MicrostockGroup

This is my post from another thread look at the date.


It's now June 9, 2011 and my application is still pending for over a year now while others get in after a week or so (or a month or so).

Anyone else experiencing the same for that length of time?  I just wanna know that I'm not totally alone in this world.

Yes, me too.
I'm starting to think that they don't have enough resources to play any significant role in microstock. I am no longer sure if I want to be a contributor there. Making people wait 1 year or longer can mean either arrogance or lack of resources.

Their most popular photo with the keyword "Paris" has 1 download. It seems that in 1 year they only sold 9 images with that keyword. I am just a part-timer but it takes me about 1-3 days elsewhere to sell 9 photos from Paris and I only have about 12-15 of them in my portfolio.

I know many people here are former StockXpert fans, but I am quite skeptical about SF.

You have to email them.

I was also admitted within a couple of days of applying but sales are very slow so far. I've been with them about 2 months now and total sales only recently went into double figures.  I hope that they take off as I have found them very helpful and friendly.

I made a payout there last month (after many months with images online) and after that I got absolutely no sales at all. I don't know what they're doing. Everybody had expectations from them, but after a year since they launched, it's no better than it was in day one. Agreed, Stockxpert was something brilliant and even more when they partnered with Photos.com, but those days are long gone.
I don't think they're going to make it, to be even remotely significant in terms of revenue except perhaps for very few contributors (Yuri & alike). I am stopping uploads until I see some action, like sales on a regular basis.

I dont´t agree just on the fact of stop uploading there, they pay a 50% comission, if we don´t contribute there we will never change the way stock is heading.. I am sure they will make a lot more advertising on future, we need to support these FAIR agencies

Not to sound too negative but I feel all these fair companies have one thing in common. lack of buyers.

I'm supporting them and have had payouts there, I'll be honest though I'm not sure they are going to turn out to be the site we had all hoped they would be.

Not always true. GL has done well for me and they're a fair company (52%).

And I wouldn't put SF in the same category of the rest of the new, fair, startup microstock companies with aspirations to remain "fair trade" while growing. A lot of people made good money with StockXpert, which was another 50% company. Peter and co aren't new to this. They made it work before, and so I'm inclined to believe that they have a better chance than most of making it work again. And they're doing it without the multi-million dollar investors that are often to blame for cutting commissions and raising prices.

SF is the business model that everyone's been asking for. On the off chance that they succeed, I think it's worth our while to support them. Because if it does work out, we'll all be the beneficiaries of their success.

Yes - [email protected]. It took three days after I wrote to them.

Thanks I'll shoot them out an email.

My sentiments exactly. Also, they have more than 4700 images from me, it should be enough for them to prove that they can actually do something.