For me it's still dead. SS and IS are now getting more sales. Not sure if coming on here and reporting slow sales has affected them in some way. It doesn't make sense that from the beginning I get regular sales to nothing for weeks and weeks. I know it's said that it takes time but I was getting good sales.

You've been on DT for 3 months, me a lot longer. I know about the sites more than some but less than others. After 3 months, where do you think you fit in on the ladder of knowledge? I imagine that most of your images are still at level 1, once they gain more sales they will climb levels, once they climb levels the prices increase, plus so will your commissions, so you will earn more money on each sale. Higher prices (higher levels) don't make the images sell less, very often the opposite happens. So if you could wait a little while instead of reporting back every 5 minutes on how badly you are doing, u may start to understand this

Quote from: fotografer on March 10, 2012, 09:51

I was annoyed once when I saw an image that was virtually identical to mine but with a different model but when I looked at the date of the image the other image was done 2 years before mine.   Maybe I had seen the image before without realizing it and subconscioulsy copied it or maybe it was pure coincidence, who knows.

That does happen - BUT - did your model wear the same colored clothes, did the model have the same hair color and cut? Was he/she the same ethnicity, was it the same location?

Yes, photographic plagiarism exists (as Getty has proven multiple times) but if a photo concept was done "unintentionally", chances are that there are certain differences.

In the case of the flags mentioned here, a lot of factors were identical which less likely is a coincidence.

Quote from: gostwyck on March 06, 2012, 08:49

I suspect it may have more to do with customer resistance to higher-priced images. FT have been steadily reducing the upper tier price levels available to high ranking contributors for some time, presumably because of this.

I think you have the order reversed.  I saw no resistance to doubling my prices for literally years.  Now, with most sales being subs, and all but best selling images being demoted to 1 credit, my sales should have increased, if it really was an issue of customer price sensitivity.  Instead, they declined steeply pretty much overnight, as is typical with an unfavorable search change, and have never recovered. 

Checking sales daily is really bad time management, time that could be spent creating new images.