Author Topic: Alamy Image Submission Fee (Read 4095 times)

Mumut Greenstripe · « **on:** July 02, 2022, 22:01 »

Wonderful, now we have to pay $2 everytime we submit some image

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #1 on:** July 02, 2022, 22:59 »

There are comments in the Alamy forum that this is a bug - an obsolete storage program that surfaced when they made the changes for the new 20% royalty rate July 1. Several people say they reported it, but perhaps the more reports the better?

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lima · « **Reply #2 on:** July 05, 2022, 08:25 »

This is very frustrate, no sales and now negative $

SVH · « **Reply #4 on:** July 05, 2022, 12:40 »

Quote from: lima on July 05, 2022, 08:25

This is very frustrate, no sales and now negative $

I am sorry for you but then again it's so funny. You think you can earn some money with this company and then they cancel everything out. It's becoming masochistic to be with them if you ask me. Glad I left long time ago by now.

ouatedeP · « **Reply #5 on:** July 06, 2022, 07:56 »

Quote from: Alamy on July 05, 2022, 08:37

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on July 02, 2022, 22:59
There are comments in the Alamy forum that this is a bug - an obsolete storage program that surfaced when they made the changes for the new 20% royalty rate July 1. Several people say they reported it, but perhaps the more reports the better?

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Yes, this was a bug which has now been corrected. We don't charge submission or storage fees - this is an obsolete bit of code from many many years ago.

Apologies for any confusion this caused.

how was it reinvoked? Why the sudden flury of issues on July 1, 2022?

ravens · « **Reply #6 on:** July 07, 2022, 00:59 »

Quote from: Alamy on July 05, 2022, 08:37

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on July 02, 2022, 22:59
There are comments in the Alamy forum that this is a bug - an obsolete storage program that surfaced when they made the changes for the new 20% royalty rate July 1. Several people say they reported it, but perhaps the more reports the better?

Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk

Yes, this was a bug which has now been corrected. We don't charge submission or storage fees - this is an obsolete bit of code from many many years ago.

Apologies for any confusion this caused.

Why wasn't this "obsolete bit of code" deleted when it became obsolete, no longer in use?

What was the point to save it?

Mimi the Cat · « **Reply #7 on:** July 07, 2022, 01:48 »

Quote from: ravens on July 07, 2022, 00:59

Quote from: Alamy on July 05, 2022, 08:37
Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on July 02, 2022, 22:59
There are comments in the Alamy forum that this is a bug - an obsolete storage program that surfaced when they made the changes for the new 20% royalty rate July 1. Several people say they reported it, but perhaps the more reports the better?

Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk

Yes, this was a bug which has now been corrected. We don't charge submission or storage fees - this is an obsolete bit of code from many many years ago.

Apologies for any confusion this caused.

Why wasn't this "obsolete bit of code" deleted when it became obsolete, no longer in use?

What was the point to save it?

They might want to use it in the future when they run out of ways to reduce contributor earnings even further

MicroVet · « **Reply #8 on:** July 07, 2022, 05:08 »

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on July 02, 2022, 22:59

There are comments in the Alamy forum that this is a bug - an obsolete storage program that surfaced when they made the changes for the new 20% royalty rate July 1. Several people say they reported it, but perhaps the more reports the better?

Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk

Alamy is reducing commission to 20%?

ShadySue · « **Reply #9 on:** July 07, 2022, 05:14 »

Quote from: MicroVet on July 07, 2022, 05:08

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on July 02, 2022, 22:59
There are comments in the Alamy forum that this is a bug - an obsolete storage program that surfaced when they made the changes for the new 20% royalty rate July 1. Several people say they reported it, but perhaps the more reports the better?

Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk

Alamy is reducing commission to 20%?

For any sellers who didn't reach $250 gross in the calendar year leading up to July 1st.