3 years ago I got cs2 from ebay from one of those "power seller" with 99.9999 % positive feedback.  Paid something like $200. Got it but would not activate. Called Adobe and as soon as they heard the word "ebay" it immediately ended our conversation with "sorry can't help you". 

Thereafter, I wrote a nasty comment as a feedback to degrade this guy status. Within 30 minutes he wrote back saying that he would reimburse me if I deleted the comment. I replied saying that as soon as I see the money in my paypal account that I will delete the comment.   Next day the money was in paypal and thereafter deleted the bad comment.

I guess some of those power sellers with high positive feedback take pride in this and would do anything to keep their rating as high as they can. Therefore, maybe they are a bit more reliable then the other lower ranked sellers.

Thereafter, although this was not the worst case scenario, I did not want to go through that experience again, so I bough cs3 from Adobe website and now I have cs4 suite downloaded from Adobe. Even if you don't make too much it is still deductible from your taxes in most countries (Check your local tax person for advice). Denis

Thanks Denis...that's the answer I was looking for. I really wondered about that. Thanks goodness I lost the bid on that software last night!
Again thanks...guess I'll be paying full price. I really hate to pay that high price when I'm wanting to get a Mac computor. I have Windows right now...but who knows it may be another two years before I get around to getting one. Just don't want to pay for the same software twice for two different kinds of computors. I'll proubably just continue using Capture NX.

Other than the legal issues, donding, how is the best way for using the offer of FREE screensavers?

I think the legalities have been worked out.  If not, I'll try some other kind of FREEbies.

I really don't know since I've never tryed it. Maybe someone else on here will be able to answer that better than I.

They don't hate you any more than the rest of us...

Fotolia has it's own weird way of rejecting photo's. I really question rather the people that review the submissions are even photographers to begin with. I've been with them since late 2007...I believe that was when...not sure exactly..but it's been awhile and I have 193 files on there and have only sold 59!! The rejects always get accepted at other agencies and do great...the ones they select are usually not approved by other agencies and it is really hard to figure out the reason they reject them...so don't feel alone out there because you aren't..it's just "Fotolia's way of doing bad business".

Alot of people say it's the keywording and I've been getting the main keywords in the top seven and still no sales. I personally have about given up on them because it's more trouble than it's worth...really.

Well the seller told me that she could just transfer the registration and that she'd done it before and she did sell a copy of Adobe illistrator and the buyer gave her 100% rating..She has photo's of the software  and manual...it's Photoshop 6.0 with an upgrade to Photoshop CS. It's currently going for 67.00...man it is tempting.

I was thinking of buying a used copy of Photoshop on E-Bay, but do any of you know rather I would run into an activation issue if the copy had already been activated on two computors? I was trying to research it on Adobe website and it really doesn't address the issue of reselling the copy to some one else. It just says something about having to deactivate it on "Your" computor...meaning the original registration owner..in order to reactivate it on another one.

I know windows is funny like that and just wondered if Adobe was that way to and if any of you have run into that problem...

Well the way I do it is by creating a microstock folder on my hard drive. I don't have a folder for each stock site except iStock because you can upload only 15 files every 7 days so I keep track of those under that folder. I also have a upload pending file where the files I'm waiting on approval for are put there, then when they are approved they are put in my approved file and the rejected ones that got rejected by all agencies I have in a separate file also. If one gets approved on one site and rejected by another...if they get approved on any site they get put in the approved folder. I upload the same shots to all the stock sites so it doesn't matter what went where.

Hope this helped.

Thanks everbody..that's kinda what I figured. I notice some stock sites just sit idol on weekends showing no sign of life..especially Shutterstock.

That could be a very powerful tool. Even if it doesn't specifically apply to Microstock, I would think if people are Googling that term that stock agencies would be getting the same effect since the advertising as a buyer would be vital at that time.
Thanks for the info

The reason I like deepmeta is not only because you can do you editing outside of iStock but also because after you upload your 15 and have to wait for the next 15 to free themselves, you can still add photos to DeepMeta and get them ready for the next one without having to wait till you upload again. I also always put my pending files in their own file untill they are approved and it makes it much easier to add those files and not have to worry about which ones you still needed to upload to iStock.

Any one know where to look for what you sale? I can find the earning's but not what photo it was that sold. Also when you make a sale and it shows up on your days sales does it take awhile to show up on your monthly total. The reason I ask is because I had a previous sale then I made one today and it only shows an amount for one sale on there. That was why I was trying to find out what picture sold to see if maybe there is a delay in the total's.

D200 here...it's been a good camera but I think it's getting worn out...starting to have problems with my control dial..always got to shut the camera off then back on to change the aparture with aparture priority same with shutter priority. I don't know if it's a in camera setting I set wrong or just the camera getting worn out. If any one can suggest if I might have set something wrong let me know where to look for the setting...thats like looking for a needle in a haystack!....lol

GRRRRRR....I got 175 pics on there right now and I guess the ones that have little or no views and not very good keywords I'll just delete and maybe rename and reupload. What a hassle...I wonder why they don't let you add to them?

Another question...do you think it would be worth the time it takes to rekeyword all those pictures??? or would it be a waste of time?