> > From: "David J Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/07/23 Wed PM 12:58:08 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT Do stock companies contact photographers or is it the other > way around > > Here is the company. > Same contact info left on my phone, so i know i have the right site. > > http://www.photostockplus.com/ > > Most, if not all, of my equine photos have people in them, which would > require some sort of release i'm assuming. Just not sure i'd make > enough money to cover the monthly fees. > > Dave
>From a quick glance through the site, this is a promotional website where you >pay a monthly fee for your images to be present. Potential purchasers can >browse your images and then, for a fee, download fullsize files. You get to >keep 85% of the profit. My first thought is "Why don't I get the whole fee >when I'm already paying you for inclusion?", my second is "Who decides what >the costs (and therefore the profit)are?" It sounds like a poor business model for anyone not selling huge amounts of stock. Even if you were, I think you could make more money either doing it yourself or employing someone to do it for you on much better conditions than these folks are offering. > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My first stock arrangement came to me via e-mail solicitation, much > > like this. The owner had seen my photo.net site and asked me to > > contribute. I ended up making quite a bit of money on sales through > > his stock house. Just don't give them any money. Pictures, yes. > > Money, no. > > Paul > > On Jul 23, 2008, at 7:46 AM, David J Brooks wrote: > > > >> Had a message yesterday, from what sounded like some sort of stock > >> photo company in the London Ontario area. > >> > >> Saw my website and wants to talk about a business proposal. > >> > >> Smells fishy to me. > >> > >> Dave > >> > >> -- > >> Equine Photography > >> www.caughtinmotion.com > >> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > >> Ontario Canada > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > >> and follow the directions. > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > > > > -- > Equine Photography > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > Ontario Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
