I guess everyone's experience of iStock is different, in part because of how we each use the site, in part because of expectations, and in part because we differ in how to approach public conflict and discussion of same.

My experience of iStock is that they do tolerate negative comments and feedback that isn't positive - I think I've given them a fair bit of that over time. I've never been banned or warned or otherwise discliplined for doing that.

They don't tolerate angry rants or personal attacks or circular discussions (past one or two turns of the circle). I've seen this less as totalitarianism than enforcing civility and debating rules. They don't tolerate discussions of competitors, but then none of the sites do. For sheer chutzpah, FT takes the cake in not tolerating negative comments in off-forum locations, something I'm not aware of any other site doing.

Perhaps if you had something specific you wanted to discuss here - off site forums are great for touchy topics. My guess is that there is a "for instance" behind your general observations...

Stacey

First of all, what many people sometimes confuse (like you in the title, even if you didn't mean it), iStock is not a "state", it's a business. And it has the right to protect its business interest first. And we are not a citizens, we are a suppliers. We have a business relation with this company, and as such we don't have any given rights and both sides always have a choice to define the conditions for our relationship. Actually, most contributors would probably even agree that iStock has the duty to protect its business as all of us are relying on iStock to make good or even better business in the future, right?

Second, I have seen lots of controverse discussions in the iStock forums. There are just very few rules that lead to threads being closed and it has never been "I am opposed to the changes that iStock had made". Some of the rules are pretty obvious like "don't compare us to our competitors in our forums". And some are just "don't ask questions which you know will not get an official answer anyway". iStock's policy has been not to share detailed business secrets with contributors and I am sure they will continue to do so.

And then there are forum-specific rules like "don't insult fellow contributors", "don't start threads as a method of personal promotion" or "don't discuss the same issues in more than one thread at a time". This is to protect the forum culture. If iStock would allow the same topics to be discussed again and again, the whole forum would be full of threads about the same topic and no one could talk about anything else than best match because other threads just would get lost.

I can fully understand your current frustrations if your sales are down or sales patterns are changing. But it simply doesn't make sense trying to keep everyone busy telling you the same over and over again. Eventually it's just a waste of time for many people. If you have that spare time, fine. But don't make everybody else use his to argue with you.

Best regards,

Michael

Frankly, I'm surprised that they have forums to begin with.  You don't see the major agencies like Corbis or Getty messing around with stuff like that.

I think community forums are fundamental to the development of a crowdsourcing business model.

I think they should get rid of forums. Waste of bandwidth.

They have forums there? 

I am a TOTAL iStock groupie. I love the site, I jumped at exclusivity and I promote iStock everywhere that I go. I am very proud of being an IS exclusive.

Yet you decided to start this thread!

I'm not exclusive but I do love iStock for the amount of revenue it creates for me, nearly everything else about the site drives me nuts.

The people that woohoo there and boohoo here always amuse me.

all sites are pretty much protective about their reviewers and infallibility and godliness 
some, thankfully, for example StockXpert, Zymmetrical, Cutcaster,SV, 123rf once in a while, take on human form to at least come here to rub sholders with us, and to be a little more casual.  which is nice, as it shows us at least they don't mind being human once in a while 

p.s.
oh btw, HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR OF THE OX. to all those here who belong to the golden race and who celebrate this auspicious day. Hope your Ox will bring us better luck than the Rat.

I think I am in an iStock rut...hoping to get out of it soon. was really chugging along toward Gold, invested a whole bunch in new equipment etc., and then as of the new year, I have watched my sales trickle to almost nothing. so I have asked some questions, which remain unanswered.

I think I need to take a step back and chill. I am usually one of the people defending their decisions. I realize they are a business and that they are making decisions to continue to grow business. these recent changes just happened to have killed my sales, but I'm sure they are overall doing what they are supposed to do.

I don't want to be seen as a squeaky wheel, because I'm not usually. I certainly have been whining in this situation, probably because I am so disappointed with how things have turned. anyway, a learning experience for sure. this is the first major change that has really affected me and I'm sure many others have gone through similar issues.

OMG, Tuilay, you have gone and had a sex change??!! 

Claudia Schiffer is okay, but I am really going to miss Bruce! 

Stacey, I have followed the best match thread and can completely identify with your feelings about your sinking sales. 

Believe me - I went through the same thing from mid October through the end of the year.  My sales were tanked during the busiest part of the year, and lots of others were in the same boat.  And we were not given a lot of sympathy when we complained on istock's forums.  At all.

Now those of us who took a beating over the holidays are mostly seeing our sales rebound to where they were in Aug/Sept, but the people who saw the big sales jump from Oct - Dec are the ones with the sales downturn. 

What is so frustrating is that some of the very people who were most unsympathetic to those who suffered under the last best match are the same people most vocally complaining about this one.

The best match giveth and the best match taketh away.  Hopefully the people getting clobbered by this incarnation will be a bit more sympathetic to the next batch of best match losers when they are on top again....

thanks Lisa - I really appreciate your kind words, you're very thoughtful, always encouraging....I was one of the people who often groaned sarcastically about "not another best match thread"....so I had this coming, karma. I used the forums to vent, which just made me look incorrigible and whiny. I am just going to continue working on my portfolio, culling old images and adding new stuff, keeping my fingers crossed.

thanks Lisa - I really appreciate your kind words, you're very thoughtful, always encouraging....I was one of the people who often groaned sarcastically about "not another best match thread"....so I had this coming, karma. I used the forums to vent, which just made me look incorrigible and whiny. I am just going to continue working on my portfolio, culling old images and adding new stuff, keeping my fingers crossed.

Definitely it is hard to relate to the frustration until it happens to you...

I am betting newer images will be favored again soon and then you will find all your hard work uploading now will pay off

Quote from: yecatsdoherty on January 27, 2009, 00:45

I am a TOTAL iStock groupie. I love the site, I jumped at exclusivity and I promote iStock everywhere that I go. I am very proud of being an IS exclusive.

Why, why, why, why and why?

Seems a reasonable question to me...I share  Stacey's sentiment 100%
Many many micro contributors are not professional or want to be or will ever be.When you pursue photography as  a hobby/interest and you find a site to showcase your work and actually sell it the feeling is quite exciting and amazing to begin with.Once you have tasted a little bit of success you strive to improve your work to increase your chances of making more sales to generate more money.Istockphoto is the premier micro site in the world and the rest have copyied Mr  B. Livingston's brilliant original  idea.
When money is your sole purpose of your photography you would be a bit dumb IMO to only have your work on one particular site even if that site was istockphoto which gives it's exclusive contributors the highest  monies that any other micro site.
When sales dip  especially for an exclusive contributor on istockphoto the question always will arise....what if i contributed to  7 different micro-sites ,would i make seven times as much money....I have neither the time or the notion to upload to any other site other than istockphoto and i hope stacey can sit tight and with her fine portfolio i am sure the sales will return.

hi,

personally there are worse than IS at least their communication on some issues / changes etc is pretty good. personally I feel that at least a modicum of respect as a contributor there. (but I havent ever tried to get problems etc resolved).

Not that I go either and I know its a bit exaggerated but Istocks forum makes me think of the american tv evangelists? (I think thats what they are called, the preachers on tv) that we see occassionally (generally times like 3am -anyway all clinically clean, getting the audience revved up and shouting hallelujah!   In contrast shutterstocks forum makes me think about a pile of people in my local pub, complete with the bar flies, who barely leave (sometimes they go take some photos and filled with people socialising, wandering from table to table talking to mates, talking politics, the state of society etc etc. 

(I dont think either is bad, just different and in both cases people there seem to be having a good time)

Phil

I may be wrong but isn't iStock based in Calgary, Canada? That is hardly the place to be totalitarian. Perharps if they are based in what once was Berlin,or in Beijing, or Singapore, where the politics are more like you say they are, that may have influenced iStock to be like the government of the day.
Noooo, iStock is the most liberal entity of the Big 6. 

Haha liberal. Good question. Maybe I'm not sure because of the massive conservative votes out there. Or dirty petrochemical industry, a sign of their believes. No joke though I saw others agencies sometimes way more "totalitarian"

vonkara, methinks hali is being cynical 
The secret to living well in the land of "iStock" to be like the 3 monkeys:
see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil 

You enter the istock forum as a guest of istockphoto and as such you have an obligation not to swear or scratch your privates  while your logged into the site!

LOL

Hey Stacey,

As strictly a buyer, I have to tell you that it is more than just the best match changes that have affected your sales. Not all buyers use the best match option for searching (I have never used the best match option). So few seem to want to believe it, but it is the constant price increases that have turned so many of us buyers off. Slowly, as our credits packages have been spent, many have gone off  and spent their money on sites where $1 still = 1 credit and large images are still under $5. You can't say this anymore over on the iStock forums anymore without getting accused of being a whiner or otherwise attacked. And people can attack and deny all they want, but it won't change the fact that iStock, by their constant increases, has shut out so many of the small designers, among others, who made the place what it was. I haven't bought a large image from iStock in I don't even know how long. Probably in a year. And I've drastically cut my spending there. And I have talked with other designers who share the same sentiments.

I think it was the worst possible move for iStock to hike the prices up like they did this past January, considering the economic climate. And the fact that other sites are still offering photos for less. Dreamstime has over 600 images for FREE. It's sad really. It's the pink elephant in the room over at iStock.

Hey Stacey,

As strictly a buyer, I have to tell you that it is more than just the best match changes that have affected your sales. Not all buyers use the best match option for searching (I have never used the best match option). So few seem to want to believe it, but it is the constant price increases that have turned so many of us buyers off. Slowly, as our credits packages have been spent, many have gone off  and spent their money on sites where $1 still = 1 credit and large images are still under $5. You can't say this anymore over on the iStock forums anymore without getting accused of being a whiner or otherwise attacked. And people can attack and deny all they want, but it won't change the fact that iStock, by their constant increases, has shut out so many of the small designers, among others, who made the place what it was. I haven't bought a large image from iStock in I don't even know how long. Probably in a year. And I've drastically cut my spending there. And I have talked with other designers who share the same sentiments.

I think it was the worst possible move for iStock to hike the prices up like they did this past January, considering the economic climate. And the fact that other sites are still offering photos for less. Dreamstime has over 600 images for FREE. It's sad really. It's the pink elephant in the room over at iStock.

The business of giving away images for free it's not a business, it's the reverse. Call it want you want but is not the point of microstock.

The idea that IS is making less money because of "price hikes" doesn't seem accurate. Look at the published data last year, look at the more than one million $ in royalties payed weekly to contributors. Calculate what that means. Sales doesn't seem to have plummeted at all (even if it's true that everyday are distributed among more contributors, it's almost impossible to upload quality at a rate that avoids your portfolio being diluted). Revenue for many contributors (maybe with the exception that those who have been hit but the best match changes) grows, and grows at a pleasant rate (that's mi case). Prices are more than reasonable. You always will be able to buy for less at any aspects of life, from a house, to a car to a meal, but often you get (in quality or choice) what you pay for. 

Having read scores of your posts on this theme at the IS forums I can avoid the feeling that you prefer to forget that some of us,contributors, have expenses in the order of 8.000 dollarsjust in gear (better camera,better lenses, new computer to support the new's camera's files, software etc), to be able to offer better quality to customers. Or that one session alone --not a special one, of course-- can go over 400. And the shooting hours and the  endless hours of editing etc. Would you really prefer to get the product of that for free or for a dime's price that never would met the expenses??? For what I read, I infer that your answer would be yes.

The really sad part is that at Istock or at any other site,the prices at what images are sold are almost always just an almost invisible part of the cost of the printing price for this file, not to talk of the ad space bougth in magazines or the web in the case of advertisements.

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The business of giving away images for free it's not a business, it's the reverse. Call it want you want but is not the point of microstock.

The idea that IS is making less money because of "price hikes" doesn't seem accurate. Look at the published data last year, look at the more than one million $ in royalties payed weekly to contributors. Calculate what that means. Sales doesn't seem to have plummeted at all (even if it's true that everyday are distributed among more contributors, it's almost impossible to upload quality at a rate that avoids your portfolio being diluted). Revenue for many contributors (maybe with the exception that those who have been hit but the best match changes) grows, and grows at a pleasant rate (that's mi case). Prices are more than reasonable. You always will be able to buy for less at any aspects of life, from a house, to a car to a meal, but often you get (in quality or choice) what you pay for. 

Having read scores of your posts on this theme at the IS forums I can avoid the feeling that you prefer to forget that some of us,contributors, have expenses in the order of 8.000 dollarsjust in gear (better camera,better lenses, new computer to support the new's camera's files, software etc), to be able to offer better quality to customers. Or that one session alone --not a special one, of course-- can go over 400. And the shooting hours and the  endless hours of editing etc. Would you really prefer to get the product of that for free or for a dime's price that never would met the expenses??? For what I read, I infer that your answer would be yes.

The really sad part is that at Istock or at any other site,the prices at what images are sold are almost always just an almost invisible part of the cost of the printing price for this file, not to talk of the ad space bougth in magazines or the web in the case of advertisements.
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I agree with a number of your points in this too. as a writer also, when I started out I had to give much of my work away for free just to build my portfolio. I now look on free anything with much suspicion. from many of these posts I glean as much as I can to learn from them, and leave the extremes behind. extreme thinking rarely leads to anything positive.

having said that, something iStock is doing very poorly in my opinion is communicating with their contributors. I personally feel like how I feel and how hard I work really doesn't matter. now, I would argue such is how it should be, afterall, iStock is a business. I don't have any idyllic version of how it should be in mind, but when I went exclusive...I didn't believe for a moment that when my sales suddenly, VERY suddenly, dropped...I would have little to no support, few responses to my questions and I did not believe that when I spoke out, I would be contacted by admins and warned.  again, I can see this from their point of view....why should they allow someone to stir things up in their forum. and it is a proprietary forum. I'm not sure I would allow it in their shoes.

then, why have forums though? I am reading as much as I can about microstock, so that I make an informed decision about exclusivity. whether it is pricing, the economy, or best match....the way I feel about IS has drastically changed and I partly fault myself for not being more realistic from the get go, as well as them for the expectation they create. what if all exclusives felt like me? would it matter more then?

The business of giving away images for free it's not a business, it's the reverse. Call it want you want but is not the point of microstock.

Oh, really? That WAS the original point of microstock. And that is still the point at many of the microstock sites. From what I can see, Dreamstime and many of the others have not raised their prices at the rate that iStock has. IStock really isn't microstock anymore. It's moving more towards mid-stock...kind of like iStock Pro...oh, wait... that's not around anymore.

As far as how much equipment, etc costs, from what I understand from so many contributors, when they first started at microstock, is that they already had the gear and many of them were hobbyists who were thrilled to sell some of their photos. From there they turned it into a business. I could understand the argument about how costly things are getting and how difficult it is for contributors if so many were still not submitting and selling at the other microstock sites that have not raised their prices 600% in just a few short years. Take for example Dreamstime. They may offer free images, but they do, of course still sell them. And they must still be doing fine since they are still in business. I bet they've gotten a lot of iStock defectors in the past year.

And no, I don't necessarily want something for free, but I rarely need a photo which  requires a $400 session. I use a lot of textures for backgrounds. Why should I pay close to $20 for something like that?

This is as I expected though. You can accuse me of whatever you want and deny it as much as you want, but I don't just speak for myself when I tell you that buyers ARE disgruntled and HAVE left the site because the prices have gone up so drastically. Too bad if you don't like hearing it. It's the way it is.

IStock WILL eventually reach the limit of declining income as buyers look for more affordable imagery. That's the very reason iStock became such a success in the first place. It's imagery was affordable to EVERYONE. They are shutting out their bread and butter clients with these constant increases.

This is as I expected though. You can accuse me of whatever you want and deny it as much as you want, but I don't just speak for myself when I tell you that buyers ARE disgruntled and HAVE left the site because the prices have gone up so drastically. Too bad if you don't like hearing it. It's the way it is.

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I'm not accussing you of anything. I'm expressing my opinion, you're expressing yours, and that's all and it should be easy to understand. The fact that we don't agree doesn't mean that we are insulting each other.

Regarding the comment about the inexpensive begginings of microstock, with contributers armed with point-and-shots and lighting with a 100 watts bulb, well... there are still some hobbyists sites that offer this kind of work for free in internet open to everybody. At the end, all I can say that as a contributor and as now and then customer I'm more than satisfied with Istock.

I'm not here to argue about the cost of the images, why they should be priced more (or less), or why I should buy the same image this year at a higher price than last. I'm just giving input (to Stacey) on what I and other buyers have discussed. I don't speak only for myself. All I offer is a buyers' perspective as to another reason besides best match changes on why people might be experiencing fewer sales. Take it or leave it. I don't really care.

And I totally agree with you about the forum atmosphere. It's much different than it used to be. The minute iStock was purchased by Getty, things began to change. I do feel there is a much more adversarial atmosphere when you speak out against things. That's fine. It's their business. But the iStock forums do have a bad reputation. I've read it on more than one site.

I'm done here. Bye.

And I totally agree with you about the forum atmosphere. It's much different than it used to be. The minute iStock was purchased by Getty, things began to change. I do feel there is a much more adversarial atmosphere when you speak out against things. That's fine. It's their business. But the iStock forums do have a bad reputation. I've read it on more than one site.

I started in microstock August 2005. iStock was great then, they were my best earner. The athmosphere was cool and friendly. Sales were going up as my (crap then) port grew. It all changed half of 2006 when Getty bought them and they introduced their weird categories and disambiguation. I made some remarks on the forum about disambiguation and linguistic taxonomy, and guess what, all my post were removed without any notice or apology.

I never posted at their forums again, I never read them even since 2006. I had a look a while ago and all I read is "hail iStock", "iStocku akhbar", "thou shalt not worship any god than iStock". Made me puke. As in p-u-k-e. Wouldn't be surprised if an iStock suicide bomber walked into the offices of DT or SS one day and blew himself up believing he would get 72 extended virgin licenses in iStock heaven. i-Stock means like i-slam submission. 

No steelcages, blogs, badges, artistic network, profile info. I all removed that back in 2006. I just upload now and then and I limit our conversation to Paypal for the rest. They still pay my alimentary but the love is gone 

^ lose the racist, fairly offensive example....

Offensive and racist? Sorry buddy I live in Mindanao, Southern Phils. Want to see my shots of what the MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) did on August 6 in the city of Kauswagan with the houses of my friends? Apart of being taken with a cellphone, they are unsuitable for stock. I will never be a dhimmi. Never.

Let me have a smile over these comments about "at the beginning it was different, stock atmosphere has changed". Back in 2005 and 2004, you could read exactly the same type of comments on IS at several forums. "Dictatorship" (because some rejection, or the fact that you couldn't talk about other competing microsites in the forum etc), "unfriendly" (because of Peebert) etc. One rise from 10 cents to 20 cents was seen as unbearable ans as the herald of coming disaster for some people, Actually, nothing at all has changed at this respect. Anybody whose memory isn't' playing tricks at him should agree with that.

Quote from: caspixel on February 02, 2009, 20:33

Quote from: loop on February 02, 2009, 19:45

The business of giving away images for free it's not a business, it's the reverse. Call it want you want but is not the point of microstock.

Oh, really? That WAS the original point of microstock......

interesting "point"
if i understood correctly - the point was -me to buy some 15K$ photo gear (little more, but let's stick to this 15 000$ that my gear is worth) - to educate myself, hard working to produce high quality images, and to give these images for free to designers - who wil sell designs, that sometimes have my photo as an essential part of it (photo, with no corrections + some text).
and you now are boo-hoo-hooing here that some 20-30$ is expensive for the image that fits your needs.
 you can always buy a cheep point'n'shot camera, (avialable from some 100$), and to make free designs?

from the other side - maybe you should look onto istock policy through the getty images policy? (getty has some other microstock sites too i believe)?

 on example i am banned from the DT forum for writing trouth on the forum.  from the other side these people are hipocrites - so my images are not going to be "banned" from the database. reason? - these people are not so stupid - they make money on my images, i am also not so stupid to give up - i make also money on my images.
 *what i am trying to say is that it is very good thing not to mix up emotions and busine$$.

You can complain all you want about how expensive your gear is, but the fact remains, iStock started out as a free photo sharing site and started the revolution of cheap photos (microstock). If the model bothers you so much because your gear is so expensive, stop. No designers are forcing you to sell your photos at that rate. But you can't blame designers for being pissed at having to pay 600% more for photos that were originally much much cheaper. Some of the SAME photos are on iStock as were there back when they were available for $1. What makes them more valuable now than they were back in 2004?

And I still don't get why people are blaming the buyers for being disgruntled about the price increases. We didn't create the business model or set the original low prices. If you aren't making enough money for your effort, maybe you should talk to your agent and see if you can't get more than a 20% commission. Or not sell your photos in the microstock model at all.

Quote from: caspixel on February 03, 2009, 10:07

Some of the SAME photos are on iStock as were there back when they were available for $1. What makes them more valuable now than they were back in 2004?

Funnily enough my house was built in about 1860 and when I bought it the cost was MUCH more than it was back then according to records. Maybe IS had something to do with that too?

Total strawman argument.

 
You can complain all you want about how expensive your gear is, but the fact remains, iStock started out as a free photo sharing site and started the revolution of cheap photos (microstock). If the model bothers you so much because your gear is so expensive, stop. No designers are forcing you to sell your photos at that rate. But you can't blame designers for being pissed at having to pay 600% more for photos that were originally much much cheaper. Some of the SAME photos are on iStock as were there back when they were available for $1. What makes them more valuable now than they were back in 2004?

And I still don't get why people are blaming the buyers for being disgruntled about the price increases. We didn't create the business model or set the original low prices. If you aren't making enough money for your effort, maybe you should talk to your agent and see if you can't get more than a 20% commission. Or not sell your photos in the microstock model at all.

"NO DESIGNERS ARE FORCING YOU TO TELL YOUR PHOTOS AT THIS RATE"

Yes, but after more than 100 posts on your side at different forums trying to convince us that we should sell at this rate, there's almost one designer who is asking us to sell at that rate.

"And I still don't get why people are blaming the buyers for being disgruntled"

Where you say "the buyers", you should say "some buyers". I still receive lots of reviews and mails coming from thankful buyers, no more, no less than before.

And finally, you are lucky because very soon you'll be able to get this "once 1 dollar stuff" at one dollar agaiin, in the new dollar bin. Certainly, new high cost production files won't be there, but for what I've read I understand that 2004-2005 quality is enough for your purposes.

no, you are just looking on to things from the wrong point of view - images are not more expensive today - simple "producing price" is so big (without very very expensive gear) - so prices should/could be even higher.*tip: just try to produce some studio image with a model, and make a calculation of costs( model, makeup artist, studio (if you do not have your own - i do ), clothing/stylist... and yes - you'll have to have a (good) camera too, and some photographic skill either)...
 the right point of view is that images back in 2004, or whenever - were much more cheaper than today. today-cheep images - a few years ago - very cheep images.  - that is the fact.
 today - expensive images - a few years ago - cheaper images - that is wrong point of view.
USAF today do not use brother Wright's plane - bike builders made a plane i believe for a few hundred of buck$$ - no. they are paying a large amount of money for quality products of the manufacturers, Yf-22 on example.
 any other business on the planet - for quality product -  you have to pay. you wanna ride a Ferrari ? - well - you better prepare some good ca$$h for this car.-or drive... i do not know.. hyundai..

Quote from: yecatsdoherty on February 02, 2009, 23:19

^ lose the racist, fairly offensive example....

Offensive and racist? Sorry buddy I live in Mindanao, Southern Phils. Want to see my shots of what the MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) did on August 6 in the city of Kauswagan with the houses of my friends? Apart of being taken with a cellphone, they are unsuitable for stock. I will never be a dhimmi. Never.

Glad you added the meaning of the acronym because here in the US MILF has a different, funnier meaning.

I fail to see why a discussion about IS turned into a discussion about the validity of microstock.  If costs are high, don't sell cheap.  Or go do something else.  It seems obvious to me. 

I don't do studio shots, but in my first steps in microstock I was surprised with the amount of quality studio shots with a clearly expensive production.  Even if the photographer makes a lot by high volumes, I was shocked to see such high quality available for so little.

Regards,
Adelaide

I fail to see why a discussion about IS turned into a discussion about the validity of microstock.  If costs are high, don't sell cheap.  Or go do something else.  It seems obvious to me. 

you are right.. perhaps we are so far off topic now it is ridiculous  

I guess this topic will be locked.  Not that the discussion isn't interesting, but it is a bit unorganized discussing many topics in one thread. If someone wants to continue discussing something from this thread feel free to start another topic.

[off-topic]Crazy though, we have been defending ourselves for so long as to why it is worth our while selling our images for as little as we do, now we have to defend ourselves for selling them for as much as we do.   [/off-topic]