The shame is that potential clients can come to the site see this cr*p selling for 500$ and not bother to look further.

Lisa I think that it is being caused by the  holiday weekend in most of Europe  since last Thursday.

Weird.  After being so happy to have my BME on SS in April, now all of a sudden for May the sales seem to have been cut in half.

Probably way too soon to draw any conclusions, but I am tempted to wonder if a lot of expired subscribers are holding off to try out istocks new subscription svc. this month. 

Or maybe I am just having an off couple of days. 

I don't agree at all, I think that he is a very good looking model with a very nice friendly face perfect to portray   a friendly approachable business man rather than a stuffy approach.

Don't take offense but I think some of your models are not the greatest looking fellas in the world and especially this lad. He's a bit scruffy looking if you can see what I mean.

DT will often help you out if you ask nicely 
Site mail directly to achilles (Serban)

I think that if anyone knows  the answer to that one they'd  be rich.

It's very difficult to know what is going to catch on.  When I upload a batch of images it's often the one that you least expect to do well that sell loads.  I had one image which I wasn't going to put up because the lighting was really bad and I was going to repeat it but in the end decided to put it up and delete when I got a better version. That first image has gone on to sell over 500 times just on istock and nearly 2000 over all the sites.  Much better than the superior version that I later uploaded. 

One way of giving an image a chance is to make sure that you upload a better image than any others with the same theme,  but with the level of competition nowadays that is very difficult.   

Just keep uploading what you think is good enough and the sales will sort themselves out.

I just looked at you portfolio and the one that is selling is a great image with a really nice relaxed happy looking model.  You need to upload much more to get your portfolio noticed by the buyers. Also I would put the word Asian in your keywords because you will open it up to a much bigger market than just putting Indian.

Agreed, I started to put my images up to them but gave up uploading because mostly I just get 25c a DL.  If they put this up to 45 or 50 I would probably continue to get my whole portfolio up with them.

Quote from: sharpshot on April 29, 2008, 11:51

... I don't mind if my photos end up worst of the day but paying us just $0.25 for a download is making me wonder why I am there.  ...

That's about how I feel, too.
Crestock is by far my lowest earner.

Reasonable if you give them and extra check for noise.

The contrast to StockXpert is interesting. I opted out of subs there from day one, and my sales are soaring.

I opted in and my earnings are soaring, double  last month which was a 2nd BME.  So I   think that it says more about the site doing well than whether we are opted in or not.

StockXpert has really taken off for me this month.  I have already made double what I did in January and 60$ more than last month.  Up until now StockXpert has always been trailing well behind my 4 leader sites but this month it will be catching up for the first time.

It's back working again now.

Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on April 16, 2008, 06:07

You can delete them individually but that looks like about the only option.

It might not work but I'd suggest people do what I've done on my profile page, then hopefully some potential buyers might go somewhere else, of course most potential buyers go somewhere else anyway because they've never heard of LuckyOliver, but then thats what advertising does for you.

My LO profile page

I can't see that working as the buyers will have credits to use up and they will lose money if they go elsewhere.

Don't agree with no. 4.  The obsession never wears off