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I am feeling totally inadequate.  After nearly a year with BS, I have a grand total of $6 in sales.  My portfolio is not large, only recently reaching 130, but surely I should expect more than $6.  Is anyone else willing to admit their lack of sales?

Some people seem to do terribly there, for some reason. They are almost always my #6 best performing site, though sometimes they will pop up a bit higher. Generally I get about 4% - 6% of my monthly earnings from them.

Last month I had a spectacularly good BME (by over 40% by count, by over 100% by $ -- but I had 2 ELs which certainly impacted the latter a lot).

This month, as Lisa has mentioned, they are doing spectacularly poorly. Through yesterday, with more than 33% of the month gone, I'd earned about 5% of last month's BME, and about 10% of a normal month. 

they don't sell as much, but i am glad they don't pay 30 cents a dl. for that alone,  if i were elsewhere i would have to had sold 100 subs, to earn the same $$$

They're running at 2% of my total and are overall very disappointing.

Btw, and this is important, what do you think the commission percentage is at BigStock?

50% or thereabouts? WRONG __ it can be as low as 20% per sale.

If my memory serves me correct, they started out paying 50% per credit when credits cost $1 or less __ now they pay a fixed 50c per credit although most credits probably cost far more than $1.

Credits in packages of less than 10 actually cost $2.50 a pop __ we get 50c of that so there's the 20% level. We only get the full 50% (which I suspect most of assumed we were earning) on packages of 300 credits which also cost $300.

I feel that BigStock has done a rather sneaky thing there and, because most people don't take too much notice of them, they've managed to slip in under the radar.

I did some number crunching recently and according to my calculations working backwards on known figures BigStock actually has higher annual sales than StockXpert (believe it or not!). They just pay out a heck of a lot less to us.

Wow, thanks gostwyck for letting us know this...no good news at all lisa.
BTW, welcome to MSG Perseus.

Glad I asked the question.  I don't feel any better but the info is enlightening.
Not necessarily in a bad way.  I don't remember getting less than 50 cents for an image?  Not that I've sold very many.   

Hmm, I get some US$1 and even US$2 per image. 

Added: from their FAQ:

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Why do you say that, pixart?

I'm at them since august 08 and still no payout with portfolio around 400+ images.
Disappointing

Hmmm....

I didn't looked at maths... But, interesting info here!

I'm with them since Aug 06 and my total earnings from the very first sale until now is about the same of what I make in one month in SS. And I have over 1000 images in both sites.
It is my lowest earner of the 7 I'm in and I'm not going to upload new images for a while. It's not worth the effort.

Low sales and irritating cathegories.  And above that 7 words minimum for description.  Defenitly not worth the extra work as it is now...   I also have problems navigating the site. weird layout/menus.  I don´t spend much time there though. 

I have about 200 images with them, I think I made payout only 3x since joining them a year and a half ago. Sales definitely have fallen off sharply. It was steady until Feb this year, March not a single download, April 2 dns, May so far none.

Like Madelaide, I have always gotten no less than $0.50 and many times $1/download. In the past I have had a few $3.

Am not sure what is happening to that site, they are probably having a tough time competing with the big ones in this tough economic climate. I have not uploaded any new stuffs for a long time. I would agree uploading has always been tedious i.e. categories/keyword as mentioned by someone. I like the low payout though