Featured Handmade artistic folded card

Hello, my friend is an artist and she makes folded cards with abstract images. Like the one below. Usually she makes only one copy of each image. She sells them $8.00 per piece. Does anyone have an opinion whether it may be worth buying such cards for further reselling them on ebay. What would be the price ? Welcome all thoughts.

 

I like her art. I could also see this as a scarf.
I just think, however, that with websites like Shutterfly
which provides the fun and so much choice in personalizing
one's stationary, that standard greeting cards will be a thing
of the past and mass marketing them (ebay) is a challenge?

 

I love things like this, but suspect $8.00 is about as much as the market will bear for a single card. Is your friend willing A) to make multiples & B) sell them to you at a wholesale price? Also, think they would sell (& ship) better as a boxed set of mixed designs, so are you prepared to acquire the needed materials & do the boxing and can the enterprise really net enough to make it worthwhile? Great cards, difficult sell, cheap to ship but hard to do so without damage. As the saying goes, IMHO.

 

Thanks Caribou's House and Bronwen for your opinion. I also think that $8.00 is too much for a single card. However my friend is not willing to make multiples as she considers them to be objects of art and not mass production. I will think about selling 5 cards I have as a set of mixed designs. Thank you again.

 

Greeting cards is a tough racket. The place for one of a kind pieces is probably more Etsy than Ebay, and even there I have a feeling $8 including shipping is probably about as much as you'll get for a greeting card. It might be worth your friend's while to sell them herself, but odds are reselling would be a money-loser.

 

Agree with evelyb.
She should take a look around etsy for prices and how well sellers are doing with cards now.
I think it is a tough market.

 

i would frame the originals and sell copies for 1/2 price , isn't that how it's done .

 

or make copies to send to friends and family .

 

A lot of artists in my area make and sell unique cards. $8 is a little steep. Go to Etsy or another site and see what original cards are selling for. Completed auctions, not necessarily what they're asking.

 

When I donate mine the charity store sells them for about a buck each. That's the going rate here, and one reason I don't try to make a living making cards.