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Thanks a lot. Although this constant analyzing tend to be quite a costly affair for many of us.

Agreed......and maybe his title should be investor success?

Yes. shareholders my friend. Shareholders. Nothing else matters.

Yes new shareholders with small ports that do not generate much income seem to be the happiest about these new search changes.  Never mind the many people who used to believe in SS.  These are the same people who were instrumental in SS's success. I am talking about the real people who used their own funds to buy tens of thousands of camera & studio equipment, not to mention software, props ect. so that they could work hard year after year to provide SS with quality content.

Over the years they worked hard to produce images and vectors that would reach the top50 so that they could feed their family.  They made a good income because they worked hard for years and their families depend on that hard won income to eat and pay their mortgages/rent.

Now SS turns their back on the very people who assured success for those working for SS. We made it possible for SS's employees to enjoy good incomes and perks such as gym memberships, massages, free breakfasts, free drinks and weekly pizza parties.

Maybe they should come to breakfast, lunch and dinner at some of the houses they are robbing of shelter and food so that they can reduce cost of sale and bring up RPI sold.

Fantastic post!!!!!  you nailed it to 110%  turning their back on contributors is exactly what they are doing. Going the IS way ofcourse. Just look what happend.

Downhill race from now on. Muddy, sticky and watery. Its public knowledge whats posted here, so everyone will know. Bad PR indeed.

Sounds like we've just elected our new union leader.

Just so we're clear.  We're going to ask for pensions, right?  We're going to demand that if we have images that sell well today, we expect to be supported by the agencies even when our old images stop selling, regardless of our ability to create new images that sell, correct? 

When customers no longer want to download our images, and the agencies stop giving our ports preferred treatment as top sellers, we will view that as "robbing us of shelter and food." 

First order of business for our union... let's meet with the old-school professional photographers who accused microstock of robbing them of shelter and food, and see what they did to hang on to their old way of life.  Their complaints and accusations must have worked well for them.

Because that's only fair, right?  Anyone who doesn't adapt to change should be supported forever by the people who used to buy or sell their work.  Just want to make sure I'm reading you correctly, if you're going to be representing my interests.

Wow, that's one ugly chart.

Still, I don't believe in Alexa.  (I work in the media world for my "day job" and most people laugh at Alexa.)

I can say that my numbers compared to a year ago are pretty flat.  On the one hand, I've been glad I'm not down... but on the other, I've probably increased my port size by about 30%, so I should be doing better than I am.


EDIT:  I've also been pretty inactive on IS and DT for the past year, and my sales on those two sites have been flat or slightly up vs. year ago numbers... that tells me I'm either dodging the trend, or Alexa's data is not to be trusted.

Wow.  That's fantastic.  One of the best possible answers we could have hoped to hear.

Thanks, Scott!

OK good that SS support appears to be watching this thread and read my comment...

Did you hear from someone at SS?  Did they suggest anything that they might not be legit? 

Keep us posted.

Quote from: stockmarketer on April 25, 2013, 13:01

Oh great.

Someone in the SS forum pointed out that we could look up on the Shutterstock map on the submit main page to see where the buyer is located.

I just checked... Looks like they've been downloaded from a single location in Africa.

Maybe it's that Nigerian prince who keeps wanting to send me $14,000,000!!!

Same location here so it's most likely a fraud

Someone on SS forum pointed out that if the top left corner of the image is in the Ocean to the left of Africa, it simply means SS can't determine the buyer's location.  Other images on the map have a little dot on the upper left corner of the thumbnail, as if targeting the location.  But these SODs have no dot on the corner, which could suggest SS doesn't know the actual location of the buyer. 

Still crossing all my fingers and toes that these are legit.

Someone posted a thread on the SS forum, saying that someone posted a thread on this forum.

Will be interesting to see what the response is there...

The other thing I'm wondering is if there was a "clog" in the system that didn't flow these through to be reported as they happened, and we're seeing a big dump of them right now in our reports.

But I have had several SODs earlier in the week, so that theory might not hold water.

Could it be there's a single buyer out there buying tons of our images as SODs today?  Or did some kid swipe his parent's credit card and we're going to see these downloads erased when Daddy gets home and calls to demand a refund?

If these stay, drinks on me!!!

Anyone else seeing these?

Haven't been posting much lately.  (Once in a while I come in and look around, but the site seems to be 90% Symbiostock these days and I won't pay much attention to that until it starts paying off for people.)

But I have to chime in with my take on Stockfresh.

I see it as the most promising of the up-and-coming sites.

I get at least one payout every month... as of today, I've earned about $60 this month there.

Peter is a good guy, who ran an excellent site before that we all loved, and I believe he can grow Stockfresh into being another real player.

It boils down to this... if you sell well at the big sites, you WILL make money at Stockfresh.  If you can't sell on the other sites, don't complain about Stockfresh... you have bigger problems to worry about.

No DT sales showing up for me yet today.  Anyone else seeing sales today?  Just a reporting lag?

Very odd, since I averaged $10-$15 dollars most days during the holiday break, and now on Jan 2, when many people are returning to work, everything comes to a halt at DT (most other sites are getting back to normal today.)

its not online, the first one is deleted so I guess all other

incredible how can pro guys do this stuff...

http://en.fotolia.com/id/47873194

http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photography-two-loaves-fresh-bread-image27924997

Is anyone turning him in to the various agencies?

Wow, look at his stuff on Fotolia.  It's all based on 3-credit pricing.  He must sell a LOT there as well.

If he wasn't such a thief, I would actually feel sorry for this guy.  He seems to have good skills, and he clearly makes a lot of money in microstock, and if justice is served, his whole world is about to come crashing down. 

I wonder if he supports a family from this income.  He's about to lose it all.  Very sad.  I'm very curious to see how this plays out.

Looking back at past years of data, it does appear that the Thursday before Christmas week is the day the slide starts.

For some reason for me today, though, sales are chugging along like normal.

I would suspect things to really pick up again the week of Jan 7.

(As for Stockfresh... I'm at 78 downloads so far this month, my BME there.  As for Cutcaster... I uploaded a few things as  a test a few years ago, but never really took them seriously.  In my mind, Stockfresh is a real up and comer, and you can ignore them at your peril.)

Weird thing just happened.

My 7-day ranking has been getting worse this past week, taking a big hit every day, while my all-time number has remained exactly the same.

But get this... today my all-time ranking went UP one.  How is that even possible?