Quote from: sigalavaca on October 20, 2015, 20:35

the reviewer refused half of the files claiming that the image subject is too specific/niche oriented and that was not generic enough. The day after all I sold 5 timorese pictures. Don't really get the logic.

are those 5 sales justifying your and your reviewers effort financially?

How can you possibly answer that until the images have been on sale for a lot longer?

O dear - I know people don't like the similars policy but I've always found DT to be one of the fairer reviewers - lets hope its just a blip.

Maybe cos its the biggest market in the world?

I think there are a very small number of wedding photographers who can make $$$$$ I think it has more to do with marketing and interpersonal skills than anything else - which rules me out

the problem with microstock is that high-cost-productions and highly creative unique work shouldn't be there. People should think twice what to upload there and what not that would be enough.

Is the correct answer ;-)

All uploaded OK this morning 

I can't help thinking that at one time Yuri could of opened a site for everyone and it would probably be bigger than SS and istcok by now.  It would of been a huge gamble but I think it would of worked.  Maybe that's one reason why he isn't popular here?  There was something he could of done to help most of us and I don't blame him for going exclusive but can't help but think we could all be much better off if he had taken full advantage when he was at his peak of popularity with contributors and buyers.

Going exclusive wiped out that popularity with a lot of non-exclusives who see Getty/istock as a greedy site that has to keep its investors happy at their expense.

Think he's probably too much of a control freak took the much riskier step of employing people giving more control. What makes the Business model great for SS is that the suppliers bear nearly all the risk.

I can understand not wanting to waste time uploading to low selling agencies but can't see where the hassle is in keeping your port active. Maybe I'm an optimist but I always think maybe one of those low selling sites will start to do well for me - in one case (which shall remain nameless it has  ). My top 5 account for 76% of income  the next 10 which I upload to when I get round to it about 23.5% and the remaining 5 which are inactive the remainder.

IMO "out of focus" is the SS's way of saying: "We don't think your image
will be commercially successful - a statement Deposit Photo uses and I
highly respect. They don't think it'll be commercially successful? Fine. I
can live with that....but to throw in some erroneous statement like: Your image
is out of focus - or your image is poorly composed is totally disrespectful to
professional photographers around the world.

My two cents.

Totally agree

I stopped uploading to them-- images waiting for review too long.  Tired of having to email them every time to actually get them reviewed.

In the long run it does no harm to have them sitting there a while......I do currently have quite a few sitting in the queue. I've never bothered to mail them.

Doubt it - unless your port is huge and outstanding  I don't think buyers are interested in you - only images

But the net area of the pools is far more than the total area of the guns - absurd arguement