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I'm determined to stay with a site only if it is worth continuing with my current level (very low) of uploads. So far I've deleted all but IS, SS, DT, and Veer accounts.   If Veer was older I would have pulled that plug a year ago but I've stayed with them longer due to some occasional hot streaks that, hopefully will continue.

Big Stock is just not selling for me and shows no improvement I can see.

Anyone here have any reason I don't know about that BS will suddenly improve?

I stopped uploading at BigStock many months ago because I didn't see any improvement in my sales despite adding at least 100 new images monthly. Their sales are very low, I get a payout  every 7-9 months and that's bad.

maybe contact them and ask if you can be included in the direct transfer program from shutterstock. I know some large contributors get that option.

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Bigstock is consistently 4-5% of my monthly income.  That's higher than any other mid tier site, and puts them in 5th place in my earnings.  I guess everyone's experience is different, but I won't be leaving BigStock as long as Ss keeps them open. 

Thank you all for the input. I've decided to stay put there for now.

I haven´t stopped uploading but I am in the same "foot" only had 5 months over 10$ (since April 2009) I do enjoy the late change regarding min payout for 30$ instead of the 50$'s but yes sales are very disappointing

191 sales for $175.50 (2 years and half, over 4k files)

I wish Veer would perform as well as Bigstock does for me...

About dormancy: In the last two years I've uploaded at most 2 or 3 images per month per site. That's mostly due to my resistance to do work for a dwindling reward schedule. What really surprised me was seeing fewer than expected  reductions in total downloads. I've concluded, at least with my images, that the searches aren't skewed all that much toward recent work. Maybe its just me.

Very interesting.  You may be onto something there.  I have noticed that uploading constantly stopped having any effect on downloads, so maybe stopping doesn't do much either, at least for awhile.  I have to assume eventually sales will peter out, but if it takes a couple of years, that would be nice

Not that I'm intending to stop working yet.  Just thinking about if that time ever comes.  Thanks to both of you ( Lou and Larry) for the info.

I see no reason to pull a port merely because sales are slow, especially if the minimum payout is also fairly small. It doesn't take much work to request a payout once a year. Then if things pick up you can upload the backlog or maybe you can get onto the bridge to bigstock and have your stuff from SS moved there for no extra effort on your part. Now if the site is doing unsavory things that is a different story.

For me BS is slow but pretty steady. I made more on Veer in one day this month than many months on BS. Even without the Veer Dash for cash I make more than double the BS earnings on Veer.

As far as sales if you stop uploading I think that SS has switched their matches a bit so that it doesn't favor new files quite as much. That means if you have steady sellers there, they will probably continue to sell for a while. How well sales would continue if you stopped uploading has always been a bit of a wildcard for microstock. It is heartening to think that they might continue for some time. Many of my older images that I doubt would be accepted now continue to sell.