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Using Flickr For Real Estate: You Might Be In Violation Of Their TOS

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Real Estate Agent with Kennewick Richland (and West) Pasco WA Homes For Sale

FlickrUsing Flickr to host your listing photos might get your account deleted. Here is an excerpt from Flickr's TOS:

Don’t use Flickr to sell.
If we find you engaging in commercial activity, we will warn you or delete your account. Some examples include selling products, services, or yourself through your photostream or in a group, using your account solely as a product catalog, or linking to commercial sites in your photostream. If you engage in commercial activity elsewhere on the internet or in the real world, you’re still welcome on Flickr—in fact, we’ve even set up some best practices especially for you.

Here is one real estate agent who got his account deleted. There are others.

What are you using to host your listing photos?

What Are You Doing About Listing Photos?

Comments (6)

Fred Griffin Florida Real Estate
Fred Griffin Real Estate - Tallahassee, FL
Licensed Florida Real Estate Broker

I used to be a Fan and Promoter of Flickr.   But like so much of Yahoo Products under Carol Bartz, Flickr is losing its luster.

Photobucket is a great Photo-Hosting Site.

Also take a look at Windows Live SkyDrive, which allows an astounding 25 Gigabytes of Storage.

May 07, 2011 06:45 PM
Joe Lane Richland
Kennewick Richland (and West) Pasco WA Homes For Sale - Richland, WA
WA Realtor, 509.438.9344 www.LaneRealEstateTeam.com

Your comment is incredibly helpful Fred.  I'm struggling with the hosting issue.  Yesterday, I posted about my woes with Google Storage and am at a loss.  I'll check your resources out.

May 07, 2011 06:56 PM
Doug Bullwinkel
E Mortgage Capital, Inc. NMLS 1416824 - Roseville, CA
Mortgage Loan Officer NMLS #281609

Interesting conflicts in the storage world out there that I wasn't even aware of.  I'll check these out.

May 07, 2011 08:07 PM
Joe Lane Richland
Kennewick Richland (and West) Pasco WA Homes For Sale - Richland, WA
WA Realtor, 509.438.9344 www.LaneRealEstateTeam.com

@Doug,

As you should!  :)

May 07, 2011 08:21 PM
Chris Lefebvre
eXp Realty - Methuen, MA
Methuen MA Real Estate Pro

I use photobucket.  It is 3 bucks a month. Not bad for what you get.

May 08, 2011 06:04 PM
Joe Lane Richland
Kennewick Richland (and West) Pasco WA Homes For Sale - Richland, WA
WA Realtor, 509.438.9344 www.LaneRealEstateTeam.com

Thanks Chris.  I'm certainly going to be checking out other options, Photobucket being one of them.

May 09, 2011 01:02 AM