I have just looked at my last 100 uploads to IS and DT.   Every single image has had dls on Dt  but on Is only 23 of my images have had a dl.  Same images uploaded at about the same time.

I've gone from average last year of over 1000 dls a month to average this year about 600 dls a month even though I am producing much better images now than I was last year.  Luckily the pricing has gone up so  that my earnings haven't dropped at the same rate. It's pretty dishearteining, I used to always upload first to IS but now I upload last to them when I get round to it.   It seems you need to be an exclusive photographer to really do well there now.

It's up to you but personally as I am willing to sell an image for 30c then I would also be willing to sell an EL at 6.6$.  I would rather be getting the amount that I get now that I am at higher ranking  but to me it's all money in the bank.  This is just my opinion and I know that some people will disagree with me. 

I opted out when we had all the controversy over photos.com and noticed higher earnings but now that I have opted back in the sales have stayed high so I think that a lot of it is just coincidence.

Well, I initially opted in to subscriptions, then I opted out and that is when my downloads dropped dramatically for August. I opted back in to subs and now it is like I have to start all over again with the views and the ranking? Or at least it appears that way.

I agree with Sean, I don't know of a site that wouldn't allow that.

I have had a good month at StockXpert.  3rd Bme.
123 started off really slow but caught up at the end and I'm only 10$ down on last month with 3 days to go to catch up.

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! or 2 a month but one month I sold 5
I haven't found any difference in how many I sell each time I put the prices up so I would reccomend anybody to put them at the maximum permitted.

how often do you sell them? I am silver (almost gold), but I set t 49. and I sell about 1-2 per month.

I  always re-submit if I think the image has good selling potential  and 80 - 90 % of the time they are approved the second time.

I don't see how a shot like that could have been composed differently, it wasn't exactly a cooperative model.

Quote from: mollypix on August 24, 2008, 15:40

Fotolia seems to have a mindset....sent them this image...

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/animals/birds/6895925-seagull-and-chip.php?id=6895925

Rejected for overabundant photo catagory...so I sent them a message...that "If I search for seagull and chip I don't get any images, how can it be an overabundant photo??"

Reply..."We don't need this image"

Oh well, your funeral...haven't had a rejection from any other site.

Cheers

Mollypix

bad composition due to croping / framing.  I would reject it as well. Simply bad  composition.

I don't really understand what it is you want translated, is it just those few sentences shown above?

I think that there are going to be a lot of unhappy buyers that have bought a subsciption only to find that most of the decent images on StockXpert are suddenly opted out of subscription sales.

This was announced by an admin in the StockXpert forums about an hour ago.

'It is coming but they are in the US, so it might be a little late if you're in Europe.
You won't be disappointed though!'

So it sounds like it is going to  be good news.