That happened to me.
Does anyone actually buy prints?

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Well, I sold ONE print so far ... so, that happens

The "request and not buy" thing happens on many of my images....

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I can imagine that at least a few of those are caused by the size of the available prints. The first time I played around a bit with the prints I was surprised that the system would have refused to offer the print in sized I would have liked to get. That's when I decided that dA prints and astrophotography are a bad combination

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I have tasted of the fruit
and it's opened up my eyes.
It's given me a thirst
that's so hard to satisfy.

in my case 50% bought requested prints and 50% ignored

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Sometimes people accidentally click the request as print link by mistake when they meant to click the download link. This happened to me and I found out that the request goes directly to the artist without asking for confirmation from the requester. I was embarrassed and apologized profusely to the artist who's print I accidentally requested. He understood and was cool about my mistake. Perhaps DA should insert a confirmation link after the request link to safeguard against this happening.

Yeah, I've sold one also. I think DA must be making a pretty penny out of the prints scheme.
I'm considering taking down all my prints and making them available elsewhere.

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interesting observation, thanks !

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I normally ask the person before I do anything else, 100% of the time they don't give me a response, so I don't adjust anything

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'cause those damn squirrles [link] won't get their damn noses out of my nuts... damn nut smugglers

yeah well I usually get these print requests mixed in with a lot of faves, which I mostly bulk-delete, so I don't really always know who made the request ...

if only we could trace the requests back later ...

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Ha, well I don't get enough of either, so it's a bit easier for me

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'cause those damn squirrles [link] won't get their damn noses out of my nuts... damn nut smugglers