After they changed pricing etc., my sales have gone down drastically. Not a good sign for the future. In addition, all my RM photos there, which are not available as RF anywhere, have been removed   

Still hardly any sales there, unless you have a portfolio that sells like crazy, it isn't worth the time uploading there.  They have had long enough to establish themselves and unfortunately it hasn't worked out.  If they ever do pick up, I am sure people will post about it here.

Earned over 600 Euro at featurepix this year

Quote from: Yuri_Arcurs on November 24, 2009, 14:05
Earned over 600 Euro at featurepix this year

I wouldn't mind betting you make a bit more on some other sites

If Yuri makes only $600 with collection of 20,000 photos I will hardly make $10 in a year with my 1,000 if less sell-able pics.... not worth my time indeed

Quote from: Yuri_Arcurs on November 24, 2009, 14:05
Earned over 600 Euro at featurepix this year

Hi ,
If you don't mind me asking, how do you do at photo spin?

Thanks

Quote from: epixx on November 24, 2009, 04:20
After they changed pricing etc., my sales have gone down drastically. Not a good sign for the future. In addition, all my RM photos there, which are not available as RF anywhere, have been removed   

They haven't been removed - they are back on the edition phase.  Elena said we should prove they are not sold as RF elsewhere.  I still haven't come back and reinstated mine, also because I noticed some flaws in their RM prices.

I think Featurepics is possibly on their death bed. I'm tired of trying to bring them back to life. I managed to contribute $8.00 to their coffers.

Seriously, is ANY one actually making ANY money with Featurepics? I'm really considering deleting my account, that way I can put the ton of mid stock images I put on there in my microstock accounts. I quit uploading a long time ago.

Something just isn't right when just about every photo you have on all other micro sites combined doesn't sell....whoops forgot about the one $8.00 one. Of course that was before their price changes.

It's sad that after their changes, sales have been so rare for me.   

FP was my favourite site, but then there was so much confusion about RM vs macro RF vs micro RF during the changes... I don't know.

I've had the grand total of three 0.40 sales after the price change (great F...... idea by the way  ) with almost 600 images there, the site is nothing but a "BIG" disappointment to me and lots of other folks that have supported the site.

@Donding,
Death bed you said?, I think is more like dust and bones + the rat that sold Elena on the idea that the changes were going to be the reinvention of the wheel in the micro/macro world

Are they still alive, I got last sale about year ago :-)

Very well put [email protected] like dust in the wind!!!....lol

I still get the occasional sale but like others here, the price changes look to of wrecked the site.  It was bad enough only getting one sale a month but now I get less than that and make less when I do sell something.  I stuck with them because when I did sell something, it was worthwhile but now I don't see much point using them.  Buyers seemed just as likely to buy with the old higher prices.

I do think the small sites have been hit hard by the economic downturn.  If I was a buyer, I would avoid the small sites because they are more likely to close.  If the worldwide economy bounces back, people might have more confidence in the smaller sites that survived the downturn but it still look perilous at the moment.

I joined them last year because they had higher prices and higher commissions.
Shortly after that they changed both of that, as if trying to compete on price would be the only way to do business.
Never had a single sale on the site. Totally dead. They might as well die, I wouldn't notice. And I wouldn't mind, now as they removed the only reason to really support them (higher prices, higher commissions)...

Quote from: dirkr on January 09, 2010, 11:17
I joined them last year because they had higher prices and higher commissions.
Shortly after that they changed both of that, as if trying to compete on price would be the only way to do business.
Never had a single sale on the site. Totally dead. They might as well die, I wouldn't notice. And I wouldn't mind, now as they removed the only reason to really support them (higher prices, higher commissions)...

^^^ with 595 files. So . . . . . . .  595 + 0 = 0

I like to have my macro portfolio in FP, and using their HTML tools to embed collections in my website, maybe in the future use collections to market images directly.  But right now I see many of my images back to the edition phase because they want me to confirm they are RM, even one I already sold there as RM:
"Please provide a history of the image usage if you want to continue to license the image as rights managed, or request to change the license to RF"
This is most of my portfolio there, and only 20 images are now available online.  This is sad...

I joined them because they sounded and looked promising. That was about a year or so ago. Now when you read the forum and people say they haven't had any sales and aren't uploading any more.....Elena...I believe that is her name.... always tells them it's been a slow month and tells them if they aren't seeing sales then it would proubably be a good idea to stop uploading untill things pick up.........What is that all about?...the administrator is telling you not to upload??? I personally quit uploading because of no sales, but it surprised me she would say something like that if she wanted to market her site. I think she's given up and it is just a matter of time.

I admire Elena's honesty and sometimes it is better to be truthful than pretend everything is going well, like some other sites have.  I think FP have made some big mistakes and they might be fatal but I will leave my portfolio there because there is always a slim chance that they will turn it around and get something going.

Quote from: sharpshot on January 09, 2010, 21:22
I admire Elena's honesty and sometimes it is better to be truthful than pretend everything is going well, like some other sites have.  I think FP have made some big mistakes and they might be fatal but I will leave my portfolio there because there is always a slim chance that they will turn it around and get something going.

Your right about her honesty, I guess I owe her credit for that. Thanks for pointing that out. I hope your right about that "slim chance" because I have a good size portfolio there and it would take forever to get it off there....I don't see me doing it any time soon but I will proubably do it if things don't pick up there soon....one sale over a one year span just doesn't work for me.

Quote from: sharpshot on January 09, 2010, 21:22I admire Elena's honesty and sometimes it is better to be truthful than pretend everything is going well, like some other sites have.  I think FP have made some big mistakes and they might be fatal but I will leave my portfolio there because there is always a slim chance that they will turn it around and get something going.

+1

Elena has guts, and she is a figther. She also has a nice cat. 
I'll stick there.

No sales so far....my early december uploads are still under review.....Are they still on holiday?

I just e-mailed customer support and had them delete my account. They did it the next day...now for my $5.60...I didn't even ask for it and they didn't offer it...That tells you how good their sales are there.

I don't usually post earnings, but these numbers are so far off even my 2nd worst site, I don't care. Here are my monthy earnings since my last payout a year ago. I quit uploading months ago, but never felt it was worth the effort to delete accounts.

2/2009  $11.16 
3/2009  $5.58 
4/2009  $1.12 
5/2009  $7.68 
6/2009  $8.38 
7/2009  $0.40 
8/2009  $4.00 
10/2009  $3.40 
11/2009  $4.00 
12/2009  $2.50 
1/2010  $0.40 

Donding, you would have had a better chance in collecting your money if you just waited until they closed down their doors, unfortunately the way I see it, they're not going to be around much longer...too bad, I really like the site and Elena.  

I'll just leave my portfolio there, as dbvirago mention, not worth the effort to delete the account.

If $5.60 breaks me then I'm in bad shape......
No realy I don't really care, I just wanted to get off there so I wouldn't have to worry about it anymore.
As far as deleting the account, I just wrote to customer service and ask if I had to delete each picture one by one or could they do it for me because I wanted to close my account. It was closed the next day, so if your planning on doing that, I'd do it that way since it would take forever to delete them one by one.