Free Invites to Photrade
By Brian Auer • June 25th, 2008
Photrade is a new photo sharing and selling site wanting to bridge several facets of online photography. It aims to provide a central location where you can upload, manage, share, and sell your photos through various methods. It’s kind of like a mix between Flickr, ImageKind, and iStockphoto in that it provides a social scene, print sales, and stock sales.
I got an email from one of the guys behind Photrade wanting to know if I’d like an invite code to check out their services. Unfortunately, at the moment I’m a bit tied up with the blogs and various projects so I don’t have the time to properly invest in such a thing. But rather than leave it at that, we figured that some of you might be interested in checking it out so we’re extending the invite to all of you.
Sign-Up Page - Invite Code: EPIC
So you’re all welcome to try it out and see if it’s something that could provide value to you or other photographers. If you want to leave some feedback, you can drop some comments here, email me, or send ‘em straight to the Photrade team. I’m actually interested in checking it out when I find some time, so I’d love to hear your thoughts on the site.
And as with any new website or service out there on the web, I’d very much encourage you to carefully read the terms and conditions prior to signing on. And I’m not affiliated with Photrade in any way, I’m just interested in their concept.
Brian Auer is a photography enthusiast from San Diego, California. He's also the guy behind the Epic Edits Weblog. As a hobbyist photographer since 2003, his passion has been to constantly improve his photography skill set, to share his own knowledge with others, and to become an integral part of the photographic community.
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I have been playing around with Photrade for a short while, and it’s…. interesting. A few of my photos get some attention on there, but only two small prints have sold so far. The site has some potential, but as with any other beta, there are still some things that need to be worked out.
If anyone signs up, look me up on there: http://www.photrade.com/portfolio.php?id=1617
Brian
Thanks for writing about Photrade. Let us know what you think when you get time to check it out.
Per your comment on terms of service - we actually re-did our terms of service with a four hour turn around the day we launched. Similar issues as to the PS Express problems, and we have now had a number of comments about being “photographer friendly” in the TOS.
Jerry - if you have any thoughts or comments we would LOVE to hear them. Thanks for checking out the site!
- Krista
I’ve been on it since like Nov. of last year and needless to say it has come a long way since then. me: http://www.photrade.com/profile.php?id=367
I like the direction it is going and think it could easily become my #1 photo hosting site.
I already have an account and uploaded a few pictures. Here is a little writeup I did on photrade: http://www.thinknearn.com/blogs/2008/09/09/monetize-using-photrade/