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Strange your payout was delayed Lisa.  I got payed last month (it was one month late).  Here is my payout history with them

10/19/2009   
8/18/2009   
7/6/2009   
6/15/2009
5/7/2009
4/14/2009
3/17/2009

You can see that they have been very reliable and only missed September.

Things sure seem quiet over there.  I am really curious if they are reorganizing their business structure or working out a sale to another company or what.

You can try and give them a call if you wanted
+47 97 52 38 95

Yeah depending on where you are.  Norway is +1 GMT.  Norway also has fairly short days when compared to USA or Canada.  Don't be surprised if no one is there after 3:00pm or if they are out for lunch any time between 11:00am-1.00pm.

There is a good chance they will be there much later too, and not away for lunch but either one is possible.

check this: http://www.crestock.com/forum/image-evaluations/

we are not the only ones complaining...

I received in the mail this morning:

All Purchases Half Price in November!
Hi Lorraine,
As a special pre-Christmas discount to all our customers we are happy to offer 50% off on ALL purchases until December 1st.


Whether you are a new or returning Crestock user: here is your chance to get any image, subscription or credit package with an incredible 50% off.

The discount will be automatically applied during checkout - no promotion codes or activation links required.

Better than not getting paid at all.  And with Crestock's recent record regarding both reviews and payments, and Albumo's recent departure from this mortal realm, I'd say that's a real possibility. 

(And how long does it take to reject a whole pile of images?  Do they actually look at them before they reject them?  But I digress.)

That was my first thought too. I checked their forum again and all I saw were complaints. I wonder how long they will exist from now on.

I don't remember going this long without a payment on any other site.  It is unforgivable, I hope they still have the funds to pay us, I also hope another site buys them out, that is the only reason I haven't left already.

I have a hard time understanding what a "buyout" consists of???  If another agency buys Crestock, for example, what are they getting?  Haven't most of the contributors there already uploaded their images to whichever agency might have the money to buy them. 
Are they buying something besides more images??? 
Would they be buying more customers? 
I keep looking at the StockXpert situation and wondering how things got so convoluted. 
Does Crestock have anything unique to offer?
Why did SS buy BigStock?  Don't they already have most of the same images?
What am I missing here?

In theory buying out your competition would give you a bigger share of the market, either by inheriting their market share, as Etienjones suggests, or by shutting them down. 

Originally when Getty bought Istock there were rumors they did it to shut them down or put them out of business.  There were similar rumors when they bought StockXpert.  At the time that made a lot of sense to me, but it didn't happen in either case. 

In the case of Istock, I guess Getty calculated they were buying a goldmine when they got the #1 microstock site.  Now that Getty has stripped the StockXpert images from Photos.com and populated it with Istock images, I don't see any reason for them to keep StockXpert around. 

But what do I know?   

I got paid all four outstanding payment requests today.  Hooray! 

Thanks a lot to those who offered suggestions! 

That's encouraging!  I'm one sale away from reaching payout.  Hopefully I get that sale this week