I just canceled my account on Monday at CSP after reaching only my second payout in two years (with 1500 images online). Featurepics was the first to go, Albumo and Crestock will be the next.
Priorities really shift when you start doing this for a living, and non-earning sites become fat that needs to be trimmed. Before I left Featurepics, I calculated exactly how much time I had spent processing 1000 photos after they were uploaded (not including the time spent post-processing or uploading), multiplied it by my bare minimum wage, and discovered that it would take me five more years at the current sales rate just to break even (on top of the two I had already spent). There are much better sources of revenue and ways I can be spending my time than supporting companies that aren't paying a return on the investment I've made in them.
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