That and istock is making lots of sales for much, much less than 25c. Sometimes for fractions of a cent in the case of connect. Just take look those reports from esp. Oh, and they also have history of giving away outrageous rights for very little like the google deal.

There is no comparison between istock/ getty's treatment of contributors and their content and any other one of the 5 or 6 top sites.  They truly are in a league of their own.

I also do quite well there and have seen upswing the last few months. How could I not when they are selling our work for a couple of cents? They can undercut any of the other agencies. I am giving up 2000+ dollars a month but I am happy to do it because I still want to be able to afford my mortgage in a couple of years. I won't be helping them screw me over by taking sales from sites that actually pay me a decent rpd or starting a price war.

I really think we are like lobsters in a pot.  They have gradually turned up the heat and we haven't even noticed. Who would have signed a contract agreeing to license their work for 2c? Well it isn't scaremongering and those sales and worse have been happening for months now.

Somehow it got changed to Payoneer. I changed it back yesterday.

 I have no idea. It seems like a reasonable conclusion, that it was related to the switch. There's always the off chance that I somehow changed the box myself by accident.