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Alamy new low - 0.46 distributor sale - I get 0.14

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pancaketom:
The subject pretty much covers it - 2 sales for the month, both distributor, both for 0.46 of which I get 0.14 - in the details they say RF and "China"

Maybe it is time to finally kill distributor sales - in the past they have mostly been low (< $20), but I don't think I have ever had one under $1 net before. I guess now that we only get 40% of regular sales the distributor sales aren't so much lower, but they have moved from good microstock levels to poor microstock levels.

Overall for the year they are doing about as well as any other site, but that isn't saying much anymore.

ShadySue:
There have been a few reports over on their forum of lower than usual sales, not only distributor.
If it's any consolation, you have 14c more than I have this month ("so far", she added, hopefully!)

Jo Ann Snover:

--- Quote from: pancaketom on April 11, 2021, 16:56 ---...Maybe it is time to finally kill distributor sales - in the past they have mostly been low (< $20), but I don't think I have ever had one under $1 net before. I guess now that we only get 40% of regular sales the distributor sales aren't so much lower, but they have moved from good microstock levels to poor microstock levels....

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The volume of sales at Alamy (for me) is low, but funnily enough, last October I decided to opt in to distributor sales after being opted out for many years. I thought I'd see how, if at all, that improved sales volume (I'd opted out on principle because I consider it outrageous that the distributor makes more than I do).
 
Since October 2020 there have been only 2 distributor sales, the two smallest sales I've had in that time period. Gross numbers, one sale was $3.51 and the other $2.28. I am glad that the higher value sales (top 3, gross, $250, $119, $95) were direct through Alamy.

A few months isn't long enough to make any decisions, but based on what I've seen to date, opting in to distributor sales was pointless :)

changingsky:
Here works the same - "partners", "distributors" etc - all types of intermediates as in any business. Exist a business and exist a parasite.

MicroVet:
You are lucky because I got two sales for $0.07 each.

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