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Digital Railroad raises its prices
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For anyone interested, Digital Railroad just raised their prices.
• If you sell a picture through their “MarketPlace”, the slice they take has gone from 20% to 30%.
• If you sell a picture directly from your own library, without the aid of their Marketplace, and your buyer uses a credit-card online, their fee has gone from 5% to 10%.
• The monthly subscription rate has increased by five cents to a flat $50, and with it they increased the base storage allowance from 20GB to 100GB.
I for one haven’t had even the whiff of a Marketplace generated sale. I might have just thought it was me, but it’s obvious from discussions on this site that I am not alone. Another indicator is the kind of sales that DRR are spruiking about on their blog. A one-off sale to a newspaper travel supplement or an obscure magazine rates a mention. So it’s got to make you wonder.
So for the first time in three years I felt mad enough to consider my options. But I realise that 30% of nothing is still nothing, so unless I actually make a sale this year I can just sit back and enjoy the extra 80GBs.
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Wade Laube
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Wed Jul 02 07:51:02 UTC 2008
(ed. Jul 6 2008)
London,
United Kingdom
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Hi Wade – yeah, this is a bit of a surprise. Not sure what to make of it, but I’ll give it more time. Actually, they’ve increased the capacity to 100GB – they’ve given us 80GB for practically free (or as they put it, an extra US$0.05/month.
Leaving marketplace out of it at the moment (and I’ve started making some money from it) It’s still a geat value service – there’s not many online services that will allow one to store 100GB of images in a professional manner with ecommerce built in for this kind of price. Well, ok, there’s photoshelter.
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100Gb … got it.
Yeah, I am shirty about the 10% credit card fee. I was going to start using that for one-off foreign sales (to avoid the dramas of bank fees and chasing someone miles away with invoices for generally a piddly amount). But I am not doing that anymore.
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Well, I need to check, but it seems to be more expensive than using paypal now, which is a bit pointless…
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DRR’s Charles Mauzy responds to questions from SAA ombudsman David Sanger
“Yesterday Digital Railroad announced to our members changes regarding pricing for archive subscriptions, storage and transaction fees. As anticipated, some of our members have had questions about the changes we’ve made. Serving as ombudsman for the photographer community, David Sanger, and Charles Mauzy, CEO for DRR, engaged in the following email dialogue that we thought would be helpful for all of our members to read:”
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DRR’s Charles Mauzy responds to questions from SAA ombudsman David Sanger
“Yesterday Digital Railroad announced to our members changes regarding pricing for archive subscriptions, storage and transaction fees. As anticipated, some of our members have had questions about the changes we’ve made. Serving as ombudsman for the photographer community, David Sanger, and Charles Mauzy, CEO for DRR, engaged in the following email dialogue that we thought would be helpful for all of our members to read:”
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