MicrostockGroup

I've only got aprox 125 images, no DL's, lots of "views", but once the image falls off the radar, the views decrease dramatically (due to the inane "rating" system). Will give them another month and will delete portfolio after that. The rating thing will potentially cost them their existence.

Flemish - congrats on your sales.

As LO found out, views doesn't mean sales. You have the Flickrish "market" and the Buyers market and those apparently aren't the same. I hardly comment or rate, and the 2 images sold were typical cold "boring" plastic stock like a business couple on a computer and a model concept shot, both isolated. One got a rating of 6, the other one had no rating at all.

I guess the keywords still do their job for buyers. There are some stunning highly rated landscapes etc... on MP, but what sells, like everywhere are the neutral usable things, like the stick-it photo of Leaf. I don't think a buyer is going the be impressed by the community rating if he finds the right image down the list.

I just got my first sale at MP !  12.5 Euros (around $18.00)

Mrk

No sales yet, but I like the prices and the overall site setup.

what size do the photos have to be?

3MPix.

Regards,
Adelaide

Made more in 3 days than a year at Lucky Oliver.   "Lucky" Ya right. Lucky Im not wasting my time there anymore.

Actually my first sale was an average rated portrait

Mark

Welcome to MP and Best of luck to you grafically ! - Mark

Vikavalter just had a sale and I picked up the Euro for the referral of it ... 

Mark

No luck there. Had one of my digital art pieces (if you can call them that) at the top position (for the last month) for a few weeks but nothing happened, no sales whatsoever. It has a MP rating of 866.4 points. But it's no stock material whatsoever and I'm after all content with the support outcome it yielded. Love the site design, but the sales, well, can't say I'm happy about them (especially cause I assumed that that one lonely photo at position 1 would "call in" customers to my other more stocky material)

p.s.: But I'll continue uploading. No reason to stop. And I'm sure those that sell stuff deserve it more than I do. I upload only because it's supereasy to do so. FTP/process/confirm. Very smooth.

deleted.  prob fixed.

Had a couple during my 2 months there: no complaints, as the site is still in the process of taking off, modifications, figuring out its bearings in the marketplace. I like the site, and its unconventional approach (which may be either good or bad - time will tell).