What other nine agencies or outlets (other than DT, Tim's business cards and Zazzle) would you recommend for a wildlife photographer.

Zoonar.com has a new partner agency: Picture Alliance. For the time being they accept only animal photos for this partner.
Price categories: premium and standard, minimum resolution: 4000 px on the longer side. No microstock photos should be uploaded for this partner or they will delete your port.
Maybe it could be interesting to you. They also have other interesting partners (AGE, Photolibrary, etc). Warning: referral link included.

I cashed out yesterday. Now I am at -0,60.
Suckers.

It seems you really need to sit down for a while and teach yourself to navigate through the labyrinth

Oh boy, that place really is a maze. I never stay there long, navigating there gives me a headache. Upload, submit and get out.
If the buyers' end is also so complicated they need to simplify things if they want to be a major player in microstock.

It seems that most of their buyers are from the US. This is not good for me, most of my buyers on SS are from Europe.

There's only one solution: a new distribution model which will eliminate those parasites.
The only artists for whom microstock is sustainable in the long run are the con artists from IS, FT, etc.

I had some sales with a small store. Less than I had expected, enough to keep me interested.

Indeed, it is fun to create products on Zazzle and they have quite a wide range of products.

What I don't like:
- Previews are often cr*#%%y due to their ridiculous jpg compression. It must discourage at least some potential buyers.
- Legal issues: they have products with the Eiffel tower at night or snapshots of the Belgian royal family sold as postcards. Except for US Postage they seem to have no inspections, all products go online with a delay of a few minutes.

Wunderbar, I have read the terms and enabled Photolibrary.

BTW, what's happening with AGE? My submissions to Fotofinder and APIS are reviewed usually on the same day but those for AGE have been waiting for ages Is it because of the queue size at the beginning?

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to the Zoonar crew!

Isn't our friend Jonathan an agency owner /co-owner?

I use FileZilla FTP.
Free + it does everything I need + never had a problem = a great time saver.

What kind of software do you use with that perl module?

If you use Adobe Bridge you can set up Collections (e.g. DT Accepted, DT Rejected) and then just drag and drop the photo into the collection. One photo can be in multiple collections.

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Where do they get the money to pay us?  I'm not interested in sites like this anymore, I want sales.  I have been paid to upload a few times and my portfolio just sites there for a year with hardly any sales.

I did a quick search and wasn't impressed.  They shouldn't be selling this one as RF, it's a trademark.
http://www.viscoimages.com/photo/17658_underground_sign_against_the_blue_sky_london/

they have also Eiffel tower by night, but they will change that for sure

The claim that the lighting is protected has never been challenged in court, so it's just a nice assumed legality until then.

No. It has been challenged in court.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower#Image_copyright_claims

It's just a question of time until they come (back)  

In ancient religious texts there are descriptions of flying machines (e.g. Book of Ezekiel / Bible or Hindu writings).
Very intriguing indeed. Hallucinations or did they really see those flying chariots of fire?
Then there are the Nazca Lines or the stone of Baalbek - nobody seems to have really convincing explanations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoramafreiheit

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoramafreiheit#Gro.C3.9Fbritannien

The  most photographer-friendly country seems to be Austria.

The freedom of panorama is defined in section 62 of the United Kingdom Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, but it doesn't mean you can shoot and sell anything. No serious agency would accept photos of Piccadilly Circus for commercial RF because of the logos. I also read that places protected by the National Trust are very problematic and can't be photographed freely.

Apart from copyright issues, in the UK a photographer is sometimes treated as a criminal.
When I was in London in 2008, I was grabbed a couple of times by guards in Canary Wharf, some wanted to see if the camera really captured photos, others told me to go away. I also had to show the contents of my backpack to policemen. When I was photographing the Big Ben I had to show my passport to the Bobbies...
Rather unpleasant.

Wouldnt it make more sense to concentrate dead-.hard on say 4 or 5 sites, giving it everything and more, instead of wasting precious time and effort on something which really doesnt work?

No, it wouldn't.
We need at least 10 strong sites, or better 15. Otherwise the big ones will sc%# us without mercy. Or worse, getty will buy the remaining sites from the big 4 and then it's game over. You will have to be happy if they throw  you 1%. You will have to lick the crumbs off their table.

Of course, some of the low earners suck, some don't have enough budget to do marketing. The least we can do is to give them a chance and supply them. Some will fail, no doubt, the time that we have invested is in vain, but if we don't support the low earners get ready to be sc%#*$ by those con artists really hard.