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Lagereek


« on: December 08, 2011, 17:07 »
Guess what.  I have just had exactly the same file, dld, 9, times in a row, all extra-large size, every time and in a row. Same file!  I mean its great, but 9 times, why? its not even one of my best files either.
What kind of buyer is that?  or could it be a mistake? 8, will probably return in the morning. Cheesy


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7Horses


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« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2011, 17:11 »
Probably this is a software glitch, maybe the buyer was using windows vista  Grin


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Lagereek


« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2011, 17:14 »
Quote from: 7Horses on December 08, 2011, 17:11
Probably this is a software glitch, maybe the buyer was using windows vista  Grin

Yup!  anything is possible in micro.


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Tabimura

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« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2011, 17:16 »
Fotolia? I've had this in the past and nothing was returned.


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Lagereek


« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2011, 17:20 »
Quote from: Tabimura on December 08, 2011, 17:16
Fotolia? I've had this in the past and nothing was returned.

This time it wasnt FT. My hunch is they needed XL images to draw layouts, experimenting or something,  or else its a mistake, glitch, etc.


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Morphart


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« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2011, 16:59 »
I can say that's weird and probably will have refund... Unless he just has money to throw around and was clicking so fast on BUY IMAGE that the payment was processed 9 times (lol).

I had my most ''weird'' buy this month, on an image (if you can call that an image) that I never thought would sell...:
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=83826526

EL sale so he paid 100$ for this (got me 28$). It's alright, I'm happy about it but at that price I would have hired someone to draw it back for me unless he was in a REAL hurry to explain or to use a Parabola illustration.


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ShadySue


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« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2011, 17:23 »
Sounds like a mistake, though 9 sounds excessive. If it was iStock, you'd likely have the refunds by now. Two weeks ago today I had two ELs of the same file (but with a slight difference in price) within about ten minutes and one was refunded within half an hour.
As it was for an 'multiple seats' license, my guess is that two people were looking for a picture/pictures for the same project and they happened to choose the same one, using different credit bundles. The refund was for the slightly cheaper one.
I have a harder time working out a scenario for nine dls, unless a computer glitch.


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traveler1116


« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2011, 00:47 »
Quote from: ShadySue on December 19, 2011, 17:23
Sounds like a mistake, though 9 sounds excessive. If it was iStock, you'd likely have the refunds by now. Two weeks ago today I had two ELs of the same file (but with a slight difference in price) within about ten minutes and one was refunded within half an hour.
As it was for an 'multiple seats' license, my guess is that two people were looking for a picture/pictures for the same project and they happened to choose the same one, using different credit bundles. The refund was for the slightly cheaper one.
I have a harder time working out a scenario for nine dls, unless a computer glitch.
They probably bought the wrong size EL.  The EL total includes a regular DL that just doesn't get recorded as such so a multi seat license would be 125 credits + regular dl credits.


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Lagereek


« Reply #8 on: December 20, 2011, 01:41 »
Quote from: ShadySue on December 19, 2011, 17:23
Sounds like a mistake, though 9 sounds excessive. If it was iStock, you'd likely have the refunds by now. Two weeks ago today I had two ELs of the same file (but with a slight difference in price) within about ten minutes and one was refunded within half an hour.
As it was for an 'multiple seats' license, my guess is that two people were looking for a picture/pictures for the same project and they happened to choose the same one, using different credit bundles. The refund was for the slightly cheaper one.
I have a harder time working out a scenario for nine dls, unless a computer glitch.


Nope.  so far, no refunds!  it was probably genuine then.


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CD123



« Reply #9 on: December 20, 2011, 02:02 »
It might be Christmas presents for 9 clients  Grin


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Microbius

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« Reply #10 on: December 20, 2011, 05:41 »
Quote from: lagereek on December 08, 2011, 17:07
Guess what.  I have just had exactly the same file, dld, 9, times in a row, all extra-large size, every time and in a row. Same file!  I mean its great, but 9 times, why? its not even one of my best files either.
What kind of buyer is that?  or could it be a mistake? 8, will probably return in the morning. Cheesy
Most likely they want a large print run and either don't understand that they need to buy one extended license rather than multiples to get the number up, or they are gaming the system because it works out cheaper this way.


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