Alamy, who's only role is to host your image and sell it, enlisted another company to do the sale for them and that earned that mystery company 40% of the sale. For some reason, Alamy thinks they are entitled to an additional 30% of that sale, even though they didn't actually do anything. So you, the creator, copyright owner, the one who did all the work including cataloging and keywording, are left with a lousy 30%.

It would be like if I uploaded some of my friend's pictures for him on my Alamy account, and he got his 40% of each sale, but then I took an additional 30% because, of course,  Alamy should be thankful I got them the content, and then we only leave Alamy with 30%. I mean, why wouldn't Alamy would be cool with that? It would only be doing EXACTLY what they are pulling on us.

Quote from: Pauws99 on March 24, 2019, 09:22

Quote from: Daryl Ray on March 24, 2019, 05:32

Alamy, who's only role is to host your image and sell it, enlisted another company to do the sale for them and that earned that mystery company 40% of the sale. For some reason, Alamy thinks they are entitled to an additional 30% of that sale, even though they didn't actually do anything. So you, the creator, copyright owner, the one who did all the work including cataloging and keywording, are left with a lousy 30%.

It would be like if I uploaded some of my friend's pictures for him on my Alamy account, and he got his 40% of each sale, but then I took an additional 30% because, of course,  Alamy should be thankful I got them the content, and then we only leave Alamy with 30%. I mean, why wouldn't Alamy would be cool with that? It would only be doing EXACTLY what they are pulling on us.

Alamy have secured a sale from setting up a contract with an agency which is hardly nothing. You could of course go to that agency and place your photos there and sell direct. If you have the time and they accept you.

So Alamy outsources their job to a 3rd party, that's fine. But shouldn't that come 100% out of their end? I don't care what they need to do to make sales anymore than they care what I need to do to create the content. If I were to hire a photographer to shoot for me, a model, rent gear or space, can I split those costs with Alamy? Hell no. But that would be the EXACT same thing to ask of them that they ask of us.

The companies make these crappy choices, and that's bad enough. But the reason we still have to deal with being treated like this is because of all the tireless defenders of these companies and their lying bs. You treat our relationships with the companies like an employee/employer situation and we should all be thankful they even hired us. That is simply not the case. They are agents enlisted to sell our content and make a fair commission for their efforts. We are supposed to be partners, not employees. But instead you guys roll over every time they take more and then you go even further to defend them at every turn. This is why this entire industry is going south, faster now than ever.

Amazing that they tell us how much the client pays as well as what we get......   Guess many other sites would be utterly cringeworthy!

Do they? Only via third party apps etc I s'pose

I had a sale reported on 28th of December, Washington Post, 40$net, it hasn't been cleared yet. Should I contact Alamy about it or should I wait some more? After what time you contact Alamy, if sale hasn't been cleared?

I had a sale reported on 28th of December, Washington Post, 40$net, it hasn't been cleared yet. Should I contact Alamy about it or should I wait some more? After what time you contact Alamy, if sale hasn't been cleared?