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Shutterstock.com / Re: SS now at 60 million images!
« on: August 21, 2015, 07:06 »
Yes spam is great nowadays, just compare the quality between "New" vs "Popular".

New search is a disaster, you can go through pages and pages with the same (poor) content.

Therefore our new images have very limited exposure.

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Adobe Stock / Re: DollarPhotoClub - Closed to new members
« on: August 14, 2015, 13:01 »
Fantastic news.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Here we go: 500px eroding prices
« on: August 14, 2015, 10:34 »
Too bad they will be lowering prices... not sure I want to get into this.

If they lower to $ 20 = 14 for the contributor. If sales are rare, may not be worth my time unfortunately.

I guess I'll give it a try with a few hundred images.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Here we go: 500px eroding prices
« on: August 14, 2015, 07:33 »
I wonder how are the sales on 500px Prime. Just signed up but upload seems very time consuming.
I'm afraid of the likes and all the sharing without watermark.

Is anybody making any sales with 300 images for example?
They also sell lower resolution $ 50 for web use, do people actually buy these?
It's better than most EL in the micro world.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shares Plummet
« on: August 13, 2015, 07:42 »
All the mainstream media hates Trump so bad, he must be doing something right.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shares Plummet
« on: August 09, 2015, 00:42 »
Hilarious how they downgrade SSTK only after the shares fall 30%. These analysts know nothing.

In my country there are often companies with P/E below 7, sometimes even 3.
When buying a P/E 20+ you're solely relying on the greater fool theory.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shares Plummet
« on: August 06, 2015, 16:51 »
Ouch.  Good thing I only put a couple hundred in there.  Time to buy more?

You gotta be kidding me. P/E is still sky high and the stock market bubble is about to burst.

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: more detailed keywords? worth it ?
« on: August 06, 2015, 16:28 »
I don't have the time and patience to keyword for IS.
When they scrap this whole idea I may start uploading again.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: are we entering dead season?
« on: August 06, 2015, 12:32 »
SSTK was totally overvalued, but SS the company is doing just fine.

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Dreamstime.com / Re: Do you believe that DT is dying?
« on: August 06, 2015, 04:12 »
I stopped uploading long ago. A good day in SS earns me more than DT in a year.

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SS search is way better but in FT you can zoom in, which I think it's a very important feature.

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Newbie Discussion / Re: to late for start at microstocking?
« on: August 03, 2015, 03:29 »

What is decent money? $50/mo? $200/mo? $500/mo? $1000/mo? The last one is a huge challenge for anyone, but $500/mo is very attainable with the right portfolio.

Which is exactly why so many people have said if your expectations are to pay for your gear and have some pocket money, it's not too late, but if you want to quit your day job and support yourself, then yes, it is too late.

Depends on where you live. With U$ 1000/month I can travel endlessly in the countries I like the most.
If you live in US/Northern Europe/Australia/Japan micro is a complete waste of time now.

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We need another thread on SS rejections?

I agree. and........."THEY DONT CARE!!!!!!!!!!!! All they know and all that matters to them is 400,000 new ones are  accepted weekly or whatever.

And 300,000 of those are ugly illustrations that look all the same.

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Off Topic / Re: GO Greece!
« on: July 10, 2015, 08:19 »
Must watch, 4 minute speech by Nigel Farage:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-09/nigel-farage-destroys-eu-group-think-just-4-minutesthere-new-berlin-wall-and-its-cal


... great speech... but - even more fascinating is Tsiprases   expression - without emotion - charming man of steel...


Tsipras caved in. He doesn't have what it takes, therefore his expression.

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Off Topic / Re: GO Greece!
« on: July 10, 2015, 02:09 »
Must watch, 4 minute speech by Nigel Farage:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-09/nigel-farage-destroys-eu-group-think-just-4-minutesthere-new-berlin-wall-and-its-cal

He wants to split up Europe but wanted to keep Scotland in the UK.  Never quite understood how he can argue for one union so passionately while doing all he can to break up another one.  I also don't like how he tolerated so many racists in his party and didn't keep his promise to quit the leadership if he wasn't elected as an MP.  He is just like most politicians, a huge ego and no principles.


Racist because people don't want to end up in 3rd world muslim guettos? Come back in 15 years and tell me how european multicultural wonderland worked out for you. Even Merkel admitted it was a huge failure. UK, France, Belgium, Sweden, Germany are already culturally and socially broken and it's only going to get worse. Sorry, but I don't buy this anti-white propaganda. All right wing parties are gaining ground because they are the only ones that listen to the people.

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Off Topic / Re: GO Greece!
« on: July 08, 2015, 11:20 »
The debt is unpayable. 275 billion for a country of 11 million people. That's 25k per person, including babies and retirees. Greece needs to default and start printing drachmas, something that should've been done 5 years ago. Today is Greece, tomorrow could/will be Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, France.

The ECB is printing 1 trillion euros exclusively to the banks anyway, and nobody cares. Why the people should pay the price for idiotic deals between corrupt governments and sick eurocrats?

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Off Topic / Re: GO Greece!
« on: July 08, 2015, 10:45 »
At least Tsipras stood up to the banksters. Better than any Merkel, Hollande, Renzi and other useless idiots we currently have in the government. But yes he has no clue whatsoever, for starters he's a communist. When the "far right" aka common sense parties start taking seats in Europe, then we'll see some real progress.

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Off Topic / Re: GO Greece!
« on: July 08, 2015, 07:43 »
Lets not forget, all countries using the Euro agreed to the terms to join. No one was forced into joining. Its still a democracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendums_related_to_the_European_Union#Euro

Actually no, we were all forced into this bad joke called the euro. Countries like Latvia and Lithuania joined as recently as 2014/2015 despite mass opposition from the people. Only Sweden and Denmark ever had a referendum on the issue, and the euro was rejected by both countries.

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Off Topic / Re: GO Greece!
« on: July 05, 2015, 14:39 »
Now EUSSR will punish Greece and make an example for Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ireland.

Congratulations to the greeks who gave the middle finger to the troika.

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Off Topic / Re: GO Greece!
« on: July 04, 2015, 11:46 »
Poroshenko himself admitted that overthrow of Yanukovych was a coup. Besides, it wasn't Putin who took all the gold from the ukrainian central bank. George Soros paid a visit to Ukraine and now the nobel peace prize winner Obama is crazy to start (another) full scale war. Ukraine today is ruled by foreigners. NATO/EU are our true enemies here, by the time most people realize it will be too late.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-22/ukraine%E2%80%99s-president-poroshenko-admits-overthrow-yanukovych-was-coup

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Off Topic / Re: GO Greece!
« on: July 04, 2015, 05:16 »
Someone is watching too much CNN.

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Now it's a bit too late to implement it, but from the beginning search results should have considered number of sales according to number of files for each portfolio. Very big ports with few sales would be thrown back at the search. That would hurt spammers and overall we would have much less ugly similars, and more exposure for new images.

I would say 90% of new images in my "niche" are pure spam.
That's why we are seeing millions of new files per month.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: June Earnings Thread
« on: July 02, 2015, 01:55 »
FT was strong, SS many sales but few $$.

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