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16% is nothing to get excited about (especially because you can see by the RCs I made that there's no way that we could be talking about a big lump of money in my case), but tnx anyway;). It's not a big deal, I got used to being screwed over and over by IS, it would be a big deal if something was done on time for once;)

Patience youngones. It clearly say: July 4th. No one said 2011....

The way I understood it was that you had to hit 1500 RC's during 2010 to get 16% in 2011.  Going forward, if you hit the RC target for the next year (2012 in this case) during the current year (2011) you will immediately rise to that new level.  Unfortunately they raised the 16% to 2000 RC's for 2012 so if I'm understanding this right, as soon as you hit 2000 RC's in 2011 you've achieved the level from that point on, into and thru 2012.  There will be new levels set for 2013 that you'll have to achieve in 2012.

First, it isn't just a few extra days - for some the money has been owing for a while now. I doubt the "what's a few extra days?" line of reasoning would go over well with a credit card company or a bank if you owed them money by a certain due date.

The other issue is that this is a self-imposed deadline - and they still blew it. When you take that with a procession of missed deadlines and broken software, it's just breathtaking that as an organization they can't set and meet expectations. Every company screws up now and then. It's about how you deal with that and what you learn (or don't) from it that really counts.

I love IS!

I'm gonna start calling them hustlaz . They so overcomplicate everything that no one really understands it, create confusion and chaos and get away with taking a larger share or at least postpone payouts.

With a reliable system in place - the sort that major businesses for the most part have - there should be no problem with adjustments in either direction if targets were to change.

As a practical matter, iStock couldn't handle the back payment of EL bonuses correctly (forget the timeliness issue, forget the fact that until contributors pointed out that they "accidentally" pushed the new code out months early, they couldn't calculate the correct amount). The reply to my support ticket pointing this out was that as they'd overpaid, they were going to let the mistake stand. If they can't handle something like that, I'd assume that retroactively changing royalties would be a big struggle.

There is nothing contributors have in the way of stats that can reliably show an accurate RC total (even if you wanted to go crazy and calculate everything by hand, you don't have the credits spent for any ELs, don't have any stats on credits for files that went into or out of Photo+ or E+ or any other collection, and so on). Which means we'd largely have to take IS's word for it that anything they said was owed really was. There's nothing about RCs in the downloadable stats - just what shows up in the web interface.

It is pretty sad that the accounting of money and stats in contributor accounts is in such a primitive state.

Sunday and still nothing. They're just unbelievable.

I just got half of what they owe me for months. So it looks like I'll have to wait for a few weeks after opening the ticket to get the rest from those rip offs. Our interest free loan has been prolonged. Anyone else giving them an extension?

I get less than half of what I should have gotten. I guess they're so stupid (or desperate) they're counting on ppl being unable to do the math. Or just so incompetent. In a case I've no idea how this clowns ever made it to the top (luckily they're being pushed from the first spot so I'm getting more elsewhere)