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Fotolia now gone from my list. Many reasons. I actually made the decision to dump them back in December but just didn't get around to it.

I never did get along with their keywording//category system, and after they changed the vector rules it seemed that just about everything I sent got rejected. FO started off like gangbusters for me, and dwindled to a trickle of XS sales. I never did quite get the hand of what sold there. Surprisingly, a of my best sellers on DT, iSTock, SS were rejected by FO. Go figure. It is actually a relief to be out of there.

So with all that's going on there, let's hope the final check clears ;-)

Out of interest did you explain to them your reason for leaving and if so did you get any response.

Congrats. I never got along with the crew at Fotolia - their management style is very abrasive, and I'm surprised they have lasted this long running their business the way they do.

While I understand a site not wanting you to mention other micros or macrostocks, a Yuri restriction is insane! In microland, people eventually wind up discussing Yuri. And although I haven't visited Yuri's site lately, to my knowledge, he has always been gracious and helpful. An agency could only benefit by having their contributors learn from him.

Regarding never having a sale, yes, do some thinking there. Good luck to you.

Lowering payouts, changing the amounts required to reach the next level, and then allowing new contributors to skip ahead (with the same stats I could be three levels higher if I never contributed there).  Needless to say I'm glad I dumped them.  Also happy to be done with DT!

Agreeed 100%

I still have my account active at Fotolia, but I just never go there anymore.  I don't even remember the last time I uploaded an image there - why bother?  They just reject everything.

I made a bit of money when I started, but never reached a payout.  It used to be a really nice, consistent site, but now it's just a joke.

It wouldn't surprise me to log on some day in the near future and see that it closed up shop.  Wouldn't sadden me either.

FL acceptance ratio hugely depends on the subject. They accept wast majority of my studio people shots, and they reject most architecture and many of nature pictures.

I had a 50% increase in earnings in FT in Feb, but then Dec and Jan were slow for me.

i dislike FT myself for all the above reasons too 

Congratulations. They have the worst support from all agencies. Fotolia is history for me 

I dumped FT 8-9 months ago. They deleted some of the pics in my portfolio (I don't discuss whether they had right in doing so) but they also cut all my past earnings from those pics. They were claiming that it was because of credit card frauds but the math didn't add up to justify such a big cut-back at a single time. When I calculated the total income I have earned through the years from the deleted files, this time the math worked. And of course FT had cashed its commision from those sales. crapty Help Desk didn't want to listen my explanation about deleted files. Then I understood that they can steal all your earnings, blame it on something irrelevant, and act like further inquiries are non-existent. There are too many fishes in the sea, why should they care?

Since then, I've been reading forum messages to learn about many examples of FT's abusiveness. There are always some contributors who defend FT on the grounds that it's a good earner - if you ask me, it is just not their turn to draw the short straw.