@ markrhiggins

You typed all that, and you still didn't tell me how I should construct a price slider for "product" available at multiple prices.  I never said anything about "better".  The buyers asked how to exclude certain collections.  The existing slider is the answer.

And don't start that "evangelist" crap.  Anyone here knows I call it like it see it.

The search textfield on the first page should only include basic price. You should normally have to check IN Vetta not to check OUT it.
I think is pretty easy to implemement it like that.

I've been a business person all my life (I am 40+).  And this is the only business where I've seen people helping their potential competitors getting on board.   Honestly, I'll never understand it!

This is not the only business where people help eachother .
A lot of people help eachothers all over the places. You can take almost any place (industry jobs, office jobs and so on).  It is a matter of what person you are.
Even if you take a normal case a people help another to get employed on his work later if the economics go bad maybe the first one will get fired and the later one will still be employed. Such is life.

Personally I've helped several people to get on board on iStock, but some of them didn't managed to have many images/videos on the site. Simply because is a lot of work to do all the time and they didn't have the time or the right personality for it.

I see it as several others has named in the forum. The economy crisis and the fact that there are more and more people who submits (even some few images will be there in the best match fighting with all others) will make it harder to have it sustainable.