Erdosain, where does it state that.� The only thing I can find is this on their front page. "If your photos are part of the first 30,000 accepted, you'll receive a 60% royalty on each photo."� There is nothing that states their are qualifications on it.� How did you find out that it is only if you are exclusive?

Mark

Mark,
this
LuckyOliver Exclusive (?)
Make more money and be able to sell your image outright. The first 30,000 exclusive images we receive can be sold at a whopping 60% royalty for you.
is what it says when you edit your image to submit. I think that they "forgot" to put it in other place of the site. When I sign up I also thought that I�m going to have a 60% of royalties.

Quote from: IRCrockett on July 24, 2006, 11:57

So Lucky Oliver is down now for the second day. Wonder what's going on with them.

I have been accessing them daily without many problems.  Only a few times when I uploaded 5 images in the form I got an error and not all are uploaded, but this was eventual.

It's working now but all yesterday and most of today I would just get an error page which I believe said Application Error (Rails) or something to that effect. Looks like it was just me because I have two more sales, the right people were able to get through anyway.

agreed

Wow! 2000+ photos.  If only I could have that kind of range

How are you fairing in terms of return on your photos?

-gareri

Oh.. still good collection, i would be happy with 500 $ a month :-) But you are doing it more proffessional I guess. And probably you have to pay for your equipment, I just had to pay for the old used Canon D60 with an average lense which I got really cheap... :-) Hopefully next month will be better..

congrats.

Nice image.

I've been uploading there for a few weeks. I like the fact there is clearly a person behind this that wants it to succeed. Uploading via FTP is as easy as any other site, so it's not taking much of my time. So far I have an 88% acceptance rate. Also, per the pay rate, I am getting 60% as one of the first contributers I believe. Of course, at the end of the day, it's all about return. I'd rather have 33% of $1 than 50% of .50. That being said, witht the lowest per image out there, Shutterstock will still earn my more money this year than the rest if the trend continues.

Today at Lucky Oliver there is something strange going on - my view count keeps rising quickly. It looks like someone out there is looking at every image on the site once. Don't know if this is real or someone is trying to boost stats.

You only get 60% if you are the first 30,000 exlcusive photos.� Otherwise you get a small 30%.

I thought the same thing and was disappointed when I found out the truth.  Personally I think it is bordering on the edge of false advertising, and is a big turn off for me.

Mark

Today at Lucky Oliver there is something strange going on - my view count keeps rising quickly. It looks like someone out there is looking at every image on the site once. Don't know if this is real or someone is trying to boost stats.

More likely search engine spiders aren't being excluded from the view stats.

I'm sorry, but Luck Oliver's commissions are 30% excluding all their promos. 30% is almost the lowest in the industry - second lowest next to Istock's 20%. To have such a low commission they would need to have the second best sales which they clearly don't have.

My advice to LO: raise your commissions or I predict you suffer a slow death.

My 2 cents.

Photogs - check out Stock Expert and Dreamstime which offer 50% and better sales -wouldn't waste my time on LO with these low commssions