sounds like a good thing.

Sounds like a different thing. If it makes us more money, it's good - if not, it's bad.

I believe it's a good thing as well. We all may benefit from it as SS may attract new buyers.

I don't know if it will benefit contributors unless they introduce new customers to microstock.  They may just steal customers from other agencies that most of us are at anyway.  I purchase infrequently, and I am the type of customer that would be all over that plan.  I think they would in fact lose money from an infrequent customer like me who would ordinarily buy a minimum required credits which would only be a 2 or 3 full sized photos.  But, it's an incredibly clever strategy.  Hopefully they are not stealing customers from DT where commissions are getting better and better.

Edit.  This doesn't make entire sense, because I was thinking of StockXpert when I wrote it.    And, from my point of view - as a customer, they have such a good database, I think that once my credits run out elsewhere, I'll definitely be shopping at SS.

Jon (Oringer) said on SS forums that this is not an option for new buyers, just people who registered as a buyer but never actually bought a subscription plan.