MicrostockGroup

To Delete go to desired Image page

under "Stock photo details"  you will see "Administration"

from the drop down you have the Deactivation option with a reason Box

 That is for individual files of course should you wish to delete entire Portfolio I would assume   you would get in touch directly

Thanks! I'll start deleting my bestsellers next month as they still make some money. I'll leave a few just to see what they'll do.

I'm pulling my higher quality stuff. Guess that survey iStock conducted was pretty hollow, eh?

The pole results clearly shows why they keep on screwing us. We're just a bunch of sheep

I am curious to see if this new PP push deflates sales on Istock, thus affecting our RC levels.  I know that won't happen over night but given a 6-12 month period I think we will be able to make a reasonable inference as to whether the PP program is actually a negative to gross sales.

I will stay... I need the money!! We are all slaves from the money... and they know that!

I believe you have to resubmit all over again as if it were the first time... Perhaps someone who has tried to do it ay iSP can give a view?

I added your option so you can see the results

But you're wrong about there being no limit to what they can get away with.  Currently my income from Istock is a couple of thousand $ a month.  If it ever drops into the hundreds I would not have any qualms at all about leaving.

I am sure I am not the only one with some bottom limit in mind, below which it isn't worth doing anymore.   

Its so sad to see how many of us are beaten completely numb and just shrug and accept this very bad deal because the income can't be missed (altho i understand, i live alone so the only one suffering the consequences is me, not my family).
I need a little more time to think but im pretty positive i'm going to pull my port (maybe i'll keep the real drab there just to have my account and future options open). I REALLY can't miss the income either but i'll find other ways to compensate. Apart from not wanting to see my pics on that disgrace of a TS i definitely dont want to wait every month for their lousy, sketchy reporting where no one knows whats what and which is even more untransparent than the RC system. I'm not ok with my pics going wherever they decide at what rate they decide and take their worth-less-than-nothing word for it that the amounts are correct, and those amounts not added to my istock credits while actively driving away traffic from istock AND more important, shutterstock. I dont want my pics to get stolen, and i definitely dont want to pay for it! I dont want to give my pics for free to advertise for istock,or worse, TS or some other sketchy partner and not even get credited for it either ("we'll credit where possible"). Not to mention the numerous "glitches", always in our disadvantage.
I dont want to bend over for their arrogance any longer, i regret so many non-exclusives will carry on like nothing happened, but im sure those will follow soon as the next "iterations" are announced. It's not going to get better, only worse... our new "distributor" has started "Race to the bottom Pt. 2, where the ship really sinks". Soon enough it wont be sustainable for any of us non-exclusives, apart from the ones willing to take a couple of cents.
Funny how exlusivity used to mean extra perks and advantages, while (for) now it only means "getting shafted a tiny bit less".
I just wished SS would come with a countermove (image exclusivity please!), or nasty istock at least would let us keep P+ away from the PP.

I derive 1/2 of my living from microstock and 40% of that is coming from IS.
So far, it doesn't look that SS or DT can provide any replacement for IS, FT is a way down.
I am rather thinking about putting more efforts into my non photography activity and less time for microstock.

No "Big contributor" with half a brain would consider going exclusive with Istock at this point.  Anyone who thinks the shafting is going to stop at non-exclusives only hasn't been paying attention.

What I get from this thread is that while some people are actually walking away from IS right now, for most of us it's more a matter of all motivation being gone.  

I'm not doing any microstock right now,  and when I do some again I won't even submit it to IS.   They've made it clear that this is a declining business for photographers and that they plan to pay us less and less as time goes by.    

In this new announcement they didn't even bother with any hype about how the changes would benefit their contributors. It was just "here's what we're doing to you now, take it or leave it".  No vision for the future, not even a fake one.  If they'd at least pretend, I could too.  It is indeed a loveless marriage.