(wrong thread, sorry)

Quote from: Zero Talent on February 09, 2016, 12:16

Oops! Too soon! 500px is not giving up! Another massive $175 sale. 4th sale for this month. It only has 74 pulse, so not a "popular" photo

Congratulations for the sale! Was it an exclusive 500px photo? I'm wondering if I create an exclusive portfolio or if I mix with some microstock stuff I have.

Cheers!

Thanks and no: I don't have exclusive photos there.
And btw, SS is back on top again 

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Over on their marketplace the images are shown in a normal size on the image preview page. If you take the preview, it contains all iptc data with copyrightname, keywords and contact info for 500px.

The watermark is still tiny, but the whole thing looks more professional.

Maybe it could be possible to either upload certain files only to the marketplace or maybe the artist could be given the option to have their image shown only in marketplace size.

If you are trying to sell prints, I can understand the "total immersion" appeal of these xxxl files. But for stock sales, buyers are used to normal sizes.

Anyway, it is up to them. I still don�t know which direction they plan to go and how important making money with stock photography is for them.

Wasn�t there also a project where they were selling community response data to customers? Or offered a service involving visual social impact?

Or was that somewhere else?

ETA: since I am now a paying customer at 500px, I would be ready to pay more for the option of a professional full frame watermark. Simply as a service for me as an artist. I think the option should be available to everyone for free, but if necessary, I�d be ready to pay if development costs for the change are so expensive.

There is also no watermark option for the Portfolio website. This is a standard offer from all the other places I know. Photodeck gives me many customization options for my watermark (full frame, center, lower, higher,size,style...)

Haven�t had a review yet, but I have only been there for a few days.

Is the review time influenced by what type of account one has? Or is it faster for exclusive files?

Does anybody know?

Thank you for the info. But at least in theory files can be licensed now if the customers want them.

Are you paying for your account? I paid for awesome, does that help?

One shouldn�t pay money to an agency, but they pay out 70% so this is a different situation, and the prices are very modest. Just one sale a year will cover all your costs.

And many people will want to use it as a personal portfolio or website. There however, is much more they could offer to make it more attractive. Also I miss the connection to stockperformer, perhaps now that they want to do stock, they will consider this as an option for us.

Is it possible to download our own files and use 500px as a backup? I haven�t found it yet.

10k files is very impressive. Hope you get lots of sales.

Thank you!!

On that page I can also add how many people are in the image, if it is indoor or outdoor etc...looks like an additional "disambiguation" kind of step. So do I always have to go to that page after upload? Why is this not on the upload page?

Looked at the FAQs, but the core collection is not mentioned, they calculate everything based on the old prices. Seems they haven�t updated their FAQs.

I hope with 10k files you will get a few sales. Otherwise I don�t see much hope for my little portfolio.

Thank you for the info. But at least in theory files can be licensed now if the customers want them.

Are you paying for your account? I paid for awesome, does that help?

I'm "awesome" on trial, thinking whether to go with Plus or Awesome afterwards..


Shame it takes months for files to be reviewed:(

Quote from: cobalt on February 17, 2016, 06:05

Thank you for the info. But at least in theory files can be licensed now if the customers want them.

Are you paying for your account? I paid for awesome, does that help?

I'm "awesome" on trial, thinking whether to go with Plus or Awesome afterwards..


Shame it takes months for files to be reviewed:(

Well, since the customer can license them immediatly on request it is not as bad as other places. But you lose out on the option on having your file in prime for the first sale. Also customers will lightbox your file under the core price point and might be really upset if months later they discover the file is now a lot more expensive.

I had a trial account as well and extended the awesome account. But forgot to check out the portfolio options first. Unfortunately they don�t offer any watermarking options for the personal website. Photodeck has huge customization options for that. They are more expensive of course, but seem a lot more specialized on photographers who want to sell their work online. However, they don�t have an agency connected, so I thought maybe I�ll move my website. But without professional watermark options, it is just not really artist friendly.

Maybe for people who only use their website to attract assignment work. But not if you want to sell direct or make most of your living from selling content. We have different needs, our website is not just a "teaser" showcase.

So the customer sees it at the core price point, requests to license it and then they tell him/her - sure you can have it, but at the prime pricing?

How would that work?

Quote from: cobalt on February 17, 2016, 12:48

So the customer sees it at the core price point, requests to license it and then they tell him/her - sure you can have it, but at the prime pricing?

How would that work?

It doesn't. I think what he meant was, that the file would be moved to prime AFTER customer license it. The customer would still get file with core price.

Correct.
However on a few occasions, the sale didn't go through. I received email notifications telling me that a customer was interested in licensing a photo and I should make it available on marketplace. But nothing happened, except for the photo being reviewed and promoted to Prime.

This is a little weird, since all those photos were already marked as available on marketplace.

What is mystery to me is, why are customers willing to pay 200$ for a photo that can be bought for a few bucks on a microstock site.

So, I was waiting for my payout and received this message from 500px, regarding tax form: "Please provide a handwritten date and signature at the bottom"

So.. should I print tax form, signed it and scanned it again? Because on other microstock sites, "digital signature" is enough. You don't need hand written signature.