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My sales have gone flat from previously awesome numbers.

I think everyone is on vacation here at the end of December

December is no indication unless you compare with December last year, since it's usually a slow month for most, but I agree, StockXpert is falling like a stone. If nothing dramatic happens during the last two days of the month, which is very unlikely since one of them is New Years Eve, I'll get a result 75% below that of last year with StockXpert.

I'm opted out from subs and from photos.com, and the only explanation I can see is that they are letting StockXpert die to concentrate on photos.com. That would be very easy to explain:

- photos.com is a very nice domain name, and they get a lot of marketing for free just as a result of that fact.
- photos.com is mainly a subscription agency which (probably) generates a much higher profit per customer than StockXpert does.
- The weak part of photos.com was the portfolio, but by transferring the StockXpert images to photos.com, they fix that.

If I'm right, the photographers are the ones getting screwed. Most of us had nice, increasing commissions from StockXpert, and they seemed to value our efforts more than most others. photos.com seems to be just another "we're cheaper, so we must be good" run-of-the-mill website. Very sad indeed.

Interesting. Are you in or out of subs and photos.com?

Sorry to learn about your StockXpert woes, but this was a good month at StockXpert for me - my second best, in fact, with earnings and DLs double those of Dec 07. To answer your anticipated questions, epixx, I'm opted in to everything, and subs accounted for only 30% of my StockXpert Dec 08 earnings (64% of DLs).

My sales are nearly 50% up on December 2007.