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Making money at stock photography web sites
What do you guys think of these stock photography sites?
http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=59350 ....and... http://www.bigstockphoto.com/?refid=wdaph9OGqi I guy I work with says he's making tons of money just for uploading photos he already has in his portfolio. I don't have any "stock photography" types of photos in my portfolio, but I was thinking about getting into it. Before I start wasting a lot of time on something that's not going to pay off, I thought I'd check with the group to see if people are really making as much money as they say. Sounds too easy. Thanks, John |
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Scamming money at ....
wrote in message ups.com... What do you guys think of these stock photography sites? http://.com/?ref=59 ...and... http://.com/?refid=wd And of course those refs couldn't possibly be yours could they? If your enquiry was genuine you would just give the naked URLs. You say "I thought I'd check with the group to see if people are really making as much money as they say. Sounds too easy." Not making as much money as you'd hoped and decided to spam your refs here? |
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Making money at spam photography web sites
Both are obvious scam sites. I would avoid them at all costs.
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Making money at spam photography web sites
Wow! "Scam sites?" Really? I'm curious. What do you think the scam
is since it's free to submit photography and they pay you? ...and you maintain copyright of all your photography. ...and these web sites featured in national photography journals. Please elaborate. - John |
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Scamming money at ....
wrote in message oups.com... It's not spam. Those are the links that I got from the web sites when I clicked their "tell a friend" links. Aren't we all friends? The operative word there is "a" - a single friend, by sending him or her the link, not the whole of bloody Usenet. Really, I'm just looking for some anecdotes from people who actually have experience with these web sites. I'm not interested in reading replies from people cocking off when they probably haven't even visited the web sites and have no experience on which to base their opinions. I've seen micropayment stock sites. If you want to earn about 50 cents per sale you go ahead. Get rich and enjoy your early retirement. |
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Making money at spam photography web sites
wrote in message ups.com... Wow! "Scam sites?" Really? I'm curious. What do you think the scam is since it's free to submit photography and they pay you? ...and you maintain copyright of all your photography. ...and these web sites featured in national photography journals. Please elaborate. I have a lot of photographs with Alamy, a proper agency. With them it's also free to submit, you retain copyright, and they feature in the journals. The difference is that for a sale through Alamy you'll earn at least 300 times what you will with Bigstock and the other micropayment sites. |
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Making money at spam photography web sites
"Tony" writes:
Both are obvious scam sites. I would avoid them at all costs. A friend of a friend (yeah...but a specific named friend of this friend of mine, not just a random story making the rounds) says she's making over $400 a month from Shutterstock. And reading their policies and procedures there's nothing that trips *my* "scam detectors". I can understand how people may not like the payment terms -- it's $.20/download. However, the membership terms are also structured so that downloads will be much more common than final uses -- basically people signed up as users get a *large* number of downloads a month for their basic fee, so they end up working with actual photos for comping rather than watermarked copies, and the money ends up getting split between the photos considered instead of all going to the one finally chosen. I suspect it's a very bad deal for people with photos already successful in traditional stock situations. However, traditional stock situations are unreasonably expensive for lots of places where stock photos could be of some use. The times, they are a-changing. -- David Dyer-Bennet, , http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com/ http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Pics: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/ |
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Making money at spam photography web sites
"Helen" writes:
wrote in message ups.com... Wow! "Scam sites?" Really? I'm curious. What do you think the scam is since it's free to submit photography and they pay you? ...and you maintain copyright of all your photography. ...and these web sites featured in national photography journals. Please elaborate. I have a lot of photographs with Alamy, a proper agency. With them it's also free to submit, you retain copyright, and they feature in the journals. The difference is that for a sale through Alamy you'll earn at least 300 times what you will with Bigstock and the other micropayment sites. And that's part of the equation. How common are sales at Alamy compared to downloads at Shutterstock? -- David Dyer-Bennet, , http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com/ http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Pics: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/ |
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Scamming money at ....
Bob,
If I send you $5.00 can you just give me a hint? |
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