question on crestock

Will we see a commission increase to bring it more in line with other agencies? (especially the subscriptions)

By stevepigeon on Monday, 5 July 2010 2:16 PM
No plan to revise the commission rate at this juncture. However, I will say that our subscription rate is pretty much industry standard when compared to the major players in subscription.

Steve Pigeon, President - Crestock Corporation

Quote from: Phil on July 05, 2010, 22:24
question on crestock

Will we see a commission increase to bring it more in line with other agencies? (especially the subscriptions)

By stevepigeon on Monday, 5 July 2010 2:16 PM
No plan to revise the commission rate at this juncture. However, I will say that our subscription rate is pretty much industry standard when compared to the major players in subscription.

Steve Pigeon, President - Crestock Corporation

Note to Steve Pigeon,

Huh??? Have another look. This sorts of statement just make you look dumb or arrogant.

i suppose, people accept $0.25 at TS, why should they pay any more?

Yep. It's the industry standard rate at which most contributors say "No thanks."

To Steve or whomever makes the decisions:

A reward or levels system such as Shutterstock or Dreamstime would certainly be an enticement AND a show of good faith on your part.

Such a shame they haven't looked at how much the other sites pay.  $0.25 is disgraceful for a site that sells mainly subs and has low sales volume.  I really can't be bothered reactivating my account if they are going to be the same as they were before.  Why would I want buyers to go there instead of the sites that pay me much more?

Come on Crestock you can do better than this!
pay us to upload for a start

Crrestock? Again 25c? Industry standard?

WOW!

What a bunch of stupid words and numbers ;-) Industry standard for me is about 35c average on 15 agencies...
I don't upload to those who are paying less than 30c...

Well... I will upload to Crestock and accept that 25c IF Crestock pays me $1 per upload (rejected images included).

How about that?

Masterfile, you will fail on this!

I think this sums it up for me why I don't submit to Crestock.

One of the highest sellers in Microstock averages 1.36 sales per photo

Yuri_Arcurs 
Denmark
Images approved: 25921
Images sold: 35252

I don't know what the average RPD at Crestock is , $0.50 ? 
for my portfolio which is smaller in size and saleability it doesn't look like it would be worth uploading there.

That coupled with Crestock previous history of random rejections, slow review and worst slow payments the new owners will need to come up with something special to get me interested.

 

Quote from: qwerty on July 06, 2010, 12:22

That coupled with Crestock previous history of random rejections, slow review and worst slow payments the new owners will need to come up with something special to get me interested.

Yeah they were pretty awful. I was always surprised to see the amount of people clambering to be apart of Crestock. I uploaded for a very brief time, but it was a no brainer to stop uploading after they rejected the second batch I sent them, really good sellers too. I know some of you have jumped straight back in. Given slow sales there, might be worth waiting to see if Masterfile can get them into shape a bit first.

I've posed the question in my blog "Is it time to give Crestock another try?" Have a look , you might find it interesting.

http://www.microstockposts.com/is-it-time-to-give-crestock-another-try/

Maybe if every one waited they would pay to upload, then everyone who rushed to get their ports back on track will be wishing they had waited. Personally I don't know if I want to go through the trouble of uploading to another dead site. I tried them when they first started and after the ridiculous rejects I left. Maybe if they make their way to be a better more productive site...I might reconsider, but for the time being I'll sit and watch.

0,25 or 1.000... start paying what is pending and then we can talk...!

[/quoted from the new members agreement :

3.
Copyright
All Content is the property and copyright of Crestock and/or its licensors.    [/quoeted]

if I agree with the terms does that mean they will retain the copyright even if I remove my images from the site. and what if I don't agree with the new TOS would I still be able to get my money which I requested a month ago. (the site won't allow you to sign in without agreeing with the terms) to be honest I don't want to carry on with  crestock  and I am surprised why would anyone wanted to buy it in the first place. I uploaded there long time ago and stopped shortly after that

New owner could mean solving past problems. The 2 month review time short-term doesn't look promising but it sounds like they understand that that was one of the old owners' problems that had to be fixed. I had never uploaded there before what with all the negative vibes reported here. So I'll consider them a future possibility...when and if the kind folks here give them a thumbs up. Right now they're in the Yay/Veer nether-land. Their PR stuff is pretty well written. But then again it reminds me a lot of the early days of Lucky Oliver. Don't remember Lucky Oliver? You are indeed the lucky one.

Quote from: louoates on July 07, 2010, 01:12
... But then again it reminds me a lot of the early days of Lucky Oliver. Don't remember Lucky Oliver? You are indeed the lucky one.

i remember them. those were the good times... no? 

Quote from: stokfoto on July 07, 2010, 00:58
[/quoted from the new members agreement :

3.
Copyright
All Content is the property and copyright of Crestock and/or its licensors.    [/quoeted]

if I agree with the terms does that mean they will retain the copyright even if I remove my images from the site. and what if I don't agree with the new TOS would I still be able to get my money which I requested a month ago. (the site won't allow you to sign in without agreeing with the terms) to be honest I don't want to carry on with  crestock  and I am surprised why would anyone wanted to buy it in the first place. I uploaded there long time ago and stopped shortly after that

Doesn't that mean they retain copyright??? Unless I'm misunderstanding. You should never give up the copyright to your images. Has anyone here actually read the new member agreement before they agreed to it?

Quote from: donding on July 07, 2010, 14:48

Quote from: stokfoto on July 07, 2010, 00:58
[/quoted from the new members agreement :

3.
Copyright
All Content is the property and copyright of Crestock and/or its licensors.   

Doesn't that mean they retain copyright??? Unless I'm misunderstanding. You should never give up the copyright to your images. Has anyone here actually read the new member agreement before they agreed to it?

I'm not a lawyer, but I'd read that as including us as the licensors of images to Crestock.  It says that all the content belongs either to Crestock or to the individuals who license content to them.  It's a reminder that somebody owns what's on the site, and it's not public domain/free for the taking.

Quote from: disorderly on July 07, 2010, 15:06

Quote from: donding on July 07, 2010, 14:48

Quote from: stokfoto on July 07, 2010, 00:58
[/quoted from the new members agreement :

3.
Copyright
All Content is the property and copyright of Crestock and/or its licensors.   

Doesn't that mean they retain copyright??? Unless I'm misunderstanding. You should never give up the copyright to your images. Has anyone here actually read the new member agreement before they agreed to it?

I'm not a lawyer, but I'd read that as including us as the licensors of images to Crestock.  It says that all the content belongs either to Crestock or to the individuals who license content to them.  It's a reminder that somebody owns what's on the site, and it's not public domain/free for the taking.

That makes more sense. I don't know exactly what it says because I gave up on them a long time ago so I don't have access to the contributor agreement. I was just looking at what Stokfoto had quoted and that just didn't sound right.

I think those terms (also referring to the wbesite) are in other sites' agreements

So did anybody get paid since the new owners took over? I'm still waiting for my payment. Didn't they say everybody would get paid within two weeks (counting from July 1st) ?

I believe we should expect payouts within a few days. Hopefully!

I requested payment on July 1st.  It arrived moments ago.  That makes a nice change from the Crestock of old.  Now if they could do some reviewing, and maybe make a few more sales; those would be nice too.

I received my payout today too.  Minus 25c.  Oh well.

got mine as well, a sign of progress.

any good signs of crestock, i got whole batch rejected there after a 2-3 month reviewing time, then i read their forum, all floats with cursing and asking for payment...so i stop trying.

now it got new owner, what they are going to do to woo contributors back? any new things? i saw there is a $5 for contributing a free image?