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Anyone noticed sudden change in SS sales pattern over last week or so? Can't say i like it...

Change I see is in exactly that - uploading new photos doesn't cause spike in buying anymore. Sales spread out more even now but became noticeably lower.

I really liked that effect of buying surge as new batch kicked in...

Same here dbvirago. I saw your thread but since there was no real discussion I decided to ask people here.

I stopped uploading for about a month in July/August but to my surprise got steady sales of older images. I've been uploading about 20 images a week since the end of August and noticed that the surge for new image downloads does still exist, but not to the extent it used to. Also, the sales for older images keeps even with the new images. Could it be the new search photographer portfolio option?

It's been puzzling me, too.

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Actually, I think that thread has had a pretty interesting discussion. Perrush said that the cause is the Portfolio Search option, and it may be true. There is discussion in the sticky thread (in General Discussion) about how the Portfolio Search option may be causing slower sales of new images and more sales of older ones and Setho commented and he does not seem to discount the possibility.

I don't see either how this addded option could stop those spikes deasd in their tracks. BTW, it was introduced in July, and this phenomenon appeared just over last week - ten days.

lately I was surprised to how my older images started to sale,which I can't complain:) and  I didn't notice any decrease in my new submissions. and sales have been great so far.

I noticed it last month when I uploaded almost 200 photos of a large variety of subjects in two weeks.  My sales rose as expected, since there were so many photos and subjects, but the sharp spike never came.  In the past, I would have had over 100 sales per day between the new and old photos, and the highest I ever got was almost 70. 

My last 100 downloads day was 23rd July.  September is a bit disappointing but a few EL's have helped.

My first 100 downloads day was with 1,093 photos in my portfolio last November.  I have added nearly 2,000 photos since then, so I am not making much progress with them.  I think it is probably because I am not being selective and just uploading everything I can.  It is hard, as a photo of paint flaking on a wall has sold 50 times and I had an EL of a wooden fence, so I just upload everything but I can see those that only upload quality images have more sales.

Perhaps I should delete all the junk and see what happens?

I don't have duplicates and in fact wondered whether it's a good idea, many seem to do a whole lot of them - girl moved her hand left, right, higher, lower, you know As for quality of photos, it's not for me to judge, I'd guess somewhere in the middle of the pack. Maybe there is a big demand on people right now, and I don't shoot people (no, I am not a pacifist). I hope it's just some fluke, it was a very nice "feature" of SS.

on a lighter note, little funny situation of day or two ago. At some point earlier I uploaded this fire shot

 which did considerably well. So I decided to add couple more to provide some flaming variety, with different copyspace and flame configuration. I submitted two more,

and

as you can see fairly different. Second of them was rejected for not being in focus (hmm, but OK, whatever), and first - for too many similar submissions! I just shrugged and first time in my SS life resubmitted it immediately without notice to reviewer, so out there it was. It got accepted a few hours later. So I wonder, how do people manage to get gazilion shots of hedgehog over white accepted in a single batch?? (btw, whoever shot that hedgehog did a great job, I can't make my son's cat sit quietly for me more then 3 seconds).

"I must be doing something wrong" ... that's exactly what I think when I read about people having high sales on DT and FT when mine are so low there.

Yep a drop for me too - but particularly noticeable this week and towards the end of last week - about 40% seems accurate.

In the last month or so the biggest change I've noticed is the review process - its fast, but the reviewers seem to be picking a far smaller number, and I seem to be only getting acceptances on the photos I thought would be most likely to be rejected. My acceptance ratio is going up on other sites including DT and IS, but dramatically down on SS.

IS is gradually taking over as my #1 site, even though I have only 295 images online, compared to 741 on SS.

Since I started the topic, it would be only fair to post the latest observations. Pattern is still different in a sense that there is no pronounced spikes when new batches kick in - however, sales of older ones became noticeably more stable. So far so good... Now, can we have the best of both models??