Survey: Your experience of collecting painted miniatures

[Attica Miniatures]

Hello everyone!

If you collect painted historical, fantasy or wargaming miniatures, we would appreciate your participation in our survey very much. It won't take more than 5-7 minutes.

Just a few words about us. Attica Miniatures is a painting studio from St. Petersburg, Russia. During the last two and a half years, we have grown from an eBay store reselling unpainted models of the Russian manufacturers to a studio employing 27 artists. Now we would like to understand the needs of collectors better. And last but not least, this survey will help Ivan Novik, the founder of Attica, with his master's degree thesis on collectibles market segmentation.

Please follow the link to complete the survey: https://ru.surveymonkey.com/r/collectible-market-forums.

Thank you in advance.
Tatiana

 

[Tecumsea]

Tried to answer the survey but section 7 is very confusing and didn't satisfy my criteria in the end...gave up.

Also the selection of favourite periods is much too narrow for you to get anything meaningful. When designing a survey it is important to be absolutely sure of what you are trying to get out of it.

keith.

 

[DEL]

Keiths absolutely right regarding the survey.
Many of the questions are open to a degree of interpretation and that in turn makes any conclusions drawn subjective..
Another factor to consider is firmly identifying your surveys target responders. I'm assuming that it's collectors of painted figures, in which case this needs to be stated up front and central.
It is probably better to establish a quantifiable baseline when identifying who is a collector, say someone who has bought or commisioned upwards from 30 figures. By doing this you can then begin to establissh useable % data, otherwise 20 respondents with only 2 or 3 figures in the same genres can wildly effect conclusions.
Sorry if you've already allowed for this in your survey design, but not being in the presumed target group I only contributed to the first two questions.
Derek