MicrostockGroup

I have seen my images there although I never signed up with them. Are they fotolia affiliates?

1- If so, when one of our files are sold on pixmac, do we get paid as if that sale happened at fotolia?

2- How can they offer the extended license for $50 while the lowest I set at my fotolia account is 100 credits? Something is fishy here or am I missing anything?

3- On pixmac there is a photographer sign up page. Not that I am ever going to sign up with them but what happens for god's sake If I decided to sign up with them? My images are already there? Would that create a duplicate account for me?

4- The way they operate is nothing short of ridiculous. You are either an affiliate site or not! You can't be both. Or can you?

Really! What's the deal with them?

I would think you may want to check out other anomolies on your site. Like photos from Fotolio being credited to wrong photographers.

Here is an example... http://www.pixmac.com/picture/golf-ball-in-the-sky/000031083231

The image that comes up is not mine.  I would be concerned if you actually sell one of my photos and the credit goes to another photographer.

This type of error has come up in other threads.

A.

I would forward this issue to FT.

Oh boy, what a fiasco all of this is becoming.

To FT support:

I just had a quick look thru my port at Pixmac as present on FT. All seems fine. So "what's up with Pixmac"? Nothing really. If you have your port on FT, it makes no sense uploading to Pixmac, especially since their lock-in period is the largest in the microstock industry (one year). Only the rejects of FT could be uploaded, but for the reported low sales, it's not worthwhile timewise to do so and dig thru the FT rejects (I still don't know how).

Things may be allright for you FD, but it doesn't mean things are allright for everyone. There are obvious problems. I will never upload to pixmac even if they pay me $10 per image upload. Not until they become legit at least.

What I was saying was "What would happen "IF" I actually do upload there considering I already have my images on that website?" Not that I will as I mentioned in my OP.

I really don't like how things are looking there right now and I am going to take some action if certain issues are not addressed in a reasonable amount of time. It is illegal selling the EL's of my files for the price I didn't agree. On FT my EL's are 100 credits but somehow on pixmac they are $50! Weird! No?

How much I am going to earn if they sell it for $50?

http://www.pixmac.com/picture/red-christmas-design/000031206037

This is not one of mine.

This has to be fixed.

I agree with that. But think about it. My file on FT is 100. I get 34 as a silver contributor. pixmac sells it for 50 or less. I still get 34.

Now how much is fotolia making of this sale? And what is left for pixmac? They share 16 or less? It doesn't seem very much like FT to me.

Yeah it happened to me several times. They have some idiots who obviously can't read or does not want to read. Why are they paid for again? If they are not going to read the bloody emails?

Seriously why are they paid. If that was my company I would fire the support team for not doing their job properly. They get paid to read support requests and they don't read them!

With all that commission fotolia is getting from us, they should have some less ridiculous people working for them.

The problem is that the higher ups don't know what bullsh-t is going on unless someone tells them, and typically, one can't get to the higher ups to tell them. I was a business owner at one time and if my employee was slacking off, I sure as heck would have wanted to know about it, but nowadays no one seems to give a crap. As long as the higher ups get to have all their toys, they don't care about the rest.

Hello,

Thanks for correcting the image I mentioned.

There are other problems with my port there.

1- Not only the image you corrected but all the EL's of my images are 100 credits.. But as it appears here http://www.pixmac.com/picture/element-air-aquarius-zodiac-sign-on-a-mosaic/000015183331 you still have other EL's set to $50. (As I understand, you are going to correct it but just wanted to let you know that my whole port should be changed to 100 credits like you did with the above one)

2- On fotolia I currently have 466 files but on pixmac I have 372. Where are the rest of my images? On someone else's port?

Thanks

 

annabelle496: Corrected.

cidepix: We found that problem with EL prices is on Fotolia side (import from Fotolia), it should be corrected next week. I'll look at point two... it could be the same problem as with prices. Thanks.

madelaide: Yes, it was a mistake on Pixmac's side. Anyway we'll do the big check-up of our big database So I think, that everything should be clear soon.

Thank you very much for your cooperation and bug reports!