Or a unique approach to self-portraiture.

I gave up on uploading a while ago.  I'd been uploading a few at a time whenever I got a sale, to the point where I had 1000 images in the queue.  Eventually they were all reviewed, and all were rejected.  Pretty obvious that they never look at them seriously if they couldn't find a single one worth hosting.  I uploaded a few more after that, which have been sitting in the queue for months.  As surprised as I was to get my last payout after three months of waiting, I'll be even more surprised if Crestock ever returns to life.

Software doesn't break from wear, Warren, but it can break when conditions arise that it wasn't set up to handle.  Sometimes new modules are added and they interact with older modules in ways that weren't tested and have subtle bugs.  Or there are timing-related problems, which aren't that uncommon in big transactional systems.  These can show up infrequently, which makes them hard to debug, but can occur more often as the system gets busier.  More traffic often reveals bugs that were there from the beginning but just didn't reveal themselves.

I'm having a pretty typical month at BigStock, maybe a little down from last year but up a bit from January.  No decline to speak of.

Don't get andy faster than that.

Who's this Andy you speak of?

http://submit.depositphotos.com?ref=1005251

Sure, we don't see how many sales get refunded at BigStock due to the 7 day waiting period...

That doesn't make sense.  The waiting period only applies to how much of our balance we can request, not to when it's reported to us.  We see sales as soon as they happen, and would see refunds if they were deducted from our sales.  If it didn't work that way, if our reported balance doesn't include sales within the last 7 days, we'd be able to request the entire balance they did report.

Keep in mind that a big part of the problem with the way Fotolia handles bad transactions is that there's no statute of limitations.  I've had deductions from transactions that were more than a year old.  Did it really take them that long to notice?

Just got mine as well.  It only took three and a half months, and I'm only two thirds of the way to another payout.  Wonder how long that one will take.

I don't agree with your assessment, Alisa.  My first encounter with Fotolia was rather unpleasant (nine rejections from my first ten, with the lone acceptance a Photoshop effort based on scanned content), and it took a while before I tried again.  I've never been happy with their review process, and of course far less so as they've cut my percentage twice and pretty much guaranteed I'll never see an increase.  They make me money and their upload process isn't too painful, so I persevere.

Veer's an unknown quantity.  I had so many rejections among my model shots that I stopped uploading them.  And yet... the three extended licenses yesterday were all models.  So I'll try uploading some more, and when many/most are rejected, well, I'll hope what's left makes money.  I think they're wrong in their rejections, but hey, it's their site.  I'll upload if they get me sales, and stop if they stop.

There are sites I prefer and sites I don't particularly like.  But this is business, so I make my choices based on a cost/benefit basis.  But not entirely, or I'd have given up the whole thing long ago as worse than minimum wage.

Doing my way-too-many-times-a-day check of the agencies when I stopped dead.  My total revenue at Veer had jumped an order of magnitude!  Three medium sized sales, followed by three extended licenses for each of the same images.  Total revenue: $110.25.  Let's do that a few more times, shall we?

I couldn't get in at all yesterday with Safari, even after deleting cookies.  I did get in on the first try with Firefox.  This morning, it's back to working with Safari.  I'm guessing a programming glitch on their end.

Going gangbusters for me, about 10% behind my best month there.

Got my first 500 approved and searchable.  But no one's searching for them, at least if my lack of views is accurate.  And no referrals yet either.  Won't you help?  Operators are standing by!

Where do you go to see which individual files are opted in for partner programs? I looked in My Uploads and don't see a column.

On the My Uploads page, click on the Partner Program link.  Each image has a checkbox under Available on Partner sites.