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Agency Based Discussion => CanStockPhoto.com => Topic started by: enstoker on November 28, 2012, 13:25
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Interesting situation: before 50$ payout limit no more sells !!!
Yes, this is true!
Almost 1000 pics in portfolio, last few months nice sells (for CS) until reached 40 $.
Now finito, null, zero !
I upload every week, normal sales on other sites, on CS nada, niente, zero.
Upsss
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Sales have been atrocious for me on CanStockPhoto. I think they have hidden my portfolio from search.
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They use to have some good $9-20 sales. Now only sporadic subsales. I'm stuck at $30 so I guess it hasn't anything to do with you reaching payout.
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Been stuck at 13 dollar for 2 months LOL
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And this are words of our friend Duncan:
+++we are continuing to set monthly sales records nearly every month in a row +++
Really, Duncan ?
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some people do well there (looking at some reports here at MSG forum), its not my case, I have made around 410$ since April 2009
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Hi All,
First post on MSG after lurking for a while. I've been on CanStock for nearly two years and have been getting over $100-$150 a month for last 12 months or so and showing increases, albeit gradually, so sales going okay for me. Upload maybe 50-100 images per month but not just new stuff selling
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Hi All,
First post on MSG after lurking for a while. I've been on CanStock for nearly two years and have been getting over $100-$150 a month for last 12 months or so and showing increases, albeit gradually, so sales going okay for me. Upload maybe 50-100 images per month but not just new stuff selling
You have an insane portfolio... Its everything I ever want to be able to create at some point
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sales are there- I made payout a few months ago thus hang in there...
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Sales are not huge but steady for me. Among the smaller sites Canstock works ok for me, better than most others, plus it is very stable and seems well programmed.
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It must be unpleasant, but - after many years with Canstockphoto - I am pretty confident that there's nothing suspicious going on, and it's just a statistical issue with all minor sites (few sales = impossibility to find meaningful trends)
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Still anticipating my first sale. Signed up 9 September; 314 images online; NO sales to date;
The tension is building. :P
ED: The Power Ball Jack Pot is $550 million.
Figure the odds. ;D
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And this are words of our friend Duncan:
+++we are continuing to set monthly sales records nearly every month in a row +++
Really, Duncan ?
I have no doubt that CanStockPhoto setting records every month. I had a down October - I haven't been submitting as much as usual - but my November has already beaten October by at least 10% and is about 30% above November, 2011.
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i was stuck around $45 for a bit - and blamo! had a over $25 sale - so you never know when youll get a nice one.
For what its worth cs is a small site - slower sales , but when I get a nice $10- 25 sale I have to say I'm glad that a smaller site can still be offering some nice sales, even though it may only be once in a while...
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On my side, selling mostly (95%) Illustrations on Canstock, they are my second best seller after Shutterstock, which means (for Illustration, and for me) they are doing incredibly well.
I have heard also the same from other Illustrators.
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There is one way to test the theory of CanStockPhoto not allowing payouts-
Have Yuri put his portfolio out there and see if he gets stuck at $40 or $45 :-X
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There is one way to test the theory of CanStockPhoto not allowing payouts-
Have Yuri put his portfolio out there and see if he gets stuck at $40 or $45 :-X
Wouldn't that happen in the first 10 milliseconds?
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Interesting situation: before 50$ payout limit no more sells !!!
Yes, this is true!
Almost 1000 pics in portfolio, last few months nice sells (for CS) until reached 40 $.
Now finito, null, zero !
I upload every week, normal sales on other sites, on CS nada, niente, zero.
Upsss
I think your problem is simply this : a watched pot never boils
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rumor has it that Duncan is going to give us all an EL for our Christmas Bonus ;D
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I'm sure the OP will eventually reach payout. For me Microstock offers a good opportunity to practice what Kipling says in his poem "If", "If you can meet with great sales and lack of sales and treat those two impostors just the same . . . . you'll be a Man." (slightly paraphrased version)
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I think your problem is simply this : a watched pot never boils
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I agree, with Canstock it's better if you don't hold your breath waiting for sales.
They eventually surprise you positively. Visually the site is looking good these days.
In addition to being a contributor I've also downloaded from them.
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I'm actually quite pleased with sales at Canstock. I added 7 or 8 new sites this year to make up for losses elsewhere and other than Alamy where I love the big sales the only 2 that are producing a regular payout are Canstock and Deposit photos. They are both already up with 123rf and BS. STockfresh, cutcaster, panthermedia, zoonar and GL are having very sporadic sales so I only upload to the ones where it is easy.
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There is one way to test the theory of CanStockPhoto not allowing payouts-
Have Yuri put his portfolio out there and see if he gets stuck at $40 or $45 :-X
He is on CanStockPhoto, under a different name. Same story though, thousands of downloads
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Still anticipating my first sale. Signed up 9 September; 314 images online; NO sales to date;
The tension is building. :P
ED: The Power Ball Jack Pot is $550 million.
Figure the odds. ;D
I have just my one sale for 9.73. Was hoping more sales would come. Quess i'll just have to be patient because when i'm not looking or involved in other things that's when most of my sales come (lthough on other sites) but CS is no different.
I've read this elsewhere "A watch pot never boils" - ("A watch port never sales" -/- added by me)
Good advice for me.
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On my side, selling mostly (95%) Illustrations on Canstock, they are my second best seller after Shutterstock, which means (for Illustration, and for me) they are doing incredibly well.
I have heard also the same from other Illustrators.
I always wondered how illustrations like in your portfolio can be sold as stock. Do you hold the copyrights to these engravings?
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I do increasingly well on CanS. $4-500/ month last few months.
They seem to mirror the growth at FL for me so maybe they have a similar search algorithm?
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Those ELs are always a nice surprise. I do okay there but they have been more quiet than normal in the last few days. I doubt there's anything suspicious going on.
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I do increasingly well on CanS. $4-500/ month last few months.
They seem to mirror the growth at FL for me so maybe they have a similar search algorithm?
500 DOLLAR a month??
How big is your port? Thats insane, I dont even make that on SS monthly. CanStockPhoto is 8 dollar a month for me. hahahaha
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I do increasingly well on CanS. $4-500/ month last few months.
They seem to mirror the growth at FL for me so maybe they have a similar search algorithm?
500 DOLLAR a month??
How big is your port? Thats insane, I dont even make that on SS monthly. CanStockPhoto is 8 dollar a month for me. hahahaha
It's not how big it is but what you do with it (or what's in it )
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I do increasingly well on CanS. $4-500/ month last few months.
They seem to mirror the growth at FL for me so maybe they have a similar search algorithm?
500 DOLLAR a month??
How big is your port? Thats insane, I dont even make that on SS monthly. CanStockPhoto is 8 dollar a month for me. hahahaha
It's not how big it is but what you do with it (or what's in it )
I'm impressed. I rarely make more than a 100$ with them but I think I missed the boat on a lot of these 'smaller' sites by only uploading to the big 4 for so long.
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On my side, selling mostly (95%) Illustrations on Canstock, they are my second best seller after Shutterstock, which means (for Illustration, and for me) they are doing incredibly well.
I have heard also the same from other Illustrators.
I always wondered how illustrations like in your portfolio can be sold as stock. Do you hold the copyrights to these engravings?
Copyrights expire. If the work is demonstrably old enough and the copyright is expired, you can scan a print and own the copyright to the scan. You'll see old engravings from various contributors at all the agencies
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On my side, selling mostly (95%) Illustrations on Canstock, they are my second best seller after Shutterstock, which means (for Illustration, and for me) they are doing incredibly well.
I have heard also the same from other Illustrators.
I always wondered how illustrations like in your portfolio can be sold as stock. Do you hold the copyrights to these engravings?
Copyrights expire. If the work is demonstrably old enough and the copyright is expired, you can scan a print and own the copyright to the scan. You'll see old engravings from various contributors at all the agencies
But it's such a blurry situation. Who will decide who scanned them first? Being the first uploader to a site makes you the new copyright holder? What if someone else uploaded it to another site before you or what if someone else scanned them years before you and used them somewhere else?