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Subject: Re: Lack of replies to those who sell

Date: Tue 10/10/06 15:53:05 GMT

Name: InterWet2001

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I have been saying this since 2001. As far as the "big professional" wetlook producers who make a "living" at it, they're the exception---not the rule.

Most of us would be tickled to death to break even or maybe a buck or two ahead. Go back a page or two here in the forum and see what I wrote about the

"Wetlook Cruise". Forget what we pay the models all summer long, but to take a dozen or so of them on a 5 day cruise???? And if you read MK's response

in the thread to what I wrote, you'll get a good idea of just how much it does cost to produce the wetlook we all enjoy.

Good luck.

Gregg, IW2001

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Lack of replies to those who sell

By Todd - jet@jetwetfun.com Tue 10/10/06 12:51:16 GMT

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It has long been known that this forum shuns anyone who produces wetlook and attempts to sell anything. Jennifer and I both knew this when we started to sell photo sets and expected it. However, why does this happen? I'll use an example. The photo set we just released contains around 187 photos. We posted 9 of those photos (well, 8 since I forgot to fix the one link last night) and I thought they weren't too bad for the amateurs we are. We got 1 response in this forum. Now, let's assume for a minute that we're somebody who posts everything for free as we had done in the past and in this situation we posted lets say 5 photos from a wet adventure. We chose to share these 5 photos from our personal wetlook endeavor. In this situation we probably would have had I'm guessing maybe 5 or 7 reponses .. all with their tongues hanging out! I thought that posting 9 sampe photos was being very generous, and in fact it might have hurt sales because it makes people less curious about what's in the set. So my question is why does this happen? As soon as anyone tries to recover some of the costs from this stuff, the community ignores them. I'm not bitter about it or anything because we both fully expected this would happen when we started to sell photo sets. But what we all have to remember is that the amateurs out there aren't getting rich. They might be making a little on the side, but they still do it more for the comments than the money. If the interest doesn't seem to be there, many of the amateurs may disappear. Does this community just want the full "professionals" doing wetlook or is there room for the "little guys" here too? The big producers will continue to sell stuff because they're making a living at this and have to continue with their work or go back to their previous job. What about the little guys? If there doesn't seem to be interest, they will disappear. Is that what we want?

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