Photography and Ebay

mahamageehad

So, has anyone here sold any photographs on ebay?? Is there any money in it?? I'm in Co.Clare for the summer and I'm taking some pretty amazing touristy type pictures and was just wondering is there any way to make money from these?? Was thinking about printing them out as postcards etc maybe as well??

Thanks guys

Tallon

Can you upload some of these "amazing touristy type pictures "

Id love to see them

*Dallas

ive seen people do really well from selling prints on eBay. honestly i think its more those arty flower shots or famous landmarks, like the Brookyln Bridge etc that sell well

Morrisseeee

I was at a charity auction recently where they had a load of pictures/paintings (with frames) and surprisingly they were the hightest bidded items (in terms of the amount of bidders bidding against each other) and therefore showing me that people still love to get their hands on a good photo/painting.
So.......I'm off to set up my auction house.....details to follow shortly he he !

dazftw

hmm i might try this... the thing is I dont think you could make ALOT of money from this.. only a few euro id say 10 - 20.. unless you charge alot for them..

Cause when you think about it.. you need to pay:

90c for ebay listing
€10 - €15 (guess) for print on canvas etc
another €10 for good postage/packaging

so thats say €26 euro you sell your print for €30 - €35 until you start selling alot.. then you can charge a bit more..

Profit of €9 or does anyone have a better idea?

dazftw

Hmm I wonder if I will make anything?

http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=170349729801

Ive posted this on some website/forums I post on! I priced them cheap enough so I reckon I could sell some.

What do you think?

karasu

Just one thing - it's against eBay rules to offer different items in one listing.

You'd like to sort it out.

dazftw

karasu wrote: »

Just one thing - it's against eBay rules to offer different items in one listing.

You'd like to sort it out.

So I can only sell one at a time?

Crispin

dazftw wrote: »

Hmm I wonder if I will make anything?

http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=170349729801

Ive posted this on some website/forums I post on! I priced them cheap enough so I reckon I could sell some.

What do you think?

I think it looks like you took the pictures of your pictures on your bed cover- makes it look unprofessional. might want to at least shoot them on a plain background. just my opinion though, good luck with it!
Like the images though- had a look at your site!

dazftw

Crispin wrote: »

I think it looks like you took the pictures of your pictures on your bed cover- makes it look unprofessional. might want to at least shoot them on a plain background. just my opinion though, good luck with it!

Hmm never thought about that now... this was just a little test run and it looks like its going downhill straight away haha

karasu

dazftw wrote: »

So I can only sell one at a time?

No, you can have many copies of the same print. I'm not sure if you can offer them in different size (you can t-shirts, though, but can't find reference to any other items), but since there is different cost for you to print, you'd like to sell them at different price anyway.

I'd keep this auction till it ends hoping that nobody would report it (if somebody does, don't worry - single, non-repetive violation of rules shouldn't do you any harm )

When you know if people are interested and in which prints, go for single listings with many copies and print them as you got orders (therefore avoiding beeing stuck with merchandise)'

Crispin wrote:

I think it looks like you took the pictures of your pictures on your bed cover- makes it look unprofessional. might want to at least shoot them on a plain background. just my opinion though, good luck with it!
Like the images though- had a look at your site!

+1 a must

karasu

Single listings with many copies I meant.

soccerc

what size are the prints?

Postage is also very cheap for a print.

Tubes cost 70c and postage would be more than 80c plus your time for packing and travel to post office.

dazftw

Thanks lads for the replies! I dont want to go take pictures of them again so ill leave it be for my 1st time but next time ill do it properly!

The prints are all A4 shrunk to fit the page so it can vary a little. One of them is 8" X 8" from my medium format camera!

Im going by an post for pricing it seems to be 1.50 for anywhere in the EU & USA for a large envelope!

Whats tubes now?

keps

Another way to make money from your photos is to put them on an 'image selling ' site where you get a percentage of the selling price.

This might only be 50 cents a time - but it ticks up over time if your photos are popular- Istock is probably the foremost

http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php


regards

keps

dazftw

keps wrote: »

Another way to make money from your photos is to put them on an 'image selling ' site where you get a percentage of the selling price.

This might only be 50 cents a time - but it ticks up over time if your photos are popular- Istock is probably the foremost

http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php


regards

keps

Do you gotta pay though? Ill check it out now.. Really im not looking for alot of money.. just some so I can buy small things like film and pay for developing and little things like that!

keps

dazftw wrote: »

Do you gotta pay though? Ill check it out now.. Really im not looking for alot of money.. just some so I can buy small things like film and pay for developing and little things like that!

No you do not have to pay - but their standards for accepting images are quite high so it can be a bit of a pain (hate to admit it but most of mine are rejected- but at the same time I have made $227 in the last 18 months- which is better than nuthin!)


keps

dazftw

keps wrote: »

No you do not have to pay - but their standards for accepting images are quite high so it can be a bit of a pain (hate to admit it but most of mine are rejected- but at the same time I have made $227 in the last 18 months- which is better than nuthin!)


keps

Yeah im just going through the whole setup now.. they want photo id :eek: very strict!