Picfair Reviews 192

The service works well but You need to do Your own promotion... I have got over 300,000 view but only 6 sales. Maybe my content does not chime with what buyers want now.

I was with Picfair hoping to sell some of my pics, but after a year and 8000 + photos not 1 sale I managed to get out and not pay a renewal fee.....then like a fool I went back for more thinking that my pictures didnt sell because of my wording.
The site is a navigational nightmare, support is non compliant... just signing in is something else, it does not recognize user names or passwords....in one word...SCAM !

Great layout and a portal to see my photos, but no sales in the five or six years they've been on display.
They wanted me to upgrade to PicFair plus, which I said I would do when I had sold enough to pay the fee, but as none have sold it is unlikely this will happen!
I'm inclined to agree with other reviews that suggest it's a scam!

Sadly I found Picfair to be a complete waste of time, effort and resources. I had been a member of Picfair for a few years with around 1600 images and in excess of 150,000 views. apart from one sale I generated myself through social media my experience of Picfair has been extremely disappointing to say the least , This is NOT a stock photography site,do not believe the hype this is merely a portal for you to upload images, you will have to generate any sales via your own marketing and pay Picfiar for the priviledge . The business model of all the leading stock sites is completely different, you upload, they generate sales and pay you,( albeit a small commission) picfair are merely hosts so you have to pay them and market the sales, you might as well have your own web site to be honest. So I've just cancelled my subscription which was on auto renew Sept 23, that in itself wasn't as straightforward as it could be - if your aim is to sell stock images then dont bother, stick to the main players, if your goal is to sell fine art prints then consider the alternatives before signing up as you will have to do your own marketing anyway......caveat emptor

I have 650 decent images on the plus Picfair site and have had 110,000 views and have had no sales. The results speak for themselves.

I don't think anyone is buying from this site, like many other users, no sales despite low prices and numerous 'stars' from Picfair. Icing on the cake was the auto renewal with zero notice/communication. I gave it a couple of years, so it wasn't through trying. Save your money and don't bother

Have had photos on their site for 3 plus years now, not sold one photo, I don’t consider my photos to be that bad.
Think waste of time.

I joined picfair at the basic free level several years ago and despite having commmendations for a good number of my pictures have not yet made a single sale! And as apparently my pictures have had 42 thousand odd views I guess it must mean that it certainly wouldn't be worth my while upgrading to PicFair Plus, as it proves that either there is no demand for the sort of photos I take or that the sort of customer that would want to have prints of my nature photography doesn't access that sort of site!
(Of course it may mean I'm just a rubbish photographer, but if so I wish they wouldn't have told me I was any good in the first place!)

Picfair is a scam and should be reported, firstly they say a maximum of 20 images on free account, I only had 6 but apparently couldn't post anymore, secondly after deleting images off my store it didn't disappear but instead was now available for me to buy?tired of the scammers.

Picfair decided to renew for one year Plus Packet without letting me know. They took money from my account.

Gave them 12 months with just short of 1,000 photos all priced at £1. Had a number of Stars accredited to photos by Picfair - which is meaningless. Had over 12,000 views and not a sniff of a sale. Picfair made £80 from my subscription while I made noting - cleaver model on their part ;)

Easy to use but poor results I have over 4000 pics on view perhaps not all sellable but with over 500,000 views law of averages would lead you to believe a few sales would come my way so far only one digital down load, I believe they are more interested in subscriptions than selling to third parties and leave you to do your own marketing on FB or Twitter or were ever, which is not for everyone, but will live in hope until next subscription due then will think hard, probaly free version will do the same job

Useless. Don't bother to spend a time with uploads as you won't sell anything.

They were great until unauthorized payments. They try to use clever ways to trap you.

I paid for the plus membership. I set my prices but they don't stay the same. I upload in jpg but for some reason the site uploads to another unusable format. The dashboard menu is confusing and sort of useless. And the associates are more of a copy-and-paste email response rather than helping.

This year in 11 months I have sold 1 photo and I have 37,600 photos with them and I sell hundred of photos a day on other stock sites. They keep trying to make them pay them money even thought they dont pay me more than once a year. I don't understand the business model for photographers. Why do I have to pay them? They have blocked me uploading more photos if I don't pay them. I know of no other stock site that I have to pay for and I am a contributor in 20 and have been for 10 years.

I have almost 4000 high quality travel images on Picfair that are selling well on Alamy.com. I have over 18,000 views but NO SALES! My goal was to at least recover my subscription costs - it's not happening. I will give it a full year and then say goodbye if I don't get any sales.

Sounded wonderful in the hype but in reality my experience is below zero! From over the course of my life I have LOTS of LOVELY photographs, SOME of which I've uploaded to PicFair, and done so a LONG time ago now! I have just over 300 pictures on the site, and, as of today, I've had more then 6,700 viewers. But, NOT ONE SALE. On the law of averages that just isn't possible. Seems to something HINKEY going on.

Total waste of your money.
No Traffic ZERO (0) to my website, despite there being almost 300 photographs. It is supposed to connect to Google Analytics, but that also shows there is ZERO traffic of any description, and no Traffic means no sales.
Support is a JOKE, no one is interested in solving the problems they just quote the Policy.
I have given up on this, nice idea, but it really is useless.
I have asked for a refund, but have been refused.