It's a third-party information, so probably I will not be able to provide further details. But it comes from a trusted contributor, experienced, with a pretty old portfolio.

At the end of October, we decided to make a control purchase on the Shutterstock, collaborated with colleagues and bought a package of �25 Standard one-time� demands. Purchases were made of works that had never been sold, with the help of a real customer within a spread of 10 days.
Divided it like this: 5 purchases from my accounts, 11 purchases from colleagues� accounts, 9 purchases randomly.
Of my five - 1 appeared on the first day, 1 - after a couple of days, and another one after 4 days
The result as of February 1 is the total number of sales for all interested parties - 7

So, 70% of the sales via one-time demands package are lost! What do you think about this?

Back to $0,35? September started with this prices. What's changed?

Is it dead? I have files in pending for almost a half-year. I wrote to support a few times during this period - no signs of life.
Now I don't touch anything. Just curious, how long can it take.

I receive letters from time to time, to join Adobe Partnership Program. Because Fotolia is closing and their PP is closing too.
But what is this APP? How to get there? I don't see any links or any mentions in FAQ.

I found this problem about a month ago, but then forgot about it. Now I tracked it well. I am searching by keyword, with New sorting. I am searching for my own pictures, because I know the dates of approval.
On page 3 I see image 2114674** approved on August, 18.
On page 4 I see image 2121668** approved on August, 22. How did it get there? It must be on first page! It's only about 9 hours after approval. And it's 500000 times younger. How can my new images sells better, when they're under older ones?
On page 12 I see image 2114833** approved on August, 18. Why not, right?

 Another keyword, another pictures. I just picked up random images and their page numbers. They're not only mine now.
 Page 1 - 2122187**
 Page 2 - 2121170**
 Page 7 - 2118580**
 Somewhere here must be my image 2118098** (August, 20). But it's not. It was here, when I thumbed through catalogue for the fist time. But now it's gone.
 Page 9 - 2117566**
 Page 14 - 2114454**
 On page 20 I see my image 2121668** and almost all my batch approved on August, 22. A also see it on page 22 . Where it must be? On 2 or 1, I think.

 Conclusion: New images can be messed up and mixed in sorting for a few days, until they loose their freshness.

 Similar experience, anyone?

PS: Post was written on SS forum two days ago. I checked searches from above again - images are in the same order, just gone deeper.