DotPhoto.Com

[gary...@earthlink.net]

Has anyone used or heard anything about DotPhoto.Com? They have an ad
in the March 2005 issue of Digital Photographer (p. 13). You can
upload your pictures, and sell prints to anyone who is interested. The
problem is that this sounds too good to be true. You set the price and
collect that minus printing costs, a 15% handling fee and a 3% credit
card fee. They collect the money, print the image and send it out.

One thing that makes me suspicious is that I could not find anything
about printing costs. Also, if they print it and send it out, you have
no say in what your prints look like.

Gary J Sibio
gary...@earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~garysibio/

There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary numbers and those who don't.

[Jerry G.]

I've heard of them, but never ventured in to this. Once you give out a copy
of a picture, or display it on a web page, there is no way you would have
control over where it goes, and who uses it, no matter what you say. If you
put a signature on the picture, with a good photo software, this can be
cleaned out. If you put a signature in a place where it damages the picture,
then it will not go anywhere, or be of any use.

One thing of interest, is in the old days when cameras were very crude, or
even before cameras were invented, art work was the only means of having a
picture. Art work was not able to be easily copied. In these times, artists
were truly protected. But, at the same time, a picture could only be viewed
at one location, and was limited to who can see and enjoy it.

--

Jerry G.
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[Gene Palmiter]

I have used them for years...love them. It's all true and I get a check most
months. Not getting rich from it but it saves me the trouble of ordering
prints and sending them on.

The prints look fine but for cropping. You have no control over the size a
visitor might order so you have no control over what is cropped out.

Printing costs are average...its all on the website and they partner with a
lot of others who do novelty items.

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[gary...@earthlink.net]

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 19:29:22 GMT, "Gene Palmiter"
<palmit...@verizon.net> wrote:

>I have used them for years...love them. It's all true and I get a check most
>months. Not getting rich from it but it saves me the trouble of ordering
>prints and sending them on.
>
>The prints look fine but for cropping. You have no control over the size a
>visitor might order so you have no control over what is cropped out.
>
>Printing costs are average...its all on the website and they partner with a
>lot of others who do novelty items.

Thanks for your response. Sounds like it's a fairly good deal. Have
you ever had any problems with them? How is the photographer's right
to the image maintained? Does it have to do with what I believe they
called backprinting?