It's a very good business model for the site owner, though. Makes ebay look positively altruistic...
mike wilson wrote: >> 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 > > > -- You get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. --Al Capone. -- 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.
