I think he was a troll too but having looked at Demotix in the past with a view of uploading to them i did go and have a look at what was being said on their own forums by their contributors. They look to have shut the forums down so perhaps all the bad contributor input was having an effect,glad i did not upload any work to them as they seemed to pay peanuts and treat contributors very badly.

Just saw on the forum that someone got paid a nickel ($0.05) for a sale. Think i will stick with uploading elsewhere.

Thanks Ed, great information. I have seen a few forum posts elsewhere talking about Demotix and it gets mixed reviews with lots of complaints about low fees etc but that could just be from people who don't fully understand how the news market works in regards to payments etc. There were a few photographers in my city who were selling through Demotix but i did get mixed reviews from them when i talked to them,one was selling through some sort of Demotix subscription deal but he was not allowed to say anything about it and the other left after a year so anything he said may have been slightly clouded by his negative experience. Will have to sign up and see if i can find out some more info from their forums.