not sure if anyone noticed a drop or increase in sales from the norm on Shutter today. I checked my best images and they are no longer on the first page or bumped down thus sales down for me.  Hopefully I am the only one down in sales today 

May 1 is a major holiday in most of the world.

Quote from: WarrenPrice on May 01, 2013, 23:20
May 1 is a major holiday in most of the world.

Really?
Not, as far as I can make out, in any of the 'main markets' for stock, other than France and Germany.
(Many countries, like the UK, shift the May Day holiday to the first Monday of May.)
That said, I'm sitting on nada today on iS.

that explains it. Thanks

not a major shuffle but noticeable at least for me.

There must have been a shuffle of sorts, Most of the D/L's I received today were old images rarely sold in the past. It seems that SS has been doing this lately and usually for a day or so before going back to the norm.

Plus with May Day that explains why I am down for a weekday- thank you all...

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Quote from: ShadySue on May 01, 2013, 23:23

Quote from: WarrenPrice on May 01, 2013, 23:20
May 1 is a major holiday in most of the world.

Really?
Not, as far as I can make out, in any of the 'main markets' for stock, other than France and Germany.
(Many countries, like the UK, shift the May Day holiday to the first Monday of May.)
That said, I'm sitting on nada today on iS.

I did wonder about that "most" comment. Although Australia is small fry, we moved our Labor Day holiday to October. We're still working!

Maybe I should have said "much" of the world.
I'm certainly hoping Holiday is the reason that my sales are even worse than weekends.   

All my sales today were new images uploaded last month - but though final sales $ in April were average, they would have been way below average if I deducted ELs from the final figure.  I hope whatever shuffling they've done doesn't mean more months like April to come where a reasonable return isn't possible without ELs - though more ELs are always welcome.

Happy May Day everyone!

Quote from: tab62 on May 01, 2013, 22:41
not sure if anyone noticed a drop or increase in sales from the norm on Shutter today. I checked my best images and they are no longer on the first page or bumped down thus sales down for me.  Hopefully I am the only one down in sales today 

It was HORRIBLE!!  I made $5 today.  I usually make $20-30 a day.

that explains why i had 1/3 less downloads than regular downloads as all my files are new files. 

My sales yesterday on a number of sites were way down - the total sales were just better than a good weekend (half usual income).  I'm chalking it up to be due to a holiday in many countries.

If I ignore EL sales, which I don't get every month, I never seem to get large fluctuations on ss. I notice fluctuations elsewhere just not ss. I didn't see a holiday effect on May 1.

I had a bad day yesterday indeed, but I'm not sure it's related to that holiday. My sales on SS are always like this: brilliant day -> bad day -> brilliant day -> bad day.

And I checked and my best selling pics are still on the front page, thanks god!

I have noticed this shuffle for the first time, very clearly, since about 5 days ago, still going on until today, all my old  useless junks are selling, surprising, but not complaining here.

Quote from: asmai on May 02, 2013, 15:26
I have noticed this shuffle for the first time, very clearly, since about 5 days ago, still going on until today, all my old  useless junks are selling, surprising, but not complaining here.

Have also noticed this. For some reason and for some time now they seem to be against showing new content. Uploading new content?  whats the point.

Quote from: asmai on May 02, 2013, 15:26
I have noticed this shuffle for the first time, very clearly, since about 5 days ago, still going on until today, all my old  useless junks are selling, surprising, but not complaining here.

Clearly not 'useless'; just shows how much the sites can influence what is sold.

I had a bad day yesterday in DLs but an EL made up for it. Today seems to be on track to a good day. My goal at the moment is 11 dollar per day on average to hit BME this month.

I've noticed some ups and down; ebbs and flows; etc; but don't agree on new file sales.  My old vs new ratio is at its highest ever.

had a 50% decrease in number of downloads but had a 18$ sod

Thanks for this thread and info. I had a very bad Monday and wondered what was going on (in the US, May 1 is not a holiday, and "May day!" means "Help!")

Today, Thursday, is also HORRIBLE, like $5 again.  There has to be something else happening. They must have tweaked their best match, but I am on track to make $100 this month when I make 6-8 times that per month.

Quote from: Mantis on May 02, 2013, 18:06
Today, Thursday, is also HORRIBLE, like $5 again.  There has to be something else happening. They must have tweaked their best match, but I am on track to make $100 this month when I make 6-8 times that per month. Granted this is only day 2 of May but it's mid week. I would expect that if mayday was slow due to it being a holiday, we'd see some rebound today, maybe not full throttle but 50-75%??

Quote from: Mantis on May 02, 2013, 18:06
Today, Thursday, is also HORRIBLE, like $5 again.  There has to be something else happening. They must have tweaked their best match, but I am on track to make $100 this month when I make 6-8 times that per month.

Um. I think we need to wait more than 1.5 days out of 31 to decide how much we will make this month!