-As they put USD next to the 0.40 to 0.70, I assumed they paid 40 cents to 70 cents a download -
- their "subscriptions" are so much higher than anywhere else - $650 a month for 750 images for a one-month subscription versus $249 at SS - why would anyone buy from them?
- I see YayMicro and Zoonar content in search results, so not all of that is uploaded to PressFoto directly.
-It could be that they do well in select markets (a bit like Fotolia in Germany)
-they don't read IPTC data and want a CSV file in a particular format would make uploading a portfolio to them so discouraging that I'd hold off. The time commitment would be too great.
i hold off anything that has not come into the 80 ratings on the right column
before even considering uploading again to any one other than ss
but i welcome a new site who shows me that everyone can make money and reach payout regularly like ss, instead of growing old before reaching the 1st payout.
(i still have crestock, dt, etc which i joined at their inception all 22 sites when i first found leaf's forum, all of which as i said have not reach payout even till today.
...and i make more with ss in a single day to a single week or even a single lifetime with crestock,etc)
as for the prices being higher than ss, i don't think that is a bad thing.
i welcome any site daring enough to increase prices and of course offer a better percentage
share with us,
i shoot enough to be able to give them a different portfolio or a niche
so that is not impossible for a new site to succeed charging more
as i don't cannibalize my work with ss anyway.
..
but i do like to encourage a new site that would be a viable tangent to ss
so we can have more clout to negotiate with ss in terms of better earnings.
there is nothing bad in avoiding a monopoly,
except that till this day i see nothing producing anything like ss
where everyone can make money, not just a handful of people
who no doubt are the ones who owns or conglomerate with the agency.
iow, i don't care if you have a 200 rating if only your elites handful make 90% of it
..that would not impress me much (as Shania says)
as it would be like Brazil being rich by on most of the wealth coming from one state.
no whoopy dink for me.
give me another shutterstock and i will upload to you