Sales

[David Willis]

My last two sales have dropped a dollar and less. I joined Alamy on 03,sales were healthy but not now. Do other contributors have very low sales?

[Steve F]

There's multiple threads on the Forum about low sales. Yes, we're almost all experiencing them. It's the nature of a saturated market and Alamy's competitors. The big question is, how is your average fee holding up?

[David Willis]

Thanks for your reply Steve. My highest sale was 400 dollars,that was years ago then the average was 1/2 that amount. Then a decline to about 6 dollars,and now a dollar or less. Will sales ever improve,I wonder

[Steve F]

I can't see gross fees ever going back to where they were. There is still a big market for images though and I think we're selling more images overall now. I'm wondering these days if exclusivity is still worth it.

[John Mitchell]

I get some of those very low sales that you mentioned. However, my average price per image this year is holding up at about $39. This isn't anything like it was in the "good old days" (I started submitting in 2007) but it could be a lot worse.