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« Reply #25 on: November 08, 2013, 06:24 »
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We are having subscription plans / packages but we are making it a viable option only for L and XL images. And Standard Royalty Free Licenses only. The idea is to use these to encourage high volume transactions and to attract buyers with frequent large image requirements. Our subscription pricing is as follows:

 30 images usable within 1 month for $597 ($19.90 per image)
185 images usable within 6 months for $3,197 (~$17.29 per image)
365 images usable within 12 months for $5,397 (~$14.79 per image)

We want these subscriptions / packages to be lucrative to contributing photographers too so we are fixing the amount that contributors get when a customer uses a subscription to download their image. This is fixed at $9.95 (which is pretty much your share of a large standard license outright sale) no matter which subscription / package is used to download your image. So this means for 1 month subscription / packages you are taking 50%, for 6 months 58% and for 12 months 67%.

Sounds good to me, although I doubt you'll get many takers at those prices.  Sub buyers just don't seem to want to put out for reasonable costs.


« Reply #26 on: November 08, 2013, 09:48 »
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Australian folks are loaded, just wish they have never heard of SS ;D

« Reply #27 on: November 08, 2013, 10:02 »
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Australian folks are loaded, just wish they have never heard of SS ;D
yeah. My Australian payments are almost always heavy. :)

« Reply #28 on: November 08, 2013, 10:18 »
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Australian folks are loaded, just wish they have never heard of SS ;D

Must be all those exports of koala fur jackets and platypus purses.

« Reply #29 on: November 08, 2013, 10:22 »
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Australian folks are loaded, just wish they have never heard of SS ;D

Must be all those exports of koala fur jackets and platypus purses.

Primark? ;D

« Reply #30 on: November 08, 2013, 11:38 »
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Australian folks are loaded, just wish they have never heard of SS ;D

Must be all those exports of koala fur jackets and platypus purses.

You know you can be a pretty funny guy sometimes. I like that.

mlwinphoto

« Reply #31 on: November 08, 2013, 18:57 »
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My only advice to Stockbo would be to make sure and inform contributors whose ports you review to notify those contributors even if they are not accepted.....

Ron

« Reply #32 on: November 08, 2013, 19:07 »
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I have sent in my link

« Reply #33 on: November 09, 2013, 01:13 »
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Sounds good. Sent in my links to pics and video on shutterstock for your consideration. I seriously hope you will consider accepting video submissions before launch as I think it would benefit us all to be right out there from the start instead of as an after thought.

« Reply #34 on: November 09, 2013, 01:55 »
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Haha guys! We're happy that you know that Koalas and Platypuses originate from Australia.  :D

We're very appreciative of the feedback that has been given and to the artists who have emailed us with links. We'll be going through them over the next few days. Stay tuned to hear more from us.

Regards from Down Under

Kevin
The Stockbo Team

« Reply #35 on: November 09, 2013, 22:06 »
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some queries regarding options for deleting images. how much time will you/stockbo take to remove the images if a contributor decides to delete couple of images ? Will this time be same for deleting whole port ? And will a contributor has to ask the admin or stockbo team to do so or there would be a separate delete button in the site ?
Your prices seem attractive for a photographer. Hope you become a long player among stock sites.
Hello kevin/stockbo. probably you did not read all the messages in thread after your last message. So i ask you once again (of course if stockbo has decided) how much time you take to remove once images after his request to delete them ?
« Last Edit: November 09, 2013, 22:09 by gemmy12 »

« Reply #36 on: November 10, 2013, 03:18 »
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Sorry gemmy12.

The contributor will have the ability to delete their own images from Stockbo if they wish to. All we ask is that contributors think about deleting them first, because when they do so, the images will no longer be available for re-download if a subscriber or buyer has lost the image that they have already purchased. We've decided to give artists more control of their art.

Regards

Kevin
The Stockbo Team

« Reply #37 on: November 10, 2013, 03:27 »
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Sorry gemmy12.

The contributor will have the ability to delete their own images from Stockbo if they wish to. All we ask is that contributors think about deleting them first, because when they do so, the images will no longer be available for re-download if a subscriber or buyer has lost the image that they have already purchased. We've decided to give artists more control of their art.

Regards

Kevin
The Stockbo Team
thanks for the reply Kevin. Wish you guys good luck.

« Reply #38 on: November 12, 2013, 03:23 »
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Hey guys.

Just an update prices will have to be in AUD. Luckily its still a strong currency and fairly close to the USD.

Also thanks for all your emails and links! We are going through them and promise to reply to everyone as soon as we can.

Have fun to all those going to Berlin for the expo! And good luck with that freezing weather we're in the ~30 degrees (Celsius) range all week here.

Ranjeev

Ron

« Reply #39 on: November 21, 2013, 04:03 »
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Got accepted onto Stockbo... now lets see how it goes.

« Reply #40 on: November 21, 2013, 05:30 »
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Got accepted onto Stockbo... now lets see how it goes.

Congratulations - that's first step done and now to see how the sales will go ...

I've applied with a link to my port as well, as they seem to make a good confidence-building start! :)

mlwinphoto

« Reply #41 on: November 21, 2013, 10:48 »
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Got accepted onto Stockbo... now lets see how it goes.

Ditto.


« Reply #42 on: November 21, 2013, 11:12 »
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I was accepted too.  Sounds good, I'll be interested to see how it goes.

« Reply #43 on: November 25, 2013, 03:21 »
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Hey all.

We're still in the process of replying to many of your applications. We have replied to some already and as we can see in the thread, some of those individuals have acknowledged this. For those of you who have yet to recieve a reply, don't be disheartened. By no means have we forgotten about you. In fact, we'll be onto you with a reply in the coming days.  :D

Many thanks for the ongoing support.

Kevin
The Stockbo Team

« Reply #44 on: November 30, 2013, 05:28 »
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I'm in... ;D

« Reply #45 on: November 30, 2013, 07:18 »
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Received an acceptance email as well.

1.  Refreshing to see that pricing and commission structure is not overly defensive as it completely avoids the ridiculous sub. commissions of so many other sites.

2. Interesting to note from the guideline their preference for more natural shots versus the studio isolates so common in microstock.

Two great positives there - the clear market approach and a fair, more logical pricing and commission (esp on subscription packages) :)

Wishing them great luck in the marketplace.

« Reply #46 on: November 30, 2013, 13:54 »
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How did you come up with the name STOCKBO? I assume the added BO means something?

« Reply #47 on: November 30, 2013, 15:56 »
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How did you come up with the name STOCKBO? I assume the added BO means something?

In Catalan it means 'Good' so STOCKBO = GOOD STOCK  :-)

BTW, I'm in too.

Ron

« Reply #48 on: November 30, 2013, 15:58 »
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« Reply #49 on: December 01, 2013, 21:42 »
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Actually the bo had no real meaning when we came up with Stockbo! We compared a whole bunch of stock industry names and from personal experience brand names that are short and have two to three words / syllables tend to be the most memorable.

We tested a few other names including fotostocked and stockedpic (which we still have the domains for!) but people always remembered and loved Stockbo. 'Best of' Stock was what we thought it could represent but I like Peresanz's Catalan reference too!

Ranjeev


 

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