

Thanks!

Matt

I've been on Red Bubble for over a year. I haven't actively marketed it, and I don't spend a ton of time updating it, etc. I've sold two prints and two cards in that time. One print was for a buyer I directed to the site, the other was an out of nowhere purchase of a framed print. I don't know who they are or how they found it - which is one of the drawbacks.

Anyway, my feelings are it's good if you don't want to have to deal with the selling/accepting payment part, but I don't think it attracts a lot of buyers in and of itself, you have to market it, like you would anything else.

I tried both and never made a sale so I've given up on both of them. I didn't put a lot of time and effort into Imagekind but I tried doing more with RedBubble, to no avail. I've yet to find a site of this type that produces a return that's worth the investment of time and effort.

Lydia Dotto, ImageInnovation Photography
www.imageinnovationphotography.com

I have a handful of photos on RedBubble--enough to make a calendar out of!! I ordered the calendar myself, and liked it quite a bit--but since they are in Australia, it took a long time to get it.

I had a couple random "favoritings" but no purchases (and I also haven't actively marketed anything, haven't joined any groups, etc).

I'm thinking just for simplicity's sake that I'm going to delete my account there.

I tried Imagekind for about a year. Waste of my time.

I think it(Redbubble) definitely can be worthwhile if you drive people to it. I don't think a random buyer is common at all. I do mainly limited editions so I put up some of that stuff and refer ppl to my website. But for the open edition stuff, I feel its nice to have all the different makes/ set-ups available to a buyer without having to have the stock/materials myself. I have had it maybe 4 months and no sales though. I hardly remember it.

My experience with Redbubble is similar to those above. Little effort & no results. However, it is one more means of exposure. ;-)

I tried Redbubble for awhile a year or so ago but didn't get much out of it. It seems to be mostly sales of cards to other redbubble members rather than the public at large. As a rule I don't do cards so I pulled my images off a year or more ago.

I have a RedBubble account but I don't think it's worth it from a sales perspective. I think it's geared more towards the social aspect of connecting artists, and there sure is a multitude of different artists on there! It's only benefit for me is that it is an avenue of exposure, and so I now only post works that are not for sale. I did purchase a range of their products to see what the quality was like, but it was fairly average and quite expensive. RB have their base price for producing each product that you can then assign a markup percentage to to create the selling price. This normally has to be quite high in order for it to be of any benefit, and in doing so makes the end product price quite expensive for buyers.