Not sure if everyone else got this, but recently when I logged in I saw a message on the top of my contributor page trying to get me to refer customers with a referral link.

I know some guys who are masters at using Facebook ads to sell products and promote people's pages, I was wondering if something like this could be used to promote your own portfolio. The reason I say "wonder" is I seem to remember in the past shutterstock making an announcement that you could get your account shutdown if you tried to use ad services like google adwords or Facebook ads to drive traffic to your portfolio.

Does anyone know for sure either way?

I am posting because I want to see if anyone else has had this problem. I realized my address was out of date so I went to change it, it said it went through and all is ok. I look at my email and I get a " Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender" message. I go back into my account and find my address is not changed. So I try to contact support, and I get another " Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender". I contacted support on twitter and they sent me a link to contact them... it does the same thing. Basically it is impossible for me to contact shutterstock or make any changes to my account. I was wondering if anyone else had this problem or know what I can do.

I got a private facebook message from someone representing PIXTA inviting me to sign up. It seems to be a japanese microstock agency. Anyone ever heard of them before?

I logged into my account today, and found my portfolio is empty, my earnings in the negative, and my contributor level at 1, when it was at 4 and well on its way to 5 a few days ago. Also it has my monthly earnings, but they are all dramatically skewed and wrong. I am hoping this is some kind of glitch, is anyone else experiencing this?