ReelCollectors.com Premium Gallery Owner Services

PAYMENT INFORMATION Payment can be in the form of a PayPal payment or personal check (Made payable to "Bill Cox"). A link to Paypal and our mailing address is provided below. Your premium account annual subscription will begin when we update your account which should occur the day payment has been received. Please Contact Us if you have any questions. ReelCollectors.com ATTN: Bill Cox 8659 Hickory Hollow Dr Chardon, OH 44024

On June 1st 2005 ReelCollectors.com began offering a premium level of service to individuals in the Original Fine Art Collecting community. We have long felt that this web site had more potential than just being a Gallery to display original fine art. For the past several months we have discussed possible ways to move the site to more of a marketplace concept where Dealers, Buyers and Sellers can better interact with each other – and Gallery Owners can be more productive on the site. We feel we have created a strong group of features in this initial offering.

So there is no confusion, this web site will continue to offer free Gallery space to all original fine art collectors and professional fine artists and creators. This will not change. Original Art Collectors who only wish to take advantage of the site’s new premium features and not display their collections can do so as well. Displaying your artwork is not a prerequisite to participating.

The features outlined below are part of our first phase of programming enhancements to ReelCollectors.com to achieve this marketplace concept. More updates and future enhancements are planned, but we felt these primary features were a great place to kick off the service. Because this is the direction we want to take the site in the future, most future enhancements will be focused in this area. We will continue to add new features and enhancements to the existing free Galleries as the need requires.

The cost of this new service will be only $50/year! Although we must view your participation as an annual subscription to this service, we feel that those who choose to utilize these site features are really supporting our efforts in this hobby for years to come. New features added to the site will be driven by participating Premium Gallery Owner’s feedback, and wherever we see a need to be addressed. We want this site to become the first place you visit on the web each day if it isn’t already. To further show our commitment to this web site we have recently purchased a new server exclusively for the ReelCollectors.com web site, at a cost of more than $3,000, and will be installing it within the next few weeks.

As part of the rollout of these new features we will give all our registered users one week to try out the new features for free. If you like the service then you can choose to upgrade your account (We'll soon have information posted to the site describing the methods of payment.). If you're not interested you can continue to use the site as you always have. We appreciate everyone’s support and kind words over the past two and a half years and look forward to serving you into the future.

With that introduction out of the way, here is the list of Premium features:

Create Your Own For Sale Gallery Rooms – One of the most frequently asked questions we receive from ReelCollectors.com Site Members is “How do I find the Art other Gallery Owners have For Sale?” We have solved this problem. Premium Gallery Owners can now “flag” one or more Gallery Rooms as having Art For Sale inside. The Artwork from these Gallery Rooms is then also located in a new “CAF Classifieds” section of the site with its own Classifieds Only Search. The Artwork from these For Sale Gallery Rooms also gets included in the overall site search and the daily Keyword Search Email Alerts.

“Watch” Site Member Galleries – Do you find yourself always checking out a particular Collector’s Gallery Room because you are interested in the Artwork they collect? Now you can “watch” any Site Member Gallery you desire and view your new Watched Galleries List ordered by when each Gallery was last updated. We even go one step further and include these same Watched Galleries in your scheduled Email Alert (details below). You’ll never miss a favorite Collector’s update again.

ReelCollectors.com Email Alerts – If you are looking for a comprehensive way to find everything new on ReelCollectors.com then this is it. Save your favorite keyword searches into the Email Alert configuration screen, schedule the time and how often each day you want to be updated, and let the original fine artwork updates come to you. Alerts can be scheduled for delivery once, twice, or four times daily showing you new site content from the last 24, 12 or 6 hours respectively. All Artwork added to the site matching your Keywords is included in the Alert. The Email Alert is organized by your Keywords, and grouped by Member Gallery Pieces, Dealer For Sale Pieces, and Member Gallery For Sale Pieces. As already mentioned, we also include your Watched Site Member Galleries in the Email Alert if their Gallery was updated in the same time range as the overall Alert. CLICK HERE for an example.

eBay Auctions on ReelCollectors.com – We’d like to think that after eBay, ReelCollectors.com is every Collector’s favorite location on the Internet to locate original fine artwork to purchase through our central Dealer For Sale Search and our new ReelCollectors.com Classifieds section. Not wanting to stop there we have come up with a way to integrate eBay auctions into ReelCollectors.com. Save your favorite eBay Keyword Searches (the Original Comic Art Category only!) and Seller IDs at CAF and view live eBay Auctions on ReelCollectors.com. We make it easy to save and organize your favorite eBay Keyword Searches and set up your search preferences just like you do on eBay today. As a Premium Gallery Owner you can also save your eBay ID at CAF, and when you have auctions running on eBay you can promote them through our web site.

ReelCollectors.com earns a commission from your using our site as a vehicle to enter eBay. This happens whenever you bid, win an auction, or use a buy-it-now function on eBay. For that to happen, you must click from the eBay search results displayed within ReelCollectors.com and place your bids and purchases on eBay. This commission program should help us keep the costs of maintaining this Premium Gallery Owner service to an affordable annual cost. CLICK HERE for an example.

Upload Multiple Images to a Gallery Room – Have you ever wished that you could upload several images at a time and update their descriptions later and activate them on the site? Now you can upload as many as six images at a time and modify their descriptions later. For large updates, photos from Cons, etc., this comes in very handy.

Increased Image Size on Upload – Today we resize the artwork you upload to 800 pixels in height when your original image height is greater than that. Premium Gallery Owners will be able to upload a 1250 pixel tall image without it being resized. An 11 x 17 inch page, scanned at 72 dpi and 100% will be less than 1250 pixels.

Search ONLY Fine Art Related Web Sites – ReelCollectors.com is utilizing a service that allows us to spider only fine art related web sites for content and create a central Google-style search engine. News sites, artist sites, etc., will be included, but Dealer and other sites with original fine art for sale will not be included because we already have those inventories in our Dealer For Sale search. Premium members can suggest sites to be included in this site search and ReelCollectors.com will review each selection for its merit and determine whether or not it should be included in the search. CLICK HERE for an example.

About Me Page – Every Collector has a story. Share yours and upload a photograph of yourself!

Get Featured on the ReelCollectors.com Homepage – Because we appreciate the support of our Premium subscribers, a new section on the homepage will randomly display one Featured Gallery Item from all participating Premium Gallery Owners.

Be Listed on our Premium Gallery Owner Acknowledgement Page – There will also be an acknowledgement page created to list all our Premium Gallery Owners with links back to their Galleries. Without their support the tools we are making available would not be possible.