Sounds like a place to sign up then especially if they are not sooo fussy.

I had a big scan-fest of lots of 6 x 4 photos from trips around the USA, I corrected them for noise etc but have got most of them refused by agencies for being soft or having dof issues with the exception of 123rf who took them all.

So it wold be nice to have them somewhere else after all that hassle.

Are we allowed to post referals?

If so can someone post one for feature pics if they have a system and I can send them some Scotland photos.

Also referrals for Scanstockphoto, Gimmestock would be welcome.

Thanks

Steve

Firstly do they have a queue?

On the 13-03 I uploaded 53 photos
On the 14-03 I uploaded 66 photos
On the 15-03 I uploaded 55 photos
On the 16-03 I uploaded 25 photos
On the 17-03 I uploaded 12 photos

None were reviewed until the 17 of March and they reviewed the whole and only rejected 2 bringing my grand total of rejections to 11.

Does anyone else get very few rejections from them?
My acceptance rating is 97% this can't be right my next highest is Big Stock with 78% with others in the 60-70% range. I won't mention ISP and Fotolia they are a bit low.

OK so stockphotomedia accepted 59/59 but they are desperate for photos

But they get their in the end.

Due to their strange system of having only 20 images in the pending queue I made quite a line of images about 200 but after another 20 were reviewed I could finish off all the other files.

After waiting a week progress is being made and there are more acceptances than rejections so it was worth the wait.

I was pleasantly surprised to get a five sales over a 4 day period with just 30 photos of course no sales before or since then but hopefully with a bigger portfolio.

Any comments on their review times or sales?
 

Well in the last few moments of British Summer Time 0.40 BST 26-03-06

Lets make it a three horse race

ISP 698,077 with 26,419 waiting
SS 653,025 with ?? waiting
F   486,637 with 11,468 waiting

So 45,000 between the first two. I seem to remember Fotolia broke the 400,000 mark at the beginning of the month (They had 100,000 in November) though their 20c bounty for photos has been revoked so I guess their growth will slow down a bit now.

Hi,

First time on this site saw a link in 123rf.

Glad to see people moaning about Fotolia. I managed to upload 200 photo to them during Feb so got my bounty but I get the feeling most of their members are photographers who tried to do the same thing.

Sales are slow though i did earn 11c from my 4 photos in the free section. I never use their ftp option as there is always complaints about it in their forum. though i kept on getting error messages in French this evening trying to upload a few photos but i got there in the end.

I always laugh when they have their "scheduled maintenance" in the afternoon, I don't think so your hardware has crashed. Well hopefully when their image base has caught up with SS and ISP so will their sales though supposedly you can cash out before $100 but they charge you a $1.

I have pretty much submitted all my useable photos to about half a dozen agencies so in the meantime whilst I am waiting for it to stop raining so I take some more does anyone had any sales from

gimmestock
scanstockphotos
stockXpert
featurepics

I have heard of the first two someone was complaining they had no sales in 5 months. If anyone has any referal links for those four they can e-mail me so at least someone makes a few $$.

I have written a short guide from my experiences with Stock agencies so far which can be found at

www.fintastique.com/guide.com

Not too much info on SS as they flunked me for 10 sample photos and despite having portfolios with ISP,DT,CanStockPhoto,123 + Fotolio they still think i need to wait the full three months.

Sorry I should have made about three different posts with that lot.

Steve