I think Snapvillage is just some big joke to mess with our minds and make us waste valuable time.   

I still can't upload there so until the y anounce that they just might soon perhaps get ftp upload I'm staying away . 

Sim microstock...
Unknown Error occurred, Please try after some time.
Sorry, the village became a city overnight.
We're scrambling to keep up!.
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Someday it is a game for me, I try to upload a picture and wait for the new Error message.
I have several hundreds photos in my portfolio. I just think at those who have thousands
« Think fresh », but for now, it's just hot air... 
Ok, it is an announced Beta... btw, the site is opened, a so strange way for Corbis to enter the game...
I hope they will change those thumbnails of 195 pixels, wasteful for managing photos, and many other things...

The site did not give me the best of impressions, but if it does my keywording, then that will save me time.

Having seen the thread in the shutterstock forum about an image thief that made a bad job of cloning out the watermark, I am going to avoid SV until they improve theirs.  At the moment, it is just too easy to remove and then it is hard to know if a photo has been paid for. 

With some of my isolated objects, their watermark doesn't cover any of the subject.  That is not good enough.

Quote from: sharpshot on August 12, 2007, 13:55
Having seen the thread in the shutterstock forum about an image thief that made a bad job of cloning out the watermark, I am going to avoid SV until they improve theirs.  At the moment, it is just too easy to remove and then it is hard to know if a photo has been paid for. 

With some of my isolated objects, their watermark doesn't cover any of the subject.  That is not good enough.

yes I agree, it is not good enough. I sent them a note about the inadequacy of their watermark, they replied that they are considering changing it. Until they do I'm staying away ...

I wonder how many of us wont upload until they improve their watermark?  I hope more people let them know this.  I have posted a few times in their blog.
http://blog.snapvillage.com/

I stopped uploading until they improve the watermark.  What a joke, they're giving away my illustrations!

caraman

Ok, so I've tried to upload there twice. Both times I pick a selection of five good stock images. Go through the upload only to find out that if it doesn't like any of the images, it throws out the whole batch. I've waited a couple of weeks and decide to try again. I take my top selling image and upload it by itself and get, "Unknown Error, Try again after a time."

Vague, useless, and illiterate. I think three strikes and you're out.

Beta, my ass

They disabled the ability to do a right-click > save-as but I don't think that helps much.

Paul

Correct. The print-screen button overcomes the disabled right-click. Pretty amateur stuff.

The upload procedures here are awful! I don't mind the five at a time loader, but it has to work. Most times it does not work. I have about 100 pics there but could have 300 if it worked. I understand it is BETA but its time to fix this. A company as large as Corbis should be ashamed to have their name on this. I will continue to upload small amounts but they need to get better.

Looks like Corbis has blown it with this venture - no news for three or four weeks, site full of bugs, reputation going down the drain, complete misunderstanding of the market etc etc.

I suppose when they called it Snapvillage that was a sign that they were barking up the wrong tree.

I’ll spend my new effort on Albumo....They are putting their money where their mouth is ....plus...they pay 60% commissions (if your over 1000 images) and they have a clean good web site.  I've been with them for only 1 month and already have enough for payout.....true not a lot of sales yet only 2....but they were willing to fork over money to get me to upload there......and they are willing to give us a good commission.   WHAT is SNAPVILLAGE offering? NOTHING...

Why support another site that is going to pay us a lousy 30%....

My attitude is quickly becoming to only support the sites that support us......(IS is the one exception...but since they are the biggest...they can get away with it.....for now...but let's see what the future brings...??)

Right now the (non-subscription )sites I would love to see succeed are StockXpert, DT and Albumo ...they all give at least 50% back to us. (LO also has multiple specials that allow 50% on many of the photos…but I would rather see 50% across the board)

(of course I like SS also....but thier marketing model is so different from the others...you can't really compare them.)

I think supporting any more sites that offer anything less than 50%  is like slitting our own throats.

Tom

Just had a look, what a shockingly rough site. 'Beta' is wishful thinking I'm afraid.

Also tried to sign up (in case it gets better later on) and couldn't even do that.
Character errors when filling in fields. Gawd.

'More effort needed' as my old teacher used to say.

Might try again in a few months, if it hasn't been pulled.

Maybe.....

btw, did anyone of you guys had any sale on snapvillage? I sumbitted around 50 photos in june, setting low prices...but still nothing.

No sales but I only uploaded a handful of pictures. I can only assume if the photographers are having a hard time uploading the buyers are probably having a hard time buying.

Quote from: Nazdravie on September 14, 2007, 18:54I can only assume if the photographers are having a hard time uploading the buyers are probably having a hard time buying.

Whatever they might do, their brand name is pooped. I hereby declare them CrapHamlet. They will need a fresh start under another name. What about Corbillard? That's French for hearse. 

I don't know, if they get lots of sales in the future, we will all forgive them.  Look at fotolia.  They seem to have done everything wrong but they have lots of sales, so they are great.

I logged in there today, and things seem to work much smoother now. I can even upload, which is an improvement 

I'll upload a bunch and see what happens.