Author Topic: IS mess up yet again. (Read 17809 times)

donding · « **Reply #50 on:** December 15, 2010, 11:55 »

Quote from: malamus on December 15, 2010, 11:46

Quote from: vlad_the_imp on December 15, 2010, 11:37
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MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL

If it's so bad why not give up exclusivity and joinn all the other sites out there? Everyone here is always saying how much better than IS they are.

earnings, ease of upload.

are you saying that because my earnings are good I have to put up with crap?

I personally can not understand why they feel you are not as important as a buyer just because you are also a contributor. You basically are contributing at both ends which I would think they would welcome. As I have said before I believe they have to lay the blame for their mistakes on the shoulders of the contributors, which is really sad because if not for all of us contributors they would not exist.

vlad_the_imp · « **Reply #51 on:** December 15, 2010, 12:02 »

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are you saying that because my earnings are good I have to put up with crap?

I'm not saying that at all, everyone here seems to think you can earn more being non-exclusive and putting work on other sites, why not follow their advice, that's all. Calm down.

lisafx · « **Reply #52 on:** December 15, 2010, 12:21 »

Welcome aboard Malamus. I posted in the IS thread, but I will reiterate here that I think you were treated unfairly. Your status as an exclusive contributor in no way invalidates your opinions as a buyer. If anything, it should bolster them, because you see the issues from two sides.

And as you and others have pointed out, many other buyers are complaining of the same issues you mentioned.

cathyslife · « **Reply #53 on:** December 15, 2010, 12:30 »

Quote from: malamus on December 15, 2010, 11:46

earnings, ease of upload.

are you saying that because my earnings are good I have to put up with crap?

I also read your posts in the IS forum. They have been biased for quite a while now against buyers/contributors. I know, because I am one (or should say WAS one...I don't buy from IS anymore) myself. Comments are met with hostility and rejection, as though you don't belong to their club.

No one should have to put up with crap, but from what I understand, Getty has been dishing it out for quite some time, long before they bought IS. So the question is...are you willing to put up with a lot of crap just to keep your good earnings? If you are, then you should probably just go about shooting and not frequent the forums. I am certain you can detect patterns there, just as we all have. And if you don't want to put up with the crap, then you should look for other means of income, as a number of contributors who post here are doing.

suemack · « **Reply #54 on:** December 15, 2010, 13:22 »

Welcome Malamus

jm · « **Reply #55 on:** December 15, 2010, 16:49 »

I work for web publishing company as my day job. Of course - none of our sites have even nearly 1/100 of daily visits as iStock but I'm sure that if we would work this way many of our readers would leave to competitors. And our sites are "only" for readers, iStock buyers are exposed to very unpleasant situations with their clients.
I can imagine that iStock would publish some not public "beta.istock.com" site and would very kindly ask contributors (and maybe in very very polite way selected buyers) to help them to fix the bugs and share their opinions. It's sure that not all of bugs would be found in beta mode but ... "new" iStock at the moment when it was released was just one fat giant bug. To me it's pure amateurism.
Howgh.

vlad_the_imp · « **Reply #56 on:** December 15, 2010, 17:30 »

To be fair to IS they did say they has tested the site, the problems didn't show until the new searches went live.

BaldricksTrousers · « **Reply #57 on:** December 15, 2010, 18:34 »

Quote from: vlad_the_imp on December 15, 2010, 12:02

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are you saying that because my earnings are good I have to put up with crap?

I'm not saying that at all, everyone here seems to think you can earn more being non-exclusive and putting work on other sites, why not follow their advice, that's all. Calm down.

I don't think anybody has a clue which is most lucrative. But being non-exclusive provides some protection against one site or another doing something nasty to you, by accident or by design. It also involves a lot more work.