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Title: So...when was your last day without a single sale?
Post by: BigBubba on April 03, 2015, 03:16
4 months ago for me.


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Post by: Gino on April 03, 2015, 03:37
August 11 - 2012.
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Post by: Semmick Photo on April 03, 2015, 04:05
2012-12-28
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Post by: Stockmaan on April 03, 2015, 04:17
Here too! *, as contributor I hate Holidays time!  :D
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Post by: BaldricksTrousers on April 03, 2015, 04:23
Some time in 2005, probably in the second half of the year.
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Post by: Noedelhap on April 03, 2015, 04:32
January 24, 2015.
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Post by: Mellimage on April 03, 2015, 05:43
March 21st, 2015 :-\
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Post by: JPSDK on April 03, 2015, 06:08
many years ago, I cannot remember when.
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Post by: Photobomb on April 03, 2015, 06:29
1-1-07
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Post by: dpimborough on April 03, 2015, 07:48
2015-02-14  >:( After an excellent run of almost a year without a zero sales day  :'(
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Post by: pixsol on April 03, 2015, 07:50
March 8th, 2015  ;D
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Post by: Stock Wife on April 03, 2015, 08:03
Last Saturday (3-28-15)
 :'(
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Post by: fotografer on April 03, 2015, 09:22
I don't remember ever having a zero day there.
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Post by: 60D on April 03, 2015, 09:38
It was Sep 14, 2013.
I had 869 files in my port by that time. I started contributing to SS in Sep 2012.
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Post by: Dumc on April 03, 2015, 10:16
0 sales yesterday, 0 sales today. And I only need 2,3$ for the next earning level. D-amn.

Anyway, when I reach new level, do I have to wait for the beginning of the month (like Bigstock) for changes to take place, or do I get higher earnings immediately.
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Post by: sgoodwin4813 on April 03, 2015, 10:32
It's immediate as far as I can remember
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Post by: Mrblues101 on April 03, 2015, 10:44
2015-3-28... strangely no sale... anyway I do not worry because it is statistically possible (to have a day without sales); I worry more about weekly and monthly earn
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Post by: 60D on April 03, 2015, 10:46
0 sales yesterday, 0 sales today. And I only need 2,3$ for the next earning level. D-amn.

Anyway, when I reach new level, do I have to wait for the beginning of the month (like Bigstock) for changes to take place, or do I get higher earnings immediately.

From the next day, as I remember...
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Post by: dbvirago on April 03, 2015, 15:02
9/15/2012

Longest streak without one was all of 2007, 08, and 09. Hopefully I break that streak this year
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Post by: Rinderart on April 03, 2015, 15:18
As I recall....Never since July 2005.
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Post by: disorderly on April 03, 2015, 16:41
April 10, 2011.  A long, long time ago in microstock terms.
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Post by: No Free Lunch on April 03, 2015, 21:53
600 BC... 8)


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Post by: nicku on April 04, 2015, 02:22
I joined SS in 01.11.2011, from then on I haven't have a day witout sales on SS  8) , but i cane close several times ( 1 download)
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Post by: Semmick Photo on April 04, 2015, 07:22
At this rate it might be today  :o
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Post by: Semmick Photo on April 04, 2015, 08:12
Aaaaah 1 sub, so maybe next time
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Post by: Shelma1 on April 04, 2015, 10:08
My last zero day sale there was about a week after I joined in August 2011. But today *feels* like a zero sale day. So far it's worse than Christmas day. Yesterday was pretty bad at SS too, though surprisingly normal at DT and iS.
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Post by: H2O on April 04, 2015, 11:27
Never
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Post by: No Free Lunch on April 04, 2015, 12:18
At this rate it might be today  :o

a good sense humor is a must in this business  ;D


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Post by: 60D on August 09, 2015, 01:01
It was Sep 14, 2013.
I had 869 files in my port by that time. I started contributing to SS in Sep 2012.

Finally got a zero-download-day in Shutterstock on Aug 8, 2015. Not very surprised though. Sales are anyway dropping these days.
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Post by: Sebastian Radu on August 09, 2015, 01:50
Yesterday I had zero sales  >:(
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Post by: southpict on August 09, 2015, 02:11
The question  for me is  : when will be the next day with at least one sale...
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Post by: Dodie on August 09, 2015, 03:54
In July I had a 0 day each week, usually Saturday. This month the last 0 day was on the first day of the month, also a Saturday but I have many 1 sub days which is almost the same.
Sales this month on SS (for me) are equal to 123, BS, DT but only the half of FT earnings. Sad!
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Post by: Luka on August 09, 2015, 09:01
I upload on shutterstock, is, bigstock and not to often on dreamstime. I don't have the same number of images on every agency, because in time i loose my interest in uploading if I am not satisfied with earnings. Actually, to be honest, I am not happy with any agency. On Shutterstock I have around 300 vectors and I have a lot of days with 0 sales. I don't know if this is normal for such amount of vectors or should I think to find another niche...but I am not happy. :( It is so unusual to speak about business when you sell your work on 25 cents.  :-[
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Post by: FlowerPower on August 10, 2015, 08:17
Sunday
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Post by: Dog-maDe-sign on August 10, 2015, 09:01
NEVER HAPPENED  :)
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Post by: Sebastian Radu on August 10, 2015, 09:03
NEVER HAPPENED  :)

Congratulation !!!! I think you have a very big and nice port  :)
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Post by: emjaysmith on August 10, 2015, 14:32
Hardly ever had zero days until the last 18 months or so. Now I am getting at least one almost every month and the latest was yesterday, Sunday.
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Post by: sgoodwin4813 on August 10, 2015, 16:18
Me, too - almost never until February of this year and now one or two every month.  Of course that is about when I stopped bothering to upload so that might have had something to do with it.
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Post by: PixelBytes on August 10, 2015, 22:41
NEVER HAPPENED  :)

Me either.  But I thought I'd never have a zero day on IS, and they are happening a couple Saturdays a month now with over 5k pics.
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Post by: Dog-maDe-sign on August 11, 2015, 11:57
NEVER HAPPENED  :)

Congratulation !!!! I think you have a very big and nice port  :)


thank you, but i have only 360 files right now, almost all Vectors
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Post by: Dog-maDe-sign on August 11, 2015, 12:04
NEVER HAPPENED  :)

Me either.  But I thought I'd never have a zero day on IS, and they are happening a couple Saturdays a month now with over 5k pics.


On IS usually I have some zero days per month (2-6) but I have only 217 files there right now
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Post by: etudiante_rapide on August 11, 2015, 15:26
0 days don't bother me. what i bother is why for many months the large single sales between 30$ and 120$ suddenly disappear. sure the single sales still here but they are not 30$ to 120 $.
as another person here on leaf site said, it's ok for 0 days as long as the bottom line still get big enough at the end of the month payout.

but for many months now, the payout is bad compared to the many past years. and i can see on the right i am not the only one . 86% is bad for ss. time to tell the shareholders to stop fking around with ss.
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Post by: southpict on August 11, 2015, 16:27
0 days don't bother me. what i bother is why for many months the large single sales between 30$ and 120$ suddenly disappear. sure the single sales still here but they are not 30$ to 120 $.
as another person here on leaf site said, it's ok for 0 days as long as the bottom line still get big enough at the end of the month payout.

but for many months now, the payout is bad compared to the many past years. and i can see on the right i am not the only one . 86% is bad for ss. time to tell the shareholders to stop fking around with ss.

I wonder if contributors at 0.25$ get more sales than those at 0.33, 0.36 or 0.38.
May be the shareholders have changed the search engine to optimize their gains...
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Post by: marthamarks on August 11, 2015, 16:46
time to tell the shareholders to stop fking around with ss.

Here's an article published in the New York Times 3 days ago that suggests a reason to hope, at least here in the US.

Written by a well-known businessman, it's entitled "Capitalists, Arise: We Need to Deal With Income Inequality"

http://nyti.ms/1h0XFC7 (http://nyti.ms/1h0XFC7)