Buying
Find your way around the shop
This one is for collectors. The shop gathers every open storefront on Phyrne, and everything on them that is for sale or out on record, into one place to browse or search — and then sends you to the maker to buy.
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The walk
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Start at the shop
The front of the shop shows the collections Phyrne has put together, the newest work for sale, the newest records and films, and every open storefront under the kind of work it mostly sells — music, visual art, film and animation, photography, design and making, writing, or something else. A storefront with nothing on sale or out on record yet sits under something else. -
Open a collection
A collection is a handful of storefronts, pieces and records chosen by a person at Phyrne, usually around one idea. Nobody pays to be in one. A piece that comes off sale drops out of the collection, and is back in it when it is back on sale. -
Search for what you have in mind
The search reads every open storefront, every piece for sale and every record and film that is out: their titles and descriptions, the names of the tracks, and what makers say about their own shops. Every word has to match. The last one can be left unfinished — "harb" finds the harbour prints — but the words before it are read whole, so "harbour du" finds them and "harb du" does not. -
Narrow it down
Four tabs sort the results — everything, then storefronts, work for sale, and records and films on their own — each with its count, and the kind of work narrows them again. The closest match comes first, and nobody can pay to be higher. -
Buy from the maker
Every result opens on the maker's own storefront. Read their terms, then pay with a card and an email address, through Stripe. There is no account to make, and the maker is the one who posts it.
Good to know
- Fewer words find more. When nothing matches, the page says so and offers the shop instead.
- Something put on sale in the last minute or two may not be in the search yet. The maker's own storefront has it straight away.
- Nothing from the members' club is in the search — no messages, no calls, no profiles. Only what a storefront already shows the public.
Two ways in
Browse it, or search it
Questions, answered
Do I need an account to browse or search?
No. The shop and the search are open to anybody, and buying takes an email address and a card.
Why can I not find a shop I know is on Phyrne?
A storefront that is closed or suspended is in neither the shop nor the search, and neither is anything its maker has not published. If it went on sale a minute ago, give it a moment — or ask the maker for their link.
Who chooses the collections?
A person at Phyrne. No member can pay to be in one, and nobody can pay to be higher in a search either.
Is anything from the club in the search?
No. The search holds storefronts, the work on them and their records and films — what a storefront already shows the public, and nothing members say to each other in the club.
Go and look
Every open storefront, one way in, and the maker at the end of it.