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Poncke

« Reply #100 on: September 27, 2012, 14:43 »
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I am not sure what 123RF means with the statement when you havent been around for a full year. I guess they are going to get an average of your monthly sales and complete the year for you. If thats the case, I will drop from 50% to 40%. If not, I will drop 15% to 35%. The last time I got a 15% cut in commission for giving someone my photos for free was never. Greedy b.....


« Reply #101 on: September 27, 2012, 15:51 »
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If not, I will drop 15% to 35%. The last time I got a 15% cut in commission for giving someone my photos for free was never. Greedy b.....

That's a misconception. Its a  30% (!) cut instead of 15%.

Poncke

« Reply #102 on: September 27, 2012, 18:48 »
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If not, I will drop 15% to 35%. The last time I got a 15% cut in commission for giving someone my photos for free was never. Greedy b.....

That's a misconception. Its a  30% (!) cut instead of 15%.

Ok, can you explain that to me? I am quite new in microstock. Cheers.

« Reply #103 on: September 27, 2012, 19:31 »
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If not, I will drop 15% to 35%. The last time I got a 15% cut in commission for giving someone my photos for free was never. Greedy b.....

That's a misconception. Its a  30% (!) cut instead of 15%.

Ok, can you explain that to me? I am quite new in microstock. Cheers.

For starters, they will just take all the RC you have from the last 12 months - so a bunch of those months will be 0 if you haven't been there a full year.

30 percent of 50 is 15 - hence going from 50 to 35 is a 30% drop. 

I bet that motivates you and makes your income more predictable or whatever BS they spouted in their announcement (in fact I shouldn't even try to explain anything about 123RF to you by their logic).

Poncke

« Reply #104 on: September 28, 2012, 07:47 »
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right gotcha. I wrote them an email and they confirmed i will have 0 credit months since I started back in march. they also said they are aware of the uproar and that people have stopped uploading, but they consider it a fair deal because now the good portfolios will get the higher commission. they are sticking to their guns. lets see if its IS all over again and if they join the race to the bottom. greedy b....

« Reply #105 on: September 28, 2012, 08:08 »
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just goes to show the free for all image grab of the last decade isnt a proven business model. Its either penalise new submissions, or cull the crap.  Ive noticed a trend starting to happen.

« Reply #106 on: September 28, 2012, 08:47 »
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I've dumped Fotolia, because I doubt their honesty, and Featurepix that I never had more than a handful of photos with because they don't sell. I've stopped uploading to Crestock for lack of sales and Panthermedia because they messed me around (they reviewed a huge pile, accepted about 80% then listed all the rejects last and cut my FTP uploading rights to virtually nothing), they also make everything complicated. I'll probably dump Veer because they make it very difficult and time-consuming to upload, sales don't compensate for the upload effort and their payment arrangements for third-party sales are opaque.

« Reply #107 on: September 28, 2012, 09:03 »
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right gotcha. I wrote them an email and they confirmed i will have 0 credit months since I started back in march. they also said they are aware of the uproar and that people have stopped uploading, but they consider it a fair deal because now the good portfolios will get the higher commission. they are sticking to their guns. lets see if its IS all over again and if they join the race to the bottom. greedy b....

There is a big difference in the motivation to submit  to IS and 123 in that volumes and prices at IS make it worthwhile and 15% of something is something.  30%, 35%, 40% of very little would not inspire me to submit and the new subs rates are a deal breaker.

« Reply #108 on: September 28, 2012, 09:55 »
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I left PantherMedia right after I joined them. They hadd a strange (old?) upload system. I uploaded about 50 good-sellers to see how they review and they rejected 80%. When I saw the rejections I laughed and closed my account right away.

I left Cutcaster because the site is dead  ;)

I left YayMicro because after a 1 EUR sale the first week nothing happened for months. They had an easy upload process though.

I will leave 123RF end of this year because of their new pricing.

I'm thinking about leaving DepositPhotos because I only get sub-sales there. On the other hand it's a new site and they seem to grow fast so I'll probably stick around untill they do something stupid like cutting commissions.

RT


« Reply #109 on: September 28, 2012, 12:09 »
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I left: Yaymicro, Mostphotos, Featurepics & Crestock because I take the attitude that an agency should market our images in return for taking the commission that they do, the sales figures on these sites were pathetic in comparison to others.

I stopped uploading to Stockfresh for the same reason, I do still have some of my stuff there and one day I'll get round to deleting them, but I'm of the opinion they'll go bust soon so don't want to waste my time doing so.

I support many charities both personally and through my business, I don't consider stock agencies/picture libraries as charities, if they can't be bothered to actively work to sell my images I can't be bothered to fund them!!

I left Veer because of the 'Alamy saga' and it appears from a recent thread that they're up to it again.


« Reply #110 on: September 29, 2012, 18:00 »
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veer
featurepics
lucky oliver (before they crashed)
crestock
vivozoom
mystock (before they crashed)
 and more, I just cant remember them.

Soon:

Stockfresh (for no sales)
DP (too many subs and lousy EL licenses and poor transparency)
PD (no sales)

« Reply #111 on: October 09, 2012, 03:35 »
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Gave up on Fotolia a long time back and pulled my port. I really wasn't sure I liked their business practices.

Gave up on Stockfresh for lack of sales and was about to pull from Superhug before they saved me the trouble!

I am now giving up, reluctantly, on Dreamstime. I like them as a site but their 'similars' policy is driving me to insanity. I am having a rush on other sites for 2013 calendars but DT turned them all down as they were 'too similar' to the ones I uploaded, (and sold), last year! Go figure? This was the last of numerous ridiculous rejections and my time is best spent uploading to the sites that will accept and regularly sell my work.


 

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