I have recently been experiencing very slow sales at BigStock.

How has it been for you?

Slow sales here also. (and getting slower by the day!)

The reason could be that they are treating buyers as badly as the photographers on the site.

Or now that they refresh the site every week or so there is nothing new to see on a daily basis.

I know photographers are quiting I have had several email me and tell me so. The reason they are quiting is not just the rejections .... it is the stupidity and insulting reasons for rejectons!

My computer monitor is calibrated for accuracy very week, I use CRT and an LCD monitors. both calibrated to check my work on both before uploading to any site. Then to have an approver tell me he rejected my shots as "too dark or too light" tells me he does not have a calibrated monitor or is just plane using a reason for a reject.

And the too dark or too light rejection kills me. He did not know if it was too dark or too light? I have to guess what he was thinking! Dumb!

Needless to say I had more on the site ready for the approval process, but I beat them to the punch ... I deleted them all and save them the time of doing it.

I will upload there never again. I am done.

It was a nice site some time back before they made the big change by adding a bunch of new approvers and rejecting nearly everything with a stupid reason or just "we have enough of this subject."

I was a professional photographer 30 or 40 years before most of them were born.

'nuff said.

-Larry

Occasional sales for me.

If you want to avoid mental anguish about image reviews at BigStock, and FT for that matter, upload your photos and forget about them 

Sales are slow... but steady.

Our port is pretty big there (900), and we are seeing almost daily sales now.  In fact, as I write this, I just sold two more for a total of $5 today, and it's only 9am

We submit to a number of sites.  Not every site accepts every image.
If we pissed and moaned about every rejection, I'd never submit again!

BS is run by a Mom and Pop style organization, from what I hear.  All I know is every time I've sent an inquiry on something, they get right back to me, and the issue is resolved in a quick and friendly manner.

Tougher on rejects? Maybe... but with the continued improvement on sales, I'm quite happy with them.

Gebbie

My sales at BigStock have been pretty sluggish lately too.  But I agree with RGebbie that it is a pleasant and well run site.  Very friendly customer service, fast payouts, and no crazy arbitrary rejections. 

I must agree. The sales have been less than good recently. And I think the new reviewers of theirs made it their goal to reject at least one photo of each batch so that nobody would say they do not do their work. Since a few months ago I have had at least one photo rejected in each batch with some ready-made reason about too dark/light or blurry. I preferred the old way - I had to wait a week or more for them to review my images but they accepted them all.

Sales have been less frequent, but more $2-earning are happening and today I even had a $3-earning sale.

Meanwhile, this month only $1.29 at 123RF.

Regards,
Adelaide

Quote from: madelaide on September 09, 2008, 22:07
Sales have been less frequent, but more $2-earning are happening and today I even had a $3-earning sale.

Meanwhile, this month only $1.29 at 123RF.

Regards,
Adelaide

heh...same here...but I did cash out Friday

Quite slow for me too, but I think it's more my small portfolio size. Once that's up to speed, I'm hoping for more sales.

  b

A BME for me in August. The only site that did well last month.

One dollar. That's all I need to get the payout. And after that I'll remove my portfolio. All of a sudden, after almost an year of nobody seeing my photos (zero views), in the last days bam! few sales. Well, I told them repeatedly that their search engine is not working as it should and a vast majority of my portfolio has zero views which means well... they're not found, imagine! :D:D

Therefore I'll get my payout and get out of there. It's my only REALLY slow performer. Not for long.

I'm doing about the same as last year, and considering the state of the economy these days, that's not bad. I have never had any problems with BigStock, they've always treated me well. As far as rejections are concerned, I once got a 'too dark' rejection for an image that was a moonlit scene. I really wanted the image in my portfolio, so I wrote to BigStock admin and explained that the picture was supposed to be dark. They returned it to my portfolio, no problem. I'm happy with them.
Linda B

Had a BME with BigStock in August. This month is looking to be one of the WME unless things pick up. It's so perplexing and depressing how these smaller sites can be so wildly inconsistent. The other weird thing that's happening at BigStock is that people viewing my portfolio dropped off dramatically in August and just about stopped completely in Sept. Weird stuff all around.

Not selling very much - but selling some. BigStock it is a very friendly and no-nonsense site, that's why I am going to stay there. When I asked for deletion of an image which I mistakenly submitted as an exclusive image elsewhere - they made no fuss and removed it within 24 hours - and they didn't have to.

Quote from: lisafx on September 09, 2008, 00:17
My sales at BigStock have been pretty sluggish lately too.  But I agree with RGebbie that it is a pleasant and well run site.  Very friendly customer service, fast payouts, and no crazy arbitrary rejections. 

"NO CRAZY ARBITARY REJECTIONS"

You do not have a link to your BigStock Portfolio .... I'm just wondering if you upload more than 1 or 2 shots a month or in a year.  (I have 2,045 on there.)

Crazy stupid rejections are my number one complant about BigStock.

-Larry

Larry, I upload roughly 30 images per week on average.   I currently have 4,135 images on BigStock.  Can't remember the last time I got a rejection there, but must have been a couple of years ago. 

Quote from: lisafx on September 16, 2008, 21:53
Larry, I upload roughly 30 images per week on average.   I currently have 4,135 images on BigStock.  Can't remember the last time I got a rejection there, but must have been a couple of years ago.

I wanna be you 

BigStock was always very slow for me. In one month here I get what I earn in one day at IS. My acceptance ratio was almost 100% but lately they reject a lot of my staff. My last studio macro shot and underwater diving image were rejected. Reason : snapshot (these snapshots were accepted by others sites). I think they hired a new stupid reviewer. Another rejection like this and I stop uploading to them.

Quote from: rene on September 16, 2008, 22:44
My acceptance ratio was almost 100% but lately they reject a lot of my staff. My last studio macro shot and underwater diving image were rejected. Reason : snapshot (these snapshots were accepted by others sites). I think they hired a new stupid reviewer.

That explains it, then.  Guess I haven't gotten Atilla the Reviewer at BigStock yet.  Hope he/she passes me by

Right now it's just "Stuck"
Slowest ever period at BigStock!

And, despite being slow....
Just made some calcs today on my port:
60% of their rejections were accepted in IS
35% - in both IS and SS

They also get my vote for the most ridiculous one:


Can you guess? It is obvious!
It was rejected for cropping.
I know, my bad, next time for an ocean shot I'd rent a space shuttle.....

Sales are good and I get very few rejections.

I saw that the new images that i uploaded do not even have a single view....is anyone having the same problem??

Quote from: UncleGene on September 19, 2008, 05:49
And, despite being slow....
Just made some calcs today on my port:
60% of their rejections were accepted in IS
35% - in both IS and SS

They also get my vote for the most ridiculous one:


Can you guess? It is obvious!
It was rejected for cropping.
I know, my bad, next time for an ocean shot I'd rent a space shuttle.....

I must agree here. Their new reviewers are really terrible. They frequently reject photos even Istock takes (the worst for me). And the sales have been nothing spectacular this month.