Any thoughts? First impresions website not great, commissions not great either....first thing I saw was an advert 5 images for the price of one promo....
Or do they do any business?
Anybody any experience?

After every image submitted the screen goes blank and I need to start again at home page.
Are they trying to discourage uploads?
Nobody replies to emails.
Is anybody left?

New messages for unsubmitted photos ('no MR attached'), sometimes autofill of keywords works, sometimes not, no longer able to move through images pending to a page of my choice but only next page...
OK, only small things (though I'll stop uploading now till things settle down!) but just wish these agencies would focus on sales and getting new customers, rather than tinkering with upload etc (and rarely making it better).
Whinge......!

Massive Royalty Free Still deduction - is this a refund or what?

Terrible month.
Was hoping for something to make up for collapse at SS. But no.......


PS Does anybody know what Royalty Free Still actually is?

I am failing to get ANY of this series accepted: they involve a photo of me isolated and turned into a silhouette.

At first I attached just an MR - was told it needed a reference image.
Then I sent up both - and am told the Reference image was sent 'in the wrong field'. (I sent it as a second MR as it clearly is not a Property Release. There are just the 2 options.)

Any ideas please?

Seems DP are now partnering with Graphicstock!
May as well just give everything for free! Please tell people in the Partner scheme that they are doing this. I think I only know this because I am opted out (and left just a few images there to keep the option for the future open), and they wrote asking permission to include me.
Graphicstock, for those who don't know, is where people pay a fee (theory 100$, but often on offer) to download as much content as they want FOR A YEAR FOR NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE. I have no idea what DP intends to pass on to photogs. But it can't be much more than giving away you whole stock library for nothing. Especially if you are on other sites.
Obviously, I am NOT joining.
PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG but I don't think I am.

I have nothing to say, but it seems others do, so here is a special thread.

on how to make money on microstock and just feels depressed? We're already heading to more contributors than buyers.....

I know this makes me a grumpy old thing, and I should feel happy happy for all these eager newbies and would-be newbies.

But I'm not and that's the truth!

Does anybody know of a one which satisfies ALL the big 4 requirements?

I thought everybody accepted SS  but on that it didn't specify that the parent's name must be printed - mother wrote it - so it is being rejected by others. And SS itself have rejected it for some reason yet to become clear.

ok, Alamy isn't a big seller, but has tended to tick over at a fairly consistent rate for a while. But the last month - since the changes maybe? - zip. Zilch. Nada.
Anybody else found this?
I've been doing categories etc for new stuff in the name of 'discoverability' but have done nothing to older files. Seriously....life is too short!
But sales have gone the way of the dodo.....

Seems they are out to tinker with this now.
 
Few tweaks ok - but it looks like they are after ANOTHER OVERHAUL.
Fasten your seatbelts.......

Yesterday it felt like I had travelled back in time....

Old and new photos being sold.
A smattering of OODs.
A smallish SOD.
A steady trickle of dls all day.
Nothing spectacular really - indeed, fairly normal up till about 18/24 months ago - but - ah - the memories!

Reminded me why this used to be such fun - and it wasn't because it gave me the opportunity to spend hours on end in my cold back bedroom taking and editing pics of mundane things.....for next to nothing!

Herrrumph!