Who has the advantage? - WARNING...this is a MIZ posted thread

[Marburg]

Although Cutcaster is new - I think their terms present a win-win situation for everyone.  The buyer gets product that is priced reasonably (or they can bid), the photographer gets a decent percentage (somewhere around 40%) and the site gets a decent percentage.  Only time will tell if they are successful.  Given a chance I think they will.

Perhaps I did not make my question plain enough.
It's not about sales amount, or the amount of money to be made.

The question is which site serves both the photog and buyer equally from a fair price point of view.

[hoi ha]

I am with Miz and LisaFX on this one ... Dreamstime comes the closest to striking the right balance ... as  a buyer and seller I find that the team D-time is hugely responsive to the needs of both parties - and I hope in the process they are seeing a nice profit too ...

[fotografer]

Another vote for Dreamstime.

[nativelight]

I'll vote for Dreamstime too.  I can stop uploading for weeks and DT will continue to increase in sales.  SS drops off to nothing if you don't continue to feed it.  IS is just erratic.  If I ever decide to go exclusive, it will be with DT.  They are consistently my #1 or #2 earner each month.

Regardless of subs, I like their pricing structure much better than any other site.

[RacePhoto]

Hey weenie head:
"A. I searched your message and couldn't find a question mark and did find a Miz opinion. Maybe people are having a problem answering a question that wasn't asked?"

The question is right in the title of this thread! "Who has the

What do I have to do to get promoted to a Type B or Type A? 

There was no question IN the thread.

Who has the advantage?

Can you explain what you mean by advantage? What kind of advantage. Do you mean the sites or the photographers. If my view of advantage is profits, then that's my answer.

Then you wrote

which site serves both the photog and buyer equally from a fair price point of view.

(which also has no question mark BTW)

Are you asking which site has the advantage of serving both?

To me making some money is fair. What do you mean by fair?

Let me explain my answer better. You can get 100% of nothing or 20% of something, which one is better? SS sells on volume, which means they aren't getting the highest prices or biggest profits, and neither are the photographers. That's fair enough.

If I work for site "X" and they pay 80%, but they have low or no sales, that's not very fair.

DT is pretty fair. BS seems fair. For some IS exclusives that's the fairest deal around.

it appears you are moving into a discussion about profit again

So you want to know about price but you don't want us to discuss profit?

The answer is in the profit, it's related to price.

Fair won't put food on the table or buy new camera equipment. 

[RacePhoto]

Hey weenie head:

Weenie Head is a name I made up. It has no meaning to anyone in this world but me.

No you didn't! Yes it does...

WeenieHead.com is a division of Educational Video Network, Inc. We are committed to providing quality multimedia classroom tools and have been for over 50 years. (c) 2001

In each of these instances, the noun weenie means ''someone small.'' Since the 1780's, weeny or weenie has been used as a variant of the Scottish adjective wee, from the Old English waege, ''weight,'' denoting something of little weight or size.

College students know the noun in another sense, a slang term for ''grind,'' ''wonk'' or ''throat'' (from cutthroat), meaning ''serious student'' or ''obnoxious premed.''

And this message about the film Brazil. 10/02/97: You are wrong weenie head! Posted By: Tony

Maybe you should sue them all?

[tan510jomast]

sorry to deviate from your main topic, Miz,
but around the cities i've lived and travelled to/fro, "weenie head" is a politically-correct term for "dink-head" or "pr*ck"

btw, how come you're not including  illustration of MIZ products with your threads anymore?
have you given up on marketing them?