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I liked StockXpert and I will like sf. Im working hard with it.
The worse thing is having only 25 images to upload a day.

Yeah, it's been 3 or 4 months for me as well.  I emailed them several times to inquire what was going on, but apparently I needed to use their form because I never got a response.  Just tried their form, so we'll see what happens.

They offer 50% until they become enough big to sell their subscription plan again. This is for attracting new contributors. I won't forget those dudes from StockXpert starting to sell our extended licence at sub prices. No one live on 14 sales a month.

Btw spamming is bad

Did they sell EL at subs?   

What are you talking about? Even though StockXpert had subscription plans, you had to buy extended licenses separately. Here's the license agreement, you can see it for yourself: http://www.stockxpert.com/support/help/2_3

If you are referring to JIU and Photos.com over which StockXpert had no control whatsoever, those deals were optional for contributors because people hated the idea of mandatory opt-in (even though almost everybody stayed opted in afterwards).

The icing on the cake is that the wast majority of our customers preferred PPD to subscriptions anyway.

The subscription plan at SF is already available, isn't it? 35¢ per download I believe. It's no secret, and I think it's a pretty good deal, considering comparable sub rates at other sites. And if SF turns out to be anything like StockXpert, I'd expect to see more PPD sales than subs anyway.

Just because you had a bad experience with StockXpert and your images didn't sell, that says it all for every seller? My StockXpert earnings beat my istock earnings some months. If SF can even come close to replacing what I lost when StockXpert was shut down, I'd be very happy with that. But I also think SF can go far beyond what was done with StockXpert and be even more successful.

StockXpert was my second earner until this photos.com "deal". It's not about sales it's about selling extended licence at sub prices, and see 100% credit sales becoming 80% subscription sales

From what I saw at the site a few months ago, subs are compulsory on Stockfresh.. also a deal-breaker for me..

I don't think anybody likes how it ended. I remember though when Getty shut the site down there were people cheering in the istock forums. I found it really interesting. Noone's cheering now. Strange turn of events!

You won't be able to opt out of subscriptions, but only photos up to M size are included. So it works for bloggers,  websites and magazines who need a ton of images and you won't feel ripped off with 35c XXL downloads.

Well, I'm not sure if you're aware, but many top contributors left SXC after the transition and started a new site at http://rgbstock.com . RGB is growing very fast and although I'm not involved in that project I'm sure we'll work something out together.

Aha!  That's good to know.  I have to say I'm not a fan of giving free images away myself, but if some connection between the two of you will bring such startling amounts of purchasers to Stockfresh, then I'm happy to hear of this.