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Agency Based Discussion => Alamy.com => Topic started by: PeterChigmaroff on January 12, 2012, 11:14

Title: From the I Can't Believe I Sold it Files...
Post by: PeterChigmaroff on January 12, 2012, 11:14
Alamy is well known for their huge collection of oddball editorial images and if the there is a collection that is diametrically opposed to micro images it is these. I've sold some weird images but yesterday takes the cake,  I made a sale for $230.41 for a doggie bag dispensing box. If I asked any of you esteemed pundits what you thought of this image, even the politest of you would have laughed me off the stage.
Title: Re: From the I Can't Believe I Sold it Files...
Post by: dirkr on January 12, 2012, 11:18
Alamy is well known for their huge collection of oddball editorial images and if the there is a collection that is diametrically opposed to micro images it is these. I've sold some weird images but yesterday takes the cake,  I made a sale for $230.41 for a doggie bag dispensing box. If I asked any of you esteemed pundits what you thought of this image, even the politest of you would have laughed me off the stage.

...and if you asked any of the established micro agencies, they would have probably rejected it for LCV...

congrats on the sale.
Title: Re: From the I Can't Believe I Sold it Files...
Post by: gostwyck on January 12, 2012, 11:21
Well done for spotting the opportunity and taking advantage of it. I'm guessing the buyer didn't have a huge choice of 'doggie bag dispensing box' images to choose from. That's stock photography for you.
Title: Re: From the I Can't Believe I Sold it Files...
Post by: SNP on January 12, 2012, 12:07
Alamy is well known for their huge collection of oddball editorial images and if the there is a collection that is diametrically opposed to micro images it is these. I've sold some weird images but yesterday takes the cake,  I made a sale for $230.41 for a doggie bag dispensing box. If I asked any of you esteemed pundits what you thought of this image, even the politest of you would have laughed me off the stage.

lol. funny post. congrats on the sale. I've had a few of these lately of some of my worst uploads.....there's no accounting for taste I guess
Title: Re: From the I Can't Believe I Sold it Files...
Post by: PeterChigmaroff on January 12, 2012, 12:17
[...there's no accounting for taste I guess

I don't think it's taste so much (although it is an image only a mother would love), it's more need than anything else at play.
Title: Re: From the I Can't Believe I Sold it Files...
Post by: Karimala on January 12, 2012, 12:27
Looks like your buyer only needed one image of a doggie bag dispenser box.  Wish they'd purchased mine, too!  LOL 
Title: Re: From the I Can't Believe I Sold it Files...
Post by: PeterChigmaroff on January 12, 2012, 12:30
Looks like your buyer only needed one image of a doggie bag dispenser box.  Wish they'd purchased mine, too!  LOL 
Watch the doggie bad dispenser image collection jump by several thousand now ;)
Title: Re: From the I Can't Believe I Sold it Files...
Post by: WarrenPrice on January 12, 2012, 12:33
Next step ... used bags.   :o ;D
Title: Re: From the I Can't Believe I Sold it Files...
Post by: Karimala on January 12, 2012, 12:34
Eeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Title: Re: From the I Can't Believe I Sold it Files...
Post by: pixmicro on January 12, 2012, 14:24
Bravo for the file sold :-)

I have a question : how do you sell your files on alamy ? On the select menu when submitting your image, do you choose royalty free or right managed ?...

thanks
Title: Re: From the I Can't Believe I Sold it Files...
Post by: luissantos84 on January 12, 2012, 14:36
Bravo for the file sold :-)

I have a question : how do you sell your files on alamy ? On the select menu when submitting your image, do you choose royalty free or right managed ?...

thanks

do you sell it on other micro agencies as RF? if so you must place RF too
Title: Re: From the I Can't Believe I Sold it Files...
Post by: PeterChigmaroff on January 12, 2012, 14:38
Bravo for the file sold :-)

I have a question : how do you sell your files on alamy ? On the select menu when submitting your image, do you choose royalty free or right managed ?...

thanks
I sell both ways, but the image in question was an RF image.
Title: Re: From the I Can't Believe I Sold it Files...
Post by: PaulieWalnuts on January 12, 2012, 14:51
Next step ... used bags.   :o ;D

Haaa. You beat me to it. I was going to ask if there was anything in the bags.
Title: Re: From the I Can't Believe I Sold it Files...
Post by: Carl on January 13, 2012, 04:19
While everyone else rushes to get shots of doggie bag dispensing boxes, I'll be the one getting the shot of the doggie making a deposit in the doggie bag, so there!!!   :D
Title: Re: From the I Can't Believe I Sold it Files...
Post by: Microstock Posts on January 13, 2012, 05:35
While everyone else rushes to get shots of doggie bag dispensing boxes, I'll be the one getting the shot of the doggie making a deposit in the doggie bag, so there!!!   :D

Have fun!  ;D
Title: Re: From the I Can't Believe I Sold it Files...
Post by: sponner on January 15, 2012, 08:30
I think there are some linguisitc issues here, isn't a doggy bag what you take home uneaten food from a restaurant in ?

or do you mean son#mething that goies in here

http://www.dreamstime.com/dog-waste-bin-by-park-footpath-thumb19799076.jpg (http://www.dreamstime.com/dog-waste-bin-by-park-footpath-thumb19799076.jpg)

I'd hate to confuse the two
Title: Re: From the I Can't Believe I Sold it Files...
Post by: ann on January 16, 2012, 00:22
I think there are some linguistic issues here, isn't a doggy bag what you take home uneaten food from a restaurant in ?

or do you mean something that goes in here

[url]http://www.dreamstime.com/dog-waste-bin-by-park-footpath-thumb19799076.jpg[/url] ([url]http://www.dreamstime.com/dog-waste-bin-by-park-footpath-thumb19799076.jpg[/url])

I'd hate to confuse the two


:D :D :D