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So I've registered as a contributor - just waiting to have my application reviewed (it's taken a few days already).
I love the look and feel. Nice and clean.
Looking forward to this, and hoping it does even better than StockXpert

They must not be ready with whole infrastructure. I takes weeks to approve photographers. We will see when everything is up and running. I guess we have early access cause we are on this forum otherwise I haven't seen any agency that makes public announcement when it cannot really make site running.

I just put in my application today -- good thing I wasn't planing on uploading right away 

Bingo 

Care to share, because he posted here and the reason he gave was pretty vague. I see that at least 4 photographers have images posted on the site, but in doing a spot search, none have downloads that I could see. So I have no doubt that they are still gearing up, and getting the big guns' images approved and online first.

What I don't understand is why Lee Torrens posted here June 1 if the site wasn't ready for everyone to contribute to. I am fairly certain that the negotiations for the top guns went on behind the scenes and didn't happen because of Lee's post.

I typically don't read people's blogs but I went over to the one Lee posted at the same he posted here (or even before). Here's what it says:


I'm not stupid. I understand that these guys are friends/big draws/etc. and that they are going to get first dibs. That should have been done behind the scenes, before the announcement here on this forum.

I really hate false advertising. I'm starting to lose my enthusiasm. We get enough of this kind of stuff from all the other sites.

Apparently so. A girl can hope, can't she? 

Here is what Peter wroth

"Thank you for writing.It might take a long time to get approved. We have just started the site and we would like to do some advertising first. We will start letting in new contributors when we start receiving some traffic. Thank you very much for your patience!
 Best regards,Peter Hamza"

I think he said something similar in his earlier open latter to all of those who would be interested to contribute for StcoFresh.
Yes I love to be there too but i give a breathing space for the guys and wait - not because i could do anything else.
Regards

Hey great.  I air my grievances with the big sites, close my account with FT, quit submitting to the Big 3, and announce that I'm waiting for new agencies offering better deals.   Then when they show up, they won't let me in.  

"I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member” - Groucho Marx

Ok, then, but did you say they were accepting photographers then? He did: "Today, the new agency opens its doors to both contributors and buyers."

From Lee Torrens' very first post here in this thread:



I guess I thought they meant Stockfresh and that Lee Torrens had approval to do the review and to post here. Guess it doesn't really matter...contributors will get approved when they are ready.

From a business perspective why wouldn't you want the proven sellers up front? It is all well and good to be "fair" but fair doesn't always make money.

This is exactly what happens at most sites.... we'll just have to wait and see with this new site.
If this happens, and considering they don't have a Free site that drives (potential) buyers to the paying site..... maybe it's not worth the time uploading for the few bucks we could be earning each month.
We'll just have to wait (and upload if you feel to) and see.

Patrick.

What's false advertising exactly? We've been in contact with contributors months before the launch. Actually the site's been ready for a long time, we just didn't want to unveil an emtpy store. We're processing content from new contributors even as we speak, and eventually we're going to review all the regular applications and start letting everyone in. A lot of things are going on now so please bear with us for a little while! Thanks!