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Agency Based Discussion => Dreamstime.com => Topic started by: cthoman on June 24, 2012, 11:38

Title: $.30 sub sales?
Post by: cthoman on June 24, 2012, 11:38

I normally don't monitor this very carefully, but I noticed I had a couple subs sales that I got $.30 for. I thought the minimum was $.35. Has this happened to anybody else?

Title: Re: $.30 sub sales?
Post by: wut on June 24, 2012, 11:42

I thought the minimum was 33c...Not that it really makes any difference with the low volume I've been getting lately

Title: Re: $.30 sub sales?
Post by: Karimala on June 24, 2012, 11:55

No...but I did have a 3 credit sale for 45 cents, or 15 cents per credit.

Title: Re: $.30 sub sales?
Post by: noodle on June 24, 2012, 12:20

90 % of my sales are sub sales -- all at $o.30

this is not a dream - its dreamstime

Title: Re: $.30 sub sales?
Post by: WarrenPrice on June 24, 2012, 12:24

I think the partner's share of sales is deducted from your commission.  I've had several at 32 cents.  Not familiar with 30 cent sales.
But ... DT always has an explanation.   :P

Title: Re: $.30 sub sales?
Post by: borg on June 24, 2012, 12:45

I am more concerned that I have the same number of views but not a single sale for days!

Title: Re: $.30 sub sales?
Post by: wut on June 24, 2012, 12:46

Stop worrying, it's a sinking ship for everyone but big timers (according to this week's reports). So business as usual ;)

Title: Re: $.30 sub sales?
Post by: nicku on June 24, 2012, 12:58

Quote from: cthoman on June 24, 2012, 11:38

I normally don't monitor this very carefully, but I noticed I had a couple subs sales that I got $.30 for. I thought the minimum was $.35. Has this happened to anybody else?

30 cents is a big sum... i hada sub sale there at .22

Title: Re: $.30 sub sales?
Post by: cthoman on June 24, 2012, 13:17

Quote from: WarrenPrice on June 24, 2012, 12:24

I think the partner's share of sales is deducted from your commission.  I've had several at 32 cents.  Not familiar with 30 cent sales.
But ... DT always has an explanation.   :P

That seems like a logical explanation. I guess I'll have to ask them to see what they say.

Title: Re: $.30 sub sales?
Post by: Newsfocus1 on June 24, 2012, 13:27

This thread covers the issue: http://www.microstockgroup.com/dreamstime-com/dt-subs-33c/ (http://www.microstockgroup.com/dreamstime-com/dt-subs-33c/)
Regards, David.

Title: Re: $.30 sub sales?
Post by: stockastic on June 24, 2012, 13:54

DT - and IS, and others as well - keep ratcheting down the subscription comissions, hiding behind increasingly convoluted cr@p like "old credits".  The reality is that in the subscription model there's no direct relationship between what a buyer pays and what the contributor gets.   The payment to the contributor isn't even a "commission", it's basically a token.  They've slipped in so many exceptions and layers of indirection in subscription pricing that it's not possible to know if your payment for a particulare download is even correct.   It could be 3 cents, and if you asked DT about it, they'd have some crazy explanation, and you'd have no way to contest it. 

Frogs being boiled slowly, etc.

Title: Re: $.30 sub sales?
Post by: cthoman on June 24, 2012, 13:58

Quote from: Newsfocus1 on June 24, 2012, 13:27

This thread covers the issue: [url]http://www.microstockgroup.com/dreamstime-com/dt-subs-33c/[/url] ([url]http://www.microstockgroup.com/dreamstime-com/dt-subs-33c/[/url])
Regards, David.

Thanks.