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Ok, we found the culprit!!! 

Regards,
Adelaide

I agree with all who are saddened. The hopes of a lot of people go with a business failure like this.

I liked the way LO reviewers took the time to make positive comments about submissions. And the way they have handled this is classy, as other posters have noted. Nothing I know prevented LO from just turning off the servers and leaving people logging to get a site-not-found message.

I got my first and only payment of $50.50 from them on 4-10. Guess I had my timing right on that one.

RIP LO!

C'mon, they're shutting down. They could've very easily disappeared, not said crap, and let everybody figure it out. Sounds like that's how most other sites handled it.

The smart thing would be to sell the site with all it's back end contributor problems to someone who wants to invest in fixing the back end.

The Layout and Design was a true work of Art.
It is a shame that the Functionality and Critical Contributor end was never given a chance to be fixed.

Best of luck to the Z man on his next venture.

i did withdrawn of two small amounts of money on my moneybookers account, (first one on 16th april) and still nothing happened.
 how about you others?

Looks like L.O. is gone
at least I cant get in to see what they are doing

can anyone else get in or not?

Hmmmmmmm I wonder how many of us Will be Paid after all??

and what recourse do we have?
Anyone a Lawer out there who wants to do a Class Action Lawsuit?

Same here:

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Not good 

Edit: it is online, again!

The doors are open again.

did she purchase those credits or were they from uploading photos?

If the credits are from uploading photos they won't work to buy images with.

Does anyone else think it odd that they offered that Valentines Day opportunity to cash out just a short time before they announced they were closing the doors? It seems like it wasn't just coincidence, but a planned move. They had to know they were facing a problem in February - it just feels rather devious to me. (I just realized others have mentioned this Vday payout - I'd read through another LO news thread previously and didn't read this entire one thinking I'd already gone through it)

I've read some comments saying it's silly to complain about a few dollars, but add a few dollars up among a lot of submitters and that could end up being quite a lot of money. If I'm not mistaken, they could easily claim bankruptcy and avoid paying their debts altogether.

It just was a thought that crossed my mind. I'm not usually the paranoid sort, but I find the way this LO closure is being handled to be very unprofessional and a good lesson to us all when placing our images and faith in a new start-up stock site.

That said, they still have a chance to close-up shop responsibly and I hope they will. Then there are those allusions to possibly staying open - I just can't see why anyone would continue to contribute based on recent events.

as I said "if I'm not mistaken"...so no, I don't know the ins and outs of bankruptcy. Apparently I was mistaken.

Frankly, I hope I never have to know much about how it works.

if it was a planned move then lowering payout was an decent and honourable thing to do...they could have left it at $100 and a lot more people would be owed money...they could have just turned the servers off and walked away, at least this way the most any contributor will lose is $24.99... about 1/3rd of the polariser I just bought... not as much as it cost me to take my kids to mcdonalds....