Author Topic: Anyone selling at Featurepics? (Read 90876 times)

Jimi King · « **Reply #150 on:** December 21, 2008, 09:41 »

I've had one payout there.

Currently dead as a dodo. All mine are priced at $4.99 with re-sizing options.

takestock · « **Reply #151 on:** December 21, 2008, 14:35 »

Short of first payout - have stopped uploading a long time ago.
Dont know if I will ever get it.

Lcjtripod · « **Reply #152 on:** December 21, 2008, 14:39 »

Just finished uploading 2230+ images to them and sold 8 images while doing it.

Priced at 5.00 with resize option.

-Larry

grp_photo · « **Reply #153 on:** December 22, 2008, 12:26 »

I do sell quite regulary but not very much

CCK · « **Reply #154 on:** December 22, 2008, 12:36 »

I haven't sold anything at FP for months now. The only agencies where I'm getting decent sales are SS and DD. IS has also come to an almost full stop for me. I'm seriously considering going exclusive with DT. The only thing stopping me at this stage is the fact that I'm making more money with SS, but to do that I have to keep on uploading and I fear I may just run out of new photos to upload some day.

epixx · « **Reply #155 on:** December 22, 2008, 12:47 »

Rather quiet the last months, but so have a few of the other agencies. I keep on uploading. It's easy, and whenever I get a sale, it generates a healthy profit.

madelaide · « **Reply #156 on:** December 23, 2008, 15:06 »

Only one sale this month, but I hope things will pick up again next year.

Regards,
Adelaide

takestock · « **Reply #157 on:** December 23, 2008, 15:11 »

Quote from: madelaide on December 23, 2008, 15:06

Only one sale this month, but I hope things will pick up again next year.

Regards,
Adelaide

Personally Adelaide, I don't think 1 sale per month is enough and I'm sure you are thinking the same.

madelaide · « **Reply #158 on:** December 23, 2008, 15:20 »

Takestock,

I've had months with 3-4 dlds, and given their commission it ends not so bad (this single sale earned me more than 4 in CS).

I have earned in FP more than in 123RF, not to mention CS, CanStockPhoto, Scan, etc. The past two months have been quite slow, but the staff is very active and responsive, so I do hope things will improve next year.

Regards,
Adelaide

m@m · « **Reply #159 on:** January 17, 2009, 19:02 »

I don't know about FP anymore, I really like the site and the people running it, but with 300+ photos there, I've only sold 1 pic back in October then dead as a door nail, I think I'm going to give them a few more months and if things don't do better I'm just going to stop uploading, is beginning not to be worth the effort.

Phil · « **Reply #160 on:** January 18, 2009, 05:24 »

I average roughly 1% of my sales there (including this month). nothing spectacular but it is a regular payout and it is 1% I didnt have for very little work (I find them one of the easiest to upload to). I played with pricing last year. had been $2 early on, put it up to $5 and it increased my overall $ then went to $9.99 and my sales disapeared. so now I am $5 with no resize and am happy

Phil

fljac · « **Reply #161 on:** January 18, 2009, 10:48 »

« Reply #160 on: Today at 11:24 »

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I average roughly 1% of my sales there (including this month). nothing spectacular but it is a regular payout and it is 1% I didnt have for very little work (I find them one of the easiest to upload to). I played with pricing last year. had been $2 early on, put it up to $5 and it increased my overall $ then went to $9.99 and my sales disapeared. so now I am $5 with no resize and am happy

Phil

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Just tried to edit published images... As far as I can see, the system does not work?

...Anyone else having problems editing price and resize obtions?

m@m · « **Reply #162 on:** January 18, 2009, 11:49 »

Elena did mention that the site was going to stop the option of editing prices for January, don't know when they'll put it back up again...I need to do some price editing myself.

null · « **Reply #163 on:** January 18, 2009, 11:57 »

Two payouts till now, one dollar next to payout.
My shots are 6-9$ resizable.
Used to have 3 sales per month but now dead since Nov 17.
Dead easy to upload, I got 100x more at FP than at YAY.

m@m · « **Reply #164 on:** January 18, 2009, 12:10 »

I have my shots there at $10.00 like most other sites charge, but I guess that could be the reason for not having anymore sales $:-\$

RacePhoto · « **Reply #165 on:** January 19, 2009, 16:51 »

Different angle, I only uploaded Editorial. No sales in a year at standard publication rates for small magazines, $20.

Nice site, nice people running it. When I deleted some dead wood, the pictures vanished very quickly. I can't say anything is disappointing there except no sales. My photos are in the wrong type, in the wrong place and don't have potential customers using FP to look for them. Time to changethe content and pricing and remove all the Ed. images.

madelaide · « **Reply #166 on:** January 19, 2009, 17:14 »

I have two accounts in FP, one for microstock images, another for macrostock (some RM). The microstock one varies a lot, there were months with nice sales, even EL (after a request Elena forwarded me of an illustration that the buyer wanted in other colors), past two months however just one each. Low sales in numbers are compensated by the high commission. The macrostock is tougher to sell, but I intend to build galleries that I can offer either in my home page or even to potential buyers (these are basically my travel photos).

Helpful staff, no complaints. I think it's a great place to use if you want to market images yourself without the costs and complexities of making a business site.

Regards,
Adelaide

gbcimages · « **Reply #167 on:** January 19, 2009, 17:50 »

haven't had a sale since 9/17/08

m@m · « **Reply #168 on:** January 19, 2009, 18:27 »

madelaide, how are your RM images selling?...I had like 70 pics as RM there and then was told that they did not had any market or immediate buyer for that type of license, so I had to turn them into RFs.

madelaide · « **Reply #169 on:** January 19, 2009, 18:34 »

I had two RM sales over 1 year ago. I understand they are not recommending RM due to low demand from their customer base. Also you can not set new images as RM, but they can change them to RM if you want. I guess however this is not a good choice if you plan to rely only on their own customers.

Regards,
Adelaide

Milinz · « **Reply #170 on:** March 02, 2009, 08:13 »

They sell... And it is the same as hundreds of sales on other agencies... The point here is they are FASTER than CRESTOCK which I've dumped for-good) or CANSTOCKPHOTO together with FOTOSEARCH and MOSTPHOTOS are now...

Considering that I looked into statistic there I have concluded that PHOTOS should be priced from $5 up to $15 depending on their quality at first as well on their size... $5 for 5-7mpix up to $15 for 24-36mpix... With resizing option ON.
Some RF images which are NOT MICROSTOCK can be priced even from $20 up to $100 and that should make you profit. The points are that any lowering the prices will bring low income both for contributors as well for agency and WILL NOT BRING MORE TRAFFIC.

This agency has potential to become a great player if contributors get serious and admit that not the same image sold on other microstock sites for just few bucks (OD on SS is $5) should be priced higher on Featurepics. The main points are that FP crew is aware of that and introducing some new 'red lines' about some rules.
I expect that soon commission to authors downs to 60% because of 30% is NOT ENOUGH for FP to operate the way and in quality it should. That lowering commisions will bring more rejections and much more quality on site as well as advertising and some unique features with more serious buyers....

m@m · « **Reply #171 on:** March 02, 2009, 09:27 »

I agree with you Milinz, I think that FP will be a big player among the microstock agencies soon, I've have seen some very good traffic on the site this past couple of weeks, as well as some repeated sales which is very good news, I've being uploading to them for a while now and have close to 400 images posted and many more to come, I love the site as well as the administration, and you're right the site has big potential. It was dead there for a while but it seems like is comming back strong.

Best regards.

madelaide · « **Reply #172 on:** March 02, 2009, 17:38 »

One sale today and it's my best performer so far in March. It's a nice thing, even if it doesn't last the whole month.

Regards,
Adelaide

null · « **Reply #173 on:** March 02, 2009, 18:08 »

FeaturePics is dead. It has deceased. It is a late site. It is no more. It went to meet its Maker. It has ceased to be. I can still see many people putting time=energy=money in its forum (I lost my password for the forum). Now, post mortem, it's trying subscription. Well, whatever...

Milinz · « **Reply #174 on:** March 03, 2009, 12:14 »

Quote from: FlemishDreams on March 02, 2009, 18:08

FeaturePics is dead. It has deceased. It is a late site. It is no more. It went to meet its Maker. It has ceased to be. I can still see many people putting time=energy=money in its forum (I lost my password for the forum). Now, post mortem, it's trying subscription. Well, whatever...

Nah... It is just following some market rules due to that it showed up that many buyers didn't liked so much originality and 'volume' naming instead of 'subscription'...
It is transformation which will bring results...

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Author Topic: Anyone selling at Featurepics? (Read 90876 times)

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Phil

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