MicrostockGroup
Agency Based Discussion => iStockPhoto.com => Topic started by: ShadySue on October 25, 2012, 17:14
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Somehow this passed me by until someone pointed it out in the HQ thread a wee while ago:
Go corporate: Fly High
How does 10% off your first purchase sound? Good? Call us to open an iStock Corporate Account by November 30, buy a minimum of 360 credits, and it’s yours. On us.
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Get 30 Day Billing With Terms
How you pay is entirely up to you. You can use a company credit card, credit card or PayPal. If you’d prefer to pay via bank transfer or check, contact us, and we’ll help you set up billing terms, subject to approval. Choose your credit package and you can pay the invoice within 30 days.
[url]http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=1455&isource=EN_FMA1[/url] ([url]http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=1455&isource=EN_FMA1[/url])
Probably their strategy to take on Alamy head to head, but it looks like yet one more layer to obfuscate our sales, and stop us from having a clue about whether our Stats are correct.
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I'm relatively new to Microstock. I've done lots of reading and thinking. I've figured most of the sites out: their payment rates, their sales volume, etc. Istock, even after a year, seems largely a mystery. I often can't understand why my income total has increased (it doesn't seem connected to a sale) - is it connected to a delayed PP sale? An image sale doesn't always seem to affect my RC total - though sometimes it does. Nothing there seems to be designed for transparency.
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Somehow this passed me by until someone pointed it out in the HQ thread a wee while ago:
Go corporate: Fly High
How does 10% off your first purchase sound? Good? Call us to open an iStock Corporate Account by November 30, buy a minimum of 360 credits, and it’s yours. On us.
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Get 30 Day Billing With Terms
How you pay is entirely up to you. You can use a company credit card, credit card or PayPal. If you’d prefer to pay via bank transfer or check, contact us, and we’ll help you set up billing terms, subject to approval. Choose your credit package and you can pay the invoice within 30 days.
[url]http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=1455&isource=EN_FMA1[/url] ([url]http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=1455&isource=EN_FMA1[/url])
Probably their strategy to take on Alamy head to head, but it looks like yet one more layer to obfuscate our sales, and stop us from having a clue about whether our Stats are correct.
I'm confused. You started a new topic ... then apparently quoted your own post in a 'reply' to yourself ... and then deleted the original post. What are you trying to say?
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I'm relatively new to Microstock. I've done lots of reading and thinking. I've figured most of the sites out: their payment rates, their sales volume, etc. Istock, even after a year, seems largely a mystery. I often can't understand why my income total has increased (it doesn't seem connected to a sale) - is it connected to a delayed PP sale? An image sale doesn't always seem to affect my RC total - though sometimes it does. Nothing there seems to be designed for transparency.
At the moment, it could be an iStock sub sale, but you can see them the next day (usually, unless 'delayed'); it's probably more likely to be a direct sale, i.e. not by a credit bundle. These were introduced in early September, but only show on your balance, not on your stats. PP sales should show as little green bars above the normal bars. They come in once a month, and the partner program thread over there will usually confirm that it's happening. You don't get RCs on PP sales, but you do on Credit card sales, but they're not showing up.
It's distinctly opaque. Some have suggested deliberately so. Back in the day, all the stats updated in real time (and there weren't RCs).
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Somehow this passed me by until someone pointed it out in the HQ thread a wee while ago:
Go corporate: Fly High
How does 10% off your first purchase sound? Good? Call us to open an iStock Corporate Account by November 30, buy a minimum of 360 credits, and it’s yours. On us.
...
Get 30 Day Billing With Terms
How you pay is entirely up to you. You can use a company credit card, credit card or PayPal. If you’d prefer to pay via bank transfer or check, contact us, and we’ll help you set up billing terms, subject to approval. Choose your credit package and you can pay the invoice within 30 days.
[url]http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=1455&isource=EN_FMA1[/url] ([url]http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=1455&isource=EN_FMA1[/url])
Probably their strategy to take on Alamy head to head, but it looks like yet one more layer to obfuscate our sales, and stop us from having a clue about whether our Stats are correct.
I'm confused. You started a new topic ... then apparently quoted your own post in a 'reply' to yourself ... and then deleted the original post. What are you trying to say?
I mistakenly quoted instead of modified, so deleted the original.
The quoted bit is fact, the bit beneath is commentary/opinion.
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From what I see, I stock (from a position of real strength) seems to have simultaneously alienated both buyers and contributors. That strikes me as quite some achievement.
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From what I see, I stock (from a position of real strength) seems to have simultaneously alienated both buyers and contributors. That strikes me as quite some achievement.
Yes they have ... and that's basically why they are f**ked. Like I said before, iStock are in a tail-spin without a qualified pilot aboard. They can't even begin to compete against SS and never will be able to. It's just a question of time now. As sales fall more and more exclusives will drop the crown, marketing budgets will have to be cut, etc, etc. IMHO the die is cast.
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Gosh, this indicates how little interest there is in iStock these days.
Given the number of people who complain about payment for Alamy sales coming in late, I'd have thought there might be some comment.
So I'll just add that a problem with late reporting/payments (which I'm assuming will happen, I don't imagine iStock will pay us before they get the money, but WDIK) is that you see an in-use for which you have no recorded sale, and you need to contact CR to see if it's a genuine sale that won't be recorded for 30 days or a theft. You might get an answer a week or ten days later, or your ticket might just disappear.
Interesting - and telling - that iStock made no announcement to contributors about this scheme or explanation as to how it's going to be handled.
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Well, who says it's anything new? Corporate accounts have been around for quite a while, and I'm sure any payment option that would make it more attractive to a business would already be in place.