Quote from: lisafx on June 05, 2011, 17:12

Quote from: jsnover on June 05, 2011, 12:45

I don't know what he means, but I don't think it is possible that he means $8,000 in less than two weeks.

His iStock profile says he's sold > 40,000 licenses with a portfolio of 1,600 images. At an average of $2 per download he'd have sold 4,000 licenses to make $8K.

I'm curious too. 

Christian's a great photographer, but I am skeptical even he could have sold either $8,000 worth or 8,000 rc's worth of images in just a few days.

Chris, can you elaborate? 

Hi and thanks for the compliment, WE are the greatest arent we?

NO! blimey the 8K, a week was meant as a joke, its an impossibillity! although I have to say, the sale has been very good to me and by my calculations Im on my way of meeting the targets.
like Black-sheep says, all this glossary, maths and everything, its impossible to understand it? they dont use plain language, do they?

Frankly, to be honest, regarding IS, I have stopped trying to understand, dont really care anymore, they can do whatever they want, nothing would surprise me the slightest. From the moment Bruce sold out to Getty, I knew this would happen, Im actually surprised it took them this long to ruin it.

best.

Oh...that was a joke... ha..ha..ha.. I get it.. That was soooo funny

If nobody is laughing at your jokes, they probably aren't funny. Just sayin'. 

Quote from: jsnover on June 05, 2011, 12:18

Last week was very up and down - but I would say that the number of XL and up images in the mix was greater than I typically see. OTOH, if the total numbers aren't up, it doesn't do me any good to see the mix of sizes change.

Part of my Shutterstock portfolio went live on Saturday and my first sale of 36 cents beat the 28 cents I got for a (P+) XS image at iStock the same day. Has a way of softening any of my qualms about subscriptions

If you just started at Shutterstock how are you getting, 36 cents instead of the usual 25 cent startup royalty? Did they continue your earnings total from when you were there before exclusive at IS? Just curious.

Because I didn't just start - I am contributor #249, so go way back. I still have my old account with enough sales from before to qualify me for 36 cents. I don't have all my old portfolio online - I had left 600 images there but when they got opted back in it was without any keywords! At any rate, I'm both old and new as it were

I had left 600 images there but when they got opted back in it was without any keywords! At any rate, I'm both old and new as it were

What so you mean had left? Were thy deactivated? Can you even do that on SS?

Quote from: ibogdan on June 07, 2011, 02:32

I'm sorry for being a little off-topic but what's the lowest commission for a large sale? I sold a large sized image today (10 credits) for only $1.2. Usually all my large sales were in the range of 2-2.6$ as far as I remember.
Thank you!

it depends on the buyer... I had a XS for 0.07$ the other day.. which means I would get 0.7$ for a L 

If you questioned Support about really low value sales, they used to always click on the pat answer that these were old credits from about 2004. Now, though, it's an open secret that some buyers can buy credits far lower than advertised ('as low as �0.66 per credit' is the UK default), I believe 47c has been mooted.
Someone with a lot of spare money and time they don't know what to do with could no doubt take out some case against iStock inasmuch as these tiny credit prices are not made clear to contributors when they sign up ('false pretences'? 'full disclosure'). I'm not that person, though.