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I have often wondered about this, being new at this game.  Does the fact that you have an image listed as 0.25 somewhere keep it from being purchased for $10 elsewhere.  For heavens sake, I suspect that the prices are so * low that it probably wouldn't be a deterrent if the image were definitely needed.  It is one thing if a designer is collecting images just to have them on hand from a subscription service or for a general mock up, but I would think if a specific image is found that can be put to a specific use right away the $10 is likely such a trivial part of the overall budget that it simply wouldn't be worth the time to check other sites.  But then again, I really don't know a whole lot about this business...I am just envisioning the way I would act.  Does anyone out there know for sure if this makes sense or not?

Congrats, Mark.

With the recent price increases in many sites, I'm going to raise my prices in FP. 

Regards,
Adelaide

Most of my images are at 10.00 none less than that.

In which case you would think that the micro-stocks could figure out a better pricing structure that would benefit everyone, photographers and the stock company.

Hi Mark !

Congratulations.

I had my first sale there two weeks ago (and it was my first sale through a stock agency too !).

Yes, I know what some will say : I'll have to wait some time to get enough sales to get the money, but I'm not in a hurry : I am building my portfolio. And with 10$ the sale (7 for me) it should'nt need too much of them to get something.

And anyway, I like the site and their friendly attitude toward the photographers. I sent them a message with some suggestions and they answered quite quickly and their answer were dead on the point and really positive.

Good luck Featurepics.

Just checked FP after reading this and I too had just sold one for $5 so 3.50 for me ...

I typically get emails from FP anywhere from 24-38 hours after the fact.

Congratulations Mark!  I haven't sold one there yet, but I'm encouraged.

hi,

I have everything at $5, changing from $2 three months ago and now seen three bme's. will probably put it to $10 soon. 

Sales for me this month are the same as crestock and canstock combined and within a $1 of LO who managed to more than triple their last months earnings. not at monthly payout yet, but it's coming

my thoughts on pricing... I cant find it now but they have a graph that shows pricing of sales.  most people search at $2, $5, $10, $20 etc if you price at say $6.50 people those who search at $5 don't see it and most people who do see your image are willing to pay $10+ so you are missing out on income. 

Phil

i like an opinion from anyone , please.
do you think collections or galleries helped you make the sales?

I have 20 downloads there in the year or so that I am with them, it was enough for one pay check of $51.30.

at the beginning I had all my images there set at $5.00.
I recently changed all images to $7.00 to see how it works, and each sale of a file increases it's price by one dollar, so now I have files at 7,8 and 9 dollars.

cheers Adelaide for the clarification and your opinion