this happens all the time everywhere....in my opinion it shows only, that microstockagencys make millions but have small teams, otherwise this dramatical variations don't make sense to me.
In some month, belive me, you will post messages about the long time DR needs for reviewing. And some month more you wouldn't notice anymore, because...change happens.

All agencys change permanent, some bought some others, someone lower prices, some other invest in service and the last one in marketing. They all have only one target: to make the most profit out of the pictures we have to offer. They produce nothing, they have no financial risc, they only sell our benefit.

If someone gets 50-80% of the money he earns by my output i would expect it takes minutes to review my pictures. But after 6 years this is still a "new" business where people can behave like idiots and still make millions. This will change, for shure.

The change will happen faster if some of us wouldn't cry out "cheer" if bad service change into lightly better bad service.

bertold

I'm a microstocker by disposition.

how funny...did you have a problem to call my name, you should.
I'm smart. Only a little bit oversized in communication abilities. But in english, you have a good chance to engage me. You will loose, but...it will last longer because im not natural speaker in english.

And the problem is, you're not interested in image business, you're only interested in profiling yourself at microstockgroup. You can't win because....i would sell images more than you, a lot more, even if you offend me in a hunderet of years. And i would sell more then you, for shure.

Whats you answer infant?

Have I said this? Wasn't my attitude. I'm just extremely critical about veer.

What i tried to say and whish to communicate was just, i don't see a different between veer an other established agencies. All the veer-hipe i read here doesn't look like to be fullfilled.

If anyone here whould behave like there's any other agency more, with same marketing, better image and more reputacion but at conditions like the almost existing big six....what means...they start late, they have a problem, they really need support by constributors but the behave like they could start in seconds to the position others take years....thats high risc, and it is not honest. But unhonest and not fair p(l)aying ist also any other agency.

I had them only at FT, and typically on days with high value.
They're less than 1% per month...but depending on my value...it 's at the moment 2 packages of cigarrets, or 1 meal, or 2 beers a month.
I'm angry about this, especcialy because it happens always on my best selling days, when i look every minute at my sales. What - i think - is the opposite of the intent.

But in any way, it's dull, because any agency should handle this problem and factor in this...because, if i gave away my pictures for such a low price....i wouln't  like to see or have to be involved in any kind of business-action like this.

If i'm just constributor, just a slave for value, if any agency earn a lot more than me on every sale...the smallest i had to expect is, they support me, and never ever tell my about risc and problems in accounting a client.

If not, and there's a problem at Ft and SS at the moment, agencies haven't understand why they earn that much. If Agencies have a problem with customers or financiel agnecies- that's their problem. Their job and the reason for their profit....
If they didn't had understood this little...well, far away and good luck.

But FT is fair, they only take backdrops if dailysales are high. Appears to me as a sign of high level kind of thievery.
My respect: they learn. That give me hope that they - one day in future - will treat constributors as they should be handled, like an annoying kind of crap on their sole.
This will help to shrink prices, earn more and reach the top.

regards
Bertold

It will bring a lot more of good constributors...kind of who wouln't moun about 0,23 cent for a picture.

I would install an IQ-test in front of any constributors upload.
Most of constributors never ever read and understand what they agree to.

Then i would paste and copy some of the threads here and on some other microsites to show the constributors who failed why this was a good idea to protect them from thereselfs.

Afterwards, i would like to give them a little introduction in marketing, advertising, copyrigths and customer sattisfiying...but, thats just for my own fun because nobody would read this anymore after beeing thrown out.

But, it will be 2 month...that's less than DT but more than some other, to be exactly 2 month more.
I'm really really strained on all of this veer hipe. Looks like they extending any terms of the competitors near to the max, but second behind the worst case.
If they sell like hell, or second i start uploading.

how bad.

@ pixelbytes

you try to tell a joke, aren't you? Any agency is full of pictures that are copied of the copie of someones copy of a picture what sells. Anyone who is interested and have a little experience in what the prices of any agency are can do a roundabout calculation  what each picture have earned...but here, at this community, between people who share more or less the same profession its better to gave no one facts?  This remember me at my times as startupconsultant, a lot of rookies whos biggest fear is that someone could understand what their idea was....if an idea is that easy to copy and no profession, no talent und no knowhow is necessary to copy it...its a worthless idea. When somebody reaches with a picture more than 100 sales, 400-1000 people had a look on it, leastwise 20% of them are no customers but competitors who decide if they can do it at the same level or better. But "here" is the best place to hide information...well, kindergarten.

If puravida is a guy i would guess he's gay. But i had no information about this...maybe it is hidden because someone could copy it.

@ melastmohican

I had a look at you portfolios. I'm no expert in travel and editorialstock but i know people who earn a lot with pictures like yours. The quality is good (not best) but you're completly wrong at microstock agencies in my opinion.
Try alamy and try macroagencies for travel and editorial. You will earn a lot more, no, you will earn what your pictures are worth of. There will be no compare to that what you get at microstock, because it's just the wrong marketplace for your pictures. You don't have a quality problem, you are just at the wrong place. Didn't anyone told you this before?
You can/should also send a selection of your pictures to different hotelcompanys PR-adresses. They are allways interested in travelling photographers to invite them if new hotels at interesting locations will be openend. Don't forget to send a selection of pictures at traveling magazines.

@ click
if pigs dig and rage in my garden i can close the patiodoor or i chase them out. I'm a newbie here but it's the only place i know to communicate about this business. I came in nobody sayed hello, but somebody pissed on my leg. Okay, i'm long enough in communication business to handle this, if not i'm not worth my daily rate.
...and i take it personal because thats the fun at this game :-)

If somebody can have a look at your pictures and the more information he can get the more he can learn. Any creative business is complex, but creative people also have to be and have to think in a complex way to be successfull. If not its just like playing lottery. Only the lucky one will earn but nothing else than luck decides on success.
I don't think so.
What you say is: there is no way and no need for any information. So what is this community for? Crying and moarning?
There's no jackpot for some lucky few, nowhere. It's hard work, like anywhere else. But it is the work we like to do, more or less. It's better than washing cars.

...and what do you call success? (that bad fact question). I do microstock between freelance jobs. Any sale ad on my normal profit. I'm happy with this and i don't spend 18 hours on it. If it would throw out 30.000$ a month, maybe i would for some years. How's your output for 18 hours a day in the month?

You're in communication business and you tell me facts are not necessary? How funny is this? Okay, you want to hear the following: you are a brave good fotographer, you do everything right, you work hard, you do a lot of clicks every day. Its a bad bad world and you haven't deserved to work that hard. Customers should have more mercy with the hard work you have done...

I agree with: FT accept nearly all what is called vector, but sales are bad. Also agree to your point that this depends on "non-zoom-function". Fotolia management never understand what a vectorimage is. They tried to improve vectorsales but it seems like nobody told them what a vector really is. Same problem as most photographers have.
But if you don't understood your product you can't sell it....salesman-wisdom first lesson.

Istock also accept all my vectors but ...still leveled at AI 8.0 i prefer most to pimp them up and sell them as pixel-images at FT.