You want how much?
He wrote the words in an email but I could hear him say it.
I’ve heard it before, so I know the tone.
Heck, I’ve used the tone before.
Plumbers. Mechanics.
Any time we get surprised by a price.
As if the work they do isn’t worth it.
Like it’s something subjective.
For me, it’s for a lot of things.
Cars.
I think of how much I would pay for a used car or truck.
Then look at prices that car lots are asking.
It brings to mind a question.
Are you out of your mind?
And this was before the screwed up supply and demand market we’re in right now.
60k for a pick up truck?
You want how much?!?
When I price my books, I try to be reasonable.
I think of what I’d pay for a book I want, and price it the same.
I’m not a typical book buyer, I’m on the side that buys more books.
A typical book buyer might spend $20 a year on a hardcover, $10 on a paperback. ($19.99 and $9.99)
I’ll grab a paperback per week, and pay for a Kindle Unlimited Account so I can read more than that if I like.
So I price mine at $2.99 for an ebook up to $4.99, and paperbacks at $9.99.
But when I hear about Art prices, I ask the question.
You paid how much?
Gary Vee created an NFT series that he built a community around, and then sold the original artwork at auction for $1.2 Million.
Banksy, the street artist, has had pieces go for millions.
I’ve seen local artists asking for $99, $275, all the way up to $5,000 for their work.
Art is as subjective as the next thing.
What’s that expression?
I don’t know if it’s art, but I know what I like.
That’s my approach to building NFT’s right now. I’ve taken some pictures and turned them into digital paintings and set them up for auction.
I’ve even commissioned a few original characters that I’m building a launch around, with plans to grow out the community in the metaverse.
I think that’s where we’re going in the next decade.
Can you imagine owning a building in the metaverse in a city you built and other people paid you to live in, all digital.
And people can go into a museum that you own and look at art you own, and even buy that art from you?
It’s going to get kind of crazy, and right now, big corporations who control a lot of money are working hard to figure out how to monetize it away from you and put that profit in their pockets.
Which is why you should pay attention and learn one thing new every day about NFT, and crypto currency and the metaverse.
That way, by the time it gets here, you will be in the know, and not spending time going, what is everyone talking about?
And art?
We grabbed the painting above at an art sale.
It’s by a local artist and I like it.
I think it’s about boobs and private parts, and if you see it, you know.
I don’t know what the artist was thinking or feeling or what they meant with colors, or any of the very subjective interpretation.
I just like the painting.
But the first person to offer $5k for this very original piece of artwork gets it shipped first class, or even hand delivered with a venom payment.
I’d drive it there myself.
Then when your friends say, “You paid how much?”
You can say, “I just know what I like.”
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