For those of you waiting weeks for a reviewer, I suspect you did not load your images correctly.

Assuming you used FTP to upload your images, there is one more step you must complete.
the images below will be of some help.


Click My Images on the front page.


Click the tab that says "StockXpert Briefcase"


Finaly transfer any images in the list to "Transfer to Gallery" Button.

Your images are NOW loaded correctly and will now be reviewed.

I hope this helps. Of and one more thought. I have currentl uploaded 281 images in total.
NOT ONE WAS REJECTED for any reason, 100% acceptance.

Best to you all,
The MIZ

MIZ,

Were your ears burning? I was just watching your tutorial with the farmhouse that was overshadowed !?

Anyway ... I'll give what you say a shot as I was beginning to wonder  ... I didn't think anything of it since I had seen many cases in the forums of long wait times at StockXpert.

Thanks !

Mark

I had big hopes for StockXpert: it was #3 throughout 2007 and even take the #1 place in november!! Alas, it then dropped and is now on par with DRM and FOT for me. I also get a big drop in earnings for IS and SS since november however, but it was a stellar month for me and I guess it is normal to go back to earth

I've opted out from subscription at StockXpert this month as I saw subscription sales going from less than 8% of my sales before december to more than 20% in january. It also seems to me that I've now a lot more S/M and less L/XL than previously.

I'm afraid I put too much hopes in StockXpert... let's see what will happen now.

But I have no problem with reviewing time or acceptance ratio.

Thanks for answering, Steve.

I've opted out from subscription, but I cannot tell whether or not subscription sales do cannibalize credit sales. I guess you have more information on this point and you probably know whether subscription give you more customers or do they shift from credit purchase to subscription? But I guess you will not share this information here 

My main reason for this decision is to see photo sold for $0.30 commission which I found more and more difficult to accept as credit commission do increase on most sites.

At StockXpert you have quite high commission from the beginning, but now with the recent increases at IS, DT (new level definition) and  FT (new XS size which increase the commission for bigger sizes), I become accustomed to $2+ commission per download.

And it is thus more and more difficult to accept subscription model for me, whether it is as SS, StockXpert or DT or other smaller sites.

When reading forums like this one, it is clear that "serious" photographers do not like subscription model most of the time. There are now some (hopefully) interesting new opportunities with midstock (Featurepics) and macrostock sites (Alamy) or even print & goodies sites (Zazzle) and I guess many are investigating new opportunities. Another option being the IS exclusivity.

It is why I think that subscription model has no future from a contributor point of view. But of course there is also the buyer point of view and you have to take them both into account 

But my feeling is that within a few years, the best contributors (the one who bring you 80% of your earnings I guess) may give up with subscription sites. 

Just my 2 cents.

I don't think the top contributors are going to give up on subscription as long as we can show subscription is an additional source of income, rather than cutting into credit sales.

True, but is is very difficult do show it. There are so many factors to take into account that it is almost impossible to clearly know whether subscription is an additional source of income or not.

However, as soon as I'm convinced you are true, I may reconsider my decision

An image is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it.

You are talking from a business point of view here which is normal as you are here to do business. And you are right... from a business point of view.

But you are wrong from a contributor point of view. As a photographer, I define my own "price" for my images and I consider that some of them are worth more than $0.30 or even $10 or $100 or whatever. Of course, I do not expect that buyers will agree with my price, but I have the option not to put those images on sale or only on macrostock sites.

Microstock is indeed a quite special business as many contributors are not professionals. Microstock is not ONLY about business and you are in the difficult situation to satisfy both the buyer and the photographer because your business depends on both. Not an easy task for sure 

I love StockXpert - so glad I joined a while back.  It's been a heavy hitter.   The only problem I personally have is getting images approved

I tried a few vectors and got them rejected for not being eps 8.0 (they were saved as illustrator 8.0 eps, so I don't get it)

I don't think the top contributors are going to give up on subscription as long as we can show subscription is an additional source of income, rather than cutting into credit sales. We've said all along that subscription is to target a different set of buyers.

If subscription sales are not cutting into credit sales, what are they cutting into?

What is this "different set of buyers" you are talking about?

I joined StockXpert 3 weeks ago. 7 sales with 377 images now online.

now it is 16 sales (non subs, of course) with 430 images. More sales than at BigStock or 123rf.