MicrostockGroup

Until recently, I received an email every time (like once per month) I had a sale at Crestock. However, when I checked my account there today (to see if it could be true that I had zero sales so far in March, just like in February), I actually had a couple of sales at the beginning of the month, but no emails.

Anybody with similar exprience?

Well, sales are sporadic too, so in a way, it makes sense 

I re-joined CS in January since they seemed to have lost their bad attitude from a year ago. Uploaded 10 full size, accepted 7. The site is very well programmed, a real example of a good RF site.

As to sales, I got 3 of 0.25$. Judging from that limited sample, it's just another subscription site with insulting low prices. Even SS gives 0.30$ and I got 90% acceptance there. With the dollar down to 1.60 to the Euro, I guess it's not worthwhile to upload more to CS.

What's more, exactly the same shot sold at MostPhotos for 12.5 Euro, a trifle more than at CS with a dollar not even worth the paper it is printed on. I can't justify to customers giving away 10MP shots at Crestock for a lousy 0.25 worthless dollars when they have to pay good Euros at MostPhotos.

Sorry Crestock, I will quit.

At the moment, it doesn't seem important if Crestock exists or not. Nothing seems to be happening there, and there are other Scandinavian microstock sites with more sales and higher commissions.

There's Judge Ross of course, but sometimes, I think his worst photo of the day looks better than the best photo of the day, but that may be because I have such bad taste   

87% of my Crestock sales are by subscription - for every 8 sales I make, only 1 is for more than 25c. My average is 42 cents per DL.

And if I have not missed something, when I joined them in their early days, subscription did not exist and their basic price was US$10.

Regards,
Adelaide

Bonjourno!

First, my apologies for not responding to this earlier, we all need a holiday from time to time (btw, italy + alps + snow + snowboarding = wow).

Last week, the programming team let me know that they had, in fact, found a small missing bit of some code in the thing. They have now put it back where it should be and, therefore, everyone should now get an email when a customer purchases one of your pictures. We're sorry that this got overlooked, but, hopefully, all is well there now.

We realize every discussion about Crestock is going to eventually come around to the concerns about subscriptions. We know cause its the same with our internal discussions, which always end up being about subscriptions and pricing, etc. Logistically, if i understand correctly, its a massively big thing to modify. Tweaking with one small number affects all other numbers in an exponential way (sometimes in a good way, other times, not). Crestock, still young, needs to be careful that we don't hinder our overall longterm growth by changing before we're ready. We encourage further discussion about this, as our own discussions will be on-going regarding this.

BR

Josh Hodge
The Crestock Team