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Just got a heap of Novel Use sales - each going for 49c of which I get 24c (because, apparently, Alamy can't work out what half of 49c is). If I knew this was for a school project I wouldn't mind but the lack of details is worrying. When they launched this, there was talk of $10 sales, that seems to have gone out of the window. What next, 25c sales?
Same here! Even SS and FT subscriptions pay more per sale!
i tried to opt out, but it doesn't appear you can do that anymore. do you need to notify alamy's admin instead?
I had a bunch of 49 cents sales as well.Kicker is:I opted out in April 2009 Last time they had a wave of NU sales coming in (when I was also opted out) Member Services claimed that all sales occurred before 04-2009.I wonder what their excuse is now...
I am not crazy about .25 subs either, but the sites that give them (including even TS) allow you to leave whenever you want. It's very unethical for Alamy to keep us locked in to virtually giving away our images.
I am doing reasonably well at Alamy. I don't get penny sales because I have opted out of the Novel Use after a few months. If you agree to the Novel Use, you have to live with the results.
Well guys! we opted-in, now we have to live with it. Its a giant laugh but frankly the way Micro is going, I rather have thousands of 0.49c, then a smack in the bollucks.cheers everyone.
Quote from: lagereek on August 22, 2010, 04:58Well guys! we opted-in, now we have to live with it. Its a giant laugh but frankly the way Micro is going, I rather have thousands of 0.49c, then a smack in the bollucks.cheers everyone.Aaaah, no-one on the Alamy forum is claiming thousands of 49cs, you must be one of the "luckier" ones.It is very concerning, however, that people who have opted out are seeing these sales, reported here and on their forum.
Quote from: ShadySue on August 22, 2010, 05:47Quote from: lagereek on August 22, 2010, 04:58Well guys! we opted-in, now we have to live with it. Its a giant laugh but frankly the way Micro is going, I rather have thousands of 0.49c, then a smack in the bollucks.cheers everyone.Aaaah, no-one on the Alamy forum is claiming thousands of 49cs, you must be one of the "luckier" ones.It is very concerning, however, that people who have opted out are seeing these sales, reported here and on their forum.Hi Sue!nope! not thousands, just a figure of speech as in I would rather have that, then nothing at all. get it?Ive really no sentiments for some of the old-style Alamy shooters, they been knocking the Micro for years, telling everybody what fools and idiots we are selling for a few bucks and when this NU started they were extremly sarcastic, etc, well they were the first ones to join into the NU, now when the going gets tough, same crowd is the first one to scream.This is inside Alamy you understand.
Exactly! At least, Alamy gives you the option to opt out.
Quote from: Freedom on August 22, 2010, 06:28Exactly! At least, Alamy gives you the option to opt out.But in some cases, haven't respected that option having been taken
Well guys! we opted-in, now we have to live with it.
Well as far as I can see, you can only opt-out in April, although whats the point? theyre not exactly producing large RF sales on a daily basis.
To be honest, I don't ever remember opting in to that.
Quote from: ShadySue on August 22, 2010, 06:30Quote from: Freedom on August 22, 2010, 06:28Exactly! At least, Alamy gives you the option to opt out.But in some cases, haven't respected that option having been takenWell as far as I can see, you can only opt-out in April, although whats the point? theyre not exactly producing large RF sales on a daily basis.
Quote from: lisafx on August 22, 2010, 16:20To be honest, I don't ever remember opting in to that. I was already at Alamy when they introduced the "Novel Use". If I remember it right, you would be opted in by default, but in an email they explained what this was about and how we could opt out.
Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on August 21, 2010, 11:35Here's the latest:04 August 2010 Traditional Licence Country: North AmericaUsage: EditorialMedia: Textbook - print onlyPrint run: up to 5,000Placement: InsideImage Size: 1 pageStart: 01 January 2011End: 01 January 2014 $ 125.00Yebbut that's gross. To be fair, you should have quoted what you get out of that.F'rinstance, I have six sales grossing $536.33, but of that I'll get, when the last two have cleared, $259.25.
Here's the latest:04 August 2010 Traditional Licence Country: North AmericaUsage: EditorialMedia: Textbook - print onlyPrint run: up to 5,000Placement: InsideImage Size: 1 pageStart: 01 January 2011End: 01 January 2014 $ 125.00
Quote from: RacePhoto on August 24, 2010, 01:15Here's the latest:04 August 2010 Traditional Licence Country: North AmericaUsage: EditorialMedia: Textbook - print onlyPrint run: up to 5,000Placement: InsideImage Size: 1 pageStart: 01 January 2011End: 01 January 2014 $ 125.00Yebbut that's gross. To be fair, you should have quoted what you get out of that.F'rinstance, I have six sales grossing $536.33, but of that I'll get, when the last two have cleared, $259.25.
Quote from: lagereek on August 22, 2010, 04:58Well guys! we opted-in, now we have to live with it. To be honest, I don't ever remember opting in to that. It may have happened when I first joined and an Alamy admin wrote me and said a buyer was interested in purchasing through a distributor, but I was not opted in to that. Did I want to be opted in? I said, "sure, go ahead and opt me in." Next thing I knew I was opted in to everything across the board. I had no idea about Novel Use until I got dozens of $1 sales a couple of months ago, and I had to go look it up in the forums. Which is all a very long way to get across the point that not all of us who are in Novel Use knowingly opted ourselves into it or had it explained to us.
I'd like to know where people got the information:A) that NU sales undermine Alamy rankB) that NU sales do not undermine Alamy rankso that I can check which is accurate.