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Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on April 04, 2017, 01:52The system is so advantageous to the stock sites that they really don't need to take the risk of messing it up to try to squeeze more cash out of it. The belief in someone doing us down because our wonderful files don't sell as fast as we think they should really strikes me as coming out of the same place as the old complaint that "my image was perfect the reviewers rejected it because they are stupid" - which almost invariably turned out to be wrong.In order for your theory to work, these guys must get at least SOME sales. If they don't get any sales, the system is not advantageous at all. If they are really so bad, they might use some help in the search results. You contradict yourself, to some extent.
The system is so advantageous to the stock sites that they really don't need to take the risk of messing it up to try to squeeze more cash out of it. The belief in someone doing us down because our wonderful files don't sell as fast as we think they should really strikes me as coming out of the same place as the old complaint that "my image was perfect the reviewers rejected it because they are stupid" - which almost invariably turned out to be wrong.
Quote from: LDV81 on April 04, 2017, 02:04Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on April 04, 2017, 01:52The system is so advantageous to the stock sites that they really don't need to take the risk of messing it up to try to squeeze more cash out of it. The belief in someone doing us down because our wonderful files don't sell as fast as we think they should really strikes me as coming out of the same place as the old complaint that "my image was perfect the reviewers rejected it because they are stupid" - which almost invariably turned out to be wrong.In order for your theory to work, these guys must get at least SOME sales. If they don't get any sales, the system is not advantageous at all. If they are really so bad, they might use some help in the search results. You contradict yourself, to some extent.Well, we all know that some odd stuff sells, and so does some stuff that's not very good. I've got examples of my own of both, but if someone wants something and that is all that a search produces then they will probably take it anyway. The sites demand quality that is stellar, a web-site buyer doesn't need something that will look flawless covering the side of the Burj al Khalifa in Dubai. So it's possible to make sales with dodgy stuff but it's hard to make enough to get to a payout in a reasonable time - and if it takes 1,000 people 10 years to get to a $50 payout, then the site is on average sitting on $250,000 of their cash (if my arithmetic is right).
I doubt if there's any legal requirement for companies to keep in cash all the money needed to make future payments to contributors, just as you don't have to keep in hand all the money needed to pay suppliers of other goods - you just need to come up with it when the bill falls due.
Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on April 04, 2017, 06:10I doubt if there's any legal requirement for companies to keep in cash all the money needed to make future payments to contributors, just as you don't have to keep in hand all the money needed to pay suppliers of other goods - you just need to come up with it when the bill falls due.Sorry but the money has to be kept and not used or invested and it's a liability. I'm pretty sure you and the rest here who think it's advantage are wrong. That's why many sites have lowered the payout to get the money owed off the books. Ask an accountant about owed commissions or escrow funds. SS or IS or anybody does not profit from what they hold, and they can't count it as an asset or invest that money.