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I uploaded nearly 100 images last month to Crestock and Bigstock to try the sites.  So far on BS I have earnt about 70 - 80$ and on Crestock the grand total of 25c. Is this site worth bothering with as so far it has been a big dissapointment to me.  I will get the rest of my portfolio up to BS as it has big possibilities but would like to know whether it's worth the effort with Crestock.

I have on download yesterday

i have actually earned as much on crestock this month as 123RF.  And much less of my portfolio is uploaded on crestock.  i think there might be hope there.

This is my experience with Crestock.  This January I sent 4, they accepted them reluctantly and downsized them.  I ftp'd a batch, but only put through 5.  They rejected all of them.   Huge blow to my ego.  It felt like Istock all over.

Then I thought about it.  I struggle with Istock.  They take what comes right out of the camera, but they reject everything that I have played with and I think is really fabulous.  They are my abusive husband, but they sell, sell, sell, so I will never leave.  I'm getting to know what they'll take and slowly my embarrassing % is climbing.

I "HEAR" that Crestock sells mostly subs and that their standards are exeptionally high.  If my first 9 photos suck they aren't going to take anything else from me now or in the immediate future.   I don't need the rejection blues.  I get that from Istock, so I pulled everything that was already live and from my pending.   Maybe it's not fair of me to judge them so quickly with only pushing 9 through, but I don't need to have 5 or 10% of my photos on a site that has a reputation of a slow earner.   I didn't want to keep 4 photos live that may or may not sell for them, but I will likely never reach a payout on.

On the other hand - I admire that an agency can stand by the quality standards that they have established - and that I have "HEARD" about from other photographers.   I just don't know that a micro-subscription site is the right place to be so picky.

Eeeee.... all right, I decided why not and signed up for crestock, just uploaded the first batch two or three days ago; they reviewed two, accepted two, and I already sold one, the rest are still in qeue for review. What's started to bother me is that a buyer pays $5 for a small dl and i only get $1...isn't that a lot more than on other sites for a non-subscription dl?

hehehe... all i'm learning from this is that at one point i'd not want to hand all this money over to stock sites...

I have only uploaded 50-60 files to Crestock, they rejected about half of them. Only 2 credit and 4 subscription sales in 9 months !
Only 0.25 $ earnings for the site with "our standards are much higher than on others microstock sites". This is ridiculous. I don't want to upload more. If they change earning system I can accept high rejection ratio and slow downloads, but not for 25 cts.

That's why they have so much to reinvest 
..yeah, that ran me off last year. Left them and LO...just not worth the time invested. You can argue the same about Featurepics, but at least my 1 or 2 dl's a month = $6 -$10 each (as opposed to .25 each). Personally, I WILL take  "low sales with a high comission" thank you very much...I'm a "Call Girl", not a wh@re. 

Thanks, for the reply. I'll probably upload any new images I have when I upload to other sites and maybe do a few at a time of my portfolio to see how it goes.  I think if the 2 sales I have had been normal price it wouldn't have bothered me so much but just sub. sales make it seem a waste of time,  I said at the beginning that I have made about 70 $ on bigstock in the same amount of time but it's actually about 50$ because I've had a few photos up there for about a year and a half that have made 20$ over that time.

can you opt out of sub sales at CS like you can at StockXpert?

same here.

This is my first month in microstock.
By now I have 51 images in Crestock and 3 downloads (3 x 0.25  )

well, given that its prices are higher than almost elsewhere, I'd stick around for a while, upload in your spare time when you don't have anything to upload anywhere else, wait and see what happens, give it some time to cycle through a season or two... and then either get out or stay

I myself just joined not too long ago, and i'll give it a few months. After which it'll be either all or nothing. Cuz uploading to so many sites is just not worth the time and effort...

I made 25c in January, but they take more or less everything I upload and I like the site, so I will stick with them.