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I read the first page of this thread earlier and read through the many praises from old StockXpert members.  I then had a look at the site, the terms and the pricing and thought it looked promising.  With the backing of a good number of people here I registered.  Then I came back to this thread and read the rest of the 11 pages and had a bit of laugh about how most of you turned on SF just because you got impatient.  

Peter was accused of false advertising and playing games etc, even though he's explained several times his reasons for taking it slow.  The site may be fully operational but that doesn't mean as a startup they have the resources to deal with everyone's applications and reviews all at once.  If they approve everyone's applications at once you'll all then be whinging about having to wait a long time for reviews.  They probably didn't expect such a positive impact in the beginning when they announced it... on the other hand they should have expected the negatives cause all you people seem to do in here is whine.

Give the guy and the company a break.

@Sunnymars,
I agree.
There was once a virtual place on the internet called StockExpert.
And everyone was happy.
Can you believe it?
We were all happy! (well, more or less anyway)
Commissions were great, upload only took a minute, inspections were fair and speedy, and everyone was selling. Newbies and pros alike.
Then Getty came along, literally millions of images were sent to their trash bin and the rest is history.

I am absolutely going to upload to StockFresh. Can't wait, in fact.
I'm just giving them time to set things up.

Hooray, I just got my first sale on SF! 

When I checked out which image sold (garden variety image of a football)  I also noticed that the site automatically showed other images in the series beneath it.  What a very pleasant surprise!  Can't tell you how many hours I have spent on other sites grouping images into series and linking to them in the description.  Stockfresh doing it automatically is a huge timesaver, and a great way to give everyone the same advantage of multiple sales in a series. 

Congratulations Peter!  I continue to be very optimistic about Stockfresh and the folks running it.  I am happy to give them the time and support to succeed! 

Normally I don't bother with new sites at all, but after the StockXpert experience, I'm very optimistic about them. 25 a day is a bit of a pain when you're trying to upload your whole port, but the limit's understandable. I didn't have reason to complain about the time they took to inspect my application, it only took a few weeks. They also have the most wonderful inspection times, anything from ten minutes to twelve hours.

Unfortunately (for us), most sites show series of most popular similar images from all photographers rather than similar images of the same photographer. It's because they really care just about their profit, and the profit of particular photographer is not so important.

Dreamstime does that too and much longer. It's not that innovative. I was accepted very early but I don't like their reject reasons. Very Veerish. They just like overwhites in studio, very unlike STX. In fact, this not at all STX any more, for those that suffer from phantom pain.

I am still out so got nothing to say (ok a couple of things.. LOL)

If isolated images are what Stockfresh wants, than my applications probably won't be accepted

I'd better take this up in an email. StockXpert sold very well for me, but mostly landmarks/land/seascape stuff with little competition. All my models were accepted but it's very competitive there.

I just wondered the collection was focused on conventional stock stuff, like "Veer".
I have over 50% rejections there with the reason the image is technically sound but "won't please the Veer audience".

Good luck FD, I hope you have better results with them via email.  Nice shot btw

Lisa just mentioned she had her first sale.

I'll be happy to post back when sales become regular

..............still waiting.....................       =tom


if... i ever get in...first thing i'll do is close my StockXpert/thinkstock.... debacle.  what a waste of time... even i wouldn't have picked the pix they picked.