MicrostockGroup

so it is EL sale? and you get euro0.20 / US$0.26 think I'll pass on that one

i think i have accepted as their 'supplier', but the photos had been in pending for many weeks.

and it seems there is no option to get paid by paypal?

A complete and utter waste of time.  They review images every blue moon and one they are up no one sees them!

Thank you. I was getting tired of being Mr. Negative and pointing out that you don't get on any bus that comes along, just because "it may be going somewhere". 

Same as people who keep supporting low earning, loser sites, because, maybe some day they might make some sales.

A donkey will never win the Kentucky Derby!

I plead guilty for doing this in my early days of microstock. But after uploading an entire portfolio to a couple of losers, one is forced to understand: some sites are not even worth checking for sales once a year.

What are your experiences there? How much they earn for you as a percentage of (for instance) your SS portfolio?
Update: We are temporarily closed for new suppliers.

So, how much money did you earn from those 110 sales?

Their domain is 8 years old. Perhaps they were a conventional stock agency before? Anyways, thanks for the info and keep reporting. Make sure to post your referral link (if they have any) when the time is there.

Sorry, I was not talking about this site (ColourBox) - I never tried it and cannot tell:  it may well be a good site as you say.

I was thinking about those I have a direct and less than optimal experience with:
- (un)lucky oliver which I joined just a few weeks before closure (timing is everything!)
- FP which earned me $1.00 in 2 years with thousands of pics;
- CC which earned me $0.00 (that is, zero, null, niente, nihil ....) with thousands of pics - absolute record.
May I call 'em losers (at least for me)? Nothing against these sites, I'm just being realistic. I will not delete my port once uploaded and still hope they can have success but I'm not losing my time anymore uploading.

Hi the payment option is too choose your country, Bank account, IBAN, and SWIFT.. does it mean it can direct wire transfer to bank account in any countries?

It pays 0.20 EURO for a photo, 0.35EURO for a illustration vector, and more for a video..

I am not sure will you get paid more when buyers paid other plan..

so far i had 1 sale for a vector.

I have no idea how they would make sure the customers stick to the rules, but I likes this part of their terms from the FAQ:

"License: The price for free download of all images is EURO 149 per month. As long as you have a license, you can download as many images as you like. If you stop the license, you can use the downloaded material for 12 months.

Prepaid Card: You can also buy a prepaid card with 100 credits for EURO 249,- (100 credits = 10 stock images). A prepaid card is valid for 1 (one) year. Afterwards the User Rights exceeds after 5 years.

Single Image: If your need for images is low you can buy single images for EURO 49,- a piece. The User Rights exceeds after 5 years."

This has been suggested in several other threads in this forum; that the rights to use the pictures should have a time limit. I wonder how well it works in real life.

I see a lot of colourbox-images in magazines in Norway. It looks like most of the major printing houses have contracts with colourbox and Istock, and that istock is only for the pictures they can't find in colourbox. High quality illustrations e.g.

From Colourbox' Photographers Terms and Conditions:


The way I read it (for photos):
Photographer receives €0,20 for all regular downloads (subs and Pay per download, which costs €47 per image).
Photographer receives €0,10 if the client is a non-profit organisation
Photographer receives €0,00 if the client is a student or image use is educational and not commercial

Beware!

This just in:
(For order’s sake, I’m not not contributing to Colourbox, as I did not like their business model. And I shure never will.)

Dear supplier,

In the process of adding more computer power to the import mechanism a mistake has happened. The disk carrying all of the already uploaded images were lost, and the data is thus gone. We're terrible sorry about this, and the responsible person are facing the consequences of such an error.

This means that if your images are not present in your supplier section on the site, they have to be uploaded again. This is terribly annoying, and I understand the frustration this might have caused.

Should we look at the positive side, the following has now happened as well:

- A lot more computerpower has been added, making the import A LOT faster.
- When material is gone from the ftp directory it means it's imported. No more wondering whether the material is gone or not.

And furthermore:

There's now a slightly different structure in the upload directories. Going forward the following directories are for stock material

  stock/images
  stock/vector
  stock/video

And the following structure is for editorial material:

  editorial/images
  editorial/vector
  editorial/video

We're launching editorial images support very soon, and can thus start accepting your material via ftp as well. If in doubt about editorial, just upload to stock/images, stock/videos and stock/vector as you did to stock, vector and video before.

With sincere apologies,
Mads Martin
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Mads Martin Jørgensen - COO
Colourbox, Hammergyden 75 Stige, DK-5270 Odense N, Denmark
Phone: +45 70 20 33 15 - Mobile: +45 53 53 97 91
http://www.colourbox.com