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grace:
 Hi everyone, may I know how's alamy count the commission? The sales for the images is $ 21.71, but why there are "Alamy distribution commission and distributor commission and total is 70% charge fr Alamy? I thought they only charge 60% only?Thanks

Pauws99:
If the sale is by one of Alamy's partners/agents/pimps they get a generous cut as well.

dpimborough:
Distributors get 40%
Alamy get 30%

You get 30% on distributor sales

Daryl Ray:
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.

ShadySue:

--- Quote from: grace on March 23, 2019, 22:36 --- Hi everyone, may I know how's alamy count the commission? The sales for the images is $ 21.71, but why there are "Alamy distribution commission and distributor commission and total is 70% charge fr Alamy? I thought they only charge 60% only?Thanks

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Yes, you may know, and that's because Alamy is more transparent than most (all?) of the other micros, who either give you a flat rate for most (sub) sales, or you get a variable price per sale, but in neither case do you have a clue what your actual percentage of each individual sale is.
With Alamy, like it or not, it's broken down for you to see (as you don't see the value of the sale).
OK, on iStock you do see the value of the sale, but with PA, I'm not fully convinced that we get a percentage of the premium - that scheme is totally opaque.

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