Author Topic: iStockphoto Inspection Preferential Lane (Read 16803 times)

crazychristina · « **Reply #50 on:** September 17, 2010, 16:59 »

I believe istock has given some contributors (not necessarily inspectors) the right to self inspect. Almost certainly based on very high acceptance rate from a large number of images. DNY59 would be a prime example (don't know if she has though).

LostOne · « **Reply #51 on:** September 19, 2010, 06:09 »

Looks like Sean is trying to figure out what's going on. Don't know if it'll work.

PaulieWalnuts · « **Reply #52 on:** September 19, 2010, 06:43 »

^ Yeah, and the thread got locked with Sean getting a slightly nasty "been covered plenty of times" response. Wow, even the big dogs are getting spanked.

ETA: And what's going on with inspections? I noticed exclusive approval times are close to a week and non-exclusives are up to a month. I can't imagine they're being overwhelmed with new submissions. I would think the queue should be close to empty. Inspectors quitting?

gostwyck · « **Reply #53 on:** September 19, 2010, 07:18 »

Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on September 19, 2010, 06:43

Inspectors quitting?

They certainly appear to be on a go-slow if nothing else. Istock have really opened a can of worms this time!

fullvalue · « **Reply #54 on:** September 19, 2010, 07:21 »

Sorry to be OT but independent's images are taking about a month?

PaulieWalnuts · « **Reply #55 on:** September 19, 2010, 07:29 »

Okay, well it looks like a happened to take a random sample that may have been a scout image or something. I went back and looked at a bunch more and now it looks like both exclusives and non-exclusives are at 5-7 days. So I wonder what happened to the exclusive faster reviews benefit.

ShadySue · « **Reply #56 on:** September 19, 2010, 07:36 »

Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on September 19, 2010, 07:29

Okay, well it looks like a happened to take a random sample that may have been a scout image or something. I went back and looked at a bunch more and now it looks like both exclusives and non-exclusives are at 5-7 days. So I wonder what happened to the exclusive faster reviews benefit.

It disappears from time to time until enough exclusives get tetchy about it.
The queue is currently standing at 72554, though there have been speculations as to how accurate that is.
Maybe the inspectors are on a go-slow; maybe some have resigned; maybe they're tied up inspecting Agency files.
Who knows?

PaulieWalnuts · « **Reply #57 on:** September 19, 2010, 07:42 »

Where'd you find the queue count? I thought they removed that.

ShadySue · « **Reply #58 on:** September 19, 2010, 07:52 »

Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on September 19, 2010, 07:42

Where'd you find the queue count? I thought they removed that.

http://www.istockphoto.com/stats

gostwyck · « **Reply #59 on:** September 19, 2010, 08:15 »

Someone mentioned in a post on the 'Where we go from here" thread that inspectors are paid 50c per image. The entire post has since been deleted.

ShadySue · « **Reply #60 on:** September 19, 2010, 08:20 »

Quote from: gostwyck on September 19, 2010, 08:15

Someone mentioned in a post on the 'Where we go from here" thread that inspectors are paid 50c per image. The entire post has since been deleted.

However, I couldn't work out whether they were quoting an accurate figure or merely as I might have said something like, "the inspectors get their pittance for inspecting a file ..."
Interesting that they deleted it, though. Maybe it was too near the truth.
Earlier in the week, in reply to posts on the point that unlike selling apples where you have to go and buy another apple wholesale every time you sell one to maintain your stocks, once a file has been inspected it can sell numerous times only 'costing' server space, someone posted that the 'cost' of inspecting a file was $60, which sounded like a bizarre number pulled out of thin air to me, and they didn't make an attempt to justify it.

sharpshot · « **Reply #61 on:** September 19, 2010, 10:52 »

50c seems a lot compared to the amounts I have seen for other sites. Would a site that is about to cut the already lowest commissions for contributors pay lots more to inspectors?

jbarber873 · « **Reply #62 on:** September 19, 2010, 11:04 »

Quote from: hawk_eye on September 17, 2010, 01:20

I think it's a nice, useful image. how about we evaluate the originality of one of yours?

http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-13292606-internet-arrow-clicks-stick-figure-bulls-eye-target.php

Meow! I like the image- it's graphic, and right to the point!

gostwyck · « **Reply #63 on:** September 19, 2010, 11:11 »

Quote from: sharpshot on September 19, 2010, 10:52

50c seems a lot compared to the amounts I have seen for other sites. Would a site that is about to cut the already lowest commissions for contributors pay lots more to inspectors?

Maybe they're cutting that back too! It is a lot more than other agencies that I know but, to be fair, Istock inspectors are trained to a much higher standard and I'm sure spend far longer examining each image. Very occasionally I've had an image rejected for an issue only viewable at 100% (and somehow missed it myself) but the image passed inspection everywhere else.

ShadySue · « **Reply #64 on:** September 19, 2010, 11:58 »

Quote from: sharpshot on September 19, 2010, 10:52

50c seems a lot compared to the amounts I have seen for other sites. Would a site that is about to cut the already lowest commissions for contributors pay lots more to inspectors?

Probably, if for no other reason than they have the legal guarantee and the extended legal guarantee.

djpadavona · « **Reply #65 on:** September 20, 2010, 15:57 »

Quote from: nosaya on September 16, 2010, 16:57

No, they don't.
I am an exclusive & it can take several days to get inpected.

But then again, I am not a BD exclusive.

Haven't uploaded to IS since the expletive hit the fan. But I can tell you it often took 4-6 days to get my exclusive files reviewed. And there have been multiple complaints on the Exclusive forum about the length of review times, and some of those have come from black diamonds.

donding · « **Reply #66 on:** September 20, 2010, 16:06 »

Quote from: djpadavona on September 20, 2010, 15:57

Quote from: nosaya on September 16, 2010, 16:57
No, they don't.
I am an exclusive & it can take several days to get inpected.

But then again, I am not a BD exclusive.

Haven't uploaded to IS since the expletive hit the fan. But I can tell you it often took 4-6 days to get my exclusive files reviewed. And there have been multiple complaints on the Exclusive forum about the length of review times, and some of those have come from black diamonds.

I'm not exclusive and have not uploaded to iStock for a quite a while, but could the delay be due to the inspection's of the "Agency Collection"? Or maybe some of the inspector went on strike...

djpadavona · « **Reply #67 on:** September 20, 2010, 16:07 »

Quote from: Vonkara on September 17, 2010, 11:31

Quote from: hawk_eye on September 17, 2010, 11:16
sure, but we're talking about apples and oranges anyways, since the point of highlighting this example is the incorrect assumption that this contributor is an admin/inspector/employee. she is none of those things. she is a contributor only, which negates the whole theory behind this thread.

I agree, but she still got files inspected in a couple of hours

I've had files inspected in a couple of hours before too. It happens.

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