At the moment they are at least at 4th and PP sales for me seem to be even less than on December.

So, hours to close my account :-)

^^ I'm excited, too! 

I'm not closing the account until my final payout is in my PayPal account, though, just in case of some last second sneakiness/stupidity on iStock's part.

Looks like they're up to the 9th now...

Always found PP a little strange. Some of my files that never get any downloads on iStock can hit 20-30 on PP. Very different buyers on Thinkstock, I suppose...

Just got over 40$ one day on just 3 files. Does anybody know what that could be?  I thought that it was just a straight 25c per sale or are there ELS or something?

Quote from: fotografer on February 16, 2013, 19:21
Just got over 40$ one day on just 3 files. Does anybody know what that could be?  I thought that it was just a straight 25c per sale or are there ELS or something?

You can buy smaller packages of images at a larger cost per image, and there are multi-seat licences, but I'm not sure these would yield $40 for 3 files.
http://www.thinkstockphotos.co.uk/subscribe?isource=viewplans_merch_home

I had an EL a few months back - at least I think that's what it was at 26.01 (or some odd number like that). So an EL and a couple of image pack items could definitely add up. If you can find the images in question (sort PP list by last download and look for items with a disproportionate $$ to DL#s) you might make better sense of it but that's a bit luck of the draw...

Thank you both.  I didn't even realize that you could see what had sold but just had a look around and found the info.   One image sold for just over 39$ so I'm guessing it's an EL.

I'm up to the 11th.

Quote from: fotografer on February 16, 2013, 19:21
Just got over 40$ one day on just 3 files. Does anybody know what that could be?  I thought that it was just a straight 25c per sale or are there ELS or something?

I received an EL today from Thinkstock for $27.59, Extended License Image Pack 25.
You can check the amounts against the Royalty Schedule here, click on Partner Program
http://www.istockphoto.com/help/sell-stock/rate-schedule

@ Jo Ann, yours looks to be a Thinkstock Extended License Image Pack 10

Quote from: cmannphoto on February 16, 2013, 23:03

Quote from: fotografer on February 16, 2013, 19:21
Just got over 40$ one day on just 3 files. Does anybody know what that could be?  I thought that it was just a straight 25c per sale or are there ELS or something?

I received an EL today from Thinkstock for $27.59, Extended License Image Pack 25.
You can check the amounts against the Royalty Schedule here, click on Partner Program
http://www.istockphoto.com/help/sell-stock/rate-schedule

@ Jo Ann, yours looks to be a Thinkstock Extended License Image Pack 10

Thank you for that.  Mine is a Thinkstock Extended License Image Pack 1 (whatever that is!!!)

I guess I can't close the account until the 70 remaining photos come off thinkstock and photos.com.  Now have to wait until the middle of march if they actually get them removed before month end.

Better not be another massive round of clawbacks in the meantime.

They seem awful small this month.  I hope they don't have another "bad spreadsheet."

Was wondering why the amount is so low for me this month, though it might have been the 150 pics deactivated, but they still show on the pp sites.

Wait... I don't see PP sales yet. Do they come in slow one at. Time? Where do you see data for January...isn't it still early?

Has your balance gone up?  The subs show up under January, not today so go back to Jan statistics.

Other than the EL, sales seem to have been extremely low last month, about a third of a typical month. Possibly because I have not uploaded there for months.

My PP sales are showing through the 16th now...

I'm up to the 22nd of the month and sales so far have been absolutely dreadful.

Same here, about 1/3 of December 2012.  Cannot be caused by deactivations, as I only deactivated on 2nd February AND they have not removed 1 single deactivated file from TS yes until today!

If results are correct I will also have 1/3 of December earnings

same here

I compared Dec 1-23 with Jan 1-23 (they're adding to the 24th) via the CSV files for both and it's more like January is a quarter of December's $$ and downloads. I don't mean they're down by a quarter, I really mean a quarter of December!

I deactivated Feb 2nd so that has nothing to do with PP numbers for January.

Perhaps they had a huge influx of other content in January that diluted sales? Or buyers had yearly subscriptions they didn't renew? At any rate it's not relevant for me as I'm done once this payout is complete.

PP sales very low for me too in January.  Sounds like it has happened to most of us.  Seems unlikely it would drop so much for so many.  Maybe there is a change in the way they are doing reporting and there will be more to come?   

Or else, maybe they flooded the site with wholly owned content in January.  Anybody know?

Quote from: PixelBytes on February 17, 2013, 17:52
PP sales very low for me too in January.  Sounds like it has happened to most of us.  Seems unlikely it would drop so much for so many.  Maybe there is a change in the way they are doing reporting and there will be more to come?   

Or else, maybe they flooded the site with wholly owned content in January.  Anybody know?

Well, they've mess up before and under reported.  I will wait until they are done then see where I am.  I will, like before, send CR a message about under reporting if it's warranted.