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Ouch.

So let's see how the last week at StockXpert has gone:

1. After a nearly 100% approval rating, I have about 50% of images rejected for "not interested in this subject".

2. I look and see that revenues this month are going to be down by about 50% over last month (a BME), and will be the worst month of the year so far for me.

3. I was just notified that 22 images were de-activated today for copyright or trademark protection. These were among my very best selling images, so it's unlikely StockXpert's revenues are going to match last month for quite some time for me.

A very bad week on StockXpert. 

I got even more deactivated, stopped uploading in the middle of month because of rejections. I will wait until storm passes by :-)

Cheer up KB.  I'm in the StockXpert "zero views" club.   

It appears they aren't even going to talk about this any more- what's causing it, why only some submitters are affected.  I quit uploading weeks ago. There's a prominent thread on their forum where the question is perpetually ignored.

I get zero views for a while but then views pick up on some images and they get sales.  I don't see it as a problem.  Sales have been strong there the past few months.

You think they are rotating favorites ? Why I ask is  I too have incredible month and then  dead as a ghost town in between . Like some of you too here. Is why I ask.

 

Not a single one deactivated....


Cheers! 

Where you can see that a file has been deleted and which one?

And a little humor to add to the subject of deactivated images. I had this one get the boot.



Here's the reason:

US personalities on stamps.
We cannot license images of canceled stamps IF a US personality appears on
the stamp. This is due to descendible personality rights, particularly
relating to where in the United States a person became deceased.

Hey aren't most people on stamps already dead, before they print the stamps?   I can also assure you that I checked and this stamp is before the USPS went private and the stamp in not copyrighted, it is PD. Amelia may be? But not because she's dead after the stamp was printed. And she didn't become deceased in the US. (read the reason carefully and laugh)

Hey StockXpert folks, you can reject anything you want or deactivate images. Even if you are wrong about rights. It's your site, so I don't mind. You may want to have someone who speaks English proof read your rejection messages.

As for the unintended relationship to the word for all images of dead people,

 v. de·scend·ed, de·scend·ing, de·scends
v.intr.
1. To move from a higher to a lower place; come or go down.

Ironic for Amelia to have this reason for being removed?

Someone was smart enough to know the legal term, descendible, meaning:
- heritable: able to be inherited

I had one deactivated which was a yellow and red surf life saving flag. Aparently it is breach of copywrite.

Obvious there is a market for this stuff under editorial, I wish that more agencies offered editorial submissions.

Nope, he died in Germany, too.  And where did Lincoln die (rhetorical question, obviously) that there could be any IP issues still relevant almost 150 years after his death?

I didn't bother complaining about it, because it hasn't proven to be a big seller. I hope you're wrong about StockXpert; it's done well for me. In June it eeked out 4th place, coming in at 11% of revs (same as FT, but earning slightly more actual $), just behind 3rd place DT. I'd really hate to see it disappear. But it wouldn't surprise me. 

you mean StockXpert (WAS) one of my more likable sites. It's dead, like Amelia, Abe,and all on most stamps .
I too (used to like) StockXpert, what a tragedy to kill one of the best performing sites . The reviewers were the best in my opinion, fast and helpful. that is until JUI, Getty, came to f *** it up and kill it.

freedom, someone once aptly compared Getty's family as dysfunctional. So I will play it out in the same family analogy. IS and Vetta have now been launched with Getty telling StockXpert to move their stocks to IS with their subs. StockXpert is more or less the stepchild or worst , the bast##d child. the wedding is bliss with Getty as dad, and IS as the new bride. lol.
In this sort of marriage, the little b#st#rd soon gets ported off to private school, and soon the biological mother is given the Henry VIII's treatment.
check out the film The Other Boleyn Girl, if you're not conversant with the monarchy's history, lol.

I hope the picture is clearer now ?

Not only I agree with you that StockXpert may be a stepchild, other people had said a long time ago that IS non exclusives were the children out of the wedlock, too.

To me, StockXpert still performs far better than 123rf, BS, PM, SV, FP and many others. Sometimes it does better than DT and FT. We have been supportive to Veer MP but it hasn't even proven itself at all. Why, because psychologically, we don't feel threatened. That is just in our head.  

The point is, if we don't support StockXpert and spread the doomsday news, we are just doing our part to send StockXpert to its grave without giving it a chance for redemption.