what about promoting a website like stockfresh. . Untill now it is a very slow process and I don't know if it will pick up one day. But I like what they say

... and you are .... ?

Quote from: lagereek on June 19, 2011, 13:17

Quote from: shank_ali_reborn on June 19, 2011, 12:35

Had a chuckle at the title.So contributors are having less sales and assume that's because the buyers are leaving..What bollocks !
More contributors ,more choice of content =Less sales.Simple.

Hi Shanks!  blimey,  fancy bumping into you here,  where have you been all these years?

He was last here when he was banned on the iStock forums for a while - has that happened again?

Sure has...   .I'm now enjoying my 6th holiday from the forum.

Quote from: jsnover on June 19, 2011, 13:47

Quote from: lagereek on June 19, 2011, 13:17

Quote from: shank_ali_reborn on June 19, 2011, 12:35

Had a chuckle at the title.So contributors are having less sales and assume that's because the buyers are leaving..What bollocks !
More contributors ,more choice of content =Less sales.Simple.

Hi Shanks!  blimey,  fancy bumping into you here,  where have you been all these years?

He was last here when he was banned on the iStock forums for a while - has that happened again?

Sure has...   .I'm now enjoying my 6th holiday from the forum.

For what?! You've been such a cheerleader lately?

Quote from: shank_ali_reborn on June 24, 2011, 10:45

Quote from: jsnover on June 19, 2011, 13:47

Quote from: lagereek on June 19, 2011, 13:17

Quote from: shank_ali_reborn on June 19, 2011, 12:35

Had a chuckle at the title.So contributors are having less sales and assume that's because the buyers are leaving..What bollocks !
More contributors ,more choice of content =Less sales.Simple.

Hi Shanks!  blimey,  fancy bumping into you here,  where have you been all these years?

He was last here when he was banned on the iStock forums for a while - has that happened again?

Sure has...   .I'm now enjoying my 6th holiday from the forum.

For what?! You've been such a cheerleader lately?

Yes. Please tell us why. You have been a staunch supporter of the PP (thank you) and have been gracious as of late IMO. What did you say?

He told LOBO (Pieman) to go eat a cow pie.

If this is true, can you post a link (if it's still there)? I would love to read LOBOs reply as I am sure he could not resist spewing something. He is so snotty sometimes, I would like to say the same thing but I don't have the cahones.

I opened a thread in the off topic titled.....Shutterstock.They had frigging heart attack 

Sure has...   .I'm now enjoying my 6th holiday from the forum.

Forget about a holiday, you might as well retire mate. 

I opened a thread in the off topic titled.....Shutterstock.They had frigging heart attack 

Brilliant! It reminds me of Kazantzakis's story about a Greek rebel who carried a live pig into a mosque during the Ottoman period on Crete.

Seems like iStock still don't realise the implications of being a 24x7 company.
Buyer:
I came back today to see if this bug has been fixed before I make my purchase with one of your competitors. I cannot wait any longer to complete my current projects.

I thought that you guys were a bigger operation than this. The type of operation that would calculate how much revenue you are losing and realize that it is cheaper to call in one of your tech and pay them overtime to get this problem fixed immediately (Couldn't one of your techs even fix this from the comfort of their own home?)

Lobo (in polite mode)
Sorry, they can't. It will be a Monday fix.

I guess paying weekend rates would eat into profitability.
The real question is, how come, yet again, did something that was working well get broken?

What was the bug the customer was referring to?

If you try to zoom in on an image, you get a white blank space where the zoomed image should be.

It's still there

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=331150&page=1

The thing that gets me is that the zoom has been like this for three days.

Was that the locked post about lousy customer service?  I tied to open it to see what the gripe was and it just tossed me back to the main forum menu.  Went back to the Help forum and the entire post was deleted.

Nope, that one was actually from a contributor complaining that he couldn't get a pay-out because of the Canadian postal strike, but couldn't find how to get his money via one of the other methods.
I was also curious about the post being deleted. You'd think if there was a workaround, it should be shared. Or if the OP was wrong, I'm sure they could have pointed out the error.
It may have been because there's a longstanding thread about the issue at:
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=330800&page=1
but in tht case, they usually lock the thread with an appropriate link rather than 'disappearing' the post. They could even have changed the title to something more appropriate, as it had nothing to do with customer service.