how ridiculous some of these ms sites have become!
its a wonder that people still do business with many of them, given their shady business antics and not to mention insulting commission rates!

Good luck waiting for a sale of 0.0005 credits then! My guess is that these figures are generated by their internal currency/credit exchange rates.

I don't think so. I believe Fotolia uses their own 'credits' so on the contributor side you shouldn't be affected by which currency the buyer uses. I guess it must have something to do with tax withholding.
I do wish they would either send payouts once a month, or process them quicker. Takes always a while. Long enough for me that I'm sending another payout request as soon as the previous one gets processed. So I'm in a permanent 'payment pending' state

Try again tomorrow. There might be a different exchange rate.

Another thing, the number is to be rounded up. They are not following the rules.

But again there we see, how they use any mean to prevent money going out.
Those 0.00005 adds a lot to the "annoy factor", even for me as a spectator.

Its the kind of thing I remember and it tells me their way of doing business.