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« Reply #25 on: July 06, 2020, 03:32 »
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Without any public statement and/or personal answer what is going on it looks absolutely like a GANG job.

I sent you (and others) a PM here last week on this so I could look into this to get some clarity for you. Goes without saying that there is absolutely nothing "untoward" going on here but I will need your details to look into it properly so if you can reply that would be appreciated.

Thanks

James Allsworth
Head of Content


« Reply #26 on: July 16, 2020, 07:20 »
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Thanks for your email, please read the following important information.

 
Temporarily, were unlikely to be able to answer your email due to a reduction in team size whilst we respond to the global Covid-19 pandemic.

 
For any legal or copyright issues you need to email [email protected].

 
Quality Control wait times will be much longer than normal. Please bear with us and we will review your submission as soon as we can. Wait time for initial submissions will take around 3 to 4 weeks.

 

For all other questions, we encourage you to ask your question to knowledgeable fellow photographers over on the Alamy forum:

 
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You can also find the answers to most questions here:

 
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Here are some common questions and answers that may help:

 
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Question about payment?

 
         You can enter your payment details under the account settings section on your contributor dashboard.

         Youll be included in our payment run and sent funds when your cleared balance is over $50.

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         During the payment run it can take up to 9 working days for the payment to reach your account.

 

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         Some customers report usages to us over a set period of time. If youve seen your images being used it can take up to 3 months to appear as a sale in your account. If you have a sale that remains unpaid beyond this timeframe please be aware that our credit control team will have a record of this and will be chasing the client for payment accordingly.

 
Looking to upload video?

 
         Thanks for your interest but unfortunately, weve closed our video application process to focus on the stills side of our business.

 

Thanks for your patience at this difficult time.


« Reply #27 on: July 16, 2020, 08:27 »
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Thanks for your email, please read the following important information.

 
Temporarily, were unlikely to be able to answer your email due to a reduction in team size whilst we respond to the global Covid-19 pandemic.


Please see my post above. We are working with a reduced team at the moment on the support email but I can look into this personally if you can share your details with me via PM, or mark your email to the contributor support address for my attention.

Thanks

James Allsworth
Head of Content

« Reply #28 on: July 22, 2020, 03:31 »
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I don't want your attention because I'm giving up of Alamy.
But if you want to help just to check all those irregularities in clearings and help contributors to get their money.
There are people who have uncleared balance for a lot of time, some of them for years and that is not hard to check.
Summarize those amounts, think about it and do something.

Cases like mine are more rare than that but I'm sure that I'm not alone:
I had enough cleared amount >50$ for payment almost 6 months ago.
And then I had relatively big sale which was refunded at the last day of that month.
Despite the sale was never cleared REFUND WAS CLEARED IMMEDIATELY and that lowered my previously cleared balance well below 50$.
That is not legal in my opinion but in addition to that all further sales stays uncleared. Five months of sales.
That also doesn't look legal to me and I want you to investigate all those cases.
Again it's not hard to find, just search in 2020 for all refunds which lowered previously cleared balance below 50$.
Repeat the same search for 2019.

That's all I have to say.


 

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