You can file this under personal opinion and the way I operate. I feel that as a seller of a product there needs to be some value and integrity.

If I have a photo up on any of the MicroStock sites, I will not put the same image up on Mostphoto, Alamy or someplace else that may charge $100 to $300 for the same picture.

I don't see a big deal about having something on SS for 25c for subscription, that's being sold for $5 on Panther, or $3 on Bigstock. They are all the same marketing. I listed all my "micro" photos on SV for $5 each.

If I have a picture that's special I will upload it to Alamy and nowhere else.

If it's kind of special and I don't want to sell it Micro or maybe it's not the right kind of image for that, (and won't get accepted anyways) I may list it on MostPhoto or Featurepics.

Let me ask you and others to put themselves in the place of a buyer. You go to the store for a frozen pizza. You find a brand that looks pretty good and it's $15 for the deluxe combo with extra cheese. On the way home you stop for some soda and see the same pizza is selling for $3 at the gas station. Would you be angry at the first store?

You just bought a digital camera for $500 and a week later you see the same camera for $250. Don't you feel like you just got screwed?

Now think about someone who just bought your photo on a Mid-Stock site for $235 and they are looking around the web and see that it's for sale on CheapStock for three dollars! Talk about angry! Paying 78 times more for a photo, or paying $232 more for the same photo, no matter how you look at it, someone is going to be mighty pissed off.

That's why.

What I haven't seen is how someone can justify selling a picture for 25 cents in one place and then asking over $200 for the same photo. How does someone explain the ethics behind that?

OK that's the way I feel about it from my own personal view. Maybe someone else feels differently. I just don't understand how.

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I don't put my microstock photos on alamy. Alamy don't stop people doing this though and I feel it is their responsibility. They could only allow images that are being sold for more than $50 at full size on other sites.

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