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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: oscarcwilliams on March 25, 2018, 23:33
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Has anyone made any sales this year (2018) at Picfair?
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When they started I had enough regular sales with them, not a lot but 1 or 2 every month, this for almost one year. Then the sales have become less and less over time.
Now they are closer to 1 or 2 every year…
I continue to upload to them just because it is simple. I am not sure that I am doing a right thing.
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Dead for a year.
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I started selling on Picfair this January and have had 2 sales since then.
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Ikonya: What were your subjects? Thanks--Oscar C. Williams
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A couple. Easy upload, so at this stage I'll keep trying.
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I never had a sale at Picfair so I quit.
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I just made a £200 sale through Picfair Enterprise. Nearly spat my coffee out.
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1300 images and a year and half...Zero sales...total loser.
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Had my first sale on Picfair after 6 months...for $20 net so not bad.
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I just looked at that site for the first time, so searched an area I'm very familiar with.
Really nice photos, but a lot are marked 'commercial', which almost certainly don't have releases.
Oh, I see that they have three categories:
Editorial & Personal Licence
Editorial use - print, online, and broadcast; personal use.
Commercial Licence
Editorial use; personal use; promotional and marketing use; advertorial and social media.
Advertising Licence
Print advertising, out-of-home advertising, broadcast advertising, & display advertising; merchandising and retail product packaging.
Licences are allocated after the images have gone through our three-stage moderation process, which usually takes one working day.
Hmmm, wonder how legally 'safe' these commerical uses are for unreleased property?
(That said, I've had sales on Alamy of marked 'unreleased' images specifically for '...marketing: excludes advertising...' which I don't pretend to understand.)
I see Picfair says, "Licences are allocated after the images have gone through our three-stage moderation process, which usually takes one working day.
Contributors agree to the relevant contributor agreements for all three types of licence upon upload, so that when the licence is allocated, images are available to license straight away. "
I haven't looked at their contract, but it looks from the above that they must be assuming responsibility for any legal issues. I'd want to be extremely sure about that via their contract, though.
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They have Picfair Plus now where you can set up your own store and sell downloads (commercial and editorial) for 50.-/year, https://www.picfair.com/plus (https://www.picfair.com/plus)
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2 months with them with small port, no sales yet
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I had about 1200 images on them. I got one sale in two years. Pull all the images last year.
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I had about 1200 images on them. I got one sale in two years. Pull all the images last year.
Did you have regular "views"?
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I don't think I had many views but can't really remember.
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I had about 1200 images on them. I got one sale in two years. Pull all the images last year.
Same here.
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Just got a survey from them. Even that didn't work!
Waste of time!
:(
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I decided to take the time and honestly respond to the survey.
It could not be completed, it did not work.
I email them and they know corrected.
What is not "corrected" is that i still have zero sales there.
828 pics, 26.000 views, 13 starred images.
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Any update on the level of sales on this site, has it gained or worsened over time?
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Flat line
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I have got my 2 sales tis year!
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1 sale in October and 1 in November after uploading around 1700 photos over the last 6 months.
Still better thanCanstock :D
The good thing is that as soon as you make a sale you can cash out instead of other agencies BS of making you wait for a payout threshold :-*
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Images: 5,329
Views: 131,526
Sales: 3 for $62 net
How long? After 18 months
Conclusion: Time-wasters
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Like others I pulled out my port after a year or so of zero sales.
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Like others I pulled out my port after a year or so of zero sales.
Same for me !
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...are they even microstock? to me it looks like fine art :o
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https://www.picfair.com/plus (https://www.picfair.com/plus)
USD $6.99 / month
or $69.90 / year
Pay to sell.. almost nothing???
You are not a seller, you are a customer, paying for NO product...
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Very few Sales, it's true, but you can put your own price, you get 50 percent and pay nothing.
Picfair plus Is only if you want to build your own shop, it's a platform.
I can't understand why so many of you doesn't support this agency helping them to grow: they have all the things contributors usually ask: pricing different, fair royalties, you can change price, or delete image at any time, you can decide the licenses...
Oh yes, It could be beautiful to have more sales, but Sales Will come if you support them as contributors
BTW, I stay with them from 2015, 3200 images and 180.000 views, 9 sales for 145 GBP, it means about 190 US$.
RPD 21US$ is not so bad...
Very little but always better than many other middle tier agencies
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Been a couple of months with them, no luck so far. I'll keep praying to the Lord of Sales and remain hopeful.
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Very few Sales, it's true, but you can put your own price, you get 50 percent and pay nothing.
Picfair plus Is only if you want to build your own shop, it's a platform.
I can't understand why so many of you doesn't support this agency helping them to grow: they have all the things contributors usually ask: pricing different, fair royalties, you can change price, or delete image at any time, you can decide the licenses...
Oh yes, It could be beautiful to have more sales, but Sales Will come if you support them as contributors
BTW, I stay with them from 2015, 3200 images and 180.000 views, 9 sales for 145 GBP, it means about 190 US$.
RPD 21US$ is not so bad...
Very little but always better than many other middle tier agencies
You don't get 50% you get 100% of the price you set. They add their fee on top
i.e. you set your price to $10 they add $2.40 selling price to the customer $12.40
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...are they even microstock? to me it looks like fine art :o
It is proper photography not microstock sh*t ;D
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still the best part of this site is the no reviews.i know this can be a not good thing sometimes but when ss acting like crazy lately with rejections,and on adobe i got a rejection the other day of a silver watch in a red background and the reason was out of focus DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.then for me it still is a good alternative
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Better to get one image accepted and one rejected in Adobe with one sale instead two accepted with no sales in Picfair. I like the site, but we are here to make a business.
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I Agree. And I'm not sure they are into charity for photographers. They sell a product, maybe more than pictures.
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Had my first sale in 3 years - 10.00 pounds
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Better to get one image accepted and one rejected in Adobe with one sale instead two accepted with no sales in Picfair. I like the site, but we are here to make a business.
i agree with you but on the other hand, look at the ss thread what is going on and at the ss forums.many want to quit submit images cause of rejections and the moronic rejection reason.and also that sale you say its 24 p or 37 p compare to 20 pounds or dollars or 10 pounds now this guy said that he earned
and i said ITS ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE.i am not saying quit adobe and ss and post in picfair only
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Better to get one image accepted and one rejected in Adobe with one sale instead two accepted with no sales in Picfair. I like the site, but we are here to make a business.
i agree with you but on the other hand, look at the ss thread what is going on and at the ss forums.many want to quit submit images cause of rejections and the moronic rejection reason.and also that sale you say its 24 p or 37 p compare to 20 pounds or dollars or 10 pounds now this guy said that he earned
and i said ITS ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE.i am not saying quit adobe and ss and post in picfair only
I'm not sure if it's an alternative this days anymore by my experience. My last sale there was 2 years ago. I had sales at 10 GBP prices and now have no sales on 3 GBP price. I always look for a new alternatives, but my standard on this is: The agency to report at least one sale per month per 1000 images on sale. My images will remain there as I don't see any problem with Picfair except the sales, maybe one day they will change the strategy and the things will change.
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Lot of views of my 88 pics here... No sale. On other stock sites I manged to sell some pics before I reached 100 uploads... I'm struggling to understand what's the profile of Picfair buyers but I don't get it... Or is more like a place where you promote yourself...
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1000 pics, 30000+ views, 0 sales
They make money only with selling their Plus edition as it seems.
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Had two sales one in October and one in November the good thing is they have no minimum payout so as soon as the sale is made you can request the funds.
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Images: 5,329
Views: 131,526
Sales: 3 for $62 net
How long? After 18 months
Conclusion: Time-wasters
But it is so easy and fast to upload…
:D