MicrostockGroup

nothing for me yet....  i may have messed up my app...  think I'll try again... =tom

Don't worry. I stopped uploading. The rejects were too, err... random (to be friendly). My gut feeling is they won't make it with this attitude. I will try again later this year when they got some proper reviewers. And if not, good luck.

My application was rejected, and you know what, I agree with them 100%.  At least for now the site is mostly smiling people, with a lot of white, a very clean style . . . . . .  classical studio type photography which a lot of members here are very good, so good luck and go for it.

"But that ain't me babe, it ain't me you're looking for, babe" . . . .   B.Dylan

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Because the sheer volume of microstockers out there means that there is always going to be someone better at it than you, that's why they can afford to reject people now. With so many people contributing, the cream of the crop has risen. The sites are skimming them off and dumping the rest. Good enough doesn't cut it anymore when they can have excellence. Why clog up the bandwidth and take a port of say a measly 500 photos, even if a small amount make good money, when they have a ton of contributors with thousands in their port with hundreds making good money? Simple math.

for my opinion this kind of approval is not really served the purpose, unless it is like istock that keep you from trying with certain period. Some people who takes it for fun may never come back.

you aren´t alone

My Application was approved today - uploaded my first 100.
We'll see how it goes from there.

Steve

I sign up today. I hope that they review applications much faster than few months before.

Well I maybe exaggerated, 1/3 rejects. But I sent in my studio stuff in high-key first on purpose. Those were all accepted. It is, however, a very competitive segment with a lot of supply. I'm just worried that if they limit their collection to that segment, they won't attract many buyers since all that stuff is on the larger sites already, plus all the rest. What is the USP of StockFresh then?
Right now, they seem to thread into the (unsuccessful) tracks of Crestock: QC too strict and probably low sales. My rant was not a grunt against rejections. I'd like SF to be successful, but on StockXpert my landscape and more unusual stuff sold the best. What isn't accepted can't sell, right?

Had my first sale today.  Not so bad for a new site, a sale after twelve days and with only 350 images up.  Now to see how long it takes for sale number two.

Hopefully they can get some of the StockXpert buyers back to a site that pays us 50% commission. 

That was my impression from their rejects, yes. Not that many but it was an omen. They swallowed all my overwhite studio people and products, but my forte is landscapes (before). I'm a bit scared to upload those now, since perhaps later, they'll change policy.