I just tried to contact support but when I hit "send" I'm informed that [email protected]/ is not a valid email address. How do you contact them?

Take the trailing slash off the e-mail address. I've already contacted support about this coding error on their part

Quote from: Pixart on May 29, 2012, 15:58
They cannot put their copyright on them. They DO NOT OWN THE COPYRIGHT.  YOU DO!!!  Is this not a crime??

Of course it's a crime, it's copyright infringement. It's big companies taking advantage of contributors who are trying to make a buck.

It will be a shame if Veer ruin their reputation over this.  They should ask alamy to remove the collection until they have an opt out.  Otherwise lots of people will leave Veer and they're going to have a tough task convincing people that they're trustworthy again.  Mud sticks, microstock contributors have a lot of sites to use and dropping one with relatively low sales isn't going to be a problem.

I was so naive that I took for granted that transfer of images to Alamy is stopped until "the process of considering and implementing options" is over. Another 100+ of my images has been transferred in few last days. It must be some kind of black humor. 

Quote from: lisafx on May 25, 2012, 00:09
Just a suggestion to those asking that their Veer accounts be closed.  You might want to ask them to deactivate your images, rather than removing them.  This situation will probably be resolved favorably and it would be a bummer to have to start over uploading again. 

I closed my account a couple of years ago and they removed my images.  Later things improved there, and the process of uploading at 50/week is so slow and arduous that it took me over a year and a half just to get back to where I had been before closing my account. 

Hi, new Microstock Group member here. Absolutely astonished at this policy from Veer. Following the advice above from Lisa I just emailed them this:

"I am writing to request that you deactivate (rather than delete) my images on Veer until such time that Veer offer an opt-out to the distribution scheme that includes Alamy.

Whilst I have no evidence that my Veer images have been distributed via Alamy I suspect that it is only a matter of time. I find your policy of forcing content producers to compete against and undercut themselves as reprehensible, underhand and totally unacceptable business practice. I'm sure that you don't need me to tell you of the reputational damage that this policy is doing to the Veer brand amongst Microstock contributors."

Once I have a reply from Veer I'll share it here.

Quote from: sharpshot on May 29, 2012, 19:14
It will be a shame if Veer ruin their reputation over this. 

I doubt it. I already had a very low opinion of them. Corbis's attempt to break into the microstock market has always been lukewarm, probably underfunded and ultimately doomed to fail. IMHO they will never be 'a player'.

It's frustrating because they're close to being "a player" but every time they make some progress, something like this sets them back.  It would be easier for them to succeed than find the ways they have to fail.  It's a bit like a football team of expensive players that under perform year after year.  Someone there needs the Alex Ferguson hairdryer

Agree, they are so desperate to become "someone" in the market that it leads to something like putting our images on Alamy without telling us!
It's like people who are deep in debt trouble starting to steal .... sad very sad!

I just wrote to support asking them too remove my images from Alamy or remove my account from Veer, this is just ridiculous ... Alamy makes me 6 to 10 times more than Veer so it is definately not worth having my images from Veer there AT ALL!

Hope there is a solution soon

Quote from: andresr on May 30, 2012, 13:30
Agree, they are so desperate to become "someone" in the market that it leads to something like putting our images on Alamy without telling us!
It's like people who are deep in debt trouble starting to steal .... sad very sad!

I just wrote to support asking them too remove my images from Alamy or remove my account from Veer, this is just ridiculous ... Alamy makes me 6 to 10 times more than Veer so it is definately not worth having my images from Veer there AT ALL!

Hope there is a solution soon

+1  I wrote support asking the same thing.

Quote from: gemmy12 on May 27, 2012, 09:07... btw is www.pocketstock.com  different from www.pocketstock.com.mx ? as my images are not in pocketstock.com but in pocketstock.com.mx

My images only show at pocketstock.com.mx and not at pocketstock.com

I am with Veer so should I expect them to show up on pocketstock.com as well?

This is a huge mindf$*&.

Brian, it would be good to get some definitive word on how this is being handled.  I remain hopeful that Veer will do the right thing here and remove the Alamy Creativity images of contributors that don't want them there, but as time passes with no word, it is becoming more of a concern. 

Quote from: click_click on May 30, 2012, 13:43

Quote from: gemmy12 on May 27, 2012, 09:07... btw is www.pocketstock.com  different from www.pocketstock.com.mx ? as my images are not in pocketstock.com but in pocketstock.com.mx

My images only show at pocketstock.com.mx and not at pocketstock.com

I am with Veer so should I expect them to show up on pocketstock.com as well?

This is a huge mindf$*&.

And me. All my Veer images show at pocketstock.com.mx but none at pocketstock.com.

I caution Veer (Brian) to make this statement as public as possible.

By that I mean that Veer should send out the statement via email to all contributors and not just post in this thread here.

I'm sure that still a large number of contributors (who aren't members of MSG) have no clue what is happening. Everyone needs to be informed.

Quote from: click_click on May 30, 2012, 21:28
I caution Veer (Brian) to make this statement as public as possible.

By that I mean that Veer should send out the statement via email to all contributors and not just post in this thread here.

I'm sure that still a large number of contributors (who aren't members of MSG) have no clue what is happening. Everyone needs to be informed.

I don't think their scheme would work if they told everyone about it.   Maybe they are gauging the response now to see if they need to change anything.  If 99% of the contributors don't notice then maybe it's best just to push it under the rug and continue like nothing happened.

Quote from: traveler1116 on May 30, 2012, 21:33

Quote from: click_click on May 30, 2012, 21:28
I caution Veer (Brian) to make this statement as public as possible.

By that I mean that Veer should send out the statement via email to all contributors and not just post in this thread here.

I'm sure that still a large number of contributors (who aren't members of MSG) have no clue what is happening. Everyone needs to be informed.

I don't think their scheme would work if they told everyone about it.   Maybe they are gauging the response now to see if they need to change anything.  If 99% of the contributors don't notice then maybe it's best just to push it under the rug and continue like nothing happened.

It's possible but I think unlikely.

Brian would lose a lot of credibility if he won't post a response, despite promising that he would.

Still, I think a few heavy weights Like Andres might pull the plug and that is something that will hurt Veer.

However, Veer never made the impression to me to be a priority at Corbis (regarding the microstock area), so maybe they just want to let this thing bleed out anyway and take whatever (little) money they can make with it.

All the issues (reviewing times, collection update delays, communication problems etc.) speak for themselves.

Last reply from Ryan, 5 days ago:

Quote"I haven't received an update as to the details of the Alamy situation as of yet, sorry for the delay."

Quote from: click_click on May 30, 2012, 13:43

Quote from: gemmy12 on May 27, 2012, 09:07... btw is www.pocketstock.com  different from www.pocketstock.com.mx ? as my images are not in pocketstock.com but in pocketstock.com.mx

My images only show at pocketstock.com.mx and not at pocketstock.com

I am with Veer so should I expect them to show up on pocketstock.com as well?

This is a huge mindf$*&.

Those two sites aren't related.

Quote from: SC on May 30, 2012, 23:54

Quote from: click_click on May 30, 2012, 13:43

Quote from: gemmy12 on May 27, 2012, 09:07... btw is www.pocketstock.com  different from www.pocketstock.com.mx ? as my images are not in pocketstock.com but in pocketstock.com.mx

My images only show at pocketstock.com.mx and not at pocketstock.com

I am with Veer so should I expect them to show up on pocketstock.com as well?

This is a huge mindf$*&.

Those two sites aren't related.

it does look like they aren´t but its so weird having the exact same company name

Quote from: luissantos84 on May 31, 2012, 00:25

Quote from: SC on May 30, 2012, 23:54

Quote from: click_click on May 30, 2012, 13:43

Quote from: gemmy12 on May 27, 2012, 09:07... btw is www.pocketstock.com  different from www.pocketstock.com.mx ? as my images are not in pocketstock.com but in pocketstock.com.mx

My images only show at pocketstock.com.mx and not at pocketstock.com

I am with Veer so should I expect them to show up on pocketstock.com as well?

This is a huge mindf$*&.

I asked them and they claim not to be related.
I guess thats the problem of having so many url extensions - you can't buy up all the possibilities.


Those two sites aren't related.

it does look like they aren´t but its so weird having the exact same company name

I guess I'm gonna register gettyimages.com.mx then 

Just updated the partner program list to reflect the various newly identified Veer partners.
http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/a-list-of-partner-programs/msg194802/#msg194802

Also noticed Pocketstock.com file numbers are based on the name of the contributor, (for example files that start with "MYA" are Yuri files).  Don't know what that means, but there it is.

Are sales dead for everyone else too the last couple of weeks? my last sale was May 16.
Sales were fine before, number 6 on my best earning sites list.

What the h..l is going on there lately? all because of this Alamy partnership which was a huge mistake anyway.

Quote from: Wim on May 31, 2012, 07:55
Are sales dead for everyone else too the last couple of weeks? my last sale was May 16.
Sales were fine before, number 6 on my best earning sites list.

What the h..l is going on there lately? all because of this Alamy partnership which was a huge mistake anyway.

last month and this month each about 50% of normal months.

Its now 15 days since Ryan said they working on an addressment... Really how hard is it?

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