Selling through Lobster, anybody any experience?

Lee532

Senior Member
I got the message below on one of my photographs on Flickr.

" Hello, Lee. Somebody wants to buy your photo via Lobster Marketplace. If you want it to be sold, add #ilobsterit tag and sign up at ilobster.it. Photos are sold starting at $1.99 and you get 75% (minus PayPal commissions) every time somebody buys a license.
To opt out and never hear from us again, please comment ‘opt out’. Gabriele, Marketing Manager at Lobster"

It looks like a bit of a fishing expedition to me but I have looked on their site. I have not seriously thought of selling my photographs in the past but has anybody heard of or used Lobster?
I have done a bit of Googling but can't seem to find any info from users.
If anybody has any experience or recommendations I would love to hear them please.
Thanks
Lee
 

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
Fully admitting I know nothing about this iLobster iPot... thing... or whatever it is, my advice is this: If you want to get into the business of selling your work, methinks there are probably better avenues.

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Olga Egorsheva

New member
Dear Lee532,

Hello! I am Olga, CEO of Lobster. I am glad you are considering joining Lobster to license your pictures to others. It is true you might haven't heard about us, - this is because we are a startup company, quite a young one with HQ in London (near Euston, part of a startup accelerator Wayra UK). Here is our team of 7 Lobster - Buy Instagram & Flickr photos on the marketplace for $0.99.

The difference between Lobster and other monetisation platforms you may have found is that we don't ask you to upload your photos anywhere, get lengthy approvals etc. All you need to do is to put #ilobsterit tag on your already existing pictures on Flickr every time you feel like you want to sell them. We do the rest - automatically capture tags, locations, dates, make the photo available on the marketplace. Usually when we comment that someone wants to buy your picture this means that one of the buyers (e.g. digital media) at the marketplace or some of our internal team has expressed interest in your image.

You only sign up once - this is to authorise us capturing your content with the tag - and then use your Flickr as usual. Please let us know if you have any questions.
 

SteveH

Senior Member
Sorry I'm late to the party, but if Lobster sell your image for $0.99, what is to then stop that person then selling it on for $1.50? If I were to sell images online, it would be odered in the desired size on a canvas or other physical media.
 
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