I've always liked a set price with first come first serve
but some times you make make more with an action with AB (either with or without tiers)
so it all depends on you. Test different options and see what works better!

This is very true! I like to see what everyone else prefers though. Of course it's well within the artist's rights to see what they're comfortable with/what they prefer! I just like knowing what tickles the buyer's fancies.

Set price, first come first serve because if I win, thats cool, but if someone else beat me to it, then I just got saved a fistful of cash!

My love hate relationship with auctions and set price.
On one hand, I really want X thing, on the other hand, I really want to save money. So I so feel this philosophy.

It kind of depends on how much I love something/how much the AB cost is. If the AB cost is super high, I'd rather it be an auction, because there's a chance I could get it for cheaper. (Sorry, but I'm a starving artist too!)
Of course if I absolutely adore it, I'm willing to just buy it first come first serve.
I actually really hate the raffle way. I mean yeah it's a lot more fair to other people, but it's always super disappointing to the people who don't win. It also pushes a lot of people away from trying to win it if there are too many participants.

Pssh, don't be sorry at all. If things usually sell for 50 but you can get it for 25? Hell yeah I'd prefer to get it for 25. Feel bad for the artist and all and hey it's good for them to get money too, but money doesn't grow on trees that's for sure.

Raffles always bugged me too, personally not all for it... but I can understand the usefulness of it. I haven't seen many hisses at it though because it's just a recent option I've seen cropping up here and there so I was like hm, what's everyone elses opinion on that one?

Set price raffle option or auction with no AB. Because I miss everything and love a chance if said product gives me a boner. :T

That's why I always like auctions when I want to buy something xD; At least when I really want something, because then it's like DAMN IF ONLY I WAS AWAKE or on FurA at the time.

I find its a mixed bag. If the particular things are almost always flying off the shelves bought ASAP the moment they come on...I usually prefer raffle or auction because I am the queen of terrible timing. I find usually auctions make me uneasy in that if its something I want, I want to just buy it. So in most cases I'd rather just buy it or put in a chance to buy it than bid and feel all anxious and stalking the item constantly. And triple so when there is sometimes that last minute dive (quadruple so if there is no snipe guard)

That said, I think auctions can be really helpful in gauging an item's demand in that every so often putting a couple things up to see what the general feel is. Especially if the item is unique in some way. In some cases I figure setting a very high AB is nicer than the limitless ones if only because there is always that undercurrent of "well if you really want it, there is an optiooooon" XD

I just see you having a melt down when it comes to something you rly want but it's an auction.
Just lays there on the keyboard, tears everywhere
Simple dog noises.

The song of my people. :U

Honestly my only real warghle with auctions is when there is no snipe guard. Only because I like to have that moment to go "ok. Its been bid past but I can just let it go.." versus the flailing due to getting sniped at the very last minute and not having any real chance. I think its just a mental quirk for me in that if I'm gonna lose, I like to lose because I let it go rather than I got tripped up at the last second. I blame my old ebay days, it caused me to get super antsy about auctions.

I feel like it comes down a lot to if the artist is a supplementary artist or a commission artist by trade.

A commission artists price is set by making a living wage with their art, how much time they put into each piece and refining the time it takes to do a set-quality picture, then filling as many slots as they can.

A supplementary artist would have better luck creating slots for [wing-it] style commissions, YCH auctions, adoptables, or limited slots getting the most they can out of commissions that they are sure they will have time to complete without interfering with their primary jobs.

I feel like regular first-come-first-serve commissions are the best are a consumer, but not every artist can keep with that schedule.