heavens, in a phase when most of us are looking to make more money in microstock,
we have someone here who is promoting to earn less.
u r unique my friend whoever u r 
but as Sue says, it's ur work, u can undercut yourself all u wish to.
then again, why not just go be a squegee kid at the street junction?
u make a lot more money that way

alright, i'm going to try that as well.

Hi!

I'm a non exclusive vector contributor who needs some extra income within these days. -like who doesnt, anyways...

I'm going to ask if i bundle my vectors on my site or elsewhere and discount it to half price of stock agencies' single downloads, for "limited time". Do i violate any license or something? I took a look to a few ToS and couldnt see anything similar at first glance...

Seem like hell yeah! i can do such things! but i want to be sure before doing it so any experiences / thoughts would be nice

thanks a lot

I wonder when some of the big players from internet/technology sector like Google, Apple, Amazon or even Yahoo/Flickr would realize that they can make money from digital media? They already got superior technology available and it would not be their mayor line of business so they can offer app store like 70/30 split.  That would demolish whole stock industry in couple months.

Those images at flickr widely contains brands so the copyrighted values. (which fellow stock photographers having great time to remove them or not use at all)

Almost all of these brands do not allow resale because possible bad usage or underestimated commercial value of theirs products. (so no deal would be there)

As far as i know people portraits don't have any kind of model release. (forget these images as well)

Option A:
After subtracting all above; remains huge amount of cat photos (kidding) and some landscape photos so its not such a big market...

Option B:
These images only would available for editorial use if anyone care to do so.

So flickr integration wont work unless they cant achieve to pass these barriers listed above.

at photographer/designer side things might look a bit depressed but

These stock agencies must have an idea what they are doing adding 200k new images a week...

totally agree on that. well plus things change fast;

5 years ago there wasnt a work defination which takes place on networking web sites. recent days brands spending affordable money on these sites and their agencies / PR departments are publishing daily posts and using images, videos to capture followers attention fast. its happening on web and not only on twitter facebook or foursquare, its more and more becoming like famous movie "minority report" kinda thing; news that you might read, ads you might click, updates you want to follow...

at this speed no one can use huge productions for daily, even hourly updates that you post for instance on your brand's facebook page neither you can use same "goooood morning dear customers!" message with some image over and over again...

i think stock agencies are trying to fill this gap with keeping things fresh. While doing that; the sense of circulation makes designers and photographers feel a bit depressed to follow up and create more and more in same time.

the next big thing is Asian stockers flooding the market and you can't compete with their cheap production costs in Vietnam/Indonesia/Philippines.

Well i don't think thats the case either.  An Indonesian won't take your portrait/local/regional/tradinational/daily photo. All effect that may cause is seeing more blackboards and hand gestures againist some invisible screen and that kind weird things. In short mostly low productions and great cliches...

So I see no reason to be afraid of taking steps.

edit: typo