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They are not really comparable since Veer is an already well known stock agency. I never bothered with YAY but Veer is a sure bet to become somewhat successful.

This time it's different. Veer already has a strong brand and an existing customer base. I just wish they had done this some years ago, instead of the horrible snapvillage.

It all comes down to the marketplace (no pun intended). Like the real stock market, when the chips are down and the choices are less, there is really no other way to go  but forward and a lot more optimism.
Veer , as everyone has already kept mentioning until it's so known , except to the most dullest minds, is not the same as Yay. Veer already has a following in the other side of the stock business. So, really, it's not quite Yay, or those other newbies that no one care to mention.
My port was "invited" to be transferred from SV. I was not one of those in the grand queque of the grand opening traffic jam. In fact, I am still waiting till the crowd dies down and the glitches are fixed before using my password to give Veer the permission to port my portfolio from SV.
Am I happy about being selected? You bet your booties I am !
Am I incredulous about all this after all that happened with Yay,SV,etc..?
No, that's the name of the game. You really cannot fortell who is going to be the new winner. In fact, you really cannot even foretell which of the Big 6 will be the new loser either.
So, instead of wasting my time worrying, I just upload to a handful of performing sites .In my case, Dreamstime, Fotolia, being my surething, and Veer being my hopeful darkhorse.  And one of these will be where I will be going exclusive in 2010, hopefully... as by then, it will be my 2nd year in microstock.

arquiplay77, yes.. convenience is one reason. the same reason Dan whatnot (other thread) decided to go exclusive recently (his thread "thank you dreamstime").
another reason is also what someone else pointed out here in the forum, "each site have a specific selling favourite. the buyers are different". or something like that. i find a specific site is getting very interested in my images and they sell . they reject a lot of them too, but what they take they sell.

finally, to other question, "why 2nd year?". first year i was not really serious and did not work hard to keep an active portfolio. also very small for the first go round. only last few months i started to get serious to "make micro stock images". i have a loooooong way to go to get 6000 images like so many of the successful sellers, but from the little i have , the downloads have been quite optimistic with my latest site. so it's obvious their buyers like my images.
the decision is probably the most important, as we know eg. Fotolia's buyers are mostly Euro, while
DT , IS, etc.. is mostly N Am. this could be why FT buyers buy more of certain images than the other 2.   so, i want to make those either North Am or Euro sellable images. going exclusive would help with giving me more time to concentrate on the site that "wants" my images, and "sell" my images.

Hope that answers your question. Sorry to take up so much space here , mela
 

They seem to function like real company not a garage one-person company wannabies. I am having conversation with customer support and usually they respond quickly. This is third time I got problem, first two were handled very fast.

Well, you don't survive in this business , or any business, by acting like a 2 bit garage company, lol.

Yes, from day 1 when SV announced of Veer, I have been communicating with them and have nothing but great response and good feeling. Support has responded to me with lots of professionalism.
Even this morning, I wrote to explain I am still holding on to sign in and use my invitation password to transfer my SV port to VM, as I prefer to wait till the traffic is quieter . And a moment ago, I got a nice email from Ryan. All this even with being a hectic week for them. 

I feel optimistic with Veer and VM. I wish them well.

My feelings exactly.

This , coming from someone who in the other thread on Stockxperthttp://www.microstockgroup.com/stockxpert-com/noticing-big-change-at-stockxpert-no-sign-of-life/msg0/?topicseen;PHPSESSID=783eb34482c00ab9fc098d0c88934e31#new, just told us that StockXpert to him is the greatest thing since slice bread?  Wow, that's real prophetic of you  rofl.

Don't let your current grand success with Stockxpert get to your head. We were there before, remember?

@puravida

seems like you got my constribution not right, i'm not doing "good" artwork, i do images that sells well on microsstock. Good artwork is not for micromarket. And...i start with StockXpert last month, not: i started first in my microstock career at StockXpert.

But i think it is okay, if anybody have anywhere a "new" in his profil it is normal that somebody feels dedicadet to handle them like rookies. If you need this for your self-assurance...feel free to do so.

@whatalife

well, if they want to do so...don't you agree they have to have better commissions for constributors who do better and more strenght in selection?
I followed the "Veer" threads since a while and also had a look on the images of people who told to be in the game. That's not better stuff than the average. And it will be payed like average stuff elsewhere.
Nobody has to be a marketingpro to tell you, that launching a "me too" project in an already established market with average quality for customers and constributors is not a good idea - especialy if you have an image for delivering high quality.

holyshit, what is the problem with StockXpert....i just joined there 3 weeks ago. And my experiences are very good. Does this experience put an "idiot" sign on my head.

Most of my sales i do elsewhere. I just tried StockXpert because there is so much bad news about StockXpert.

How is this a "me too" project? Veer Marketplace is an additional section of the Veer collection, and it shares a shopping cart system with all other Veer brands. This isn't asking customers to sign up on another separate website. It's not trying to lure microstock buyers away from another microstock website. This is completely and totally different from anything we've seen so far in terms of a macro company getting into micro. This is an additional offering for current Veer customers, and for other customers who want a combined macro/micro buying experience at a company that they have grown to trust. Yay was a "me too" project, as were the glut of other similar sites that offered nothing new. Veer Marketplace is something very different, and I'm amazed that anyone could see this as just another microstock site. That is such a shortsighted viewpoint.

I also don't see how quality is an issue here. The standards are higher at Veer Marketplace than they were at SnapVillage. Not all SV contributors were asked to come over to Veer, and many SV portfolios were deleted in the migration. SV's standards weren't the lowest in the game (I believe SS gets that honor), so to say that quality is an issue at the Veer Marketplace is a difficult claim to support. I have seen nothing yet to suggest that Veer is sacrificing anything in terms of quality.