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Originally Posted by antsdmb
To be clear, Ben the artist here, is known for his pins just as much as his prints. $35 isn't crazy at all for his pins, and I will add that they are usually gigantic in person. I'm not a pin person by any means, but the price point is probably accurate in this case whether the appeal is there for you or not.
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To clarify my original statement re: price...
I don't like pins enough to spend $35 dollars on one, but I didn't mean to imply that they were overpriced. The design, the manufacturing of the mold and the pressing of the pins, painting the pins in (what is it) six different varieties, the paint being glow in the dark, packing, shipping...
It's less about them being overpriced in any way for me, it's that I don't value pins much at all, let alone $35.
It's like folks I've met that don't see why you'd spend anything as much as or even more than $1,000 on an electric guitar, but will drop thousands on a good acoustic. It's all about perspective.
Again, I'm all about helping artists, be they musicians, writers, graphic artists, etc. and regardless of medium. I just need to like what they make and have some use for it. Turns out I love concert posters, but pins? Not so much.