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Quote from: madelaide on November 05, 2010, 19:58

What brings us back to cclapper's statement that I commented: "I can't figure out why big corporations get such hefty discounts...they are the ones that can afford to pay more! "  Big companies have more money, can afford images without any significant impact on their budgets, and yet they are the ones who benefit more from subs or any other discount prices.  If there were no subs, I am certain they would buy images anyway.  Maybe less images, but at a higher, non-subs price.

Bigger corporations get bigger discounts because they buy more credits in one go or because they commit to buying longer subscriptions. That's the way the corporate world works and always did -- long before stock libraries existed. I don't like it any more than you do but it's not going to go away.

If subscriptions didn't exist, I agree that some companies would buy credits instead but many others wouldn't. Subscriptions is the only model that's going to work for many large corporations for the reasons mentioned in my earlier post.

I agree and the company making the money is iStock...it's not passed on down to the contributor. They are selling in bulk and more than likely this buyer doesn't even use all the credits they buy.