Author Topic: tinypay.me Could we use this to sell images? (Read 2977 times)

sharpshot · « **on:** January 27, 2011, 14:04 »

I found this site in Web user magazine. They use paypal for small payments for items sold on the internet. I can see a few people selling photos there. It might not be a good place to sell stock images but it made me think why can't something similar be set up for us? I really like the idea of direct selling to buyers using paypal, something that most buyers will probably already use. We could all set up individual sites to do that now but I think it would work much better with one site with a universal search.

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Anita Potter · « **Reply #1 on:** January 27, 2011, 14:53 »

I often thought about doing that through my website with PayPal. Now what really is hard about that (aside from finding a shopping cart that can handle digital downloads). My problem would be figuring out licensing agreements (all the legal junk) and setting up an area on my site that would be easy for the end user. Then you'd have to have every size avaliable to download then make sure they get back to your site to get their image. That would be if you were just to do that on your own site. Setting up a universal search engine on one site you would need thumbnails and whatnot because most sites (depending on your server) don't allow hotlinking plus individual peoples site could put something in place to keep others from hotlinking to images.

It would be hard and I know I sure as *bleep* don't have the techie knowhow to set up the search. I know I can set up an area on my site to sell my images just don't think I have enough space to do that though.

It does sound interesting if one could set something like that up.

sharpshot · « **Reply #2 on:** January 27, 2011, 19:09 »

I don't mind just selling one size. If I can keep most of the money I make selling images, I can lower my prices a bit and it's quite easy for buyers to resize images if they want to using free software, like irfanview. Graphic Leftovers only sell one size and they seem to be doing better than other sites that started around the time they did.

There are a few problems selling direct using paypal, the legal stuff is a big one but I'm sure someone will set up a way to do this. That might be why some sites are cashing in now, I really don't see us taking such low commissions forever.

elvinstar · « **Reply #3 on:** January 27, 2011, 19:48 »

Long, long ago I had a stock site selling my images and images of others. I used PayPal for the transactions and it was very easy. You'd need to look into PayPal's IPN feature if you want to proceed in this direction.

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