Quote from: jcpjr on August 15, 2013, 17:41
Had a huge day Tuesday. Yesterday had 4. Today one so far. Really bad. Had better sales over the past weekend then I did the past two days. Too much search tweaking in my opinion.

I'm seeing the same inconsistency.  Makes me wonder if the "real time" update is working.  I noticed last night that sales (on the world map) are popping up in bunches.  Then long periods with nothing?

Just a thought.

Quote from: sharpshot on August 15, 2013, 17:23
I don't think its ever worth worrying about sales in August...

If I based my involvement in this business on August, I wouldn't be in this business. Not that I wouldn't make it financially, just that the inconsistency would drive me insane. One day I'm feeling great about earnings, the next I'm ready to quit.

Although I am having more good than bad days this week, but still, it's not at all normal. Today is way down.

Quote from: WarrenPrice on August 15, 2013, 18:22

Quote from: jcpjr on August 15, 2013, 17:41
Had a huge day Tuesday. Yesterday had 4. Today one so far. Really bad. Had better sales over the past weekend then I did the past two days. Too much search tweaking in my opinion.

I'm seeing the same inconsistency.  Makes me wonder if the "real time" update is working.  I noticed last night that sales (on the world map) are popping up in bunches.  Then long periods with nothing?

Just a thought.

I never thought of this but it could be the reason for the rollercoaster effect.

^^^ more and more convincing.  It's after 3 pm here and all my reported sales are in Europe and Asia.  Nothing yet in this side of the Atlantic.

Wow, the first week was disappointing, but this week is rocking. I am actually back on track for a normal month.

Quote from: WarrenPrice on August 15, 2013, 18:22

Quote from: jcpjr on August 15, 2013, 17:41
Had a huge day Tuesday. Yesterday had 4. Today one so far. Really bad. Had better sales over the past weekend then I did the past two days. Too much search tweaking in my opinion.

I'm seeing the same inconsistency.  Makes me wonder if the "real time" update is working.  I noticed last night that sales (on the world map) are popping up in bunches.  Then long periods with nothing?

Just a thought.

Same problem here, I did great over the weekend, but today is terrible.

Quote from: Allsa on August 16, 2013, 01:37

Quote from: WarrenPrice on August 15, 2013, 18:22

Quote from: jcpjr on August 15, 2013, 17:41
Had a huge day Tuesday. Yesterday had 4. Today one so far. Really bad. Had better sales over the past weekend then I did the past two days. Too much search tweaking in my opinion.

I'm seeing the same inconsistency.  Makes me wonder if the "real time" update is working.  I noticed last night that sales (on the world map) are popping up in bunches.  Then long periods with nothing?

Just a thought.

Same problem here, I did great over the weekend, but today is terrible.

Hmmm __ things were normal for me 3 hours ago and now sales have slowed. SS must have done a massive change to the sort order in the meantime. Not.

slow month but not a disaster. looks on track to be average. I've hardly uploaded much to SS this month either, not sure if that is a factor.

Slow beginning for August, but on the 15th I am over the half of my July total (full month), and July has been my best month this year.
Probably it is because I have begun only few months ago on SS and my portfolio is growing every month with a  direct effect on the sales.

Quote from: Batman on August 14, 2013, 00:59

Quote from: cgartist on August 05, 2013, 15:14
Was wondering how are your sales going.
For me down and weekends very bad. How are you ppl doing??

So far this month is the worst in a year.

Something is up for sure....for me anyway.  Low sales, new uploads, over 2700 images and I am seeing declines.  Could very well be a normal seasonal slow down.  I think in the US school is starting up as we speak, but isn't there a six week vacation window in Europe in August? That could be a factor as well.

Some change with a change order must have occured yesterday. First three days of the week were OK, but from yesterday it is much worse. Hope everything will be back on track from Monday

My sales plunged the day after the "maintenance" at SS in mid July, and have yet to recover. I'm really hoping September brings a big upswing. Did they make a concerted effort to push buyers towards subscriptions? Because non-sub sales have suffered tremendously.

Quote from: Mantis on August 16, 2013, 14:42
, but isn't there a six week vacation window in Europe in August? That could be a factor as well.

Depends where you are. Our schools went back this week, English not until the beginning of September, haven't a clue about other countries.

It feels like I haven't had an EL since the Victorian era - but a sprinkling of SODs and several ODDs has put a spring in my step of late.

VERY erratic for me. One good or good-ish day - then one or two terrible ones...... A few hours of reasonable activity - then several hours of no downloads at all.......
Also downloads arriving at odd times  - as if people in the USA, for example, are buying in the middle of their night....
All very odd......

This month in the USA is a crap shoot at best case- many folks working on alternative schedules do to their kids being home most of day- after labor weekend (first one in September) things will get back to normal...

Slow month at SS so far. They currently are running in 5th place. It will be surprising if DT actually beats them this month.

Our kids go back to school this Monday.  I don't know what an OD and SOD are anymore (I don't include ELs since those are rare for my port).

Managed to have a good day for a Friday and hard to stay optimistic that things will turn around after vacations and all kids are back in school.

We'll see what happens through mid September.

Yesterday typical - a reasonable number of downloads early in the morning - but NOTHING after that. Nothing yet this morning either. Weird, even for a weekend when things usually trundle along, albeit slowly.

Quote from: PZF on August 18, 2013, 07:43
Yesterday typical - a reasonable number of downloads early in the morning - but NOTHING after that. Nothing yet this morning either. Weird, even for a weekend when things usually trundle along, albeit slowly.

I saw the same thing, saturday morning I had more Dls then I would expect, and then for 24 hours nothing.

Quote from: Ron on August 18, 2013, 09:07

Quote from: PZF on August 18, 2013, 07:43
Yesterday typical - a reasonable number of downloads early in the morning - but NOTHING after that. Nothing yet this morning either. Weird, even for a weekend when things usually trundle along, albeit slowly.

I saw the same thing, saturday morning I had more Dls then I would expect, and then for 24 hours nothing.

+3 Nothing yesterday, last night or this morning.

With essentially no communication from SS (nothing new), we are left to guess why we are experiencing these strange sales patterns.

1. They are making more changes to the site and they do not respect contributors enough to let us know our images have been left out of the sales loop.
2. There is something seriously wrong with the site  and they do not respect contributors enough to let us know our images have been left out of the sales loop.
3. There is something seriously wrong, they have no problem with contributors losing money on their hard work and investments and they never plan on addressing these issues.
4. They have made all of these changes on purpose and there are no bugs therefore some contributors can expect regular periods of time where they can expect to receive no sales. Some contributors report daily poor sales during US business hours.

These bugs happen far too often at SS.  I used to respect them as a company, but this has been going on for far too long with no resolution.

5. Sales vary get used to it

oh god... 
This is the worst Sunday going for me right now... 

What is happening to the worlds biggest microstock agency...

I guessing (hoping) with so many reporting 0 sales since last night that images are selling but there is currently a glitch in their system of reporting the sales. Hopefully we'll all of a sudden get a bunch of sales listed at once. (fingers crossed)

Quote from: DonLand on August 18, 2013, 16:59
I guessing (hoping) with so many reporting 0 sales since last night that images are selling but there is currently a glitch in their system of reporting the sales. Hopefully we'll all of a sudden get a bunch of sales listed at once. (fingers crossed)

never seen that at SS, have you?