Author Topic: PP Sales Anxiety (Read 89270 times)

cidepix · « **Reply #50 on:** June 28, 2013, 11:07 »

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on June 28, 2013, 10:20

How many people have crawled their way up to the payout level and lost interest long before they got there, so they never asked to be paid, I wonder.

The only reason some sites make us request payouts is because it is a way to "never pay" some people and keep that money..

Ron · « **Reply #51 on:** June 28, 2013, 11:27 »

I get it that some sites want to set a payout limit, but having to request a pay out or keeping money when closing an account is just theft, scam, con, whatever you want to call it. Its my money, they made it with selling my pictures, and already keeping the bigger cut. Why and when did this industry get so greedy? Why do they have to treat us like 3rd world country workers? What happened to being civil, honest and being a good business partner?

I seriously wish everybody, everybody, would pull their images from the agencies and only upload again unless there is a 50% royalty guaranteed. Lets see who has the power then. I swear within one day the greedy basterds will cave.

ShadySue · « **Reply #52 on:** June 28, 2013, 11:50 »

Quote from: Ron on June 28, 2013, 11:27

I seriously wish everybody, everybody, would pull their images from the agencies and only upload again unless there is a 50% royalty guaranteed. Lets see who has the power then. I swear within one day the greedy basterds will cave.

The people who post here, or even on the forums of the agencies, are a minority. Seems most people are happy just to keep their heads down and keep submitting.

Ron · « **Reply #53 on:** June 28, 2013, 11:58 »

Quote from: ShadySue on June 28, 2013, 11:50

Quote from: Ron on June 28, 2013, 11:27
I seriously wish everybody, everybody, would pull their images from the agencies and only upload again unless there is a 50% royalty guaranteed. Lets see who has the power then. I swear within one day the greedy basterds will cave.
The people who post here, or even on the forums of the agencies, are a minority. Seems most people are happy just to keep their heads down and keep submitting.

I know, its just a wish, but what if. Boy, I would like to see that. If I had 100 million to spare, I would organise a big campaign to round up everybody, cover everybodies stock income for a month, and then go to negotiate with SS. I am sure with a stockholder base they cant afford to risk losing all contributors and if word came out, stock would fall. They would have to agree to the terms. But it could backfire and be the end of SS altogether. LOL. Maybe start with IS first but I think Getty would drop IS in a heartbeat. Then what? Haha, I'll keep on dreaming.

lisafx · « **Reply #54 on:** June 28, 2013, 13:16 »

Quote from: tickstock on June 27, 2013, 23:04

I guess we'll have to disagree on this, I would always rather get paid sooner. Maybe you could just think about it as coming in on the last day of the month and then every (well pretty much every) month you'll be happily surprised it came sooner.

LOL! We're talking about Istock here. Nobody's getting paid PP royalties "sooner". As we have all been trying to explain to you (and I know you are intelligent so apparently you are intentionally misunderstanding), Istock pays LAST - never "sooner", and always inconsistently.

As already pointed out, here we are the last Friday in June and still PP hasn't begun. They are going to miss their own deadline this time. And I am sure when they do you will still be defending them.

ShadySue · « **Reply #55 on:** June 28, 2013, 13:31 »

Lobo has announced that PP sales probably won't happen until next week.
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=354644&page=1
Another iStock pie crust.
An identical announcement has been made re mirrored Getty images.
No suggestion that someone might be required to work on to solve the problem. H*ll no. Don't let the contributors think its 'all about them'.

lisafx · « **Reply #56 on:** June 28, 2013, 13:35 »

Quote from: ShadySue on June 28, 2013, 13:31

Lobo has announced that PP sales probably won't happen until next week.
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=354644&page=1
Another iStock pie crust.
An identical announcement has been made re mirrored Getty images.
No suggestion that someone might be required to work on to solve the problem. H*ll no. Don't let the contributors think its 'all about them'.

LOL! Priceless. Thanks for posting Liz.

I tell you, I am in a state of shock!

luissantos84 · « **Reply #57 on:** June 28, 2013, 13:48 »

no rush iStock! just make tickstock happy, that is my only concern

brm1949 · « **Reply #58 on:** June 28, 2013, 13:56 »

Yep, being paid on time when I want it.
What a joke.

loop · « **Reply #59 on:** June 28, 2013, 14:06 »

Quote from: cidepix on June 28, 2013, 09:26

Quote from: tickstock on June 27, 2013, 12:53

Shutterstock doesn't pay anything the second the buyer purchases it. You get paid once per month after the month has finished. Would you rather have Istock work that way, I would much rather get paid every week.

I don't know about him but I would rather get paid the shutterstock way, without having to request a payout..

Why on earth do I have to bother with requests everytime I want to get paid.. just bloody pay it periodically for god's sake..

It's my money and it's a given I am going to want to have it..

I prefer to request, and to be able to determine how much money of the total I want. Not very often, but from time to time, for a variety of reasons, I don't ask for all, letting a part for next week or next month. And of course, I prefer two weekly payments (istock), to one monthly (SS); and one monthly with 15-20 days average delay to one monthly with one month average delay (TS). But SS and TS are not my problem.

Pixart · « **Reply #60 on:** June 28, 2013, 14:12 »

Quote from: ShadySue on June 28, 2013, 13:31

Lobo has announced that PP sales probably won't happen until next week.
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=354644&page=1
Another iStock pie crust.
An identical announcement has been made re mirrored Getty images.
No suggestion that someone might be required to work on to solve the problem. H*ll no. Don't let the contributors think its 'all about them'.

Wow, they made an announcement before 4 on a Friday. How unusual, usually they wait to post these things until the office is closing.

Mantis · « **Reply #61 on:** June 28, 2013, 16:29 »

Quote from: luissantos84 on June 27, 2013, 12:50

Quote from: tickstock on June 27, 2013, 12:45
Quote from: WarrenPrice on June 27, 2013, 12:34
If there is time and resources to publish an erroneous rate chart ...
there is time and resources enough to run the PP Report.

Calm down, it's not even late yet.

actually I believe PP should be paid at the same second the buyer purchase it just like Shutterstock or other agencies do, its indeed absurd that we need to wait "2 months" to see the sales, again it looks like iStock can pull anything and we say YAY Sir

They float millions, like Alamy.

BaldricksTrousers · « **Reply #62 on:** June 28, 2013, 17:07 »

Quote from: Mantis on June 28, 2013, 16:29

Quote from: luissantos84 on June 27, 2013, 12:50
Quote from: tickstock on June 27, 2013, 12:45
Quote from: WarrenPrice on June 27, 2013, 12:34
If there is time and resources to publish an erroneous rate chart ...
there is time and resources enough to run the PP Report.

Calm down, it's not even late yet.

actually I believe PP should be paid at the same second the buyer purchase it just like Shutterstock or other agencies do, its indeed absurd that we need to wait "2 months" to see the sales, again it looks like iStock can pull anything and we say YAY Sir

They float millions, like Alamy.

The difference is that Alamy is post-paid, so they don't hold the cash, iStock is pre-paid, so they do.

Ron · « **Reply #63 on:** June 28, 2013, 18:36 »

Quote from: ShadySue on June 28, 2013, 13:31

Lobo has announced that PP sales probably won't happen until next week.
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=354644&page=1
Another iStock pie crust.
An identical announcement has been made re mirrored Getty images.
No suggestion that someone might be required to work on to solve the problem. H*ll no. Don't let the contributors think its 'all about them'.

Typical

thepoeticimage · « **Reply #64 on:** June 29, 2013, 18:14 »

Between Istock not paying and 123rf inability to get their uploading to work properly, it has been a pretty crappy month in microstock . . . .

tab62 · « **Reply #65 on:** June 29, 2013, 20:17 »

WME for me

borg · « **Reply #66 on:** June 30, 2013, 08:30 »

Please, change name from "thinkstock" to "tiestock" or even "tapewormstock"...

Noedelhap · « **Reply #67 on:** June 30, 2013, 21:42 »

This has nothing to do with floods or 'busy times' at iStock, this is just a totally incompetent IT department.

admin edit: changed the post to be more politically correct.

WarrenPrice · « **Reply #68 on:** July 02, 2013, 13:44 »

Is it time to get concerned?
Hope I'm not the only one who has seen NO results from May PP sales?

tickstock · « **Reply #69 on:** July 02, 2013, 13:53 »

brm1949 · « **Reply #70 on:** July 02, 2013, 13:56 »

Well, thank you for your permission sir!

tickstock · « **Reply #71 on:** July 02, 2013, 13:58 »

brm1949 · « **Reply #72 on:** July 02, 2013, 14:02 »

Let see, this is July and we are waiting on May PP reports which should be done by June 15 or so as has been the practice until now. I'm beyond aggravated with istock and this just fuels it more. Have a nice day.

tickstock · « **Reply #73 on:** July 02, 2013, 14:07 »

WarrenPrice · « **Reply #74 on:** July 02, 2013, 14:14 »

Quote from: tickstock on July 02, 2013, 14:07

Quote from: brm1949 on July 02, 2013, 14:02
Let see, this is July and we are waiting on May PP reports which should be done by June 15 or so as has been the practice until now. I'm beyond aggravated with istock and this just fuels it more. Have a nice day.

When will I get paid?

Royalties are paid once a month. Royalties will be paid for the previous month by the 30th of the current month. For example, royalties generated during the month of March will be paid by the 30th of April. There is no set day for royalty pay outs to begin.

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=344185&page=1

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Author Topic: PP Sales Anxiety (Read 89270 times)

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Mantis

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