Are we not microstock already ?

I visited Heathrow airport yesterday I live on the eastern edge of London, so the tube journey was 1 hour and 50 minutes, I decided to catch the runway alternation at heathrow, for the 3pm change, arrived on time 5 minute walk from the tube station, took several hundred images and 50 videos, left at 7.30 as the light was starting to go, travelled back home cost of travel was £7, managed to pick up some rarities so had a look at how much similar content is online ?, why why why are people selling their work for £2 each as a starter so you earn 1 pound ? it's not just a few looking at aviation there are many people selling what i will say are great images at 2-3 pounds, my images are generally 10 times that and maybe that is to cheap, I can not understand an image for £2 any views ??

It's not that we are charging more than our stuff is worth, it's that those others are just giving their work away, like just a way to pass the time. It's a hobby for them, a way see their images/videos online but never to actually make money for their work. Weird, right?

I used to shoot real estate. On this one forum there was a lady who did OK work, always had the best gear and basically gave her work away, thereby driving the prices down in her area. Her husband was the money maker, she was just in it for something to do.

Regarding photos, I don't see much point in setting prices to microstock levels when you can choose your own prices. You just become your own worst enemy. That said, there seem to be very few photo sales happening here at any price. P5 appears to be all about video, which is too bad really.

I price all my photos at $10 each and I did have few sales. However I must say I made more money selling few pictures here vs selling 100's of images on SS for peanuts.

When i bought my first slr in 1982, stock was all transparencies stored in stock library, then a image would be around £100 minimum around $125 that was 40 years ago so you can double or treble that now, i have seen accounts on here with 40k of images starting from £2 the effort in uploading let alone taking the image makes it not worthwhile, i have made a few sales on here but i guess the people that are hell bent on undercutting everyone will make a few more sales. a multi million pound magazine can now purchase a image for their front cover but have the money to pay a hundred pounds easily nonsensical.