I've had one of my images up on their front page this week where they have a revolving 5 feature pics - which is nice and might bring some buyers my way - but on balance I haven't made enough money to buy a new lens cap out of this site.

Is anybody selling here?

I have almost 600 photos there and still nothig...

One of my clipfolders was featured for a 7 days on a front page and nothing...

I am still uploading there and I hope for a better days.

But how to expect payout before first sale...

Zilch.

I did have a few sales, some of them EL's and I had 2 payouts but it has been a long time since my last sale.

Zero sales and the views are mostly my own. (yes, your own views count.) 440 images on site.

I like John but I am ready to give up

The mouse over views cut off 1/3 of the horizontal images and description. (needs to be fixed!)

-Larry

nada (about three months)

A complete waist of time!...1 sale a loooong time ago with 323 pics on the site  
I still upload some photos every ones in a while (not many), but I really don't see even that happening for much longer...

  I'm doing pretty well, with only 240 submissions. I seem to have 3-7 downloads from all of the big 6, everyday. Had 34 downloads from Shutterstock on Sept 24th. I concentrate on product illustrations. That's what I like to do, and I know that advertisers look for that stuff on microstocks.  I'm uploading a couple a day, trying to build a bigger portfolio. My freelance career has taken a hit this year, so this is a good way to bring in a few hundred bucks a month. Hope that encourages others that are having a slow time!

Rimglow, congratulation on your high count of downloads on the big 6, but it's not Shutterstock or any of the other top 5 sites that this thread is about, if you want to encourage any of the folks on this thread, please let us know how many of those downloads are coming from Cutcaster, then maybe we can all understand what part your post relates to this thread  

Nothing for me either.
In my case it never looked promising.

dead, dead like Zym or Yay.

317 images on line. End of Oct will be a full year on the site. Not a single sale yet.

Sorry, it was late and I didn't notice the thread was about Cutcaster. No sales from there and I gave up on them.

No sales for me either with 1000 pics on line. Same thing for YAY and ZYM these days....
3DS is doing better for me with the same portfolio...

Quote from: ldambies on September 29, 2009, 13:35
No sales for me either with 1000 pics on line. Same thing for YAY and ZYM these days....
3DS is doing better for me with the same portfolio...

Your link to Cutcaster does not work. Your account with them is a number, not your user ID.

-Larry

Ten months there, 300 images and one sale, last week. I think I'll take that sale as a big sign of hope 

993 images and 9 sales in a year. I'll hang in there for a while longer and see what happens.

oh well. I can see my views have jumped a little but I'm wondering, with most of my images priced at $10 plus, whether I ought to go in and drop the lot to around $5 (if I can find a way to do it in bulk).

It's either a pricing problem for potential buyers or there are no potential buyers - and I'm not going to wait around for much longer to find out.

Your feedback has been greatly appreciated.

FeaturePics forced me to use lower prices and my sales have fallen there.  I am sure the vast majority of buyers are not put off by $10 for an image they want.  I have been getting a few sales with zymmetrical at higher prices than most of the micros.

The problem with cutcaster does seem to be that there are not enough buyers to keep us all happy.  It was never going to be easy in this market but at least we don't lose any money if it all goes wrong.

I put a few dozen images there months ago, to test the waters. So far no nibbles at $5.   I don't upload there anymore but as long as CutCaster is still actively out there pitching, I'll leave what I have there alone.

CutCaster's model, in theory, should be the one for me.   My 'niche' photos all sell on the big sites, but not often enough - at 25 cents - to make any significant money.  I do believe that the people that want my images would pay a few dollars.  Flexible pricing is what I want, but so far the big 4 are hung up on 'one size fits all' pricing.

But I don't see how a site like CC can get far with non-exclusive photos.  Those of us uploading to CC also have the same files at the big 4 sites, with the same keywords.  Duh.   CC has to set themselvs apart, somehow.

Very bad news... I was planning on uploading more there, already had around 12 images uploaded, but now I am wondering if it is worth the effort.

If you're selling the EXACT same images on microstock sites for 1/10 of the price, that would be the reason there are less sales on the mid-stock sites..

I got a sale on Zym almost immediately, and I made sure I wrote in my profile that these images are not available anywhere else for cheaper, so if they want it, they may aswell get it now from there. Why don't you guys try uploading some exclusive content to these sites, different to the usual stock stuff, maybe some high quality unusual shots and perhaps you could say they are exclusive to that site in the description? It would massively help those sites, and I wish they would adopt an exclusive model to ensure their success!!

Some sites do sell the same images for higher prices, so I don't think it is a big problem.  Istock prices are quite high compared to some sites but they still sell more.  Some of the sites that have undercut them have very low sales.  That is why I think the buyers are not too concerned by a difference of a few dollars.  The problem might be that the newer sites have much smaller collections because not many of us are willing to upload all our portfolios.  Why should a buyer use a site that has less choice?

Quote from: hqimages on September 29, 2009, 20:07
Why don't you guys try uploading some exclusive content to these sites, different to the usual stock stuff, maybe some high quality unusual shots and perhaps you could say they are exclusive to that site in the description? It would massively help those sites,

I don't think many photographers here will be willing to sacrifice exclusive high quality photos that way, specially uploading them to a site that obviously does not have the buyers or customer traffic to begin with, just with the expectation that maybe one day someone will come along and purchased it...And that's not taking into account the lost revenue from those exclusive photos just sitting there.

Quote from: hqimages on September 29, 2009, 20:07
If you're selling the EXACT same images on microstock sites for 1/10 of the price, that would be the reason there are less sales on the mid-stock sites..

Remember that not everybody wants to buy a subscription, no matter how small the package.  The idea of getting the image you need without having to worry about having to fulfill a subscription may be appealing to many people. Indeed, the3dStudio is using that approach and are selling more.