"It has joined the choir immortal....this, is an ex-site"

Nah, I'm still selling there. I have it linked to my web site portfolio. When people ask where they can buy my photos, I point them there. That is, until SmugMug sets up their own version of stock selling capabilities.

Just to follow up. Had a full-size non-subscription sale yesterday which kicked me way over payout limit again. First sale in 3 months.The odd thing is that the shot was refused by both DT and SS for LCV.


Decomposing tree in tropical rain forest.

Yep... LCV is that someone thinks some image will not sell... Which is wrong thing to do... If image is technically correct and there are no similar images it is ok to be added to image base no matter what agency it is except if it is basically NO-NO image.

I've had a few very slow months there, but yesterday, out of the blue, came a sale that earned me a months income compared to some other agencies. That's good enough for me 

i have hit one payout, but sales are few and far between. rejections are getting really lame.

Guess I should lower all orices!  After one year I have 2 sales - one brought me a $10 commission, and the other brought me $1.45.  I only have 140 images up there.

I'll stick it out a little longer.

Roadrunner

Why lower the prices? If customers find what they want, they are not going to look elsewhere to save a couple of dollars. Their time costs money too, and the chances that they find a better price elsewhere are very slim indeed. All my images at FP are priced at $7 and higher (Microstock images at $7 to 15 and macrostock RF at $50 to 100). Yesterday, I sold an image that was priced at $100. It sold at reduced resolution, so the price was just $52.75, but my cut is still $36.93   

Just a little report:

While FP has been a reliable, but very slow seller for me, this year has changed everything. I get very regular sales there now, and accumulated commissions so far this year adds up to 3% of my totals, which brings them up to 6th spot behind SS, DT, IS, FT and BS but ahead of StockXpert and 123RF.

Photos that I sell at FP are often either at the bottom of the pile at other agencies or rejected all together. That proves to me that there is a need for agencies that are a bit different, and that price is hardly an important factor as long as we are talking micro to medium priced stock. Most of my photos are priced at $10 or more at FP.

Good, isn't it?

It would be good if they sold more but I still only sell one a month there.  I made more with StockXpert just last month than I have made with FP in over 2 years.

Heck...I've made more at Crestock with 40 % less photos than I did at FP in the same amount of time!  That's pretty bad.

I only had my second sale there last week. It was a part of the volume download program they introduced. I hope to see more sales there in future as I really like the site otherwise.

They're doing good!...2 DLS last month, and just got another one just now, 6 DLS since the biginning of the year and great commissions.
Keep them coming FP

I just got my first sale today with a volume dl... For me this is really great since I have a portfolio there of less than 30 and I've only been on for about a week...

 

I've got my first sale two weeks ago for $1,25 ($0,88 for me).

Wow Congrats everyone...wish I could do that well...never sold any thing there. I don't know why, unless the buyers are going to one of the other sites to download the same image. All I got on there are the same as everywhere else.

You reckin thats the reason. I guess I ought to upload some that I won't put on the micro sites. They are just sitting on my hard drive collecting space. Do you guys sell what's not on the other sites or is it your micro stock??

Any advice would be appreciated.

I know there are sales and they will go up soon... So, upload ;-)