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« on: November 30, 2023, 22:39 »
I just discover today that I forgot to update the tax information and I see no paiement in my paypal account for a long time, i guess maybe 3 years.
I just updated the tax information today but in the site I don't know how to consult my total royalties amount not paid and how to know when they will send me all the income !!
Does someone had a similar experience with them ?
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« on: June 17, 2021, 07:03 »
I've sent many times a new W-8BEN form as requested on the website and it has never been reviewed, I've got no email, nothing, usually it takes 2 days for approval.
What happen with this site ? I've 100$ to withdraw and I don't want 30% taxes because of their inaction.
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« on: July 15, 2019, 06:43 »
Im just seeking the sale statistics by month/year in the new Dreamstime interface, someone found it ? is it limited now only on the main page without the possibility to choose the year ?
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« on: October 15, 2017, 15:39 »
From France, actually 10:30 pm, the site is actually totally down, the DNS can't be reached.
Is it the same for you ?
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« on: July 07, 2017, 07:27 »
I used to sell every month on Photodune and last month when I checked the stats i saw 0 sales and almost all my portoflio deleted, noly 5 images are remaining without previous advert, including the good sellers items ! Is it a joke, a hack or are they going totally mad in this website ? I've sent a request and i've got this stupid reply : "I looked into this and it seems like you have not sold any items in June. I'm sorry to hear about the recent drop in your sales. There are always fluctuations, but overall marketplace health is very good. Buyer trends, tastes, and the competition available are all fluid targets, but it's what drives this quick evolving world of digital sales. (If it was easy, everyone would do it, right?) It's hard to really pinpoint what causes downturns. If we knew that, we would definitely share it so you could take advantage of buyer needs. I would focus on continuing to make a name for yourself, supporting buyers, and releasing updates and brand new items. It all helps, even little by little! I hope that helps, please hang in there!" Is it a robot or a human behind these sentences ? How can a professional site can be so inconsistent and outrageous ? Does they contest with Getty to win the price of the best photography crooks of the year ? 
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« on: April 18, 2017, 05:26 »
Good morning
Maybe i missed something about Istockphoto, i've just logged at my account now for checking my low income (i've stopped to uploading there since 4 years) and everything has been deleted : my portfolio, my sales, everything on my profile is blank.
What does it means ?
Here is the sreenshot of the only informations remaining on my account.
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« on: January 10, 2017, 06:17 »
I've requested my earnings to clipdealer since some months, usually they send it in a couple of days but this time they never sent me anything despite i've wrote to them maybe 5 ou 6 times, no answer, no sign of life, anyone in the same situation ?
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« on: February 06, 2013, 13:33 »
So, after the "Istock affair", who is just the beginning, here is my personal list and thinking about some "bad" agencies:
-Fotolia: lowered many times commission, change many times the contributor ranking system, and is capable of vicious tricks like simulating a glitch in the file editing section to force the extended license at 10$ and many more to come...of course.
_Dreamstime: no more price difference for subscription download of high level files, disappeared during one night...more to come...
- photodune: very low prices, extended license is a joke, and never make the effort to change the painful upload procedure for model releases, they don't care at all for contributors, only "blablabla" on the forum, just to simulate a concerned attitude, but nothing in action, nothing at all.
Depositphoto: forces very low prices extended licenses if you don't ask for opt out by email, almost only subscription sales at the lowest price in the market. Tendencies to be not clear in the explanations and is capable of vicious tricks like his guru model, Fotolia.
123RF:new commissions cut and more...some of yours know better about it.
So, you think that you want, but we must warn every contributors about these sleazy acts.
Beside these agencies, others never stop to purpose new licenses and new products for both the customer and the contributor, some with 50% commission.
Like in the biological life, there's always symbiosis associations and always pests. If we want a nice future for stock photography, we must work in a symbiotic way and find solutions to stop feeding the pests.
Sorry for my low English level.
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« on: February 01, 2013, 19:00 »
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« on: January 15, 2013, 11:37 »
A designer asked me to apply some modifications on one of my files for using it in a template. I have to re-upload it as an update, so I attached the new file, clicked on the submit button and after a minute i have a blank page with the message: "405 Not Allowed", my file is a 12mb one. I've tried 10 times with model release and without and nothing change.
One more time Photodune upload doesn't works, waste of time in a feudal age.
Thank you Photodune.
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« on: October 09, 2012, 04:09 »
I just start to upload on Graphic Leftovers, I have 80 files limit/day.
If I send all my photo in one batch, are they kept on the ftp or not?
I would like to send everything on the ftp then import 80 files/day directly form the site, is it possible?
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« on: November 09, 2009, 05:30 »
Someone just sent on french photographer forum "Photim" an announce about a new microstock site called "Efotto" with logos, pictures and fonts. I've just checked and immediately saw the images was stolen from famous microstockers. Check it, please: http://www.efotto.com/category/6374.htmlexemple: http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-385937/stock-photo-little-girl-blows-on-a-seedy-pod-plant-as-seeds-drift-off.html http://www.efotto.com/catalog/blow.htmlHere is the original site presentation in French, the guy include his name and email address!  Bonjour, Vous tes photographe et nous aprcions beaucoup votre travail que nous avons dcouvert. La socit Broardell.com est en train de prparer un site d'achat de photographie en ligne, http://efotto.com , a destination des agences de publicit, imprimeurs, graphistes et webmaster du monde entier. Vous travaillez dj sans doute avec des entreprises telles que Getty images, Fololia ou sxc.hu, et en connaissez sans doute le principe gnral; Vous placez vos photos en ligne et percevez 50% des gains des ventes de vos photos. Notre site fonctionne de la mme manire; Pour chaque fichier vendu, et sans tenir compte du pays o la vente a lieu, le contributeur est rmunr en crdits du montant dfini dans les conditions tarifaires relatives au type de contenu vendu (voir ci-dessous). La rmunration est automatiquement verse en crdit sur le compte efotto du contributeur. Il peut alors utiliser ces crdits pour l'achat de photos ou bien les convertir en argent n'importe quel moment, sur simple demande dans l'interface d'administration) La conversion des crdits en argent s'effectue conformment au taux de change du crdit de la zone du contributeur lors de l'opration. Celle-ci peut se faire via un compte gratuit Paypal, Moneybookers ou par virement bancaire, selon votre choix. Notre site http://efotto.com, une fois lanc, devrait gnrer un nombre important de visite, car: - il inclus une grosse partie 100% gratuite en cours de ralisation, proposant plus de 8500 fonts gratuites, plus de 25000 logo de marques dposes en format vectoriel, gratuitement, et plus de 1500 templates wel professionnels totalement gratuites - le site efotto.com benficiera d'une trs importante campagne de liens sponsoris sur google dans prs de 100 pays (plus de 800.000 USD investis) - les prix de vente des photos est trs rduit; 2 USD; 1 pour vous, et 1 pour nous; c'est le prix maximal acceptable par plus de 95% des acheteurs de photos. Nous serions trs honor que vous acceptiez de collaborer avec nous, et de proposez vos oeuvres sur notre site. Deux solutions: - Soit vous crez un compte et tlchargez vous mme vos photos, directement cette adresse: http://efotto.com/members/signup.php - Soit nous nous chargeons nous mme de l'intgration de vos photos; sur simple demande par email [email protected] ; nous mettons votre disposition un accs FTP priv; vous y dposez vos oeuvres et nous nous occupons de tout. Bien sur vous allez disposer dans les 2 cas d'un accs priv notre site, qui vous permettra de controller en temps rel vos ventes et vos gains. Spcificits techniques: Pour mettre vos photos et illustrations en vente sur efotto, vos fichiers doivent imprativement respecter les critres suivants : - Les images doivent tre au format JPEG - La rsolution des images ne doit pas tre infrieure 2400 x 1600 pixels (soit 4 Millions de pixels) - Les images doivent tre proportionnes et de bonne rsolution - Les fichiers doivent tre infrieurs 30 Mo - Les images ne doivent pas avoir subi de redimensionnement - Vous devez tre l'auteur de tous les fichiers que vous envoyez sur http://efotto.com - Vous devez une autorisation de droit l'image pour chacune des personnes reprsentes sur vos photos - Vous ne devez pas mettre en vente des photos ou illustrations reprsentant des logos ou marques protges - Vous ne devez pas mettre en vente des photos ou illustrations reprsentant des constructions, des biens ou des emplacements protgs par un droit de proprit intellectuelle Nous acceptions toutes les photos d'actualits: hommes politiques, artistes de cinma et de la musique, photos publiques de concert, actualits, etc... Esprant bientt collaborer avec vous dans l'intret des deux parties, nous vous souhaitons de bonnes affaires sur http://efotto.com
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« on: November 09, 2008, 09:45 »
There's a new topic about it on shutterstock's forum.
The glitch of the week :
Look at your new pictures approved and downloaded many times and you will see they are not showing up in the most popular files of your gallery, you'll find them at the end!!!
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« on: October 09, 2008, 05:29 »
A very simple question: I have some pictures already in sale as editorial on shutterstock and mostphotos, is it possible to sell them at Alamy as "licenced" at the same time?
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« on: September 18, 2008, 11:26 »
no text, sorry I've deleted my post
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« on: March 25, 2008, 03:22 »
Looking my sales this morning, I see 2 subscriptions sales with 0.21$ (0.13) commission, is it normal?
At this price I prefer donate my image, that's so ridiculous !!!
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« on: December 18, 2007, 07:06 »
First batch approved a month ago, and uploaded 60 pictures, after 4 weeks I see today they are all rejected!!! The first picture was rejected for interpolation artifacts and I don't know for the others, no reason given. What means exactly this sentence: "If we fail one image, we will reject all images in all media awaiting QC (they will have the same QC date). Does it means if the first picture fail passing QC, all the others failed too?  ?
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« on: October 23, 2007, 08:09 »
I'm Microstocker since only june , I've uploaded 400+ photos on "big 6" sites, except Istock (only 170+).
I know that a part of my pictures isn't real "stock photos", like insects and some travel photography.
But i think something is wrong in my "business": I sell almost only on shutterstock (800 downloads by month) and almost nothing on other sites except Istock.
On dreamstime only 84 downloads since june, same on fotolia and not better on stockxpert, i don't know exactly why: style of pictures? Too much different subjects? bad keywording? bad title? Need selection and erase some pictures?
My English is very average and it's maybe the reason, maybe in title and descriptions...but it's seems ok for Shutterstock.
If some microstockers "Doctors" could have a look at my portfolios and give me a simple diagnostic and advice, it could be very helpful for me!
Thanks
Stphane
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« on: September 08, 2007, 07:01 »
Since thursday, when i upload new photos, no keywords and description appear in editing mode!!!
iptc datas seams not to be read anymore. Try three times and nothing to do, are you encountered the same problem?
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