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Online photo hosting w/ sales
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From: "Frank ess" <fr...@fshe2fs.com>
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Subject: Re: Online photo hosting w/ sales
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:21:03 -0700
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Richard H. wrote:
> Unspam wrote:
>>> I prefer Printroom.com. Good products, good service, generally
>>> unbeatable, at least since I last shopped around before choosing
>>> them 19 months ago.
>>
>> I see they take a hefty 16% of your hard earned too.
>
>
> Given the turnkey service, I can swallow the transaction fees (plus
> per-print cost and annual membership). Their per-print fees are
> high,
> but seem on-par with services like mpix.
>
> What I'm choking on is printroom's one-time storage fee of $100/GB -
> that works out to ~$0.50 per image, which adds up fast. For the
> other
> fees they charge, I'd expect storage to cost more like $1-2/GB.
>
> It seems a bit unreasonable to charge fairly high prices per print,
> and an annual fee, and a transaction fee, and a premium storage fee.
> But, perhaps current supply & demand allows for it.
>
>
> Who's out there besides Printroom? (What search words will narrow
> the
> results to just these guys?) There's a flood of photo hosting
> and/or
> printing shops, but without pro sales & fulfillment.
I haven't tried it, but FotoTime has a sell-for-you service. You set
the price, they collect it, subtract the usual printing and postage
costs, and send you the remainder in $25.00 increments, I think I
remember.
FotoTime is like $2.00 per month for each 10GB, payable yearly in
advance, 30-day free trial.
I have seven thousand images there, have experience essentially no
downtime, and the technical service is rapid and competent.
http://www.fototime.com/inv/7FB3CB20960048D
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Frank ess
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