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SnapVillage welcomes buyers from around the world! January 23, 2008
Posted by SnapVillage Team in snapvillage.

We are thrilled to announce that the SnapVillage has now opened its doors to buyers from around the world! When the site opened in June of last year, only users based in the United States were able to purchase from the site. Since then we have received many requests from buyers in Europe and Asia asking to purchase images. Now we are delighted to report that buyers in most countries can purchase images, subject to the dictates of local laws and regulations (the suits made us add this). We are now extending the appeal of our innovative pricing model and super-simple purchase process to buyers worldwide.

This is terrific news for our fast-growing roster of interested buyers, as well as our contributing photographers who now have a whole new worldwide audience of prospective customers! As always, photographers based anywhere in the world can upload and sell their images.

The site is currently only available in English, but we are planning foreign-language versions of SnapVillage for release starting later this year. Images will continue to be priced in US dollars. Buyers from outside the United States will just need a credit card that will allow US dollar-denominated purchases in order to buy an image on the site using our intuitively simple purchase process.

Check out our exciting and creative image collection and see for yourself how easy and straightforward it is to buy an image! Please sign up here for an account on SnapVillage – a quick and painless process. And for you photographers, here’s another great reason to keep uploading more of your pictures and keep the royalties coming. See you around the Village!

..............with paypal account as a must , paypal that doesnt support half of the world.

Or they changed something ?

I would suggest SV buys GeckoStock. GS has been programmed marvelously with a MRF section for instance that is as good as the one from Crestock and 123RF. GS is a garage operation with one hell of a programmer but no resources for marketing and SEO. With just a new orange-white template, SV would have it all, working FTP included.

And I also wish SV would stay away from my keywords. I can't find my own pictures back because they change my keywords so they became irrelevant.

Stop moaning about the lack of FTP, they accept CDs or DVDS in the post!

I agree with the lack of FTP issue, Snapvillage cant be taken seriously until they sort it out.

Sure honey. Ever tried to send a DVD from the rural Philippines? First you have to bribe the postal office, then the customs because every DVD is considered contraband. Sending by DHL is about 90$ or 130 kg of rice. For a site that doesn't sell? No thanks.
I'd prefer to send the pixels in a big bag with horse and carriage.

The person at GeckoStock doesn't seem to have been distracted by selling images.  What is the point in a great website with no sales?  I don't mind if SV never has FTP if they can get the downloads.  They are doing quite well considering it is a beta site and they were only selling to US customers.

I have sales there and one payout.  It was only $10 though   Much better than most of the other sites that started last year.

I've sold more at Snap Village than at Fotolia.  Acceptance rates are a lot better at Snap Village (so far) than recently at Fotolia, so after months of just letting a small portfolio of images sit there unattended, I have become proactive again and have started to upload and build a better portfolio now at Snapvillage - 5 images at a time!