I got a message in my stockfresh inbox about new vector pricing.. Below is a section of the message:

"As we are getting closer and closer to 1 million images, we would like to thank you again for your continued support.
Here are our latest contributor news:

VECTOR PRICING

We have received a lot of feedback about vector pricing lately and we decided to get rid of the price categories altogether. From now on all vectors will cost 10 credits regardless of complexity. This affects about 50% of the files since about half of them were already priced at 10 credits (the rest were almost entirely priced at 5 credits except for a few percent). We hope you like this change, it will make pricing fair and less confusing."

Great to hear this! I will send my vectors as soon as I have some time to do it..

Great news indeed! I'm glad a little constructive grumbling can still have an impact.

You're welcome everyone!!!!

Now I've managed to increase your revenue at printbusinesscards and at stockfresh because I kicked up a big enough fuss about it.. at my expense.  While having noone here stand beside me but insulting me in the process.

I hope you've all learnt that if ONE person can change things, imagine what you can do united... but you won't learn because most people here lack principles and like to play it safe... which will burn you in the end anyway. 

Not one of you would ever have the decency to thank me but you know what... you're welcome anyway.

Toodles!

Signed, anonymouspsuedonymous

You're welcome everyone!!!!

Now I've managed to increase your revenue at printbusinesscards and at stockfresh because I kicked up a big enough fuss about it.. at my expense.  While having noone here stand beside me but insulting me in the process.

I hope you've all learnt that if ONE person can change things, imagine what you can do united... but you won't learn because most people here lack principles and like to play it safe... which will burn you in the end anyway. 

Not one of you would ever have the decency to thank me but you know what... you're welcome anyway.

Toodles!

Signed, anonymouspsuedonymous

Nice work, now get cracking on IS and FT.

I saw that the other day on the site.  Good news indeed.  Now I just need to find some time to upload the rest of my port there.  Course now if the sales would just pick up 

It also said they're now accepting EPS10 files.  So all ya'all with those lovely abstract shiny thingies can upload those too.

Quote from: whoami on September 14, 2011, 13:17

Now I've managed to increase your revenue at printbusinesscards and at stockfresh because I kicked up a big enough fuss about it.. at my expense.  While having noone here stand beside me but insulting me in the process.

It wasn't you who got the prices raised so don't take all the credit for that, on the other hand it _was_ you who hijacked and killed the whole conversation and started hurling completely unnecessary insults at other people, which probably explains why they didn't stand beside you, even though they might have agreed with your arguments.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback everyone, I hope these new prices are acceptable. If you have any problems just let us know.
And don't forget, from now on EPS 10 files are also welcome!

hahaha, rubbish! 

As for the rest, they didn't stand beside me cause they're a... not very nice people... nothing to do with right or wrong.

Anyway Peter, you're welcome too!  I hope your business booms so you can one day sell it to Getty again

Quote from: whoami on September 14, 2011, 13:17

Now I've managed to increase your revenue at printbusinesscards and at stockfresh because I kicked up a big enough fuss about it.. at my expense.  While having noone here stand beside me but insulting me in the process.

It wasn't you who got the prices raised so don't take all the credit for that, on the other hand it _was_ you who hijacked and killed the whole conversation and started hurling completely unnecessary insults at other people, which probably explains why they didn't stand beside you, even though they might have agreed with your arguments.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback everyone, I hope these new prices are acceptable. If you have any problems just let us know.
And don't forget, from now on EPS 10 files are also welcome!

Thanks Peter,

The new prices are nearly identical to Stockxpert so I personally am satisfied with the new pricing.. Even though the largest JPEG size is still more expensive, this is an acceptable price point. I will re-upload all the vectors I deleted..

Great pricing update Peter.  Glad to see things going in the right direction!

I have ignored whoami, but seeing as Lisa quoted her, I think it's worth pointing out that StockXpert was not sold to Getty but to Jupiter Images. Once Jupiter was purchased by Getty (something Peter had nothing to do with), Getty closed StockXpert.

At least she's not fake

Quote from: jsnover on September 15, 2011, 14:30

I have ignored whoami, but seeing as Lisa quoted her, I think it's worth pointing out that StockXpert was not sold to Getty but to Jupiter Images. Once Jupiter was purchased by Getty (something Peter had nothing to do with), Getty closed StockXpert.

What difference does that make?  The point was that they sold a good site and sold everyone out.  It was a waste of their time uploading.  (...)  The fact that Peter sold StockXpert says a lot about his attachment and passion for the site.  I'm sure it will the same with StockFresh only this time it won't be worth much.

Just to make things clear: in Jan 2006 we sold 49% of our company to Jupiterimages because we were very new to the microstock game and felt a huge pressure as we didn't want to screw up. That was right at the start of StockXpert by the way, so I guess most people joined an already sold out site. Anyway, we thought they would bring a lot of experience to the table, and the reason why we sold only 49% because we wanted to be careful and didn't want to give up control on our sites. Things went great for a while and they were interested to buy more, so we sold up to 90%, of course still with certain guarantees on control. Nobody knew in advance that in 2008 the whole economy would collapse which would also put their parent company into a difficult financial situation and they would have to sell the entire images department to Getty. After the sale we still had our 10% and tried to work with them, but it was clear that they wanted to do things the opposite way, so we left and sold our remaining share. End of story.

Oh, and Marina, as for attachment and passion, I personally designed and programmed and wrote every single bit of text on SXC, Stockxpert and Stockfresh and I put a tremendous amount of work and dedication into every single one of those sites (way beyond what most people would care to do) and you have absolutely no idea what those sites mean / meant to me. I didn't want to bring this up but you compared yourself a superhero just for starting a flamewar in a forum so this might help putting things in perspective.

Don't worry about it Peter, I thought that Marina was banned (a few times now) how come she's back (again)?
Much respect for being so responsive to your artists, despite the petty attacks of some on this forum.