Two components here: Ownership and Hosting
1) Ownership: The owner of the tours is the person whom pays Maui360Tours.com for the work. We own the copyright of images we take of course, but we transfer that along with to our paying clients so they call the shots. If this paying client/owner gives us the okay - we can use their tours and photographs. It's customary that the new owners/agent split the cost with the old owners or real estate agent 50/50. We do not charge for a simple MLS number change and new tour link.
If hosting yourself: We can email 280 pixel high vtour images(sample), which are
what we use on the web,
to the owner of the tour images for them to do as they please. For full size images we charge $25 as it takes us a bit of time to go back and find these larger images in our backup drives and get them off to you.
2) Hosting: Hosting is FREE with our Maui360Tours.com banner. Modifications or changes to the tour are charged at our
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We charge $108/year to host each virtual tour with our banner on them. This $108/year includes being listed on Maui360Tours.com and a half hour of webpage editing time on the front page for personalization and links each year. The first year of hosting is free with virtual tour package purchases so you have 12 months to figure out how to do them yourself or hand the work off to your webmaster. If you prefer to not have our Maui360Tours.com banner then it's a one time $85 charge for non-branding which includes the time to add your banner to the tour. To support our Real Estate Association of Maui, MLS listed properties are hosted without charge while listed on MLS.
Please understand - hosting is not a simple stand alone product at this time. All viewers are different so building the tour will be dependant on how you do it. We use the PMVR viewer which uses another small program that automates the scripting details such as node names and start points. In the future we will offer QuickTime packaged stand alone tours without branding, but that is not expected until December 2007.
Note: Resort Stock images are not included in any tours. Tours done for agents on MLS expire after their listing is closed or cancelled. They most often can be resumed when the property relists. The images for these tours are 360pixels high and we can send them on the internet you will need to use a viewer and and some web programming knowledge to add this to your own site. We host these tours for a small monthly hosting charge so you don't have to do any of the work and set-up. Hosting charged annually, refunds are prorated monthly.