What are some websites for selling photos for free

[CamCracker]

I would like to sign up for a completely free website to sell photos. Not stock photography websites like shutterstock, istockphoto, bigstock. Something that will let me upload my photos to, have albums, and set prices. Something that will let me sell as digital downloads and also prints if possible. I am open to suggestions. Thanks.

 

[fokker]

My suggestion: break out the credit card, if you want the premium services you will have to pay for them.

 

[Edsport]

Maybe this is what you're looking for...

Free Photography Website | Make Your Photography Website at Wix.com

 

[Stradawhovious]

If you are looking for a service that will parade people past your pictures like a virtual gallery, you're going to get charged for that service. If you start a free website, you are more than likely going to have to pay for some form of marketing.

Sorry........ no such thing as a free lunch.

 

[MohaimenK]

find a guy who know how to make a website that will accept credit card. Basically, you can buy a shopping cart and have it installed in your website. So you take all profit minus the merchant service cost (credit card processing fee). Its like an online t-shirt store except ur selling pictures. You can also put ur own sizes and the different prices as the size of the image.

 

[o hey tyler]

With upwards of 350 photos of cats on this person's facebook page, I'm not entirely convinced they have a credit card... Or even a job.

 

[MohaimenK]

With upwards of 350 photos of cats on this person's facebook page, I'm not entirely convinced they have a credit card... Or even a job.

I was talking about customers. Usually if someone is buying through online. He would need a merchant account to put the credit card charges through. He would either have it as online option where the charges are done right away or simply forward him the CC information and he'd have to put the charges through individually on his own by either calling visa/mcard/amex/disc

 

[o hey tyler]

Yeah, but what I am saying is, he'll have to pay the guy to build the website, and then pay the $xxx.xx amount for the shopping cart functionality. I don't think he has the funds to to that...

 

[e.rose]

Maybe this is what you're looking for...

Free Photography Website | Make Your Photography Website at Wix.com

Wix isn't going to do that free.

Their free service doesn't give you access to the shopping cart option. You have to buy their e-commerce plan for that.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/...l-my-pictures-read-description-thank-you.html


http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/...websites-selling-photos-read-description.html


http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/...photos-read-description-more-information.html


BTW, it takes money, to make money..

 

[mishele]

lol WTF :er:

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

He's just checkin' to see if there is anything new, since the last time he asked.

 

[Conner41]

I was told many of these sites don't pay that much? Do any of you actually make money at this?

 

[KmH]

None of the sites mentioned - pay anything.

Stock and micr-stock agencies may accept your photos for upload, if they need what you have.

You don't make any money until someone buys a license for the use of one of your photos. Then the stock agency passes a portion of that use license fee on to you.

The OP want to sell directly to the end user and eliminate the stock agency function as a middle man.

Photos online don't sell themselves. If you have a web site offering photos for sale, you still have to advertise and promote the site to potential buyers.

 

[Buckster]

www.zazzle.com will let you do it for "free". That is to say, they don't charge you anything up front; they get a piece of the action for each piece you sell.

You can set up an account, put up what photos you want, even in very large sizes (up to 72" wide, as I recall), sell them in various ways on various merchandise, as prints, on postcards, on T-shirts, mugs and all the rest. You can also set up albums, so you can do event type stuff and point your client to the album they'd have an interest in.

You can set prices by setting your percentage of the cut. They get $X.xx depending on what it is, they handle making it, shipping it, etc., and you get your piece of the action at the rate you've worked out.

Fair warning - they don't cut you in on profits from frames and mats that can be chosen by the client to go with your prints.

The key is to advertise like crazy to drive potential business to your zazzle site page.