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Makes us two Sloane-rangers!  hurrah Henry and Henrietta!  we keep our stiff upperlips, yes.

I boycotted TS, until Getty forced me into the PP. I was all set to leave iStock over it, but it seemed like a futile gesture, hurting only myself while accomplishing nothing, so greed won out and I stayed. I stopped uploading there on Sept 28.

I see they have moved 3 of my images over to TS. My earnings are dropping so fast at IS that if it continues to get much worse, leaving them won't make a significant dent in my income. At that point, nothing will be holding me back from deactivating my portfolio. If you deactivate your images on IS, do they do they automatically get deactivated from TS as well?

i believe that is supposed to be what happens, yes.  but can take up to 30days before it is deactivated from the partner sites.

I sincerely hope not, since I have deactivated at least 75 of my more commercial sellers,  just for the reason of NOT going to TS.

I see __ but how are you seeing your PP sales for this month (you said they were about 1/4 of your SS sales)? I thought PP sales would only appear sometime in December. Have they speeded things up?

Oh, no, I must have misspoken.  I was talking about October sales.   The sales only started showing up middle of the following month, as you said.  

@Les - search for your name (actual, not username) in quotes on TS. 

Still almost neck-and-neck in the survey, then.

I'm now up to 10 images transferred over.  four of them are from my most recent upload batch but the rest are completely random. 

Last week I had 9 images on Thinkstock. This week I have 10. At that rate, my whole current portfolio will be transferred over in about 7 years.

Correct #1 is No Connection from IS to ThinkStock accounts.

2. Something strange, I just had a new one show with my new IS Business Name, while my old images show with my real name. Some show up "fname lname" some show "fnamelname" one new image under the "business name". The one with two names was my real name, first import. The one with the two names run together was my old account name / business name.

Also when I search on IS contributor charts the name is the one with no space and if I try the new Business Name or adding the new business name, it says user not found.

So it's possible to have two, but Thinkstock could have any of three different name for any of us, and if you change your business name, the old one will still be there, plus anything new, will go under the new business name.

This is so totally weird.   I search for images by my IS name, and get nothing.  I search with my real name in quotes and get exactly 1 image. 

I also think it's weird that they're moving our photos to TS but not giving us accounts there.  Excuse me but didn't we already walk over hot coals to get approved at IS? But we're not good enough for their new bargain-basement outlet?

Talk about being directed to the "servant's entrance" out in the alley.   

Yes, it's not weird at all. There are dozens of partner sites allowed to represent our work without us being able to log on to them. There's a list of the partner sites different agencies deal with here, somewhere