Originally Posted by sharpshot

I haven't listened because I disagree. If 25,000 of us left, so would most of the buyers. They have some loyalty, don't you think they looked for your portfolio on other sites when you left Lucky Oliver? I don't think there are more than 5,000 top class photographers in the world. That is probably an overestimation. Would people wade through these new 25,000 contributors when most of the good ones have gone to sites that treat them decently?

There is still a big traditional market that I feel the microstock sites will continue eroding. We should see more buyers as the economic down turn bites and they are forced to move to the lower priced sites.