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Three sales so far at Albumo and several more for my referrals, not too bad for a site that is only a few months on line.  SY

A grand total of 2 sales so far - I think the marketing push hasn't started yet.

My benchmark for this is Fotolia, which managed to start generating a sale a day (for me) just as soon as they started marketing the site; things later ramped up to a decent volume (if you don't count the V2 snafu). Compared to Fotolia, albumo is off to a very slow start, but perhaps it's even harder now given the competition?

After a couple of months or so and about 1200 accepted images, I have had one sale so far.

It would appear they are currently offline due to "system upgrade and server relocation"

The pricing structure suggests to me that buyers are getting a bargain

System upgrade and server relocation? Yea, right... Most companies post a notice in advance that the site is going to be down. And then do the work during low traffic time or weekends.

The site went down, was down for quite a while, and then they posted the system upgrade and server relocation message. C'mon.

What it should say is something like "Our single server with one hard drive failed and we're scrambling to order new parts and then perform a full backup. We expect this to take about 24 hours but who knows."

At 911 images I began to get rejections and shortly thereafter they stopped the 100 club. I wrote support about this but got no answer. You don't go from total image acceptance to total rejection and I am pissed about it. If I read the TOS correctly they can keep my files for 400 days. I haven't read it lately but it seems it was something like this. I'm not bothered by this if they do the marketing and I see some profit but right now it looks like they won't have to pay the $25 bait money.

The only reason I'm bothered by them keeping my files is the way things are going on all the sites I am more and more enticed by exclusivity.

From Albumo's upload agreement...

Member also forfeits the right to remove submitted and approved for sale Content for 400 days since the date of initial upload.  Albumo.com has sole right to remove such content if necessary.  After 400 days has passed, member can remove the Content at any time for any reason at all by request to our Support.

Having my photos there doesn't hurt, so I don't really care, but I'm afraid they are dead in the water. No sales and a completely uninspiring website. Lucky Oliver is at least interesting to look at, although the sales aren't much better.

I wonder what their plan is. Let's see. They spent a ton of money paying photographers to submit images and I haven't seen any evidence of them spening money on trying to attract buyers. They've sent a couple of email newsletters which costs nothing and may only be reaching their existing database of people who already know who they are.

Are they trying the organic growth approach? Or build a foundation and sell it?

nothing for me ,been there  just a few day with  140 images. will keep them on and see where it goes

Been there for right at a month now. Had three sales almost as soon as I started uploading, then bang - nothing since, and next to no views either. And my acceptance rate went from 100% (awfully high since I even submitted some crap photos) to about 15% (about 1/3 my acceptance at DT). If they are to survive, they will have to find some consistency or they will end up driving away contributors and, thusly, buyers.

I've also noticed batch acceptance/rejection. They either accept every photo in a batch or reject all the photos in a batch so I've started submitting in smaller batches of 5-10 images.

These reviewers are harder to figure out than those at FT, IMHO.

I haven't been in  there for so long I have forgotten my user name and password.

Well I just signed up there last week and just had my first sale about ten minutes ago, guess I'll see how it goes.