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Title: Vivozoom, anybody here earning there?
Post by: CarolinaSmith on December 23, 2009, 11:02

Hi, this statement was part of a Vivozoom email I received yesterday (22Dec09):

I am delighted to let you know that vivozoom’s first batch of royalty payments were paid out recently...

Has anyone here had sales with them?

Title: Re: Vivozoom, anybody here earning there?
Post by: PeterChigmaroff on December 23, 2009, 11:50

I hate to say it but they are big time losers in the quest for microstock stardom. I had big hopes for this startup but all hopes have fizzled. I had a few early sales but have seen nothing, I mean nothing, in the past few months. Something like $2 for me so far in my account.

Title: Re: Vivozoom, anybody here earning there?
Post by: gbcimages on December 23, 2009, 12:37

o for me,closed account.

Title: Re: Vivozoom, anybody here earning there?
Post by: elvinstar on December 23, 2009, 14:33

^^ +1

Title: Re: Vivozoom, anybody here earning there?
Post by: FD on December 23, 2009, 15:06

After losing too much time on their crappy programming and then confronted with the very low subscription prices, not to mention the unworkable MRF pages and the many rejects, I canceled my account too.
Notwithstanding that, I also got that email, and I even was able to change my password on the site (in IE of course, they still didn't discover how to get that part working in FF).
I can't login though. Another glitch?

Title: Re: Vivozoom, anybody here earning there?
Post by: NitorPhoto on December 23, 2009, 16:52

Yes, I  HAD sales there. I sent them 2000 images for testing the waters. They accepted like 1000. My acceptance ratio is over 95% on the other sites and 85% on IS - where I get rejections because of small USB or Firewire logos on the side of laptops... and stuff like that. Back to VivoZoom... 50% ???!!! Grrrr.

So I have 1000 images online since April this year. And I HAD sales. Income total is 12$.

Do I need to say more?

Title: Re: Vivozoom, anybody here earning there?
Post by: zymmetricaldotcom on December 23, 2009, 19:59

They had an original idea with insuring images and it was immediately adopted by the majors. I respect those folks for coming up with something new, it's just too bad they didn't patent the idea.

Title: Re: Vivozoom, anybody here earning there?
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on December 23, 2009, 20:39

I doubt that's something you could patent.

Title: Re: Vivozoom, anybody here earning there?
Post by: CarolinaSmith on December 23, 2009, 23:27

Thanks for the replies.  Seems like Andres has > 8000 photos there and Yuri has > 10000 photos there.  Maybe that's who's making the payouts.

Title: Re: Vivozoom, anybody here earning there?
Post by: zymmetricaldotcom on December 24, 2009, 05:14

Quote from: sjlocke on December 23, 2009, 20:39

I doubt that's something you could patent.

Yeah looking into it further you are probably right. Oh well.. that's just business then.

Title: Re: Vivozoom, anybody here earning there?
Post by: Smithore on December 24, 2009, 06:54

1300 images approved and 9 downloads for a total of 8.63$, another crestock-like site...

Title: Re: Vivozoom, anybody here earning there?
Post by: FD on December 24, 2009, 11:21

Quote from: CarolinaSmith on December 23, 2009, 23:27

Thanks for the replies.  Seems like Andres has > 8000 photos there and Yuri has > 10000 photos there.  Maybe that's who's making the payouts.

No, they were paid to "upload" most probably. That is, a limo passed by them and collected their DVDs and a list of conditions.