thanks for the answers.. very helpful and saves me (and some others) a lot of time..
last thing I need is another bottom 5 site..
especially when I am still in the process of getting rid of some of them..
FYI I'm an illustrator with 2,000+ at Pond5 (thanks to the Pixmac merger) and sales have been growing slow and steady with nice commissions. Their submission process is a little quirky, but not has bad as DT, FT or IS. Once you figure out out to set up a template, you can do 1-click submissions with large batches.