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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: Phil on April 15, 2011, 01:50

Title: actual rates
Post by: Phil on April 15, 2011, 01:50
now I cant even remember why but I brought up bigstock and somehow hit buy credits.

Like fotolia they work on earning 50% of a $1 credit (I didnt work them out as we know gets down to 16% - although a touch higher for me on silver).

Anyway looking at their credit prices got me thinking about how much I am actually getting...

Bigstock 5 credit pack = AU$3.4 per credit (cant change currencies) but today au$3.4 = us$3.57

so $0.5 / $3.57 = 14% commission! (although best case = 49% on the 700 credit packs)
is this right????  BigStock the lowest?

So I looked some more SS credit packs depending on level between 19.1% and 33% (being on top level I get between 29%-33%)

123rf (like BigStock 50% of $1 credits) au1.66=us1.75 -  for me min rate 28% max 44.6% (for 1200 credit packs)

veer (35% of $1 credits) au 1.42= us$1.49 - so 23% min and max 42% (12000 credit pack cant imagine too many of them being sold)

is & dt work on actual price, I think canstock work on 50% of purchase price too, just a pity about their subs.

when BigStock biggest credit pack is 700, 123rf is 1200, ss although different is 220 I wonder how many massive (5000+) credit packs actually get sold.