Is it only me but it seem like there is higher rejection rate if batch is big. Sometimes I feel that 5 a day is most optimal size.

Neither positive nor negative :-) I would say it's bogus marketing trick.

It looks like PhotoShelter was not the one prophesied to bring balance to the Force :-)

The biggest question here is volume. Is there enough customers for 50 agencies? Anybody coming so late into this game should better have some revolutionary idea otherwise they can only advertise lower prices. Where these new agencies getting customers from? My impression is they try to get them from bigger ones. Is saving 5 cents worth moving?

In some sense IStock is a fiasco for me. I cannot force myself to upload there. Cumbersome workflow, upload limits, long review times. After one year I got 141 files online and 53 sales. I cannot tell if this bothers me more than easy upload and no sales. I kind of feel that I am wasting less time if workflow is easier.

Most of my free time is taken by 11-month old now :-) For a while my travel days are over but I am still hoping to have vacations this year :-) I wonder how can I have baby carrier, tripod and camera on me at the same time :-)

That's what I always thought, Yuri and some other top microstockers are just professional fashion photographers who sell scraps from their other assignments at microstock or at least use equipment from other work to shoot micro. Micro stock is not main source of income for them.

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

I just "reserved" my user name :-)

Another one from CrossFTP:

 CrossFTP Pro 1.53a
 Secure random seed initialized.
[R1] Connect to upload.veer.com
[R1] 220 Veer Marketplace
[R1] AUTH SSL
[R1] 234 AUTH command ok. Expecting TLS Negotiation.
[R1] Negotiating Security Session...
[R1] SSL negotiation successful.
[R1] Encrypting session using cipher TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
[R1] PBSZ 0
[R1] 200 PBSZ command successful.
[R1] USER [email protected]
[R1] 331 Password required for [email protected].
[R1] PASS (hidden)
[R1] 230-Directory has 1,073,737,728 bytes of disk space available.
[R1] 230 User logged in.
[R1] TYPE I
[R1] 200 Type set to I.
[R1] FEAT
[R1] 211-Extended features supported:
[R1]  LANG EN*
[R1]  UTF8
[R1]  AUTH TLS;TLS-C;SSL;TLS-P;
[R1]  PBSZ
[R1]  PROT C;P;
[R1]  CCC
[R1]  HOST
[R1]  SIZE
[R1]  MDTM
[R1]  REST STREAM
[R1] 211 END
[R1] PWD
[R1] 257 "/" is current directory.
[R1] SYST
[R1] 215 Windows_NT
[R1] PROT P
[R1] 200 PROT command successful.
[R1] PASV
[R1] 227 Entering Passive Mode (65,110,167,232,239,126).
[R1] Opening data connection IP: 65.110.167.232 PORT: 61310
[R1] Connection refused
[R1] Connection refused
[R1] Connection lost.

Is this just me? I start seeing pattern. I got spike at the beginning of the month, then it slowly dies out and spike again at the end. Is this buyer behavior caused by subscriptions?

I have no idea where my friends bought their grill :-) What brand are you talking about?