Author Topic: Naturallifestock (Read 4309 times)

brm1949 · « **on:** February 21, 2008, 07:40 »

Anyone getting any sales from them. Been with them since day one and have sold nothing. Doesn't seem to be very popular.

GeoPappas · « **Reply #1 on:** February 21, 2008, 08:02 »

Interestingly enough, I just tried logging in this morning (before this post) and found that my login didn't work (but my images are still there).

Anyone else having this issue?

northflyboy · « **Reply #2 on:** February 21, 2008, 09:22 »

I was with them since day one also, many of my pictures in the most popular and no sales either. I deleted my portfolio (about 160 files) there about a month ago. I have a lot of nature pictures that I thought would do well there. Too bad, seemed like a good idea in the beginning.
As a side note, my login still works, just tried it.

Pierre

a.k.a.-tom · « **Reply #3 on:** February 22, 2008, 00:32 »

I too was one of the first on... I liked the concept, still do. However, if Darrell reads this, I think he drifted away from that concept. Which was, or I thought it was, to have a site that dealt strictly with Nature & Life... I have to say I am a little disappointed to see that the site really, isn't any different that any other in that you can get a picture of just about anything there now. And I will admit that I am guilty of it too. In the beginning, I would only upload my nature, landscape shots. But soon, everything was showing up...... so, I started uploading whatever.
I too have quite a few pix in the most popular, however, I don't put a lot of stock in that. I think it is simply because I was one of the first and that was all there was to look at... LOL .. I am not impressed by my pix being there.... at all. It means nothing.
The most popular area is not realistic on NLS anyway. Anyone can go on and click on their picture all night long moving it up the ranks. There is a humorous 'race' going on there now between the first two pix. The numbers change daily as does the position of the two back and forth while the rest of the 4 pages doesn't change that much at all. These two pix are about 700 views ahead of #3. I suppose we are to accept that those 2 pix get that many views daily while the rest get relatively none...

LOL LOL One is truly a 'nature' shot... the other, fireworks.... I find it hard to believe that buyers surf a site promoting nature pictures and then would spend so much time clicking on a fireworks picture... So much that it is the "Most Popular" picture on the entire site........ sorry, I don't think so. Darrell has been able to attract a few 'world class' nature photographers there and they have some fantastic work uploaded.
hey, maybe I'm wrong... if so, I take it all back.

=tom

p.s. I haven't sold anything there yet. However, I am still uploading. Darrell hasn't had this creation going long enough that I'd expect to be making sales. He's going thru the same thing LO is (marketing, promoting, building the site and photo base ) and NLS is about a year behind in the flow of time.. so, I'm not realistically expecting sales for a while yet.
One other point. He's shooting for $6 a pic..... however, in my case, the vast majority of my pix can be picked up on SS or one of 11 others for as little as a quarter... I don't know how that's going to work. Frankly, I hope he can pull it off.
I've been with LO longer than this, and I'm still hanging in there... so, I'm willing to hang with Darrell for some time too.

Okay, now all you folks that like fireworks pictures can rip me up... LOL
.....................don't mean to offend anyone.

Freezingpictures · « **Reply #4 on:** February 22, 2008, 02:18 »

One of the two most popular is mine and BTW I do not click on that image all the night long, I have better things to do. I totally forgot about that site until this thread. I was also one of the first, but uploaded only two images. No sales so far.

Eco · « **Reply #5 on:** February 22, 2008, 07:23 »

About 250 images there and also no sales. I stopped uploading a long time ago.

a.k.a.-tom · « **Reply #6 on:** February 22, 2008, 10:09 »

Quote from: Freezingpictures on February 22, 2008, 02:18

One of the two most popular is mine and BTW I do not click on that image all the night long, I have better things to do. I totally forgot about that site until this thread. I was also one of the first, but uploaded only two images. No sales so far.

Great pic!!!! IT deserves to be the top one.... now that I know it's you. I never looked to see who's it was..... i should have put 2 and 2 together as your penguin pix are the top on every site!
I will confess to you.... I have clicked on your picture several times over the months. I get too passionate about stuff and that was something that ticked me.... As I said above... It IS a picture that is truly in line with the theme of the site. It deserves to be the top pic... I just went to check if you used your freezingpictures tag there and noticed.... since yesterday the fireworks passed you again..

for that matter, maybe there's a bunch of people like me that think fireworks should be first....

at any rate, you should know I have great respect and admiration for your work ( I've said so in the past). and mine was not an outright accusation of you 'clicking all night'. If you took it that way, I apologize here publicly

I would say then that there may be others out there that have done the same or feel the same..... as I do and have been pushing you back in first.

As I said above, if Darrell did away with the category I wouldn't care less and I have 17 pix in the most popular... and I don't click on them all night either.. I believe it is only due to how long they've been around and that for a long time.... they were of the few there...

Peace

PenelopeB · « **Reply #7 on:** February 27, 2008, 12:56 »

I was one of the first also, 87 pics, and stopped uploading a long time ago. No sales either.

Doesn't this seem odd? Has "anyone" had "any" sales?

Is Digital Darrell out there?

Thanks

GeoPappas · « **Reply #8 on:** February 27, 2008, 13:02 »

Quote from: GeoPappas on February 21, 2008, 08:02

Interestingly enough, I just tried logging in this morning (before this post) and found that my login didn't work (but my images are still there).

Anyone else having this issue?

As an update to this issue...

I wrote support about not being able to login and never heard back from them.

Funny thing is that I tried to login yesterday and I got in fine. So it seems that it was fixed, but support never contacted me about the matter.