Author Topic: What's an LEL? (Read 17059 times)

dpimborough · « **on:** August 04, 2014, 03:20 »

What is an LEL ? Anyone able to tell me?

Either way I got $0.12 for it

Thank you in advance

dpimborough · « **Reply #1 on:** August 04, 2014, 03:30 »

Oops never mind found a thread from 2010 it's a Limited Extended License

Beppe Grillo · « **Reply #2 on:** August 04, 2014, 03:58 »

Quote from: Teddy the Cat on August 04, 2014, 03:30

Oops never mind found a thread from 2010 it's a Limited Extended License

12¢!!!

Should be a VLEL… Very Limited Extended License
Or a LCL… Limited Compressed License

Mellimage · « **Reply #3 on:** August 04, 2014, 04:05 »

12 cents??? Seriously??

dpimborough · « **Reply #4 on:** August 04, 2014, 04:11 »

Quote from: Mellimage on August 04, 2014, 04:05

12 cents??? Seriously??

Yup 12 cents

I wrote to them to query this it's less than a subscription payment

Mellimage · « **Reply #5 on:** August 04, 2014, 04:16 »

I thought my cut of 9$ something for an EL (another type, though) was low. It was the final straw though - closed my account.

Nikovsk · « **Reply #6 on:** August 04, 2014, 04:49 »

Yeah it's not like they sell much anyway... I'm also cutting down some agencies.

Angel · « **Reply #7 on:** August 04, 2014, 21:03 »

Hi Teddy the Cat,

You may check your inbox. Our submission team has replied to you.

Cheers,
Angel

Mantis · « **Reply #8 on:** August 04, 2014, 21:24 »

Quote from: Nikovsk on August 04, 2014, 04:49

Yeah it's not like they sell much anyway... I'm also cutting down some agencies.

This is my 2014 goal

ibogdan · « **Reply #9 on:** October 02, 2014, 17:16 »

Very weird those LEL's from 123rf. Two of them today, only $2.98 each

. I guess it's a new low for me.

Asthebelltolls · « **Reply #10 on:** October 02, 2014, 21:35 »

Quote from: ibogdan on October 02, 2014, 17:16

Very weird those LEL's from 123rf. Two of them today, only $2.98 each . I guess it's a new low for me.

Me too. How "Limited"? A few hours?

robhainer · « **Reply #11 on:** October 03, 2014, 09:18 »

I'd like to know what it is, too? I got a couple for 4.50 last week. "Low EL"?

MarcvsTvllivs · « **Reply #12 on:** October 03, 2014, 09:21 »

"Laughable EL"

borg · « **Reply #13 on:** October 03, 2014, 11:26 »

Quote from: MarcvsTvllivs on October 03, 2014, 09:21

"Laughable EL"

LOL

ibogdan · « **Reply #14 on:** October 21, 2014, 06:52 »

Another LEL for only $0.18. Such a shame....

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #15 on:** October 21, 2014, 11:32 »

Quote from: ibogdan on October 21, 2014, 06:52

Another LEL for only $0.18. Such a shame....

I make 0.324 cents for a subscription sale, so I wondered if it would be possible to see an 18 cent royalty on anything, but sure enough, when looking back through the LELs for this year I found one at 18 cents (the others were from 2.984 to 9.00 which seems more reasonable).

At the 45% royalty rate (which I'm at) and the prior promise that for the purpose of calculating royalties, 40 cents would be the minimum per-credit price used, 18 cents is the smallest royalty possible on a 1 credit sale. And some buyer is getting some type of extended license for that?

It's been a while since any 123rf staff stopped by here, but I think I'm going to write to support about my 18 cent royalty on an LEL because that just seems wrong.

Cesar · « **Reply #16 on:** October 21, 2014, 17:15 »

Quote from: robhainer on October 03, 2014, 09:18

I'd like to know what it is, too? I got a couple for 4.50 last week. "Low EL"?

Limited enterprise licence. resale options, something like sod for 100$ on SS, stealing anyway. we should warn 123rf to selling resale options for pennies.

Pixart · « **Reply #17 on:** October 21, 2014, 17:28 »

Doesn't it give you a warm and fuzzy feeling to know that the big MS Agent is so respectful of the measly little photographer.

ibogdan · « **Reply #18 on:** October 22, 2014, 01:48 »

It seems that 123rf doesn't want to talk to contributors anymore. I've sent them an email on October 3rd asking them to verify two LEL's sold for $2.98 and if my commission is the right one. No answer. I've sent them the second email on October 17th. No answer. Meanwhile (yesterday, October 21st) I sell another LEL for $0.18 and they doesn't seem to care about (at least) answering an email and giving some explanations. That LEL for $0.18 felt a bit insulting yesterday... Seriously 123rf, 18 cents?

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #19 on:** October 22, 2014, 10:47 »

I don't yet have a reply (except for the automated receipt notice), but in the past they've been good about replying to support tickets. I'll post here when I hear back from them - it would not be good news if they've stopped responding, so I'm hoping you have some sort of e-mail problem that's behind the apparent silence.

It would be good if sites had on-side records of open, and closed, support tickets so they could be viewed online. No one has that (iStock is close but they delete links to closed tickets from the UI)

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #20 on:** October 28, 2014, 08:27 »

And I still don't have a reply - I sent a followup too, just in case the first e-mail was "lost" somehow. Nothing.

Is it some sort of extended holiday in Malaysia (which is I think where all the contributor support answers used to come from even though they have sales offices elsewhere)? I realize that the silence for lbogdan from October 3rd would mean an extremely long holiday

I used the Contact us form and selected Photographer for the type; I did get the automated e-mail when I checked the box to get an e-mail copy of my submission. Has that way of contacting them been replaced and they just didn't update the web site?

Or put another way, has any contributor sent in a support ticket in October and received an answer? If so, how did you submit your ticket?

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #22 on:** October 29, 2014, 13:53 »

I'm very glad that it was a technical glitch - you've always been prompt in responding in the past and I couldn't imagine that you'd just given up on talking with contributors

I have forwarded my copy of the original ticket from October 21st to the e-mail you mentioned.

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #23 on:** October 30, 2014, 11:07 »

I received a reply from support about the 18 cent royalty for an LEL. It was a special deal - a free trial subscription-like package for one client with a limited scope of uses. Apparently both of us with those sales had them from the same client.

Given that this isn't a generally available deal and the license scope was more limited than RF, I'm OK with it. I think they need a different column for reporting "extended" licenses that are actually reduced scope licenses. Royalty Free plus something isn't the same as Royalty Free minus something.

pancaketom · « **Reply #24 on:** November 03, 2014, 14:19 »

does anyone know how many RC one gets for an LEL? or if it is variable is there any way to determine how many one gets for each one.

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