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I see they have disabled uploading till Monday again.
It seems every time I try to upload to them I get the same problem 

Ozbandit, now look what you've done!
 
http://www.microstockgroup.com/index.php/topic,4190.0.html

Every time I decide to do upload they have it disabled. I have not uploaded anything new to Bigstock in months. I upload on my schedule not theirs.

Maybe that is their plan, for me it just means I'll upload on a weekday evening instead, quite how that helps to reduce the queue beats me.

Apparently not in months

Huh?

Well I said that in my post. So I was confused why Miz would say it again, if that is indeed what he meant.

I started this post on Friday morning when I couldn't connect via FTP.
I went to the site, and there was a message that uploading was disabled till 8am Monday 14th.
I see some were still able to load, so tried this am, Sat, and it works fine. The notice at the site has also gone!!!!
Maybe they read these posts and thought better of it. Very strange.

I'm on the fence with this one. BSP does some good advertising, so I like that they are making an effort to promote the site and generate new business. Then they have this annoying weekend hold on uploads, which is frustrating and disruptive to the uploading workflow, points to a lack of enough reviewers. So if they hired new reviewers, would that money need to come out of advertising or some other area that would have an equally negative effect on us?

I'd love to see more reviewers there so they can stop this silly upload freeze, but at the same time I wouldn't want them to have to cut budgets in other areas of the business to make it happen.

I don't care if I can't upload: 40 images waiting for review and 30 pending my edit 

This situation at Bigstock is a little worrying given the news this week about LuckyOliver.  Usually the first signs of financial stress in a business is its inability to spend to recruit correct numbers of staff etc, invest in needed equipment and provide a full and proper service.  I hope they manage to get things sorted out.

They were open last weekend, so I guess they've got to play catch-up.  Maybe with the closing of LO more buyers will trickle over to BSP, which could put them in a position to hire some more reviewers.  One can hope, anyway.

I agree it is inconvenient to not be able to upload when we want to, but I definitely don't see any indications that things are slowing down on BSP saleswise. 

In fact my sales there are up the past couple of weeks.