Seems like if you designed your own car or motorcycle (vector or 3D rendering) all you have to do is fill out your own property release allowing yourself to use the image.  If it doesn't look too much like a Ford or something then you have every right to sell the image.  Not something those of us who take photos can do (unless we also moonlight as car designers/builders).

I've been thinking about starting to submit to Almay as well and it has been my intention to upload files there that I don't have on the micro sites.  However, I was thinking I might upload files to Almay that come from a series that I uploaded to the micros.  My intent would be to use the best photo from the series for Almay and send the rest to the micros.

So, although the exact image offered on Almay wouldn't be available cheap from a micro site, very similar files might be.

Does this sound like a reasonable strategy to those that have experience in this area?

That one sounds fishy, all right.

However, I did get a buyer contact last year.  A buyer wanted more photos of a particular subject they saw on one of the microstock sites, googled my name and found my website which they used to contact me.  After exchaning a few emails, they purchased additional photos in the same series that were not available in the microstock portfolio.   Then, they contracted me to do some custom shooting too.  Altogether I ended up making over $2000 from that one contact.  It's happened two other times (but not for so much money).  So it does happen.

I did try compatibility mode.  It didn't help with istock although it did help with some others.

I'll try the cookie and temp file clearing and see if that helps.

I upgraded to Internet Explorer 8 (under Vista) and now can't access istock.  It won't let me navigate from the login page to anywhere else.  Everything still works fine under Mozilla but I can't switch because I have other sites I need to work on that work with IE that don't work with Mozilla.

Anyone else having this problem?