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Old 11-20-2007, 11:45 PM
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Default First Sales at ImageVortex

I started uploading to ImageVortex a few months ago just to see what happened after reading about some folks starting to see sales. My acceptance rate has been about 50% or so, and I only have 38 photos available for sale. Not great, but I knew going into it that they are extremely tough on acceptances.

I discovered today that I've had two sales since October 29 earning commissions of $21 and $10.50 (all of my photos are priced at $30 for a large, $22.50 medium, $15 small). Their commission is 70% and payouts can be requested at $100.

So maybe there is hope for ImageVortex after all! :-)
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Old 11-21-2007, 12:19 AM
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Wow, so there's hope! Anyone else have any success? Those are some nice numbers, for just a few photo sales Do I smell another featurepics, possible? Slow, yet steady sales with 70% commissions?...
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Old 11-21-2007, 07:10 AM
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I stopped sending images to IVortex several months ago, just when I reached the paypal minimum payout of 50$ as it's not worth it IMO. FP and LO are next on my list even though I'm getting few sales there once in a while. Regards from Macedonia, Ljupco
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Old 11-21-2007, 09:36 AM
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Wow karimala 50% acceptance rate there is not bad at all! :-D They reject pretty much everything for me. They usually pick out one or two images in a batch of 30 and I am always amazed that they seem to pick one pictures tthat is rejected elsewhere
I had one sale 6 months ago, nothing since.
Will probably reach a payout in 2017
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Old 11-21-2007, 02:41 PM
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I'm up to about $44.00 on crestock, which is crazy. Now that there is a $50 payout minimum, that means hell isn't going to freeze over before I get my first payout. Then I will need to add a few more "dud" sites to my list, since Crestock will no longer be one of them. hah!
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Old 11-21-2007, 05:07 PM
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It's funny how some of the sites we complained about two years ago are now starting to get off the ground.
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Not too happy with this site so far. They have rejected all but like three of 150 all because "This image is not what we are looking for." Starting to sound a lot like Stockexpert, only worse.
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Old 02-08-2008, 11:16 PM
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I have a friend that just uploaded about 250 images to stockxpert, and they approved every one. All photoshop conceptual artwork - I guess they really like that stuff!
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I have a friend that just uploaded about 250 images to stockxpert, and they approved every one. All photoshop conceptual artwork - I guess they really like that stuff!
Can I have the same reviewer as s/he, pretty please? SY *Still not accepted at SXP!*
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Old 02-09-2008, 12:01 AM
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I have a friend that just uploaded about 250 images to stockxpert, and they approved every one. All photoshop conceptual artwork - I guess they really like that stuff!
Dang, can you post a link to his/hers portfolio so I can get an idea of what SX is looking for?

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Can I have the same reviewer as s/he, pretty please? SY *Still not accepted at SXP!*
Dont worry about it SY, It took me like four tries to get accepted at SX and they reject about everything I can throw at them now that I am accepted.
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