I think the best search criteria of all is one that does not give preferences to any particular group  because of their status within an organization such as being exclusive or because of their canister level. This has totally and absolutly nothing to do with what the buyer wants. I think the search parameters should be at its simplest form such as the one at Shutterstock. Search by newest, oldest,  random or most popular. Most popular is simply ranked by Number of Downloads divided by Number of days online,  regardless of who you are.  Why should it be more complicated then that? Denis

For me, last week SS, Fotolia, SX and DT burried IS in revenue. Amazingly last week I did not need IS to make it my best week ever. How will IS wil ever get any more exclusives? Denis

At the risk of sounding like a fool to everybody, I realize now that I may have overreacted regarding the above mention rejections. I did look at the photos on the technical side of it and I did find technical flaws to many of them. Many of the isolation problems could not be easily seen unless  applying contrast at 100%. Thereafter, once you know the problematic area, the problem seems to be more visible.  As well,  when you look at 100% some photos have some visible edited area.   I think that although Crestock does not pay well for now that I did learn a hell of a lot today. The reason why I was shocked, is because in the last few months I have been getting 100% acceptance rate in all other sites except  IS at 85%. To me getting almost 0% from a site that hardly pay was a big slap in the face. BUT I think I was getting a little lazy with the good acceptance rate from the other sites.  I think Crestock serve as a site to push you to be better and is worth to be part of. I thank you Josh for your email as this was a learning experience.  I am sending an email for my account to be re-activated, if it cannot be done, well...I  understand. My apologies to Josh and Crestock. Denis

I just looked at your portfolio on istock and it seems that the isolated over white photos sell very well.  I find it hard to believe they wouldn't be in demand with crestock.

I am not a big fan of natural light. I guess one more reason for me to say bye to Crestock. Denis

I did request to get my portfolio deleted ASAP and respectfully wish them the best in the future and thank them for their business in the past.

I did get a last peek at the rejected page. Unbeleivable, there were still adding reasons for rejections, such as "out of focus", "image contain a border" ect... WHY??? Are they mad at me for some reason??? There are no such things???

Mind you I did see one photo which at 100% you could easily see a small piece of hair out of place due to photoshop editing. Denis

I don't mind that crestock rejects more images than some sites but I can't justify my time when they pay $0.25 for subs downloads.  Most of the other sites have raised their commissions this year and crestock is now too far behind.  Raise the commission over $0.30 and I will start uploading again.

I am starting to wonder as well about not spending any more time with them. However, while I am still with them, I do mind about unjustified rejections. Especially when they simply  unjustifiably "blanket" reject almost everything. Then it amount to a alot of wasted time!!!!  The outcome of Josh effort will be the deciding factor for me to stay or pull out. I am not about to change my way of doing things for $20.00 a month when I get $1500.00 a month from other combined sites. Denis

I've had images pending since late August!   

Same for me. They were pending for two months and all of a sudden 32 rejected out of 34. I don't produce in volume as I take pride,  time and a lot of effort in every single photo. It does pay as I average 1.50 - 2.00 per photo per month while averaging all sites. I guess Crestock is just not part of that average for me. Especially when they missed out on those photos. I am certainly not gonna change my way of doing things if this has worked well for me so far. Crestock act like if they were on top of the tree, but they really are at the bottom of it.  Denis

Those images are fantastic. Crazy rejections. I wonder what's up with Crestock? Irrational rejections, very long review times (some of my images pending review for 2 weeks now), reports of delayed payments, forum still not functional (according to the notice it should have been up by August). All bad signs. 

Thank you for your positive comment. Wow, your wildlife photos are totally awesome!!! Denis

I just checked my paypal account....I did get my payment too 

Definitely 64 bit here they come!!! 

Thank you guys for your responses, I could not have asked any better!!!  Denis

However, if you buy a new pc, make sure it has drivers for Vista 64 and you'll be more than happy. Yea and get as much RAM as you can.

Thanks

My revenue is about $1.60 per image per month. I started this 3 years ago. My last 300 images are making around $3.00 per image per month while my first 450 are much lower then that.   I have one image that has made over $1100.00 in micro in a year and keep on going, the next highest couple ones have made over $400.00 each and keep on going. Denis

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Should I be jumping around screaming whoo-hoo, I qualify for 30 cent downloads only!!! or am I missing something?

It seems that any size would qualify for the EL as the following is mention:

Extended License - $100 - Includes the highest resolution PPD JPG image available

It looks good but I still have to think about this. Denis

Oops... I could be wrong on the above mention as the EL would have to be qualified as  PPD first which dictate the size super or ultra?  Denis