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The thing that went away was the 10% bonus for exclusives. For independents, nothing changed beyond the royalty reductions that applied to all sales.

I think the other aspect of crappy prices is very low per credit prices - I queried an EL a month or so ago where I netted $6.93 from a 75 credit EL. Even if you assume they purchased only an XS to go with that (at 2 credits; it was P+), at 18% royalties that is 50 cents a credit.

The reason, IMO, they're offering these insane discounts is that buyers who were angry about the price hikes on the high-end collections were pacified with big discounts. The regular priced merchandise is then super cheap and we get crap royalties. Such as a 12 cent royalty on an XS (1 credit) sale.

I have a few 7 cents..

my lowest ever is on pixmac

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Yep, it sucks 

The worst case earnings drop for that diamond exclusive who was getting 50% for an EL is a vetta or agency EL.

Where they used to get 50% they now get 28% or 26% (if they're lucky).  Ouch.

Yeah, we were pioneers there. Luckily it's now $0.25 minimum even if we download the images for internal use.