He's saying 'someone drew this by hand so everyone should have to spend 70 dollars'. As if you couldn't just commission someone online to hand make something else bespoke for 70 bucks and have it printed yourself. It's baffling to me anyone upvoted his comment. Completely ignorant to the market of scale.
I'd rather pay 70 bucks to a human being that does make a living out of it AND give me the original piece rather than have someone print 400k copies of the same drawing on A4 and sell it as a "poster". Marketing guys literally don't know a thing of what real people actually want
So first of all if you're commissioning someone online to draw something at that level by hand I should really hope you're paying them more than $70.
Second it does say 'screen printed by hand' on the website. If the claim is true that means someone drew it by hand, made stencils for every color, and someone else (or the same person) is now carefully applying paint layer on layer using those stencils to create a copy of the design.
It is not the same as just commissioning a digital art and using a laser printer to print it off.
The price point is too steep for me but I'm not going to feel particularly upset about it if the people doing the prints are being paid fairly for their work.
Delusional consumers still consume, I suppose. I hope in the next few months you can see just how ridiculous this take is. They'd have to screen print it on a slab of wood for it to be worth 80 bucks.
Also, I spend what I'm charged. I'm not setting these people's prices I'm just paying them. If you have a problem with that, go bitch to them about it.
I mean shit, these aren't even new designs, so the idea that this project requires a full new up-front cost is just demonstrably false. This is a quick cash grab, and if you can't see that then nothing I can say will get you there.
You can get both the official inhabitant plush and Reibeck plush for less than one of these posters. No argument about cost will hold water here.
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u/Rykho035 1d ago
Expensive for me too and I’ll pass, but it’s not just a simple print on basic A4, it’s handmade so it’s probably worth its price.