This article is aimed at flash developers and designers having collection of flash files and willing to get some extra cash selling them on-line. I will do my best to bring you fair and unprejudiced flash stocks overview based on my personal observations. So lets get started…
At the moment there are about 20+ more or less significant websites selling stock flash files. In my opinion the most important are:
www.activeden.net (prior known as flashden.net)
www.flashcomponents.net
www.flashmint.com
www.flashscope.com
www.buystockflash.com
The rest of the stock websites seem to be either confusing and awkward copies of flashden(I mean flashdo.com and flashmarketplace.com ) or indistinct and suspicious websites looking more like subsidiary projects of big companies than really a place where you can sell flash stuff(the templates.com which is templatemonster’s parody for a market place). I bet you won’t make many sales if you try to sell flash through these websites, if they accept your products at all. So I just recommend not to waist your time. Now let’s get back to real flash stock websites and take a closer look.
Activeden(flashden) is the most well know and popular flash stock so far. Their project is the most successful and I truly admire their business model and people who administer the project. Activeden offers great commission rate for exclusive authors, you can get up to 70% per sale. Though to reach this amount you have to make really lot’s of sales. The thing I don’t like about Activeden is fixed 25% commission rate for non exclusive authors and they won’t change, it no way. I believe it’s not fair, but the guys want to keep the content of their website unique. Being the leader in the industry of stock flash they can really persuade most of the authors to join exclusively. The company is located in Australia and besides Activeden owns about a dozen of other very successful projects. I think they are really trustworthy company that can be both admired, respected and envied 
Flashcomponents.net is another company dedicated to bringing top quality flash components, both professional and free. They make probably less sales than flashden but their policy to non exclusive authors is much more appealing. I think it’s a good approach when you are not tight up with damn 25% and can sell flash files anywhere else. I am selling some of my flash files and xml templates through this company as well and pretty happy with the support and the terms in general. If you are planning to start selling flash components I would recommend you to start with flashcomponents.net. The company is located in Romania, the support managers are very friendly and nice people.
Flashmint.com is one more marketplace where you can sell buy flash components and CMS flash templates. They do not parade the fact they work with 3rd parties developers and usually contact serious flash developers with the cooperation offer. I was pretty surprised when I got an invitation message from them. You can get 40% commission per sale. Thing that I like the most about flashmint is that they handle all customers support requests by themselves. When you have a hundred of files being sold through 3 companies technical support turns into nightmare. When selling flash through flashmint you can just forget about the support and once per month get your commission, it’s convenient as for me. Flashmint is owned and operated by US company.
Flashscope.com is pretty young but promising marketplace and I was really impressed by their support team and conditions for non exclusive authors who can get up to 60% per sale. In general they are growing very active and my sales are getting better and better. Flashscope is US based company, if you are selling flash files non exclusively probably their conditions would be the best.
Buystockflash is nice stock website to sell and buy flash. It’s a nice, clean and usable website operated by Ukrainian company located in Kyiv. Once they were inspired by flashden and created a similar network of websites. They give amazing 50-75% for authors and the customers can buy flash files starting from $1. Russian and Ukrainian users can buy the templates using WebMoney – very popular payment system in Eastern Europe.
Which company to join you may ask? I would advise to join all of them and monetize your talent as much as you can. If you don’t make much money at least you will promote your website 
Thanks for the useful overview.
All of these resources mentioned above are a great way to increase your income. Nice article.
Hey, thanks for your great tips! I am currently selling stuff through buystockflash and just wondered if anyone could share some impressions regarding flashcomponents.net? Thanks.
Hi, thanks for the great post. Anyway, in your own opinion who is the best flash stock site?
I am not advertising any of the websites. All these resources have their own peculiarities and advantages, I have no personal likings and sell my files wherever I can
That’s not easy to find out what you are advertising or at least trying to promote
according to the link (only one) in the article
You are damn observant man, I’m impressed!
Hi, thanks for your great tips! It’s a really good help for every freelance wed developer!
I think you forgot about the flashjuggler.com. I sell my stuff there to and is going pretty well. Maybe they are slower, but for me it works good. Never try the FlashScope? How they are?
Sounds all very good. But it certainly isn’t.
At a closer look inside these portals all the magic disappears. Even if you are a developer and want to make a life with your work. Mostly they earn more than 50 percent for your hard work of developing and support. Thereby they merely provide the payment service and do some minor publishing stuff. They even decide whether they want publish your stuff or not in most cases – delaying the approvement process for days and weeks. Finally they often have such unprofessional implemented payment systems (in case of flashcomponents.net), that you have to fight with up to 30 percent fraud (tendency drastically increasing) – which reduces your amount of earned money again. Possibly this “fraud” is even merely a trick to make you pay just more.
They all have totally intransparent payment handling and you mostly do not even know your own customers, nor can you prove whether really fraud happened or they simply frauded you.
Don’t get me wrong, you might endless sell products but get not payed in an acceptable relation – or even finally nothing. The end of the story is, that you probably sit day and night infront of your computer with working and customer support and finally do not earn anything (a fultime job for someone who has rich parents).
In my experiences, this all is kinda nice sparkeling “scam”. For both: the customers and the developers. The only winners in that game are these portal owners, ripping you off to the maximum extent. My experiences also tell: you are far from being seen as a “partner” with these portals. They basically shit on you and only want your best (your money). The money you should have earned for your hard work and talent as a Flash specialist.
Well, what can I tell. I just share some of my experience. I wouldn’t say customers support takes too much time is the product was properly designed(btw flashmint handles all support issues). But as for the commission rates you are absolutely right, they are a bit unfair if the portal just handles only payment processing and advertising.