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As usual.... I always wind up eating my words.... what's the odds???  I just sold a pic since my last complaining post early this evening.... seems every time I complain here about LO,  I suddenly sel...........hey, hey
Hey, wait a minute....that's it!!! That's the secret!!   I should complain more, ....every day.... yeah, that's the ticket!!! 

Mitch, you're betraying your age.... dude, that's gotta be from one of the first few seasons of SNL.  ..but I like to think I'm more   Samurai Photographer.....  ..Belushi was the man!!

hi,

I had 23 downloads in march, easily my best month (earn't $6.6 in jan and $6 in feb) so I was pretty happy and was about to post asking if anyone else had the same when i saw this thread, hmm looks like I stole all the sales, sorry

Phil

I had 2 sales in March so sadly I cannot compete for the MIZ award. 

Prior to that, I hadn't had a sale since Nov 07.

Don't hold your breath.  I hate to be negative, but the truth is they have produced only 7 total sales over 7 months for my portfolio of 250-odd.  I make more per day on average with Shutterstock, than I have made TOTAL in 7 months with Lucky Oliver.  That is no exaggeration Seren.  The statistical truth boggles my mind.

Bryan seems like a smart guy.  They have wonderful reviews, with real feedback.  I respect Mitch's opinion when he sticks up for Lucky Oliver.  But whatever the reason, it clearly isn't working for most of us.  Plenty of photographers a lot smarter than me have already given up and left LO.  It's just a matter of time before I give up too.

But hey, at this rate I'll make the $25 payout in 5 years, so I should press on! 

One thing contributors need to understand is that a lot of those "views" are just other contributors looking at your portfolio.  Especially when I post a message on their boards, I immediately get a ton of views.  How many customers are actually viewing portfolios is debatable, but the lack of sales suggests not many.

I'd say LO has been a major disappointment. Along with Snapv.

On LO I average 1.5 views per month on each of my 209 images, with 4.8 downloads per month. However no dls for nearly a month.

Either their marketing really sucks or their buyers are not looking for my images that are selling elsewhere. I guess we just plod ahead and put our time in where it seems to be more profitable.

The newest site that is showing promise -- at least with the way they are getting things right site-wise -- is Yay Micro. I guess hope is what some of us have in abundance.

15 months with $6.70 in sales.  I had approx. 250 images online.  I dumped them and I'm in the process of dumping Albumo.  Of course, it will take a long while to dump Albumo.  You can only delete ONE image a day!

They say that they pay 10 days after the end of the month requested or something like that.  I got mine today.  Exactly when expected.

BTW, I've even had 3 sales this month. 

(Don't confuse this post as a "Yay LO" post.  3 sales a month ain't worth praise.)

16 downloads was my BME.  That was last June and I hoped it was the start of improving sales but I can't find and consistency there.

wish i could win a MIZ award, or something

Member since Dec 07
Port at 475
1250 views *because I post in the forums*
First sale 2/2/08
Second sale 2/20/08

Wanted to hit a payout, with the new Valentine $1 payouts every February, but still sitting at the beginning of April with just those 2 sales, my piggy sitting at $ 0.90.

Do I hate LO?  Hardly.  In fact, everyone who asks me how to start up, I send them there.  Of course, I tell them not to expect sales. Why lie?  But, I DO tell them to get active in the Odd, and tell them if they have a question, ask.  When we first started, we got rejected at two other sites and LO.  The other sites sent back the usual, you know, either over/under exposed, lighting either washed out or too dark, too much noise, or too much artifacting... i mean, what is artifacting?? And when I sent the review team an email back, it got bounced and I was told to submit questions to the forums.

I just so happened to be online when LO sent the 3 toss review the first time, we read it, didn't understand it, and sent them back a question.  What we got back was a very friendly, very encouraging, very DETAILED explaination WITH the answer on how to correct it. We sent a few more letters back and forth, and we were the first 3 toss approval for 2008.

It was this very personal, very inviting, very encouraging attitude that kept us going, and we will always have a soft spot in our hearts for LO.

We aren't members of LO for sales, we're there for the community.