You can sell photos of your feet without showing your face, without getting your kit off, and without buying anything fancier than the phone that's already in your pocket.

That's why everyone tries it. It's also why there's so much nonsense written about it.

So here's the version a mate would give you. Where to sell, what it costs, what you'll actually make, and how not to get burned along the way.

Here's the bit other guides bury on page four: most people who try this make very little.

There are far more sellers than buyers. Most new accounts make a handful of sales and then quietly stop. Those screenshots of somebody's enormous month? Real enough. They're just real for a very small number of people, and those are precisely the people who post screenshots.

The ones who do make money all seem to do the same four things.

• They treat it like a shop. A proper set of listings, named sensibly, topped up regularly. Not one photo and a hopeful expression.
• They sell customs. Standard sets get buyers through the door. Custom requests are where the money is, because nobody else can make yours.
• They build regulars. One buyer who comes back every month beats twenty who turn up once and vanish.
• They're on more than one site. Traffic is wildly uneven. You won't know where your buyers are until you've tried a few.

We haven't put a number on any of this, and that's deliberate. Anyone who tells you what you'll earn selling feet pics is guessing, and usually guessing upwards.

There are two ways to pay for the right to sell. Stick with me for thirty seconds, because this matters more than anything else on the page.

OnlyFans and Fansly both take 20% of everything you sell. Not once — every single time, for as long as you keep selling. They suit people who already have an audience to bring along. Starting from nothing on one is hard going, because you are up against hundreds of thousands of other people with exactly the same idea.

Flat-fee sites work the other way round. You pay for the account, they take nothing from your sales. First sale, thousandth sale, same deal.

Three sites in our network are built purely for feet.

• Feet Lovers Only — the busiest of the three, and the only one with its own internal currency.
• Feet Pics Only — photos only. No video, no nudity, no faffing.
• Toe Lovers Only — narrower still, for buyers who are extremely specific. And they really are.

All three sit inside a network of 48 sites that share a single sign-up. One account, every site. That matters more for feet than almost anything else, because the same photo set can sit on the feet sites, the worn-items sites and the niche ones all at once.

A seller account is $19.99 a month. Six months up front is $69.99, and NSFWPROFILES50 knocks 50% off your first month.

Put those together and you are paying the equivalent of about three and a half months for six months of selling. Pay month by month instead and the same six months costs you $119.94.

Here's where the money quietly hides, and almost nobody mentions it.

The person buying a photo of your feet very often wants what was on them. Socks. Tights. The trainers. Same buyer, same conversation, usually about a minute later.

If you only sell photos, you're politely declining half of every sale. Which is a strange way to run a shop.

And you've already done the hard part. The photos exist. The shoot happened. The buyer is right there, talking to you. Listing the socks you were wearing takes about ninety seconds.

• Sell Your Socks — the obvious next step, and the easiest thing in the world to post.
• Well Worn Shoes — a far higher price per item than almost anything else here.
• Pantyhose Only — tights and hosiery, which overlap heavily with feet buyers.
• All Things Worn — the big general marketplace for worn items of every description.

All of these are covered by the sign-up you already have. No second fee, no second account, no second password to forget. The only cost is the few minutes it takes to list.

The smaller sites also have a fraction of the competition. Being one of a few hundred sellers beats being one of several hundred thousand.

1. Decide your limits before you list anything. Face in or out. Nudity or never. Whether you'll do customs, and what's an automatic no. Decide it now, calmly, rather than at eleven at night with a buyer pushing at you.
2. Set up a separate identity. New email address, a seller name that isn't yours, and a payment method that doesn't flash your legal name at strangers. Do this first, not after something goes wrong.
3. Have your ID handy. You need to be 18 or over and every proper site will check. Any site that doesn't ask is a site to walk away from.
4. Take a proper first set. Thirty to fifty photos in one go gives you a shop rather than a lonely single listing. Change the angle, the light, the background, the socks. Bare, tights, heels, outdoors.
5. Strip the hidden data. Phone photos quietly carry GPS and device details. Most sites remove it on upload. Don't rely on most sites. Remove it yourself.
6. Write titles a human would search for. “Feet pics” is invisible. What's in the shot, where it was taken, what you're wearing — that's what people type.
7. Price in the middle. Have a look at what established sellers charge and start near the middle. Rock-bottom pricing reads as poor quality and attracts exactly the buyers you don't want.
8. Keep records from day one. This is income, so it's taxable wherever you live. A spreadsheet takes two minutes a week. Reconstructing a year of it from a payment app takes a weekend and some swearing.

This section matters more than everything else on this page put together, and it's the one most guides skip.

• Check the background of every single photo. Post with your address on it, a window with a recognisable view, a reflection in a screen, the dog, a distinctive carpet. Look behind your feet, not just at them.
• Tattoos and scars identify you. If you have a distinctive one, keep it out of shot, or accept that these photos are linked to the rest of your life permanently.
• Assume anything you send can be reposted. Reverse image search exists and some buyers resell. Watermarks help a bit. The only real protection is never photographing something you couldn't live with being public.
• Never move payment off the site. A buyer who wants to use a bank transfer or gift cards is almost always scamming you, and the platform can't help you once you've left it.
• Never send the full set before payment clears. Watermarked preview, payment, then delivery. In that order, every time.
• Block early and don't feel bad about it. Buyers who push your limits in the first conversation do not improve with time.

Whichever site you end up on, these cost you nothing.

• Free promotion — we put you in front of our readers and link to wherever you sell. You don't have to be selling with us to take it.
• Free content review — send us what you're selling and we'll tell you honestly what's working, what isn't, and what to fix first.

If your listings aren't selling and you can't work out why, start with the review. Nine times out of ten it's the photos or the titles, and both are a quick fix.

• Opening one shop and waiting. One listing on one site isn't a business, it's a hobby with paperwork.
• Giving away a free custom to prove yourself. A buyer asking for a free sample before a big order is running a scam older than the internet. There is no big order. There has never been a big order.
• Pricing at rock bottom. It attracts hagglers and makes your work look cheap, and it's a very hard hole to climb back out of.
• Quitting in week three. Reviews, regulars and your ranking inside a site all build slowly. A shop that closes after a month shuts precisely when it was about to start working.

• Most people earn very little. Anyone quoting you a figure is guessing. The ones who do earn treat it like a shop and stick at it.
• OnlyFans and Fansly take 20% forever. Flat-fee sites take nothing.
• Be on more than one site. You can't know where your buyers are until you've tried a few.
• Don't stop at feet. Socks, shoes and tights sell to the same people, from the same shoot.
• Get the safety bits right first — hidden data, backgrounds, tattoos, and never delivering before the money lands.

This article is general information, not legal or financial advice. Tax rules and site terms vary by country and change often. Check the rules where you live, and have a word with an accountant once this turns into real income.