Ok went to the site with my experience in the eyeglass field +20 years last 10 as a optical lab manager. Great prices on the frames considering that most of what I saw would cost about $ 2.00. Lenses they are as cheap as $ 1.25 wholesale for single vision lenses when you buy about 100 pairs per month [my orders are usally about 500 pairs every two weeks] I can imagen they probably pay about .50 cents per pair. So at $8.00 for single vision they are still making a small amount but like microstock is the quantity that counts. My only problem is the seg height of the bifocals and the multifocals [progressives] there is where you will find some problems. Let me explain for those that have not yet gone into the realm of having too short of reach to see near.
They will take the vertical measuremt of the frame and follow a general guide of
going about 4 mm of the center to place the bifocal and about 2 mm for the progressive lens. This means that if your nose is a bit wide the general guide will give you the add power to close to your distance vision causing problems. And this will be worse in the progressive which needs to be measured by someone looking at you with the frames placed on your face to get the exact point of reference to be able to place the distance portion on center of your pupil not where it might fall when your glasses come in from the lab. Just a warning the single vision seems fine but be careful on the other lenses.
Man that was too much especially since I'm on vacation 

My numbers on alamy:
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1 sale for $ 299.00 1 month ago
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I believe if I would have work harder on my submissions by now I would have had more sales. But I concentrated on the easy micro sales.

sounds good

 It seems to me that we as contributors believe that everytime a new site opens there are thousands of new designers/buyers also created to go along with the new site. Buyers that have never seen or bought the images that we have already on other sites. But that would be almost impossible wouldn't you think? After two years selling in the top 6 sites and adding a small amount of images a month what designer has not seen my work?
It would be wise I guess to stop chasing this new site that promises the world to us and just concentrate on the ones that have consistently produced the sales.
Also if there is a limited amount of buyers why would they jump ship to a new site if they are getting there needs met on the older sites?
There is a thing called loyalty, and if it isn't broken why fix it.
I manage an Optical Lab and every month I get calls from new vendors trying to get the foot in the door. I always answer the same thing to them: If you are doing a good job would you want met to stop buying from you just because someone comes along dropping the price by a dollar or two?

I think of Pseudonyms like my own galleries or Albums.

I have a number of Pseudonyms this helps me manage and group images in the same categories, and I can see what Image types are popular and getting views, so if your name was "John Smith"  you can create Pseudonyms like "John Smith - Formula 1", "John Smith - Toddlers", "John Smith - Lifestyle", "John Smith - Adventure" etc:, this can also help buyers looking for similars.

David

David I tried doing what you suggest but now I only see one pseudo on the measures page. How do you switch from one to another to see the stastics of each pseudo.

For those who have never had a DL or sale on MP....my heart goes out to you.
However don't despair, there is a solution!
do you even know how to check or how you are even notified id you get a download?

Here's the answer
http://microstockpix.com/supplies/page12/page12.html

Cranky MIZ
The voice of reason

 

I joined in June 06 4.0 is my required size also.

yep looks like hebrew and there is some images of a parade in jerusalem http://ma-soreq.org.il/jerusalem/html/gallery.htm

Even if allowed it would seem to be more of a waste of time to keep something like that going. I mean most buyers seem to work using keywords for what they are looking for. Why would they want to spend time looking through individual portofolios that might have a thousand images on it? Lightboxes and galleries seems more reasonable.

La pregunta deberia cambiarse un poco. Se puede vivir de esto donde tu vives ahora? Por ejemplo si estoy en un lugar donde el alquiler es decir 400 dolares por mes y no tengo carro, no estoy casado, no tengo tarjetas de credito, estoy listo a comer los mas basico y no pienso en mi futuro financiero es posible que muchos puedan vivir de esto. Pero enpezamos a cambiar ciertas cosas como vivir en un lugar donde ni con 400 dolares tienes mas que un closet con un bano entonces por seguro no se puede vivir esperando ganar 20 dolares al dia en ventas. Obviamente hay muchos que ganan buen dinero en esto pero creo que muchos de nosotros [probablemente la mayoria] entramos en  esto con los ojos un poco cerrados pensando que por solo poner todo lo que teniamos en nuestra computadora nos convertiriamos en unos tremendos millonarios . Pero mientras mas pasa el tiempo nos estamos dando cuenta que se toma una tremenda cantidad de trabajo y tiempo para poder sacarle a esto dinero para poner en nuestros bolsillos. Lo ironico del todo es que yo me meto horas en este proceso, y lo que gano yo en mi trabajo "normal" en 15 minutos a veces me tomo una semana para poder ganar en las fotos despues de haberle metido horas para llegar a tener las imagenes necesarias para llegar a esa cantidad. Pueda que sea la calidad y cantidad de mis fotos, pero la verdad es que el tiempo no me alcanza para hacer mas. Por eso para yo poder vivir de esto tendria que haber un tremendo cambio en algo. Quizas Alamy sea la respuesta, no se.
Bueno hasta i con esta pregunta.
Jorge

Hola a todos desde Miami Esta muy bueno esto ahora.

I found one of my been used by a magazine which has an article on Chiapas Mexico. My is the image of the old mayan woman. Made my day to see this.
http://www.txspecialmagazine.com/

He has some of Yuri's stuff also!!http://www.photoarte.co.uk/eapgallery.php?page=05
What a bottom feeder this guy is. Hang Him High I say.