I had a bunch of $0.05 sales -- not worth uploading there anymore. 
Worse than Istock and worse than SS now in terms of worthless sales.

Another contributor (not me; I left Alamy earlier this year) reported that Alamy's answer to their query about how they could still be getting cheap distributor sales so long after opting out was that the sale was from much earlier (before opt out). Distributors take a long time to report sales to Alamy.

Just checked my account, had 22 sales in last days which got me whooping 1.92$ all together.

I just hope sales wont pick up cause I wouldn't like to owe something to people in the next report.

This is becoming a parody.



 

It's getting worse with Alamy.

Not only did I receive a number of sinlge penny "sales" at the end of June.
Alamy also decided to downgrade me to silver.

But my total (gross) sales amount was clearly above $250 from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022 (it was $427,63, according to their statistics).

I wrote to them asking them to correct that error.

Now I got the following response:

"Sorry in the delay in getting back to you. The calculations do not include distribution sales as they are not direct to Alamy�s site. So, you have made less than $250 overall from July 2021 to July 2022. However, if you made more than $250 in this year you will go back to Alamy Gold. "

Well, I disagree.

The contract talks about "license fees", not making any distinction between direct sales and distribution sales.
Here the exact wording from the contract:

12.12 At the end of each Revenue Year if your total License Fees for that year, net of any refunds:

    12.12.1 are less than $250 then the Alamy Commission for sales of your Content in the following Revenue Year will automatically switch to Alamy Silver as outlined in the Alamy Commission Table; or
    12.12.2 are greater than or equal to $250 then the Alamy Commission for sales of your Content in the following Revenue Year will remain on Alamy Gold for that year, as outlined in the Alamy Commission Table.


Of course I complained again, now let's wait for their response.
I think the contract is pretty clear, and their argumentation about distribution sales not being included does not hold up legally.

Anybody else with the same issue?

If you've opted out, report it to Alamy. I did and ended up getting 100% commission. There was a fault (which has been corrected) but you'll need to check and get in touch with them

I left Alamy a few months back over the bottom-of-the-barrel sales & royalties coupled with them cutting the royalty rate if their low-ball sales dropped you below $250. Excluding distributor sales just makes the new deal even worse - what's next; only count sales reported on Sundays??

Please let us know what they tell you after you argued the toss. It's possible their lawyers are as incompetent as their software people (the erroneous storage fee nonsense when they made the royalty rate changes) and they'll need to be more specific.

Tossers!

I posted the same thing in the Alamy forum.

Reply from Alamy:

" Hi All,

 
To update on the above, the calculations should include distribution sales.

We're working on this our end, to ensure that this is correct for all accounts and that no-one is out of pocket.


Thanks,

Alamy "

Maybe they should have told that the person answering my first email...
But I am relieved that it is just an error and not a policy...

Good news! Happy for you 

Quote from: HalfFull on July 05, 2022, 09:01

If you've opted out, report it to Alamy. I did and ended up getting 100% commission. There was a fault (which has been corrected) but you'll need to check and get in touch with them

Congrats  -  good for you but what did you say, and who did you email to?
I reported my 0.01 sales and all I got back the usual "long lead times" BS. And yes I've opted out both NU and distribution.

I knew I'd opted out of Distribution sales in China back in April this year and that I'd opted out of novel use scheme back in 2013. That's all I told them and that I'd already complained about receiving 100 of these sales at the end of last year. I was told that there had been an error (now corrected) and that they'd refund 100% commission. That was it.

Quote from: HalfFull on July 07, 2022, 02:49

Quote from: ravens on July 07, 2022, 01:14

Quote from: HalfFull on July 05, 2022, 09:01

If you've opted out, report it to Alamy. I did and ended up getting 100% commission. There was a fault (which has been corrected) but you'll need to check and get in touch with them

Congrats  -  good for you but what did you say, and who did you email to?
I reported my 0.01 sales and all I got back the usual "long lead times" BS. And yes I've opted out both NU and distribution.

I knew I'd opted out of Distribution sales in China back in April this year and that I'd opted out of novel use scheme back in 2013. That's all I told them and that I'd already complained about receiving 100 of these sales at the end of last year. I was told that there had been an error (now corrected) and that they'd refund 100% commission. That was it.

Thank you, HalfFull for posting this.
Basically, my situation was the same - opted out distribution April this year, been out of NU for many years. Though my ultra-low net sales were measured in tens, did not reach 100, but that shouldn't be the issue.
All I was told was the "long lead times" BS:

"These images were downloaded and used before you opted out of distribution in April this year. Many of our distributors have long lead times and the sale has only just been reported to us. We've instructed the distributor that the image is now no longer available for licensing"

Anybody else contacted Alamy about the 0.01 net sales? What kind of respose did you get?

I contacted Alamy about the 0.01 sales and you'll  find their answer and my comments on my last blog post "De profundis"
https://luisafumi-digitalart.com/blog/2022/07/07/de-profundis/ Enjoy

In another words, you opted out 1st April but THEY opted you in.

She doesn't mention ever opting out, unless I am misunderstanding something here?

Not uploading any more images.  All I am getting is $0.05 sales or less.  If there are no decent sales like I once had soon I will close acct.

Where do we see our rank, gold, silver?

Thanks, got it.