I had Yaymicro remove my images several months ago. All promises and no action. With nearly 2,000 images on the site for about 7 months and zero sales. I gave up and quit.

Too bad it was nicely designed for uploading, in fact the best.

-Larry

I have there 95 illustrations uploaded but not put on review... Same reasons... When I see some sales (not single sale) I will continue to upload... Over 500 vectors on-line there... Not a single sale yet!!!

In the meantime: I signed in with Featurepics and had several hundreds of income !!!!

That will do it...  No reason to gather a mob. Milinz got some vectors on hold

I�m sure they�ll come crawling soon...

Quote from: Milinz on May 23, 2009, 17:55

I have there 95 illustrations uploaded but not put on review... Same reasons... When I see some sales (not single sale) I will continue to upload... Over 500 vectors on-line there... Not a single sale yet!!!

In the meantime: I signed in with Featurepics and had several hundreds of income !!!!

That will do it...  No reason to gather a mob. Milinz got some vectors on hold

I�m sure they�ll come crawling soon...

Wait 10 years and I will have so many vectors that my hold will mean something! ;-)

I am over the payout limit largely thanks to a deal they did with a 3rd party site.  Hopefully they can do a few more like that, if we support them and give them some time.

You were wrong, I have made over $60 so far for about 10 minutes of my time.

At the begining I told you that Yay (and any other new agency) is pure waste of time, but you didnt listen to me. :p "It is so easy to upload, it is so beautifuly designed, bla bla...." who cares about site design if there are no sales! Money is what counts, not aproved images, or easy workflow....

My wife told me 30 years ago that if I didn't slow down I would get a speeding ticket.  I got one yesterday.  She said, "Told you so."   

There is sales, we just get our first payout (over 100 euros) with about +1500 images. We will definetly upload more images there on the future.

Off topic: what a wonderful port!

About YAY, they were quite open about what happened. To start, they had a fantastic coder that developed all from scratch, a true genius. Compare to all new (and even older) sites to realize what great job he did.
But he ran off with the code a bit in disarray. That's always the danger when the IT manager/project leader and the coder are the same person. A project like a stock site should be documented and managed tightly, and implemented in such a way that coders can come and go, but the project stays intact.

The new guy had to spend a lot of time dismantling and rebuilding the code, and some mistakes have been made. When he finally was in the position to extend the functionality, he had a car accident that knocked him out for a while. Now he's back on track but he still has to address the heart of any site: the search engine.

Sales are very slowly taking off, true, but there is some improvement over time. In general, me thinks that sites with very easy and fast upload should be given a chance, unless they are complete morons like Albumo or Crestock. It took time to upload, what's the point of deleting a port? In the worst case, there will be no sales and nothing is lost. In the best case, you might reach payout. 60$ = 60$. Port deleted = 0$.

I am over the payout limit largely thanks to a deal they did with a 3rd party site.  Hopefully they can do a few more like that, if we support them and give them some time.

same here.  I just had 100 Euro dumped in my account from the same third party deal.  That is enough to keep me uploading.

same here.  I just had 100 Euro dumped in my account from the same third party deal.

Is that "third party" secret? 

something really strange here. some reporting payout limits, and the rest of us not one single sale. very weird.

If you look on their blog, they are selecting another 20,000 images for their 3rd party site.  That is where most of my earnings came from.  It shows they have been doing something, unlike some of the new sites that don't seem to be doing much to find buyers.  Hopefully they will have success with more buyers.

Sounds great, but I have a problem committing my images to an agency for three years. In the fast changing world of stock photography, this is much to long.

They aren't locked in. You can delete them any time. It's not Pixmac 

I think the reality is they are not pulling their weight. I think the 3rd party deal is recognition they are out of their depth.