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« on: January 16, 2024, 07:51 »
Everyone has a Payoneer card, you dont have to withdraw money and pay in stores with this card.
You can also withdraw money from your card at a local ATM in local currency.
Are you in the US? If so, have you tried withdrawing through an ATM in another country with it? This method has its own drawbacks. Bad conversion rate + Payoneer $3 fee per transaction + ATM access fee (around $5-$6 per transaction) + international transfer fee. The withdrawal limit of ATM (maximum cash per time) in each country determines the number of transactions you have to make.
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« on: January 15, 2024, 20:09 »
Correct me if I'm wrong but you should be able to set up a USD account in your own bank and transfer to your own bank with no conversion that doesn't incur the 3% transactional fee.
As per the email it states is only on USD to EUR transfers
Hope what I'm saying is right and that it helps
Looks like they have updated it to fix the loophole of opening a local bank account in foreign currency to avoid the currency conversion. Now, even, for example, USD to USD will be charged 3% if the bank is not located in the US. https://www.payoneer.com/about/pricing/"Withdraw to Your Bank Account: Withdraw in non-local currency Example: USD balance > USD bank account, bank is in EU EUR balance > USD bank account, bank is in Hong Kong UP TO 3% of transaction amount" To be eligible to pay the minimum fee, your Payoneer account must be registered in the same country of your bank account. "Example: Payoneer account registered in USA -> USD balance -> USD bank account, where the bank is in the USA"
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« on: September 06, 2023, 06:27 »
I'm affected too, it seems many if not any contributors are involved
Last time this happened didn't get paid til following month.
Really? Never heard the story. So no payment until next month? It's scary...
https://www.microstockgroup.com/shutterstock-com/anyone-get-paid-from-shutterstock-yet/But the earnings weren't added back to the balance like this time. So it was a bit different. Anyway, looking at my balance today, it seems back to normal now.
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« on: July 30, 2023, 03:17 »
That will be because AI can now be submitted as Photos so long as it looks like it could have been taken by a camera, and people are reporting 1 week review times in the Photos queue.
My non-AI photos take nearly 4 weeks before getting accepted. Oddly, images that don't pass their QC are rejected within about a week. It's been like this for a while now. From what I read, AI images take much less review time and QC is virtually non-existent.
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« on: July 29, 2023, 10:20 »
same here batch rejection
Tick the AI box and they will get accepted, within a few days.  PS. I'm just being sarcastic.
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« on: July 27, 2023, 12:09 »
i'm on pace to hit level 2 for sure. can't wait for all those dimes to turn into $.12.
Are you new? In case you've never been at other levels, it doesn't get really better at higher levels because the vast majority (55-60%) of sales are still $0.10, IME. 
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« on: July 16, 2023, 02:32 »
All the reasons you wrote seem to benefit serious contributors: less competition, discouraging theft, etc.
But what advantages over other agencies will an agency get from doing that? I think having less images is not it unless it is an exclusive agency. But even then, what advantages over other exclusive agencies will it get?
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« on: May 12, 2023, 01:36 »
Don't know about Bigstock. But whenever I get this 406 error at Shutterstock, it means it doesn't like my IP address. Cookies clearing or resetting browser would not cut it. Only resetting my router to get new IP fixes it for me.
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« on: April 27, 2023, 06:58 »
But payments from SS don't have the $3 fee. I think the difference is you can request payment at anytime at AS vs you have to wait for SS to pay you. BTW, Payoneer is introducing $29.95 annual fee in some countries if your total received payment is less than $2000 per year. If you're subjected to the fee, you will be notified through the notifications section when you log-in, no email about it. To check which countries are affected (strangely New Zealand is listed but there are no details). https://payoneer.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/43738/~/annual-account-fee
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« on: April 07, 2023, 23:43 »
The blue bar came very late this time.
I can't help thinking that the change in currency is in exchange for giving apps away, after a long negotiation between teams.
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« on: March 09, 2023, 02:43 »
They are not my images. One of them even predates my first upload to SS.
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« on: March 08, 2023, 23:56 »
I've two on the 4th page of mine. Don't know what they're about. It went to a missing image page when clicked.
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« on: January 18, 2023, 16:40 »
A good Dec, making the earnings from iS higher than SS for 2022.
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« on: January 16, 2023, 21:03 »
The previews and the free downloadable sample of PNG versions of (raster) images look softer than JPG ones. It is more pronounced on some images that you can see the difference even from the small previews on the web page. This may discourage buyers. PNG on the left, JPG on the right @300% magnification of the free small sample file ( https://stock.adobe.com/th/images/white-fence-and-green-hedge-png-format/526151123, not my image).
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« on: January 08, 2023, 13:15 »
Most agencies now have a problem about buyer password sharing, like Netflix.
No wonder why there are so many 0.10 sales on SS whatever level you are.
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« on: December 15, 2022, 13:58 »
Can anyone else not see their unpaid earnings anywhere. The only way I can do it at present is total earnings minus payouts. Which I've screen grabbed in case that too vanishes. But nowhere. Not on mobile anyway.
Sometimes I have to wait for like 5 secs for the earnings to show up in the upper right corner.
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« on: December 06, 2022, 12:58 »
Have they done anything to worsen user's experience on the client side?
No.
It happens on the contributor side only like they are intentional.
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« on: October 24, 2022, 12:52 »
It's Payoneer's email.
I had the same problem.
The way Payoneer system works is very different from PayPal. The links between a Payoneer account and agencies seem to be rigid, complex, hard to edit.
I had to contact Payoneer via live chat to be able to talk with a human and got it fixed after a lot of email exchanges with different agents who, apparently, didn't work together and didn't know how to send the verification code to my Payoneer account page.
Once the issue with SS was fixed, my iS account that had been linked to the Payoneer account without problem started having broken link problem. I didn't want to go through the ordeal all over again. So I stopped using them.
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« on: July 16, 2022, 10:15 »
Disagree for this one.
2) You sell only one image/video when Shutterstock sells 10 images/videos.
And they fetch about 1/10 of AS per sale. Selling at lower price hurts the agency too. I'm talking about images only, BTW.
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« on: June 27, 2022, 13:30 »
The problem is that as istock already did, in 2020 shutter leaves fair payments to contributors on the shoulders of other agencies, leaving the burden of decent commissions on adobe. It is a matter of time before Adobe lowers our commissions, perhaps in my case this movement is no longer necessary to put aside the professional microstock and send them photos of my cat.
Adobe is my 1st earner...because Shutter is at 50%-60% with the 0.10 trick
But it looks like AS gets more revenue from each sale than SS?
Supposing we gets $0.10 and that is 15% of image's price. That means SS gets $0.57 (85%) per image.
At AS, the lowest we gets is $0.33 (33% of image's price). That means AS gets $0.67 (67%) per image. And there are also more frequent medium-value sales at AS.
The next factor is number of sales between AS and SS. And it looks like AS is gaining much more downloads than before? For me, it is. And from the forum's poll results (62.4 vs 31.9), it probably is.
Not necessarily.
For example, my SS RPD for May was $1.46/dl, while my AS RPD for May was $1.40/dl.
For June, my SS RPD is $1.42/dl, while my AS RPD dropped to $0.99/dl
You forget to include the big sales that are more frequent on SS than on AS.
The point of the reply (to MxR's post) is more about the effects on agencies of selling at lower prices.
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« on: June 27, 2022, 11:45 »
The problem is that as istock already did, in 2020 shutter leaves fair payments to contributors on the shoulders of other agencies, leaving the burden of decent commissions on adobe. It is a matter of time before Adobe lowers our commissions, perhaps in my case this movement is no longer necessary to put aside the professional microstock and send them photos of my cat.
Adobe is my 1st earner...because Shutter is at 50%-60% with the 0.10 trick
But it looks like AS gets more revenue from each sale than SS? Supposing we gets $0.10 and that is 15% of image's price. That means SS gets $0.57 (85%) per image. At AS, the lowest we gets is $0.33 (33% of image's price). That means AS gets $0.67 (67%) per image. And there are also more frequent medium-value sales at AS. The next factor is number of sales between AS and SS. And it looks like AS is gaining much more downloads than before? For me, it is. And from the forum's poll results (62.4 vs 31.9), it probably is.
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« on: June 24, 2022, 15:09 »
Most of my recent better works go to AS first because of the much higher RPD there. Some of them will be uploaded to SS (and iS) months later. This works for me. This year's earnings from AS so far is 85% higher than SS, the same trend as in the forum's Earning Rating. Download numbers on SS does not decrease but almost all of them are $0.10.
Some smaller agencies offer good RPD but sadly they're too small to attract many buyers.
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« on: May 22, 2022, 12:03 »
How would stock sites make more money by paying us more?
That is not the real question. The real question is Why would stock sites pay us more?".
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« on: April 23, 2022, 21:52 »
Let's face it. There are no new microstock customers out there, any more. One of the most effective ways for both snatching customers from competitors and stabilizing customer retention is lowering the pricing.
And now those lower paying agencies are viewed as OK. Moreover, contributors even start promoting them. May be to prove their decision right or something. But why they do that are not very important.
The important question is why should AS keep paying the $0.33 minimum when now it can be much, much lower and some contributors will probably come in to defend with comments like "AS is just doing it like other agencies"?
Yeah, we get what we deserve.
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« on: January 14, 2022, 22:49 »
Verifying a backup is to check the integrity of the backup file. Apple's Time Machine may be doing a good job but there is no guarantee that the drive containing the backup file is in a good shape.
When the TMs backup is on a local drive (USB, SATA, TB, etc.), Disk Utility should get the job done because Apple recommends using it to check the TMs backup if you cant restore from it.
But if the backup is on a networked drive (a drive you connect through WiFi, ethernet, etc), you can't use Disk Utility to check it. So there is the "Verify Backups" available for it in the TM icon in the menu bar, when you option-click it. It will be greyed out if you set TM to use a local drive.
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