MicrostockGroup

Hi Don,

We did change your email address as requested, but that probably is why you didn't get the response to your help ticket. At any rate, the help tickets are always available online in the site, since the whole point is to avoid reliance on email.  We do not permit unmoderated email changes as it is part of our security system, one should not be changing their email often in a general sense so it is done upon request.

Now, that our line of communication is established, let's examine the situation: you came to a new agency, got more rejections than is typical of your portfolio, and you want to delete the ones that have been approved?    We have very strict editorial standards, and occupy a different market position then the other agencies you mentioned. I have 99.9% faith in our Reviewers choices, with the remaining .1% reserved because they are indeed humans and can make mistakes like anyone else.

It would not be much of a business for anyone involved if our Reviewers spent their workdays reviewing photos, only to have the person press a big red 'delete' button immediately thereafter, because they don't agree with the Reviewers choices. We act in good faith, and hope everyone else that works with us does as well.  I'd be more than happy to have your abnormally high rejection rate examined, you just need to talk to us directly.

Well, the OP of this thread got 74 photos reviewed that were uploaded yesterday.

Peep, have you tried contacting us about lack of sales? Since I don't know your Zymm portfolio name, I can't speak directly, however the MSG message:

http://www.microstockgroup.com/index.php/topic,3948.msg38150.html#msg38150

containing the quote:
"And in addition I have just found out they use a very strange price system - some of my images have 49 USD for RF!!! I had to change it all. I wondered why nothing had been sold so far, checked my portfolio - and this was the reason! Why should anybody bother to buy for 49 USD when the same picture is possible to buy at SS or IS or anywhere else for a fragment of this price."


..may be an indicator of your lack of sales. If you cranked all your prices down to $3 in a reactionary move based on microstock norms, it's no wonder your sales are in the tank. Buyers are possibly perceiving your lower-priced files as having less value.

If you had simply left the prices assigned by our Reviewers, I can't guarantee you would have had more sales, but my gut feeling is that it is shooting yourself in the foot to apply flat microstock pricing in our marketplace.

Fixed.  Specific to the category 'Objects : Industrial', there was some overlapping photos.  Sales would have been tracked normally, so the side effect of this error is the wrong name on the photo for a couple artists over a period of hours.  I apologize for the error.

As for sales, I am quite shocked because your submissions are always of the highest caliber and we look forward to them, and indeed they are mostly priced at prices around where our Reviewers would choose.  All I can say is hang tight, you have at least the reassurance that we are working hard to bring the site up to launch status. Buyer-side improvements such as expanded currency and payment options and a multitude of other improvements are on-track and coming soon.

Now I see the prices are for small sizes.  I want to sell for $10 minimum at full size.

It doesn't seem to be working per file.  I updated the price on one file but now I can't change the price on a different one.  Is that correct?  If so, it will take me about a year to change the prices I want to.

OK, I will wait.  I hope one day I will be complaining about too many sales

I think u need to be commended for how you've dealt with the issues above. How and ever, coming on here is extremely risky and maybe youd be best advised not to in the future if u want to protect your bizness.

We have members posting here from snapvillage, stockxpert, cutcaster, mostphotos and zymmetrical.  I have probably missed some out.  From what I can see, it has been positive for the sites and for us.  It is the only reason I joined some of them.

Hello zymmetrical,

Thanks for responding to my post, appreciate it.

I was just really shocked at the rejection qty, over it now and understand where your coming from.

I will continue to submit and hope some of my images meet your sites acceptance criteria. It takes a little time to feel out a site and get an understanding what they are really looking, I'll get there.

I still have a number of uploads to do and most likely will get some rejections but I can live with that.

Once again thank for the explanation and  for fixing my email address.

Regards,
Don