MicrostockGroup

I got an email from them today announcing their long overdue adult content filter. 

I have had one sale  Bit of a dead dog!

I also have not sold anything there. I thought I was alone.

Regards,
Adelaide

Joined in Mar. 2008; no sales.  Unless they expand their market, there won't be many sales!  I doubt if I'll see any, because I alway do a test market before doing any significant upload.  I usually upload 25 to 40 images for two months.  If I get any sales, then I start uploading more often.  iStock only accepted 4 images the first month from me, but I generated two sales in less than 2 months.  With MP, 40 images uploaded and NO sales.

Plus they utilize a rating system that is annoying and fruitless.

I've had 9 sales so far. The last two months have been slow for me though, probably due to massive amounts of uploads. The site is new however, and I expect it to take a long time before results are getting better. The scandinavian market is pretty unexplored when it come to cheaper stock photography, and I think they might have good chances to gain a lot of customers there. Especially since I think many european and scandinavian buyers are looking for other pictures than the traditional american style of stock photography.

NO.
But what are those who're playing these games?..

Less crying and complaining "we need more photos!", more working and optimizing website  for real stock agency, not playground for amateurs. Then photographers will come.

We´ve all been amateurs. Are you living on this?  For that reason I can understand. But otherwise, have fun...

Another great reason to be on mostphotos is the excellent backup feature!  

Reason no. 22:     I met Stacey (Suwanneeredhead) the love of my life on MP ... We were two of the very first Americans submitting to their site We were married in 2008 and just passed our 1 year wedding anniversary so I always may be more than just a little on the positive biased side towards MostPhotos.

Reason no. 23:  I've had 5 sales there at 12.5 Euros a pop and 12 Referral Sales which pay 1.0 Euro each.

I now have over 1000 images on line with them and will continue to submit as they continue to grow their business.

-Mark
http://markwpayne.wordpress.com

Same here: not a single euro while the same portfolio made a few $ 100's elsewhere:)

There is too much attention over there to the community/photo club aspect of the site. Not enough time or money is given to marketing.

Magnum is right the site needs dividing before it just becomes a photo club.

Did you mean 16 - proven lack of sales?

And I would say from my point of view items 8, 9 and 10 are reasons NOT to join mostphotos.... (well, not strong enough though - I am on mostphotos and recently uploaded a few hundred pics just because it only needed a couple of minutes of my time [not counting data transfer time]). The reasons I uploaded aren't 15 or even 10, in fact they are only:
* I've heard there are sales sometimes
* Upload effort is nearly 0 so even one sale will compensate it
* Can serve as backup for my portfolio - no inspection at all, and I can download my own photos at any time