MicrostockGroup

I have almost 600 photos there and still nothig...

One of my clipfolders was featured for a 7 days on a front page and nothing...

I am still uploading there and I hope for a better days.

But how to expect payout before first sale...

I did have a few sales, some of them EL's and I had 2 payouts but it has been a long time since my last sale.

nada (about three months)

  I'm doing pretty well, with only 240 submissions. I seem to have 3-7 downloads from all of the big 6, everyday. Had 34 downloads from Shutterstock on Sept 24th. I concentrate on product illustrations. That's what I like to do, and I know that advertisers look for that stuff on microstocks.  I'm uploading a couple a day, trying to build a bigger portfolio. My freelance career has taken a hit this year, so this is a good way to bring in a few hundred bucks a month. Hope that encourages others that are having a slow time!

Nothing for me either.
In my case it never looked promising.

317 images on line. End of Oct will be a full year on the site. Not a single sale yet.

No sales for me either with 1000 pics on line. Same thing for YAY and ZYM these days....
3DS is doing better for me with the same portfolio...

Ten months there, 300 images and one sale, last week. I think I'll take that sale as a big sign of hope 

oh well. I can see my views have jumped a little but I'm wondering, with most of my images priced at $10 plus, whether I ought to go in and drop the lot to around $5 (if I can find a way to do it in bulk).

It's either a pricing problem for potential buyers or there are no potential buyers - and I'm not going to wait around for much longer to find out.

Your feedback has been greatly appreciated.

I put a few dozen images there months ago, to test the waters. So far no nibbles at $5.   I don't upload there anymore but as long as CutCaster is still actively out there pitching, I'll leave what I have there alone.

CutCaster's model, in theory, should be the one for me.   My 'niche' photos all sell on the big sites, but not often enough - at 25 cents - to make any significant money.  I do believe that the people that want my images would pay a few dollars.  Flexible pricing is what I want, but so far the big 4 are hung up on 'one size fits all' pricing.

But I don't see how a site like CC can get far with non-exclusive photos.  Those of us uploading to CC also have the same files at the big 4 sites, with the same keywords.  Duh.   CC has to set themselvs apart, somehow.

If you're selling the EXACT same images on microstock sites for 1/10 of the price, that would be the reason there are less sales on the mid-stock sites..

I got a sale on Zym almost immediately, and I made sure I wrote in my profile that these images are not available anywhere else for cheaper, so if they want it, they may aswell get it now from there. Why don't you guys try uploading some exclusive content to these sites, different to the usual stock stuff, maybe some high quality unusual shots and perhaps you could say they are exclusive to that site in the description? It would massively help those sites, and I wish they would adopt an exclusive model to ensure their success!!

I don't think many photographers here will be willing to sacrifice exclusive high quality photos that way, specially uploading them to a site that obviously does not have the buyers or customer traffic to begin with, just with the expectation that maybe one day someone will come along and purchased it...And that's not taking into account the lost revenue from those exclusive photos just sitting there.