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It likely means that he doesn't visit the forums and hasn't even heard about it. Maybe he gets Google Alerts and now that you have mentioned his name, he will hear about it. It's not like istock did a good job of letting buyers and contributors know about it (as usual). 

Some folks don't believe it will be helpful in generating more income. Maybe he's one of those people.

I'm not eligible for P+ (I'm not a photographer) but if I was I wouldn't opt any files into it. istock's prices are already too high. I'd rather keep my prices where they are and I think buyers would be more likely to purchase my stuff if it's cheaper.

No, and I'll tell you why. Yuri has a factory with probably around 50 employees. Surely there is one who's job it is to be on track with all the news and implementations and I bet Yuri would fire him/her instantly if he/she'd fail to report this for over 3 weeks! That could cost Yuri tens of thousands of dollars, if not even 100k (he earns something like 300k on average every month from stock, right?) and that surely wouldn't be tolerated, especially in a business in which RPI is falling rapidly (as he said in the interview a few months ago, regarding his earnings)

Exactly, that's what I wrote in my very first post. I'm waiting for someone with big brains and insight like PaulieWalnuts to give us his opinion.

I, just like you can only guess, but I'm sure there is a solid reason for doing so, not a mistake of a sloppy and/or incompetent employee

My guess (albeit uneducated) is that independent contribs like Yuri and others of his ilk get personal emails or a a phone call when a new IS policy with potential for more earnings is created. Maybe he does not want to tie his images down for 6 months? But this is just speculation.

I'm guessing this is it.  He doesn't tend to visit the forums at all, here or there.  He's probably too busy with other stuff, and that includes any employees - I don't even know if he has staff these days or not.

Exactly. Yuri has never shyed away from maximising the pricing of his images where possible. Take his stuff at FT for example, mostly at maximum prices.

This is what I think too.  Most likely he's too busy with managing his business ventures, and shoot-upload-repeat, to be bothered keeping up with the day to day news at Istock, poorly communicated as it is.  

What I doubt is that he would choose not to put up his prices.  As Goswyck mentioned, he put his Fotolia prices up to the highest possible and was talking about how well that worked out for him, so no reason for him to deliberately miss out on putting his Istock prices up where possible.  Considering his advantageous search placements, he would probably increase his income considerably by adding his full quota of P+ images.  

Rather than speculating here, Slovenian, why don't you just e-mail him and ask him his thoughts on P+?

good question.

I believe Yuri needs another guy just to look at "news" regarding agencies.. actually I think IS should have contacted him, there is profit to them too no?

ROTF

Good for you.  At least you tried.

I would be interested in his thoughts if he is actually choosing to opt out.  But I bet we will see him opting in soon.  I don't see a down side. 

Yes, there is the issue of the 6 month tie in, but it doesn't stop you from pulling your images altogether if you close your account.  It just stops you from pulling them from P+ collection and putting them back in main collection.