There is also jupiterimages not sure how heavy they are (they owe 49% of StockXpert)

OK as I am usually moaning I thought i would share some good news.

After spending most of the last week preparing 479 images for Alamy and just keywording 97 images that were just accepted there.

I checked my balance and I had actually sold a photo last week (I have had just over 400 photos) though my cut was only $46 as its only an 1/8 of a page with a run of less than 10,000 copies (more than I have made at CanStockPhoto since March) hopefully the first of many sales as hopefully after this DVD I will have nearly one thousand images there.

Actually a miracle they found it as it was a photo with screwed up keywords (no spaces just commas) it had been online since the 22nd of June.

Ullapool and Loch Broom

  Not my best photo.

Now I am paranoid of not getting any extended license sales asthats where the big bucks lay, I was almost suspicious about sales slow down as I approach a payout limit.

I have enough agencies to deal with so unless one of the macro agencies start up a micro agency I won't bother with any more - to lessen the risk of getting stung.

Anybody removed their images from Gimmestock? 

As any new agency needs cash pumping into marketting, maybe that explains the crappy percentage at iStock they actually spent money on marketing.

Even some of the legitimate companys have annoying business practices.

Though 123 beat iStock to reach the $100 mark, istock paid up after 24 hours and 123 make you make wait a month before paying you, whats the interest rate in the USA?

The customers pay up front (with subscriptions and bulk credit purchases) but the suppliers are paid in arrears standard business practice but in NOT microstock. SS pay you once a month BUT at the beginning.

nruboc,

On a brighter note

I remember reading elsewhere about someone who had their own site and used to FTP to their site and had some code to FTP to automatically to the micro sites -are you that person?
Any way of finding out that code. Not so much interested in setting up my own site just speeding up the upload process (after completing a 72 hour upload marathon 1.8meg/min, 108meg/hour sounds good until you have half a gig to upload to multiple sites).

My e-mail address is on this site

I had 9.40 euros at SPM way short of 60 euros and I requested a payment as you can do so every 3 months and they sent me 10 euros. I wish more low earning sites would allow a similar system of 4 payments a year.

Regarding similar images at Dreamstime you can always send them an e-mail and resubmit if you feel strongly.

I don't usually bother it was a vector illustration of the John Hancock tower of Chicago it was accepted and but hasn't sold yet

I think we are all contributing to one of the best forums,

virtually no locked threads

fairly polite banter

no censorship - you can compare sites

kept fairly on topic

I find this forum keeps me busy enough I only only look at others if someone points something worth reading out.

whats the limits on Moneybookers regarding transfers?

As I don't have a landline (internet through cable) so vertification of my Paypal account is rather tricky and i will eventually reach the £1,500 limit.

I think I would be happier being paid by paypal then giving out my bank details to all these different agencies.

Wouldn't there be a problem trying to transfer $100 to an non US$ account?

 

Have LO joined the 21st century yet and opened a Paypal account? A $40 cheque isn't too much use either.

I would say DT, BS, FT for referrals in my own experience of actual money earnt from referrals. SS have good rewards on paper but as yet I have no referred photographers. DT will give you $5 for displaying a site badge.

BS strange rewards of $5 for when the new photographer reaches 75 accepted photos is nice got another $5 today I am keeping my fingers crossed for the other 6 photographers who signed up.

Thanks GWB

Thanks again to Leaf for setting up this site a much faster source of information than asking the sites directly

maybe FT were including their free images even though they are hosted on another site now i believe. Maybe the lack of hits for popular keywords is to a lot of newbie photographers not keywording properly and then not being to do anything about it.

maybe this is why they didn't have a competition for the millionth image -  conspiracy theories

I got another 6c from one of affilates at FT the other day, I hope it was just a bug.

upload's easy as ftp. i do mine from my hosting co.

by Thad

Going slightly off topic does this mean you are FTPing from your computer to your website and then FTPing from your website to the microstock sites? If not does anyone do this or know how hard it is to set up. Obviously upload speeds from PC - Server are very slow but once its on a proper server file transfers would be much faster

I am curious about this for a while as I am currently on "assignment" at the moment hence the lack of posts and I am going to have so many photos to upload upon my return

For any of you guys with a video camera and are thinking of making some footage use a tripod. My first batches were accepted virtually 100% at SS but then the later batches about 95% rejected for shakiness/poor composition.

so 29 accepted

51 rejected