MicrostockGroup

I have about 30 images there - in The Stock Solution rather, a partner - some as RF, some as RM.  Unfortunately I haven't sold any yet.  Uploading is easy.  Requests are not plenty, but happen.

Regards,
Adelaide

i have been there 2 years now.  No sales but I only have 50 some pictures there.

Perhaps it is time to give them another chance, but i haven't been to persuaded that i will be paid for my efforts.  On a side note however, they also have requests (from time to time) like photographers direct has.

I was meaning not getting paid, in referring to not ever getting sales there.

I just got my application rejected from MyLoupe, because I'm a micropayment contributor!! even though I found the same images at MyLoupe & Shutterstock from a high profile successful Photographer.

I made the mistake of giving my Shutterstock portfolio link as an example of my work. I should have just uploaded some example shots direct to their website.

This is the rejection email:

Thank you for your interest in myLoupe.  Your work has merit.  However myLoupe
does not use the micropayment pricing model and there is a fundamental
incompatibility between our pricing and micropayment pricing used where your
work is now represented. We could not in good conscience ask our clients pay
hundreds of dollars for images that might be obtained elsewhere for only a few
dollars.





We wish you success in your endeavors.



 Sincere Regards,

                  Brian



I  then found in under two minutes, the same photo on MyLoupe & Shutterstock 

I replied that I was looking for an outlet to build a RM portfolio, but have not heard back..........I don't really expect to either as I sent back a rude email.

A big oops!!!  Yeah, but the email they've send you seems like a template, so I don't think you are the first one.  On the other hand, quite a few photographers do both, microstock (RF) and RM.  I think that their fear is that you would upload your shutterstock stuff on their website and sell it as RM.  Alamy addresses this concern by asking contributors not to do that.... I would not send them a rude email, but one that outlines the lack of logic in their response.  They question your integrity prior to having any negative experiences with you. I am sure that more than 90 percent of the MyLoupe contributors also do microstock.

I am a contributor to The Stock Solution, MyLoupe's partner.  The stuff I have there is not the same I have in microstock, though there are a couple of images from the same series.  It is my own policy, to begin with, as it doesn't make sense to the same images in both places (even though some usage restrictions may justify part of the price difference).

Photoguy,

Not to offend you, how can you expect them to see from your application that you plan to offer something different than you have in microstock sites?  You should have shown them something else.  Having people selling the same image in macro and microstock is not a reason to expect this to be acceptable.  If this was a written policy (I don't know about MyLoupe, but in Photographers Direct it is), then these contributors are breaking an agreement.

Regards,
Adelaide

They are a total waste of time.  I have around 400 images there that have sold many times elsewhere and zip at ML.  I participate in a forum where there are at least 15 people submiting there and the most successful one has sold two images.  They keep sending strange and worthless requests and the quarterly report is filled of vague "we had record sales" or "we surpassed the previous quarter" but with little or no numbers at all.  Consider yourself lucky if they rejected you on whatever reasons, the have just saved you a lot of precious time!