Author Topic: This guy thinks that stock footage is overpriced (Read 4613 times)

dragonblade · « **on:** March 25, 2022, 23:14 »

With the introduction of subscription sales for videos across a number of agencies, contributors are going to see a reduction in the amount of money earned on clip sales. It really is a sad situation with contributors losing more and more income. However, this guy thinks quite the opposite. He opened a thread in an online forum and expressed the view that stock footage is overpriced. He repeats this many times throughout the thread and never changes his tune. Unbelievable.

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/34k6w854

Video-StockOrg · « **Reply #1 on:** March 26, 2022, 03:43 »

he surely never had experience with video productions... paying 70€ for a clip is a change against what video productions would charge for same work.

Firn · « **Reply #2 on:** March 26, 2022, 03:59 »

He's by far not the only one. Sometimes I have ads for various microstock sites pop up in my social media feeds. They are usually followed by comments by
1. Artists who complain that they don't get enough money
2. Customers that complain that the images are way too expensice
3. People who ask why they should even pay for images at all, since you could just download everything for free on the internet

everest · « **Reply #3 on:** March 26, 2022, 04:10 »

Yes. Those are the same people that work in a department store and open big eyes when you tell them you should be able to fill your cart and go out of the shop without paying a dime.

Those are the same people that run a pharmacy business and open big eyes when you tell them that you should go inside a pharmacy, pick up what you want and not pay a dime

Those are the same people that run a dentist office, and you tell them that every treatment should be free.

Those are the same people...........

Those people are just morons for having that kind of mentality.

Quote from: Firn on March 26, 2022, 03:59

3. People who ask why they should even pay for images at all, since you ould just download everything for free on the internet

ShadySue · « **Reply #4 on:** March 26, 2022, 06:17 »

Quote from: dragonblade on March 25, 2022, 23:14

With the introduction of commission sales for videos across a number of agencies, contributors are going to see a reduction in the amount of money earned on clip sales. It really is a sad situation with contributors losing more and more income. However, this guy thinks quite the opposite. He opened a thread in an online forum and expressed the view that stock footage is overpriced. He repeats this many times throughout the thread and never changes his tune. Unbelievable.

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/34k6w854

Yeah, but that's a knuckle dragger who can't spell or use grammar (says the Typo Queen).

dragonblade · « **Reply #5 on:** March 26, 2022, 07:28 »

Woops. I meant to say "subscription sales" in my opening sentence.

Yea the guy is a fool. No matter what anyone else in that thread says, he keeps repeating the same thing over and over again.

Gosh, in it's latest reply, he seems to think that it will be cheaper to send someone out to film something specific. Despite people telling him otherwise. I don't think he can be reasoned with.

ShadySue · « **Reply #6 on:** March 26, 2022, 07:48 »

Quote from: dragonblade on March 26, 2022, 07:28

Woops. I meant to say "subscription sales" in my opening sentence.

Yea the guy is a fool. No matter what anyone else in that thread says, he keeps repeating the same thing over and over again.

Gosh, in it's latest reply, he seems to think that it will be cheaper to send someone out to film something specific. Despite people telling him otherwise. I don't think he can be reasoned with.

So he should just go out and do it, not waste time arguing about it on a forum.
If he was a real potential customer, that's what he'd be doing. If he can do it to his satisfaction, fine; if not, he knows what to do. Or he can just not use a video, which often is the best solution. I see a lot of YTers sticking in at best tangentially-relevant video (and, for that matter, stock photos) of no benefit to their message.

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