Quote from: Shelma1 on July 15, 2013, 11:40

My sales at shutterstock continue to rise every month, while my sales at iStock dropped by almost half this month (if the month continues as badly as it started).

My sales at SS are always poor, despite uploading more images. My sales at IS are much better and I sell more images these days. It would just be nice if they actually paid out what they owe. What I cant understand is why Getty would be in financial trouble. Oxymoron really.

The only thing that would cause Getty financial problems that I can think of would be that they mortgaged the company - possibly to pay for buying it (H&F took out an gargantuan loan against it when they had it) - and got the expectations of future income wrong. I'm not saying that's happened but that is the sort of behaviour that sinks giant companies.

is the PP payout over for the month of May? If so, I am screwed! It is about 5% of my other months!

I just had my first PP sale for May recorded, my first and last is what I wonder about.

Yikes, this felt weird :   my sales just went up with about 30 $, so I thought :  yessss, PP's are coming!! 
One quick look at the stats page told me the PP's were still almost zero.   
I finally found out I had 4 EL's of 7,68 $ each (same subject, same hour, so probably same customer).
I never thought I'd ever be disappointed to see 4 EL's ...

Just had my 3rd PP sale. WOW.... HAPPY     

IS asked me to fill out a questionaire as a contributor. Which I did.

Their question was if I had anything to say on how they could improve the relation (with a contributor)

I wrote them:

- Meet the expectations  created
- Give updates on a regular base when something is faulty ( like PP for may and June), hour bu hour, 24x7
- Increase my income by 60% not decreasing it by 60%

I wrote:

Pay us contributors our PP royalties on time, instead of letting wait for weeks after the deadline.

I have two May dls after five days of them running the payout. That should be far less than 1% of my total. They are going to pay June once they finish posting "slowly" for May. If the current rate progress is maintained it will take about another 670 days to finish my May script. So I'm hoping that there are no further delays and we can get this out of the way by early 2015 so the June 2013 script can start running.

Aahahahaha, man I almost chocked laughing ! 

how many of us haven't reported May sales in the Poll here? Tyler, is there a way to do so?

update: just got a 3rd PP sale through, for the 14th.

Any words of wisdom from Lobo or any of the staff over in iS Forums?

Any words of wisdom from Lobo or any of the staff over in iS Forums?

He has "managed to get this escalated pretty high up the chain" - which probably means the Assistant Vice President in charge of Facility Management 

i have only one pp dl now showing in the 14th of may. so they report the dls in a random order

If you get a response to a comment in the PP forum its either a meaningless platitude at best or scorn and derision at worst. I wrote to Contributor Relations....three days ago....No reply as yet although I see someone has posted a vacuous response in the PP forum.

IS' attitude seems to be "send us an e-mail or comment in the forum and we'll ignore it later". As for being "escalated up the chain" what does that mean? On the basis a large swathe of your suppliers have not been paid for services rendered it ought to be the first thing on Ellen Desmarais' To Do List now that other important stuff like who makes her coffee, where is her parking space and the location of the staff canteen have been dealt with.