just seen a bug, total royalties for the picture, its down to 0

Been like this for a week. 
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=344265&page=1#post6689573
You can see the amount via MyUploads, though.

just seen a bug, total royalties for the picture, its down to 0

I guess I've missed that as well, since I use greasemonkey script, that is really helpful, no need to open each file to see what were the latest royalties

SS, your message reminded me I hadn't ordered my Moo cards for this year yet. Just ordered. It went through without any glitches.

Quote from: luissantos84 on June 12, 2012, 11:32

Quote from: wut on June 12, 2012, 11:29

What bugs?

don�t know when was the last one but I believe there were a few in the past no? we forget quite fast true..

List of old, unfixed bugs carried forward into June:
Contributor preference to show location and member name as opposed to real name is being reset for some contributors, along with adult filter preference. See here for example. 31Mar12

Royalties & stats not adding up on the E+ page. E+ royalty numbers listed on the E+ page are incorrect. For example, sjlocke has an image with 500+ E+ downloads, supposedly, for an E+ total royalty of $26.00 . Also, there are no dates for last exclusive+ download. Clicking on sales number does not link to anything also. KJ

The downloads numbers, royalties and other stats displayed may vary according to which page you check them e.g. the my_uploads page may differ from the portfolio page, which may differ from the file's close up page etc. Example here

Subscription Royalties & delayed royalties showing errors in download figures e.g. this one showing 65535 delayed royalties. KJ

RSS feed links missing .php - leading to hanging pages - details here KJ

The zoom function appears broken for older Illustrations - which appear like this KJ

Some contributors unable to add images to E+ collections examples here , here and here. Further details of E+ page issues here

Several users reporting they are having to sign in many times each day. KJ

Site mails and forum posts being truncated - possibly a WYSIWYG issue - e.g. this post KJ

Resubmitted images are losing their Model Releases - long running issue. KJ

Non Latin alphabet characters causing problems in caption and image description boxes, so any punctuation marks such as apostrophes, ampersands & umlauts etc can cause rest of text to be truncated. e.g. here and a little more info here. Referral mail personal message field also can't handle thesel characters and on the received mail it shows a "?" instead. Ref# KJ-35

Forum subscribe/unsubscribe - These two options are backwards.Ref# PH-9

Moo cards - not able to upload files to order cards. Ref #JG-16

To have a real sub site, one that works and brings in a ton of cash? (besides all well known reasons they were buying agencies for) Well now that they went public, it's a lot easier for Getty to acquire them.

Quote from: wut on June 12, 2012, 16:27

... Well now that they went public, it's a lot easier for Getty to acquire them.

They haven't gone public, just filed with the SEC saying they intend to. After the mess of the Facebook IPO they may postpone.

Oh? I thought I saw someone posting something in the line that they in fact have gone through with it. Silly me, there would have been a thread with dozen of pages by now (I read it about a week ago)

Quote from: wut on June 12, 2012, 16:27

To have a real sub site, one that works and brings in a ton of cash? (besides all well known reasons they were buying agencies for) Well now that they went public, it's a lot easier for Getty to acquire them.

It only works before they buy it. Once they buy, it will be just like the rest of the mess. And messes don't bring in a ton of cash. Just like StockXpert.

Well it was about the intention

Noticed that the USD price has been increased slightly for illustrations today. 25 USD files are now 27 and 35 USD files are now 36. Guess they most have lost another bunch of buyers...  I'm getting more and more stressed out by the price raises. They can't compensate less sales with price raises forever... zero buyers, zero dollars. 

Just wish the other agencies would follow and start raising their prices soon. iStock's prices are actually quite reasonable except for all the weird collections, and most of the other agencies' prices are too low.

If I were exclusive, I would share your worries about these price rises chasing customers away.  However, to suggest other sites follow Istock's lead seems pointless.  Other sites are not looking for ways to drive their buyers away, but to attract and retain them. 

Quote from: Monkeyman on March 06, 2013, 18:44

Noticed that the USD price has been increased slightly for illustrations today. 25 USD files are now 27 and 35 USD files are now 36. Guess they most have lost another bunch of buyers...  I'm getting more and more stressed out by the price raises. They can't compensate less sales with price raises forever... zero buyers, zero dollars. 

Just wish the other agencies would follow and start raising their prices soon. iStock's prices are actually quite reasonable except for all the weird collections, and most of the other agencies' prices are too low.

If I were exclusive, I would share your worries about these price rises chasing customers away.  However, to suggest other sites follow Istock's lead seems pointless.  Other sites are not looking for ways to drive their buyers away, but to attract and retain them.

Is the correct answer. As Oringer pointed out just the other day;

Oringer: "We've been concentrating mostly on growth. We spend a lot on marketing. This pace of content creation and consumption is not going to stop."

Every price increase by Istock is just assisting Oringer's ambitions. High-fives all round in the SS offices.

http://news.investors.com/technology-tech-exec-qanda/030413-646625-shutterstock-stock-photos-sell-as-internet-revs.htm?ven=yahoocp,yahoo&p=2

Ultimately, these higher prices don't make most of us more money, they make us less.  Hence all the bitching.

Yes.
But there's an educational value in all that : buyers must realize producing commercial images is not cheap as chips.

Try asking designers a 20% discount and all hell would break loose.

Talking about web site design, i'm finishing a web site for a relative of mine, it's amazing how much the use of images is the MOST important factor in modern design, i've now a very nice corporate web site up and running in front of me  and if had to take off the images it would be a meaningless unattractive unprofessional page with some text nobody would bother to read.

One would think being this the typical scenario images should be priced and valued accordingly, and yet all we're witnessing is a race to the very bottom.

Oh and by the way, i ask my relative to provide me a nice photo with him and his business partners to be used in the About Us page, he told me they've no money to pay a photographer doing corporate portraits so they will be fine using a generic stock image or a using their iPhones ? 

Now, why corporate photography is perceived as expensive and highly respected while the stock images in their web site are seen as cheap rubbish to patch holes between text and articles ?

Sorry, all this cannot go on forever, cheap buyers and designers had it too easy for too long.

There is also the fact that many central banks are printing money which makes the price of everything rise. I went to MacDonald's last week for the first time in 3 years. The price of a big Mac was $8.60 AUD. I was shocked as the last time it was around $6. Then I though about some of my images selling for $2 and felt a bit discouraged.

Yep, printing money to solve financial crises, what can possibly go wrong?