Comments on: Cutcaster – Next Generation Creative Marketplace

By: John

John — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:13:49 +0000

Vita,

Great article and thanks for sharing. Hope all is well over in Europe.

Hey Jamie,

Sorry you left, Jamie, because you had a couple of OK nature images with us which are typically not great sellers as I am sure you have started to learn. I was just looking at the stock site you created and your portfolio there with over 1,000 images and saw you had 1 sale. I’ll be interested to see how your sales go on your site with your portfolio so I can get some comparisons.

Also next time post examples of the images that were rejected or accepted so we have something that we can all examine.

Cheers, John

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:52:33 +0000

I have been submitting to cutcaster for over a year, and I haven’t made a penny. I submitted over 800 images, and they declined my best ones, and approved my worst ones. I requested my account be deleted, it was just a waste of time uploading to them.

By: Vitezslav Valka

Vitezslav Valka — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:58:13 +0000

Well, satisfying photographers is difficult. I’ve wrote some articles about that on Pixmac’s blog and it’s an issue of itself. It would be nice if all stock photo sites we’re just slaves of the photographers, but it’s not working like that.

Making a selling website is not a matter of a few clicks. And the same thing is with learning photography skills. I would be happy if there is a simple way to satisfy both, while not loosing time of both sides. The reality is that every site is working differently with contributors and every photographer is sure about his/her quality of content.

Good to read is this: https://www.stephencovey.com/7habits/7habits.php

Especially the part where people start with themselves.

By: Vitezslav Valka

Vitezslav Valka — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:20:14 +0000

Dan, that’s true. Actually it’s a way how to differentiate the agency a bit. And there might be companies in some countries that easily need the feeling of saving few bucks…

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:55:14 +0000

The big difference is the stock market has a huge supply of buyers and sellers prepared to negotiate over the price of a given company at any moment. This supply won’t exist at Cutcaster. Heck, it wouldn’t even exist at iStock or Shutterstock.

I like the idea of price rising or falling to meet demand over time, but I just don’t see how the negotiation is ever going to work. Unless buyers are very, very patient about when they will get their image.

By: niagaragirl

niagaragirl — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:31:15 +0000

Lee,

Thanks for stopping by my blog. Just wanted to drop you a note to let you know I have been doing some testing on the new uploader and the FTP at Cutcaster in conjunction with John Griffin. The new uploader is not live yet as there are still a few bugs to be worked out of it. Even with the bugs, it is functional and fairly easy to use. So yes there are good things to come and will be posting a preview on my blog after I get some more extensive testing done.

Have a great day!