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andresr

« Reply #25 on: September 01, 2010, 18:38 »

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I think this is great

Good way to maximize sales from all the photos in your portfolio.


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elvinstar

« Reply #26 on: September 01, 2010, 23:14 »

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As far as FT selling things for the most possible, tell that to the tiered vector system that halved a lot of vector prices for contributors. But nobody cared about that because "it didn't affect them".

While I agree that Fotolia (and everyone else!) makes mistakes, I'm fairly certain that none of the sites would ever do anything on purpose that they thought would hurt sales overall. Sometimes, stupid ideas look good on paper, I guess.


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RacePhoto

« Reply #27 on: September 02, 2010, 01:33 »

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Quote from: cthoman on August 31, 2010, 09:03

Sigh...Again, Fotolia? Angry

Not me. Account closed and I don't exist on their system anymore. It was fun taking the ride, but I finally took the Exit.


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Jonathan Ross

« Reply #28 on: September 02, 2010, 01:55 »

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Hi All,

Time to do a bit of spring cleaning. I think many of the Micro sites should follow suit. It is a slow search with millions of images for our buyers to dig through. Maybe this will give some room for quality to continue to grow and bring higher prices for us all. I am all for it.

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Jonathan


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fotografer

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« Reply #29 on: September 02, 2010, 02:32 »

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Quote from: lisafx on August 31, 2010, 12:05

To be honest, I don't really have a problem with this. I have been emerald for a couple of years and I wondered if having all my images set to a base of $2 might be losing me some sales in this economic climate.

Reducing the price of my non-performers to a base of $1 may give them a chance to be more competitive and ultimately bring in more sales volume. At least I hope so.

Also, the fact that images which sell 5 times at base price are boosted back up to the higher price does give the images a chance to earn more again.

Since lowering the price will cost Fotolia more than it does me, I assume they will be watching how this affects sales and will change the policy if they notice themselves losing revenue.

I'm emerald and that's my take on it as well.
I don't think that Fotolia are going to do anything that will stop them making money. I think the people that should be concerned are the ones that it doesn't seem to effect as the buyers may now buy images from emerald and exclusives that were previously too highly priced for them instead of images from lower level non exclusives.


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bravajulia

« Reply #30 on: September 03, 2010, 01:18 »

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Today I have a mail sent by fotolia, 130 of my files was unsold for 24 months, and they suggest to give them for free, locking for five years in they partner sites. In that batch of photos there are many that sell well in other agency, and one was sell yesterday for 360$ in alamy as RF. I agree with a survey warning that images very low seller need some work in keywords, category, etc. But I can't imagine how giving it for free will improve my sales.


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« Reply #31 on: September 03, 2010, 20:38 »

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Quote from: bravajulia on September 03, 2010, 01:18

Never, ever give 'em free. Remove them. The original agreement was for all images offered in the free section to be offered for a period of 18 months.
That period was extended by FT to 5 years without consultation and without notice. It's corporate kleptocracy at the expense of the little guy. It's unlikely to boost your sales of other images either as free buyers only want stuff for free and your images probably end up in some archive in Timbuktu offered for sale, for money by some scammer.

Your work is good and is worth paying for.


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