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Title: 700 hours estimate wait for review? A joke?
Post by: Peter on May 02, 2008, 01:12
Is this a joke?  ;D

(http://i25.tinypic.com/260crwk.jpg)
Title: Re: 700 hours estimate wait for review? A joke?
Post by: leaf on May 02, 2008, 01:17
hmm.. looks like the cue is moving slowly :)
Title: Re: 700 hours estimate wait for review? A joke?
Post by: fotografer on May 02, 2008, 01:29
Not sure what is going on but I had some that said 76 hours  and they were reviewed in 2 hours so I think it must be some sort of glitch.
Title: Re: 700 hours estimate wait for review? A joke?
Post by: Magnum on May 02, 2008, 01:54
Moahaaaaaaaa!!  I have 776h on my last one. Aren´t they on a fieldtrip? Get back!!!!!
Title: Re: 700 hours estimate wait for review? A joke?
Post by: stokfoto on May 02, 2008, 02:03
my newest file just has 855 hours to be reviewed,hehe   I guess  I need to be patient  ;D
Title: Re: 700 hours estimate wait for review? A joke?
Post by: Peter29 on May 02, 2008, 02:06
When uploading on Monday, I had 9 hours, meanwhile these photos are 319 hours. Holidays? Long-sleeping?
Title: Re: 700 hours estimate wait for review? A joke?
Post by: RT on May 02, 2008, 04:36
I've stopped uploading to them and in 6 months (the time I'm required to leave my images) I will make my decision whether to pull my portfolio from there, it's nothing to do with going exclusive anywhere just as a result of some info I received.
Title: Re: 700 hours estimate wait for review? A joke?
Post by: leaf on May 02, 2008, 04:52
my guess is that it is based on the last 24 or 72 or so hours of review and perhaps they had a down time in their review software or did an update or something so that number went down to basically 0... which would make the average reviews/day pretty low.

I have quite a few sitting in the cue so hopefully it doesn't take too long.
Title: Re: 700 hours estimate wait for review? A joke?
Post by: Contakt on May 02, 2008, 05:18
I've stopped uploading to them and in 6 months (the time I'm required to leave my images) I will make my decision whether to pull my portfolio from there, it's nothing to do with going exclusive anywhere just as a result of some info I received.

RT do share for goodness sakes or PM me! My journalistic nose is on high alert. I do love a good story and especially anything to do with pony-tails if you get my drift.
Title: Re: 700 hours estimate wait for review? A joke?
Post by: DanP68 on May 02, 2008, 05:31
There are at least 2 threads about this on the Dreamstime boards.  It is a software glitch, and the true estimated time is 5-7 days from upload date.  Don't pay attention to the ETR for now.
Title: Re: 700 hours estimate wait for review? A joke?
Post by: leaf on May 02, 2008, 05:36
There are at least 2 threads about this on the Dreamstime boards.  It is a software glitch, and the true estimated time is 5-7 days from upload date.  Don't pay attention to the ETR for now.


thanks Dan.

here is a couple links btw
http://www.dreamstime.com/thread_9862
http://www.dreamstime.com/thread_9844
Title: Re: 700 hours estimate wait for review? A joke?
Post by: sam100 on May 02, 2008, 05:39
There are at least 2 threads about this on the Dreamstime boards.  It is a software glitch, and the true estimated time is 5-7 days from upload date.  Don't pay attention to the ETR for now.

Have files waiting from april 23... that makes already 10 days in my calculation...:-)

Patrick H.
Title: Re: 700 hours estimate wait for review? A joke?
Post by: RT on May 02, 2008, 05:49
I've stopped uploading to them and in 6 months (the time I'm required to leave my images) I will make my decision whether to pull my portfolio from there, it's nothing to do with going exclusive anywhere just as a result of some info I received.

RT do share for goodness sakes or PM me! My journalistic nose is on high alert. I do love a good story and especially anything to do with pony-tails if you get my drift.

Ed,

I'll PM for a chat anyway, but to stop others PM'ing me the info is only relevant to me personally and was regarding the way I want my business to be perceived by being related with DT.
Title: Re: 700 hours estimate wait for review? A joke?
Post by: leszek on May 02, 2008, 09:49
Glitch ? Maybe. But my last upload had ETR of 17 hours, which looked OK and more than acceptable. It was counting down to 5 hours, at which time it was reassessed as 70 hours. Three days later it was down to 6 hours - and again it went up to 30 hours or so. 10 days later the pics have been reviewed and accepted. So - I am not sure it is a glitch.
Title: Re: 700 hours estimate wait for review? A joke?
Post by: fotografer on May 02, 2008, 10:08
I had some approved yesterday that were uploaded on Sunday so they only took 4 days.
Title: Re: 700 hours estimate wait for review? A joke?
Post by: melastmohican on May 02, 2008, 12:44
You are lucky I got messages that it will take 36 days an 7 hours which is 871 hours  ;D
Title: Re: 700 hours estimate wait for review? A joke?
Post by: Bateleur on May 02, 2008, 15:12
Bizarre ...

I had some that were 'ticking down' and had only 7 or 8 hours to go. Then they suddenly jumped up to 200+ hours.

My latest ones, uploaded today, say 800+ hours. That's over a month!

I wonder if their inspectors have gone on strike.
Title: Re: 700 hours estimate wait for review? A joke?
Post by: vonkara on May 02, 2008, 15:31

I wonder if their inspectors have gone on strike.
That will make some good editorial pictures
Title: Re: 700 hours estimate wait for review? A joke?
Post by: CofkoCof on May 12, 2008, 13:45
Did they fix it today while the page was down? Cos in the morning I had 500h pending time on some files and now its 140h.