Can someone enlighten me on the reason that Istockphoto introduced this extra price tier.

Cock Up 1- "We are sorry your file did not make it into our sexy Vetta collection but we hope it screws some more money out of the buyers by entering the Exclusive + collection"

Cock Up 2 - "We have decided that you the talented artist are best at managing your own portfolios and can nominate a % quota of your portfolio to add to this new collection "

Cock Up 3- "Non exclusives are now allowed to screw more money from the buyers by nominating files for the exclusive +
collection "
Just scrap the collection.It stinks !!!!

My answer to today's "Random Shank IMO" post.  If any increase is "screwing more money out of the buyers", maybe you should just go put your stuff on a free site somewhere.

Quote from: shank_ali on July 17, 2011, 00:27

Can someone enlighten me on the reason that Istockphoto introduced this extra price tier.

Cock Up 1- "We are sorry your file did not make it into our sexy Vetta collection but we hope it screws some more money out of the buyers by entering the Exclusive + collection"

Cock Up 2 - "We have decided that you the talented artist are best at managing your own portfolios and can nominate a % quota of your portfolio to add to this new collection "

Cock Up 3- "Non exclusives are now allowed to screw more money from the buyers by nominating files for the exclusive +
collection "
Just scrap the collection.It stinks !!!!

My answer to today's "Random Shank IMO" post.  If any increase is "screwing more money out of the buyers", maybe you should just go put your stuff on a free site somewhere.

O.M.G. that was perfect Sean!

I do not have any files in exclusive + or ever will !

You'll get that yacht alot quicker if you opt in with the E+ bunch...

Maybe you will like their new "exclusive minus" collection better.

Shank,

Please stop this game of playing with people here, you are a self confused hobbyist with a large portfolio with limited success. Respect this forum please.

I feel that you are milking the good will here. Ego?

oh come on. I mean, I certainly wish Shank would post more carefully, for his own sake if not for everyone else's, but you're taking yourself and this forum a little too seriously. a large percentage of what gets posted here is BS on a normal day. ignore him if you so please and don't reply. but your plea is almost farcical and unnecessary. leave him alone.

Why? He is a well known member in the community with quite a remarkable development, including his portfolio.

by the way - who are you? and your port?? What�s that like??

Well Jam must be a fan of his. 7 posts on msg and 5 deal with the shank...

Hope contributors are still adding all the same keywords to a series and picking maybe one/two for exclusive+.Looks very professional to a buyer when they show up in there search !

It would be unprofessional to use the wrong keywords, but most of us already knew that. Your point was ... ?

Quote from: shank_ali on July 17, 2011, 14:33

Hope contributors are still adding all the same keywords to a series and picking maybe one/two for exclusive+.Looks very professional to a buyer when they show up in there search !

It would be unprofessional to use the wrong keywords, but most of us already knew that. Your point was ... ?

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sister images at different prices.Contributors just using there exclusive + slots with normal microstock files which do not deserve to be in the higher price tier.

Quote from: ShadySue on July 17, 2011, 19:32

Quote from: shank_ali on July 17, 2011, 14:33

Hope contributors are still adding all the same keywords to a series and picking maybe one/two for exclusive+.Looks very professional to a buyer when they show up in there search !

It would be unprofessional to use the wrong keywords, but most of us already knew that. Your point was ... ?

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sister images at different prices.Contributors just using there exclusive + slots with normal microstock files which do not deserve to be in the higher price tier.

I go to John Lewis, Debenhams, Frasers, woteva and there are lots of goods keyworded 'blue', 'denim' and 'jeans' at vastly different prices from 'own brand' to 'designer'.  The 'designer' jeans aren't necessarily better fitting or harder wearing than the 'own brand'.  It's a model people are very used to in the real world.
Since you feel so strongly about it, why not do the buyers a real favour and become independent and your prices will automatically drop down.
Hint: if buyers don't think a file doesn't 'deserve' to be in a higher price tier, they won't buy it, if they can find what they need cheaper. Just like at John Lewis.

Quote from: Slovenian on July 18, 2011, 03:21

And I'd like to hear ShadySue say burglar alarm (hint yesterday's top gear;)

I guess we're on different episodes of TG. Yesterday they were using a Jaguar to pull a string of caravans along a railway line to illustrate how trains could/should be cheaper. (But now that I think about it, I missed the beginning of the prog.)

No, we're on the same one, they were talking again how Germans, no matter how perfect their English is can say squirrel properly and than wanted to do another test and asked the audience if there are any Glasgowegians among them, one stepped forward and they asked him to say burglar alarm. Of course they laughed their asses off when he went burrr-glarr alarrrm . And Hammond tried to imitate him a couple of times, almost got it right (he's better speaking hillbilly or redneck whichever you prefer). Check out the rerun, although you'll hear nothing new, just say it loud

Quote from: ShadySue on July 18, 2011, 04:23

Quote from: Slovenian on July 18, 2011, 03:21

And I'd like to hear ShadySue say burglar alarm (hint yesterday's top gear;)

I guess we're on different episodes of TG. Yesterday they were using a Jaguar to pull a string of caravans along a railway line to illustrate how trains could/should be cheaper. (But now that I think about it, I missed the beginning of the prog.)

No, we're on the same one, they were talking again how Germans, no matter how perfect their English is can say squirrel properly and than wanted to do another test and asked the audience if there are any Glasgowegians among them, one stepped forward and they asked him to say burglar alarm. Of course they laughed their asses off when he went burrr-glarr alarrrm . And Hammond tried to imitate him a couple of times, almost got it right (he's better speaking hillbilly or redneck whichever you prefer). Check out the rerun, although you'll hear nothing new, just say it loud

Oh, I did see that near the end. My accent is even worse as I have a burr (can't say my Rs properly, think Jonathan Ross if you've ever heard of him). I suspect it was the alarrrum bit they were laughing at. There's a name for that in phonetics, but I can't remember it - putting unaccented vowels between consonants. We also say wurruld for world. But a lot of English say something between 'alam/alom' and between 'wuld/woald' without the 'r'.
I'm just back from Dublin and am getting my head round how we pronounce 'slainte' (as in slainte mhath) something like 'slanj' and the Irish seem to pronounce it something like 'slond'.