Mafro's: All the Best Mapart You Can Buy, In One Place!™ Hey all! Today I'm announcing the official opening of Mafro's Art Shop! For Art Collectors This shop will offer all the best mapart from all the best map artists in one place! It is opening with 138 pieces of art from 20 different map artists! Now that it is open, the shop will be expanding, eventually offering roughly 500 pieces of art from dozens of artists, all of which you will be able to buy! Mafro's Art Shop guarantees the lowest prices on the server, the same as if you purchase directly from the artist. As with all art on the server, reselling is prohibited without permission from the artist. For Map Artists If you're a map artist and want to sell more of your art, contact me! The way it works is that you simply hand me a copy of all the pieces of art you wish to sell in my shop, and I will make a copy of each piece for display. I cover all costs in empty maps, etc. to create this copy, as well as all costs related to the shop itself. You may also post a sign advertising your island so that collectors can visit you to find more of your great work! Once someone purchases your art, I notify you and pass along 75% of the sale price to you! You will then be able to restock your shop if you wish. If you choose not to restock, then the shop may be assigned to another piece of art or another map artist. I have developed a method for you to both restock and collect your 75% cut when I'm not online, so artists from all time zones are welcome! Despite not being officially open, Mafro's Art Shop has already sold over 30 pieces of art to passersby! Artists who have already sold art include: Emy, Emily, Quoken, Escapist, Grizz, Cuppy, BlockMarket, Hasj, ItzVxper, Madival, Jolol, Teeler, and SkyCloud (sorry if I forgot any...there's been a lot!). Art offered in Mafro's Art Shop must be offered at the same price as the lowest price for that piece on the server, e.g. the same price you sell it for. If you lower your direct price, or offer it cheaper elsewhere, you must notify Mafro so that the price at Mafro's Art Shop can reflect that new price. I don't sell any of my own map art, so your art won't compete with the shop owner's - come try it out! ~Mafro
This is amazing and quite a game changer for me. I think it will reduce stress on me in regards to sales and advertising. I think I should just give up my shop and pay you to make me my own massive room Okay but no this is such a fun concept! Just make sure shulker boxes are renamed correctly when restocking, if something doesn't work you may need to change the sale item to the new shulker.
Thanks to everyone who swung by for an amazing Grand Opening yesterday! The shop sold 44 maparts in one day! It also added a new artist along with 5 new pieces of art, with lots more on the way. Looking forward to seeing how it grows in future...! Lots of love! ~Mafro
Hey all, my mapart just sold its 100th piece of art!!! Thanks to everyone who supports having all the best mapart you can buy in one place! ~Mafro
Hey all, my mapart shop just had its 200th sale! Thanks to Queen_Cheesecake for hitting that mark - she's sweet as pie! To celebrate 200 sales in roughly 2 1/2 weeks, and because many of you have asked me about what is selling best, I thought I'd share a few statistics with the mapart community, so you can get an idea of which mapart is most popular, which earns the most, etc. First, to get a sense for any bias in my data, here are a few stats about my mapart shop. It has: 202 individual pieces by 32 different artists 706 panels, which means an average of 3.5 panels per piece The average price per panel is 11.3 grass, skewing lower for smaller pieces (e.g. 1x1s are around 8 grass each) and higher for larger pieces 106 of the 200 sales are for 1x1s...the other 94 are for larger sizes Total sales equal 7,180 grass, or a little over 2 DCs, for an average of 35.9 grass per sale The Top 5 artists with the most sales are as follows (visit their section to see what they sell): #1 Madival - 34 sales #2 lilCupcakeFreak - 20 sales #3 EmyDances8 - 19 sales #3 SkyCloud - 19 sales #5 evans_onlyangel - 12 sales #5 Quoken - 12 sales #5 DrGrizzlyBear - 12 sales #5 BlockMarket - 12 sales Note that in front of each mapart is a lectern with a book. That book contains a brief description or commentary on the art and, if that art has sold, the number of times it has sold and the date of the last sale. You can use this to see which individual pieces have sold most frequently and most recently. If we look at which artists have brought in the most grass, the Top 5 list is different: #1 SkyCloud - 1260 grass #2 DrGrizzlyBear - 912 grass #3 Madival - 504 grass #4 Quoken - 480 grass #5 Jolol_ - 378 grass And the Top 3 most popular individual pieces are as follows: #1 Four Little Kitties by Cuppy (lilCupcakeFreak) - 6 sales (2x1 - 10 grass) #2 Celestial Blossom by SkyCloud - 5 sales (3x3 - 96 grass) #3 Michael the Archangel! by BlockMarket - 4 sales (2x3 - 64 grass) #3 Nathalie De La Rosa by Madival - 4 sales (2x2 - 48 grass) #3 Israel! by evans_onlyangel - 4 sales (3x2 - 32 grass) #3 Boykisser by Prodigy011 - 4 sales (1x1 - 8 grass) #3 Jenna Ortega by Madival - 4 sales (1x1 - 8 grass) Finally, the maparts with the most sales are generally kept in stock (though Celestial Blossom is periodically out of stock, as it is currently). I invite you all back to my mapart shop to not only peruse the art itself, but the lecterns and books that tell a bit about the art. Let me know if this is useful and, if people keep buying at my shop, I'll do this again once I hit another milestone of sales! Yours, ~Mafro
For those that like data, here are the stats for Mafro's Mapart Shop for November 2023 (includes a few sales from the end of October, when the shop opened). Sales Total Sales: 383 Total Panels Sold: 1,010 Total Grass Spent: 10,608 (3.07 DCs) Avg. Grass/Panel Sold: 10.5 Mapartists Most Pieces Sold: Madival (60 pieces sold) Most Panels Sold: SkyCloud (147 panels sold) Most Sales in Grass: SkyCloud (1,900 grass) Highest Grass/Panel Sold: Artz (16 grass/panel - 16 panels sold) Lowest Grass/Panel Sold: Cuppy (5.2 grass/panel - 51 panels sold) Top Selling Mapartists #1 SkyCloud - 1900 grass #2 DrGrizzlyBear - 1488 grass #3 Madival - 1206 grass #4 Quoken - 831 grass #5 Jolol - 640 grass #6 BlockMarket - 552 grass #7 Togpuss - 408 grass #8 Kurai - 392 grass #9 Cuppy - 265 grass #10 Artz - 256 grass Most Popular Maparts #1 Four Little Kitties a.k.a. Hogwarts Kitties by Cuppy (lilCupcakeFreak) - 9 sales (2x1 - 10 grass) #2 Nathalie De La Rosa by Madival - 6 sales (2x2 - 48 grass) #2 Belle Delphine by Madival - 6 sales (1x1 - 8 grass) #2 Fatpika by Pikameru - 6 sales (1x1 - 8 grass) #2 Jenna Ortega by Madival - 6 sales (1x1 - 8 grass) #2 Punkin Kitty by BlockMarket - 6 sales (1x1 - 8 grass) #2 Winter Wallpaper by Cuppy (lilCupcakeFreak) - 6 sales (1x1 - 5 grass) Thanks for making it this far! If you like this sorta thing, then please give this post a positive response of some sort (if no one cares I'll stop doing this). If there are other stats you'd like to see, just reply here to lemme know! ~Mafro
Quick update! Apparently there is a strong correlation between maparts that sell and those that are in stock. Those that are not in stock do not sell well at all. Like, pretty much never. At the same time there are mapartists whose maparts are out of stock who have not restocked or even been on the server in weeks or even in a few cases over a month! So, in the interest of improving sales for all those selling mapart at my island I am implementing a new restocking policy. If I find a mapart shop that is out of stock, I will restock it myself. This means I will supply the iron, create the map(s), copy each panel, put them in a shulker if necessary, and name the map/shulker as required. However, as this will take me significant time and resources, I will take a restocking fee out of the earnings of the mapartist at a cost of 2 grass per panel plus 2 grass per shulker. This restocking fee will be taken out of your earnings when you receive your grass from me. Mapartists, if you're happy paying that restocking fee to not worry about having to restock your maps, that's fine. If you'd prefer not to pay that restocking fee, please make sure to keep at least one or preferably two copies of your map in each of your shops. Lastly, for any customers looking to buy mapart - if you ever find a mapart shop on my island that is out of stock, just drop me a note and I'll restock it. My goal is to have all of the currently 258 maparts - all 809 panels - in stock at all times, as well as those that get added in future! Please contact me with any questions or concerns regarding this change in policy - thanks! ~Mafro
Crazy, special end-of-year offer - an entire mapart gallery in a box! I will deliver one copy each of all 286 maparts in my shop to you or any person of your choice for a one-time payment of 3 DCs. That's right, for the price of roughly a single DP head you can have an entire gallery of the finest pieces of mapart delivered directly to your door. Can you imagine a more amazing gift to give that someone special in your life? This is a one-time offer, available only for the next few days (while I'm off work and have the time to both deliver this massive prize and, maybe, restock). I don't see myself ever offering this again, and part of me hopes no one takes me up on this offer just because of the amount of work it will entail. That said, if you want to the one to buy an entire mapart gallery in a single transaction, please contact me either here or in game. ~Mafro
For those that like data, here are the stats for Mafro's Mapart Shop for December 2023. Shop Stats as of Dec 31, 2023 Maparts: 287 Mapartists: 44 Panels: 909 Cost to Buy 1 of Each: 10,375 grass (3.00 DCs) Avg. Cost/Panel: 11.41 grass (Know of a bigger mapart shop on the server? If not, I think this may be the biggest!) For the Month of December... Sales Total Sales: 224 Total Panels Sold: 650 Total Grass Spent: 7,024 (2.03 DCs) Avg. Grass/Panel Sold: 11.4 Mapartists Most Pieces Sold: Boarder02 (30 pieces sold) Most Panels Sold: xKurai (64 panels sold) Most Sales in Grass: Jolol_ (640 grass) Highest Grass/Panel Sold: David_Moment (20.83 grass/panel - 24 panels sold) Lowest Grass/Panel Sold: lilCupcakeFreak (5.38 grass/panel - 13 panels sold) Top Selling Mapartists #1 Jolol_ - 640 grass #2 DrGrizzlyBear - 608 grass #3 David_Moment- 500 grass #4 SkyCloud - 448 grass #5 xKurai - 412 grass #6 Quoken - 348 grass #7 Boarder02 - 320 grass #8 FrostyTheWhale - 304 grass #9 1tswift - 292 grass #10 Oakiidoakie - 288 grass Most Popular Maparts #1 South Side Suicide by Levxrage - 5 sales (1x1 - 10 grass) #2 Punkin Kitty by BlockMarket - 5 sales (1x1 - 8 grass) #3 Sing Me a Lullaby by Levxrage - 4 sales (1x1 - 10 grass) #4 Christmas Tree Buddy by Boarder02 - 4 sales (1x1 - 8 grass) #4 (tied) Rudolph by Boarder02 - 4 sales (1x1 - 8 grass) #4 (tied) Do I Give a Damn by Hellevator - 4 sales (1x1 - 8 grass) #4 (tied) Belle Delphine by Madival - 4 sales (1x1 - 8 grass) Thanks for making it this far! If you like this sorta thing, then please give this post a positive response of some sort (if no one cares I'll stop doing this). If there are other stats you'd like to see, just reply here to lemme know! ~Mafro
