Author Topic: first sale (Read 7521 times)

leaf · « **on:** January 24, 2008, 16:56 »

I have started to upload my portfolio to mostphotos (i have 450 there so far). Today I got my first sale

i received 12.5 euro which is $18. ... perhaps there is potential here. Depends on if it was a fluke or not.

I do really like uploading there though, it is as easy as lucky oliver or crestock.

madelaide · « **Reply #1 on:** January 24, 2008, 16:59 »

Congrats, Leaf! What is the lucky image?

US$18 is almost what I made in CS in over a year.

Regards,
Adelaide

leaf · « **Reply #2 on:** January 24, 2008, 17:02 »

Quote from: madelaide on January 24, 2008, 16:59

Congrats, Leaf! What is the lucky image?

US$18 is almost what I made in CS in over a year.

Regards,
Adelaide

yeah, i know. crazy. with one sale it is not too far behind crestock or 123rf for this month. there is going to be a battle for 7th place for me this month i think

this was the image

dbvirago · « **Reply #3 on:** January 24, 2008, 18:58 »

I've had two there. Quirky site, but as said, easy to upload to. Only time I like the devalued dollar LOL. They have most of my port.

sharpshot · « **Reply #4 on:** January 24, 2008, 19:21 »

I have had 1 sale so far and another good point is that I was able to withdraw the money straight away. Some sites need at least 50 downloads before you get paid.

jorgeinthewater · « **Reply #5 on:** January 24, 2008, 20:40 »

Hey Leaf,
I just signed up and used you as referral. Thanks for the tip.
Just a question I'm in the US what is 50 Euro in that site is that like .50cents or 50.00 dollars?

dbvirago · « **Reply #6 on:** January 24, 2008, 21:06 »

jorge, you get 12.5 euros. As someone said, my first sale that was about $18. The last one is wa a little less than that. Google a currency converter, it will go with whatever the current conversation rate is.

leaf · « **Reply #7 on:** January 25, 2008, 03:09 »

like www.xe.com

1.00 EUR = 1.47629 USD

sharply_done · « **Reply #8 on:** January 25, 2008, 11:09 »

Quote from: leaf on January 25, 2008, 03:09

...
1.00 EUR = 1.47629 USD

Ouch ... Europeople must cringe at payment time - 30% of your earnings vanish!

leaf · « **Reply #9 on:** January 25, 2008, 12:06 »

yep.

last year against the norwegian kroner the $$ was 6:1, now it is 5:1 so I am making 18% less just due to the crummy exchange rate.

but on the other hand - camera gear is getter cheaper and cheaper. Now if only BH accepted paypal from Norway - perhaps it is coming though since they now accept paypal from US, Canada, and UK

Elenathewise · « **Reply #10 on:** January 25, 2008, 15:44 »

I had a few sales there. Getting 12.50 Euros per sale is nice, but they don't come often.
The non-review policy lets in sometimes some god awful stuff, but then it's my personal opinion, maybe someone is looking exactly for that:) I am definitely happy to have all of my work up there. Also, with their ranking index - people do unsightly things, like original swedish photogs ranking down everything that is not swedish, or another example - I had a few pics with dogs and they got ranked down severely by a person whos tiny portfolio is only dogs ... annoying really. I know you can block users if you thing they just want to get rid of competition, but hey I got other things to do than to track down these people.
I mean, if statistically there are more decent people out there than not, that kind of indexing would work... hard to tell:) I have tried ranking images there myself but then stopped because I realized that my criteria is too high. It's very subjective. So, maybe a better way to go would be to do something like Alamy, based on views/downloads, not on the fears of a person that worries that their dog pics won't sell...;-)

Tim Markley · « **Reply #11 on:** January 25, 2008, 17:13 »

I really like this site and hope that it will bring in Eurp buyers. The return for photographers is great and I hope to see a sales there soon.

leaf · « **Reply #12 on:** January 25, 2008, 18:38 »

assumingly everyone would get an equal amount of trolls - so the ranking should work out in the end, but whose to say... it will be interesting to see how it plays out.

jorgeinthewater · « **Reply #13 on:** January 25, 2008, 23:05 »

I just got one image there and it got ranked -5.4 I don't understand that
system, and from what I just read it might be an unfair system. I guess
we should see what happens when I upload more images.

had a few sales there. Getting 12.50 Euros per sale is nice, but they don't come often.
The non-review policy lets in sometimes some god awful stuff, but then it's my personal opinion, maybe someone is looking exactly for that:) I am definitely happy to have all of my work up there. Also, with their ranking index - people do unsightly things, like original swedish photogs ranking down everything that is not swedish, or another example - I had a few pics with dogs and they got ranked down severely by a person whos tiny portfolio is only dogs ... annoying really. I know you can block users if you thing they just want to get rid of competition, but hey I got other things to do than to track down these people.
I mean, if statistically there are more decent people out there than not, that kind of indexing would work... hard to tell:) I have tried ranking images there myself but then stopped because I realized that my criteria is too high. It's very subjective. So, maybe a better way to go would be to do something like Alamy, based on views/downloads, not on the fears of a person that worries that their dog pics won't sell...;-)

sharpshot · « **Reply #14 on:** January 28, 2008, 12:43 »

logged in and found this one has sold. The stock market fall might of made me some money

http://mostphotos.com/view.php?imgid=82282&offset=0&thumbnailsize=large&displayinformation=less&reflections=on&imagetype=all&orderby=idx&periodlimit=-1&querytype=search&imagesearchedit=chalk+chart&search=1

mwp1969 · « **Reply #15 on:** February 03, 2008, 21:12 »

Leaf,

I'm going to register and check-out mostphotos. I put you down as a referral if it takes in their system as I had already typed in "mostphotos.com" without a referral link from you.

It did have a field on their registration form where I could put in your id so I hope you get the credit ..

Mark

mwp1969 · « **Reply #16 on:** March 25, 2008, 17:08 »

FYI:
I've had my first sale there in my first month there ... 12.5 Euros with immediate payout possible as I requested it through PayPal and received it the same day just to see how quick they were

Mark

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