How do you find who the buyer is on 123rf?  I only know how to do that on fotolia

I've had same buyer get different sizes many times. This morning, I had someone buy 3 copies of the same image, same size at 123.

I might be wrong but it looks to me like one person selling his own images there.

edited to say
Looks like you're right, that hamster belongs to Eric Issel�e.
I just tried downloading one and all you get is a very small res. image like the ones they give away on IS and other sites as a comp.

While your talking to people your cloning out their spots, whitening their teeth and straightening thier nose. 

Nice uncluttered looking web page.  I would put more variety in the photos that you show rather than 3 images of the stones and flowers.

I'm surprised that people are having so much trouble getting acceptances at FT.  They accept almost everything I send to them probably about 99% whereas IS and DT are about 80%.

I agree with what Nazdravie says about uploading to SS.  Also it's been proved that a quick sale on IS helps an image to take off so being approved on a Monday gives an image a lot more possibilities of a quick sale than if it's approved on a Friday.  Unfortunately it's a lot more difficult to get the timing right at IS than it is at SS

I play this regularly. I keep a link on my desktop for when I have a bit of spare time along with the following link which you click on daily to provide money for cancer research, poverty, literacy etc.
http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=2

They take their place in the queue as soon as you upload the images so after you finished them off they had already got to the head of the queue so they were inspected straight away.

I've got most of mine set at 100$ with my newer images at 150$.  I have sold 3 this month at 100$ and one at 150$ so as far as I'm concerned it's well worth putting them at the higher prices. I don't remember ever selling 4 ELs in one month before even when I had them set at 10$.

Hi,

Does anybody have some information which price point sell's bests. I have set my images between 10-100 and only 10credits sales up to date... Its too little and I have asked admins to change el price each of my images to 75 credits, but I'm wondering is it too much for sites like fotolia?

br, MJP

Contact support and they'll change them for you.  I've changed mine 3 times now and it was always done within a few hours.

Recently the best match search seems to be giving a huge advantage to exclusives.  My sales have dropped by 50% there over the last few months. It's the only site where I won't be getting a best match this month.  I've gone from selling over 40 a day average to just over 20 at IS. This time last year IS was by far my best earner wheras this month I am making double on SS and 1 of the other sites have overtaken IS putting it in 3rd place.

I definitely prefer your positive approach to it instead of crying over spilt milk although Hatman is quite right

hatman12

You are wrong.... I live one day at a time. I piss on the past because it is of no use to me now. I can't change it.
What I can do is live for today, and plan for the future. It's not viewed as a loss to me. The glass is half full if
you get my drift.

Be well hatman12
The MIZ

Sorry didn't bother reading down far enough.
That's one thread that hasn't got the exculusives shouting and cheering about how wonderful IS is.

Quote from: fotografer on February 22, 2008, 12:02

I don't know if you all missed this post or not but the whole thing was an error on the part of IS.  The buyers got the images cheaper but the photographers get the commission at the higher price so everyone should be happy .

I don't know if you missed this, but iStock just announced they are having a sale.