crated!

[back alley]

as you may have noticed in my sig…i have joined crated, added a few pics and waited for the offers to come in for my images.

nothing…nothing has happened, no sales, no enquiries…no success whatsoever…

not sure if it's the prices or if my images are just bad…?

has anyone else tried crated?

any success stories out there?

i'd love to hear…


joe

 

[wwkw]

A glance at their social media presence suggests that not many people are familiar with it. Furthermore, if sites are still getting Google "page ranks," they're currently a 0.

 

[Takkun]

I'm signing up for it, so I'll let you know how it works! I'm represented by a gallery here in Seattle, but I've been looking for a better solution to sell prints of my more decorative work that didn't involve me shuttling to photo labs, post offices, and answering emails (i.e., etsy, square marketplace, so on). The site looks good, but it seems that at this stage in the company you might have to do some of the promotion until they're more established.

Or they could go the way of Google+ and end up not really taking off. Who knows.

 

[NY_Dan]

Joe -- go to Corbis -- look at their stock images. That's the best way to see what sells.

 

[Pherdinand]

Sorry Joe, your shots just won't match many couches.

 

[back alley]

i see some gutless wonder has made a nasty comment over there...

 

[FrankS]

Thanks Joe. I've been looking for a site like that.

 

[Sparrow]

... I swap anything in my back-catalogue for a print of that 'smoke break' photo

 

[back alley]

... I swap anything in my back-catalogue for a print of that 'smoke break' photo

send me your address...colour or b&w?

 

[Sparrow]

ah, b&w I think .. don't you? address to follow, but you have to suffer and pick one of mine ... the recent stuff in on ipernity

 

[back alley]

i wll give it a look, thanks...

 

[DominikDUK]

Thanks I didn't even know about crated existance.

Also except for the blur picture I doubt that your images work as wall decoration that doesn't mean that they are bad it's just that the subject matter doesn't really lend itself to wall decoration.

Anyway I wish you the best of luck and success.

 

[back alley]

Thanks I didn't even know about crated existance.

Also except for the blur picture I doubt that your images work as wall decoration that doesn't mean that they are bad it's just that the subject matter doesn't really lend itself to wall decoration.

Anyway I wish you the best of luck and success.

could very well be...though i am not sure what would suit a wall...i thought the veges would be great in a kitchen.

 

[Ronald M]

I did a google search 5 times. Maybe will help.

 

[kshapero]

Joe, your photos are very high quality. I just don't know who is buying photos these days.

 

[Highway 61]

Looks like people being ready to invest in some photographs have other options and much choice out there.

Not too sure if totally unknown people like us might have a chance to sell a photo online.

You might want to try to have some of your photos published in some actual printed material (books, papers). This is more rewarding than any fuzzy internet business.

 

[back alley]

i wasn't looking to get rich and or famous...just maybe sell a few prints and buy a lens every now and then.

 

[back alley]

I would not sell anywhere, where I could not control that kind of mean post -- but there is hope.

perhaps i need a nice small controllable site of my own...

 

[Highway 61]

i wasn't looking to get rich and or famous...just maybe sell a few prints and buy a lens every now and then.

Try to put yourself under the skin of some people wanting to buy a photo online to please themselves or make a nice gift, and see what happens.

 

[kxl]

There are obviously many different ways to sell your photos online, but of the online marketplace platforms, crated is one of the new kids on the block -- I think it just launched to the public this past May (4 months ago), so the word probably hasn't gone out. Just like selling anything else online, you have to create a buzz and generate traffic.