Originals, prints and posters. Free to list, you set the price, and nothing to pay unless it sells.
What are you selling?
All three are welcome. We just need to know which, because they are checked
differently, priced differently and posted differently.
If you are not certain it is an original, choose it anyway
and carry on — the close-up photograph settles it and we will tell you free
either way. Nobody is penalised for an honest guess.
It must be preloved, not something recently
made. A genuine published print or poster that you own and are reselling is fine —
that is most of what people have. We cannot accept reproductions run off at home or
ordered from a print shop, because copying somebody else's work without permission is
an infringement whatever it sells for. If you had it printed yourself, this is not the place
for it.
Who is selling it?
We need this to pay you, and because HMRC requires platforms to record who sells.
Five photographs
Daylight near a window, never with flash. They don't need to be beautiful —
they need to be honest. The close-up is the one that matters: it tells us
whether it is paint or a print.
What is it?
Guesses are fine. "Not sure" is a perfectly good answer.
Good — "Artist unknown"
it is. Most paintings here are unsigned and buyers are used to it. Guessing at a name
is the one thing that causes trouble — a name is an attribution, and if it is wrong
the sale can be unwound.
Measure the painting itself, not the frame.
Everything here is posted unframed, and you keep the frame.
Frames are heavy and glass is not covered by couriers, so taking it out makes the parcel lighter,
cheaper and far less likely to be damaged. Old gilt and oak frames are often worth £30 to £150
on their own — frequently more than the painting.
That's a perfectly ordinary answer
and it holds nothing up. Roughly one in ten can't safely be unframed. Say so here and
we'll arrange something else rather than have you force a backing board — a torn picture or a cut
hand is worse than an awkward parcel.
How is it holding up?
Be honest about damage. Buyers mind far less than you'd think — a
surprise on arrival is the only thing that causes trouble.
You've told us there is damage — please
say what it is. A described fault is not a fault: it is priced in and cannot be
claimed against you. An undescribed one can.
Your price
Most originals here sit between £80 and £400. You can change
it whenever you like, and buyers can make you an offer.
This will be posted rolled in a tube.
Far cheaper for the buyer than a flat parcel, and perfectly safe for something printed. If the
buyer orders framing it goes flat instead.
Is it yours to sell?
We ask everyone. Most paintings here were inherited or came out of a house
clearance and hardly anybody has a receipt — this isn't paperwork, it's just you telling us
where it came from.
We ask because reselling a genuine published print is perfectly
lawful, and copying somebody's work is not — whatever it sells for. If you had it
printed, or it is a copy you or a friend made of a painting or photograph, please do not list
it. If a listing turns out to be an infringing copy we take it down, refund the buyer, and the
cost comes out of what we are holding for you.