MicrostockGroup

I came a cross this site https://www.photospin.com and thought to give it a try.
I am aware of this old thread about it:
http://www.microstockgroup.com/index.php?topic=38.msg132;topicseen#msg132
It seems that things have changed since than.
I saw Yuri's work in there.
What do you think?

Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems that they offer an unlimited amount of downloads in a year for $299!  That means that someone could basically download their whole library for $299.

If this is true, then why would any contributor support them?

For comparison:

- It costs $2,559 on SS for an annual subscription and there are limits of 25 DLs/day.

- It costs $1,649 on FT for an annual subscription and there are limits of 25 DLs/day.

- It costs $999 on DT for an annual subscription and there are limits of 10 DLs/day.  If you want 25 DLs/day, then the cost would go up to $1,999.

- It costs $999 on StockXpert for an annual subscription and there are limits of 25 DLs/day.

Do I understand this correctly? If a subscriber downloads more in on month then the contributor receives less money per image?

Ok, that kind of info is what I was looking for.  I see Yuri Arcurs' images and a few other big stock houses there.  I would love to hear more from people that are using them.  Their per image prices are not micro, but then they have the subscription plans that are really cheap.

I did a search for Yuri and found 94 pages of 100 images (that is 9300+).

His images there alone makes me wonder what the deal is.

I signed on with Photospin a year and a half ago.  I should have done it sooner.  At the time they were offering $20.00 per image accepted.  I knew this wouldn't last and submitted what I could.  I made a few thousand $ (several years worth of microstock for me).  Then they offered $10, then $5 and then they stopped accepting under that model midway through 2008.  Beware-they also put some of my images on alamy, which I didn't like, but they are so far down in the ranking I don't think anyone will see them; PS did offer a revenue share if one licensed though.

regarding the new model-there is no way I would sign the new contract.  As someone pointed out, they are charging 10% or less what others are.  It sounds like your take would be only 2-3 cents per image downloaded.  I would steer clear.

gsc