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I also suspect the global shopping world has simply increased the choice. It is undoubtably a buyers market.
The general public are a fickle bunch...they invariably want something for nothing or lowest cost possible and are often prepared to take second best if the price is significantly cheaper than the best products. In fairness, we all like to get a bargain ( especially Yorkshiremen) and so it's no surprise that it's harder to sell these days.
I learnt at an early stage, in my photo manipulation period, that the general public think 'computers make things easy to do' ....and that means it's 'cheaper'. So despite being able to restore, enhance, adapt, manipulate photos in ways that were unheard of a year before I started back in 1993, my customers were already recoiling at the hourly rate I needed to charge. I very quickly stopped all general public work and dedicated my photography and design services exclusively to commercial customers.
For this reason I have not sold a single picture outright since last century. And don't expect to do so this one either.
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Eric