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I normally get two ELs at SS a month.

However, starting last week, the EL floodgates opened.  I have received a dozen and counting in just four days and change.  Several of those came over the weekend, which is really baffling.

Image subject matter is all over the place, so I don't think it's the same buyer.

And I don't think it's due to the end of the Summer Slump, because my SS sales started picking up right around Sept 1 and have been steady since then.  The EL rush started in the last few days.

Anyone else seeing a rise in these?  Something must be triggering the increase.  Could SS be promoting ELs more heavily?  Should I be concerned that these aren't legitimate sales (bad credit cards, etc?)

never had many EL´s on SS but never had one ilegitimate sale from them

Not me unfortunatly.

3 Els last month (small port, less than 200), but I think one person bought 2 of them. Far more than the usual amount of ODs this month. Big increase in sales all around for me, starting from the second week of September.

Congratulations on the abundance of ELs!  Lovely 

I've had better months than this for ELs.  But sometimes it seems to me that there's an exceptionally high flood of sales of all types after an unusually quiet day or two.  On those days I wonder if there was a problem with sales registering on the quiet days, and the flood is the system catching up.

Has anyone else experienced that?

I've got 4 from there this month. A good month for me is usually 2, a typical month is 0.

Huge month at SS for EL's. 8 in one day a few days ago. amazing.

5 so far, usually get 2 or 3

Topic: Big increase in ELs at Shutterstock?

I have only been with SS for a few months, but I got my first 2 ELs last week.

Should we be thanking iStock?

Hear hear to that!

@ Microstock Posts - I'd much rather thank Jon Oringer 

When things seem too good to be true, they probably are. 

The EL streak has been continuing for me everyday (5 so far today) and I'm still concerned there's something fishy going on.

These started rolling in all of a sudden late last week.  Does anyone know if SS started some big marketing push, or perhaps they're promoting ELs differently on the site now?  I'm trying to find something that makes sense to explain this, or I'm going to start thinking there's a hacker with a fake credit card out there downloading all the images he can until the hack is caught and shut down, and all these downloads are removed from our accounts.

Hopefully I'm just paranoid and I should just relax and enjoy this run while it lasts.