Author Topic: your biggest sale on Alamy? and when was it? (Read 1580 times)

dakk · « **on:** December 21, 2022, 15:14 »

Just curious about this. Has anyone ever made a >$1000 sale?

I had two $150 (net) sales last year and they're the biggest I made so far. But this year nothing was over $100.
Started in 2017

emjaysmith · « **Reply #1 on:** December 29, 2022, 04:12 »

Sorry to change the subject a bit I couldn't find the Alamy thread about sales for cents.
Having received another apologetic email from Alamy a couple of weeks ago along with a promise to pay a 100% commission on the Chinese distributor sales which they acknowledged shouldn't have happened in the first place due to being opted out, Alamay have sold another 17 of my images on 28/12/2022 for a grand total of $1.10. (gross)
How many more times will we have to go through this until they fulfil their promises to respect our choice to opt out of such sales.

Sebastian Radu · « **Reply #2 on:** December 29, 2022, 06:14 »

Quote from: emjaysmith on December 29, 2022, 04:12

Sorry to change the subject a bit I couldn't find the Alamy thread about sales for cents.
Having received another apologetic email from Alamy a couple of weeks ago along with a promise to pay a 100% commission on the Chinese distributor sales which they acknowledged shouldn't have happened in the first place due to being opted out, Alamay have sold another 17 of my images on 28/12/2022 for a grand total of $1.10. (gross)
How many more times will we have to go through this until they fulfil their promises to respect our choice to opt out of such sales.

Same here

Right a few days after I got the email from them telling me I would be paid 100%

"Hi Sebastian,

After working with the distributor and as a gesture of good will, we are now going to rebill these images as a top up payment in your account, with the sale price being slightly higher than previously. These aren’t new licenses but are ‘top up’ payments and you will see this reflected in your account over the coming days. This top up payment will also include the 100% commission that we were due to pay back to you from the corresponding sale(s) in September. Once again we’re sorry that this happened and apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Many Thanks

Louise"

How can we have even a little trust in such companies?? Basically they are liars with no respect for our work!

ouatedeP · « **Reply #3 on:** December 29, 2022, 06:56 »

Quote from: emjaysmith on December 29, 2022, 04:12

Sorry to change the subject a bit I couldn't find the Alamy thread about sales for cents.
Having received another apologetic email from Alamy a couple of weeks ago along with a promise to pay a 100% commission on the Chinese distributor sales which they acknowledged shouldn't have happened in the first place due to being opted out, Alamay have sold another 17 of my images on 28/12/2022 for a grand total of $1.10. (gross)
How many more times will we have to go through this until they fulfil their promises to respect our choice to opt out of such sales.

also concerning are reports on their forum they sold images to their parent company for 6 cents who then syndicated the articles with image hundreds of times with no additional payment

emjaysmith · « **Reply #4 on:** December 29, 2022, 06:58 »

Looks like I may have jumped the gun a bit. Having just looked again the sales are now shown as the top up amount. Having just looked back through my Alamy sales sales and there appear to be about 38 more such sales for which I have not yet been compensated.

Artist · « **Reply #5 on:** December 29, 2022, 07:32 »

Happy that I quitted them years back. Earning $0.01 for my hard work will not even buy a day coffee.

Mantis · « **Reply #6 on:** December 29, 2022, 09:12 »

I had 57 downloads for pennies. They all have commissions removed so these are new, not the original garbage from 4-5 months ago. I guess their "technical" problem is either not fixed on purpose or the I.T. employee needs to be fired. I emailed Alamy but they aren't back in office until Jan 4th. Will be interesting to see how they spin this mess.