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lisafx

« Reply #500 on: July 18, 2013, 15:44 »
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« Reply #501 on: July 18, 2013, 15:48 »
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Not sure who this was addressed to?

dbvirago

Ah, thanks :)

no worries, its really amazing how iStock can do pretty much everything to surprise us, those suckers are funny aren't they? it must be the same process but they decided to keep our PP money for a "little" longer :o

« Reply #502 on: July 18, 2013, 16:03 »
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Can someone explain that please, why is that upsetting, I dont understand? Honest question, since I dont have a history at StockXpert.

stockxpert was bought by iStock a few years ago, the files from stockxpert are also know as Hemera collection at thinkstock but in this case they are always paid without a problem and in time, which means we got already June downloads when we are still waiting for May downloads from PP

OK, I'm confused again. I thought the Thinkstock images were the Partner Program. I just went to Thinkstock and I have a lot of images under the username I had on SX and more under my username on iStock.

Honestly, in the past, my sales from istock haven't been enough to dig into this, but this thread has me wondering if, when and how I have been paid for images hosted on other sites and partnered with istock. I did download the script in the note above and also the Android app, but having a hard time figuring this out with istocks, clunky interfaces.

thanks

I may be wrong, but I think you claim your StockXpert/Herema earnings direct from there, so you might have accumulated  a worthwhile balance over the years. Try logging back into your StockXpert account, it should still be live, where you may be able to see some earnings.

« Reply #503 on: July 18, 2013, 16:41 »
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The Diamonds are starting to show up on the istock forum with very poor numbers for May. This can't continue for much longer I hope. But what do I know about "Big Business".

« Reply #504 on: July 18, 2013, 16:44 »
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Can someone explain that please, why is that upsetting, I dont understand? Honest question, since I dont have a history at StockXpert.

stockxpert was bought by iStock a few years ago, the files from stockxpert are also know as Hemera collection at thinkstock but in this case they are always paid without a problem and in time, which means we got already June downloads when we are still waiting for May downloads from PP

OK, I'm confused again. I thought the Thinkstock images were the Partner Program. I just went to Thinkstock and I have a lot of images under the username I had on SX and more under my username on iStock.

Honestly, in the past, my sales from istock haven't been enough to dig into this, but this thread has me wondering if, when and how I have been paid for images hosted on other sites and partnered with istock. I did download the script in the note above and also the Android app, but having a hard time figuring this out with istocks, clunky interfaces.

thanks

I may be wrong, but I think you claim your StockXpert/Herema earnings direct from there, so you might have accumulated  a worthwhile balance over the years. Try logging back into your StockXpert account, it should still be live, where you may be able to see some earnings.

exactly Paul

« Reply #505 on: July 18, 2013, 16:48 »
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Meanwhile on StockXpert: June earnings are in...

Ploink, how do the May and June StockXpert earnigns compare with normal months? Are they down 90-99%, like IS, or are they simply normal?


dbvirago

« Reply #506 on: July 18, 2013, 16:51 »
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Can someone explain that please, why is that upsetting, I dont understand? Honest question, since I dont have a history at StockXpert.

stockxpert was bought by iStock a few years ago, the files from stockxpert are also know as Hemera collection at thinkstock but in this case they are always paid without a problem and in time, which means we got already June downloads when we are still waiting for May downloads from PP

OK, I'm confused again. I thought the Thinkstock images were the Partner Program. I just went to Thinkstock and I have a lot of images under the username I had on SX and more under my username on iStock.

Honestly, in the past, my sales from istock haven't been enough to dig into this, but this thread has me wondering if, when and how I have been paid for images hosted on other sites and partnered with istock. I did download the script in the note above and also the Android app, but having a hard time figuring this out with istocks, clunky interfaces.

thanks

I may be wrong, but I think you claim your StockXpert/Herema earnings direct from there, so you might have accumulated  a worthwhile balance over the years. Try logging back into your StockXpert account, it should still be live, where you may be able to see some earnings.

Thanks. Tried that and it said my account was cancelled. I have a vague memory that Thinkstock didnt' take my SX account. I went back into Thinkstock and all images under both usernames had istock under them, so I sent a note to istock asking why newer images were showing under a different username.

« Reply #507 on: July 18, 2013, 16:56 »
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That's odd. I was just able to log into my old StockXpert account. There's nothing there but it still exists.

« Reply #508 on: July 18, 2013, 16:57 »
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Can someone explain that please, why is that upsetting, I dont understand? Honest question, since I dont have a history at StockXpert.

stockxpert was bought by iStock a few years ago, the files from stockxpert are also know as Hemera collection at thinkstock but in this case they are always paid without a problem and in time, which means we got already June downloads when we are still waiting for May downloads from PP

OK, I'm confused again. I thought the Thinkstock images were the Partner Program. I just went to Thinkstock and I have a lot of images under the username I had on SX and more under my username on iStock.

Honestly, in the past, my sales from istock haven't been enough to dig into this, but this thread has me wondering if, when and how I have been paid for images hosted on other sites and partnered with istock. I did download the script in the note above and also the Android app, but having a hard time figuring this out with istocks, clunky interfaces.

thanks

I may be wrong, but I think you claim your StockXpert/Herema earnings direct from there, so you might have accumulated  a worthwhile balance over the years. Try logging back into your StockXpert account, it should still be live, where you may be able to see some earnings.

Thanks. Tried that and it said my account was cancelled. I have a vague memory that Thinkstock didnt' take my SX account. I went back into Thinkstock and all images under both usernames had istock under them, so I sent a note to istock asking why newer images were showing under a different username.

I would say you have opted out at stockxpert when they asked if you wanted to join thinkstock, right after istock purchase

« Reply #509 on: July 18, 2013, 23:19 »
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Meanwhile on StockXpert: June earnings are in...

SERIOUSLY!!??!!

Absolutely, May earnings have been there since the middle of June, as per their usual schedule...

Weird!  Thanks for the info Ploink.  I thought you might be kidding.

If they can report them to StockXpert, then why not Istock??

I assume they were average earning amounts, not tiny fractions of regular earnings?

Mine were less than usual, but not "a tiny fraction of regular". I thought (and still do) it's the beginning of the summer. But then my sales on the PP never were large or regular enough to draw conclusions from them...

gillian vann

  • *Gillian*
« Reply #510 on: July 19, 2013, 03:25 »
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one (and that's exactly it: 1) more through.  :-\

« Reply #511 on: July 19, 2013, 06:44 »
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I have on on the first and one on the 17th.  Over 100 last month so either it's a serious drop in sales, lost data, or perhaps they really are not half way through the processing and more still to come.

« Reply #512 on: July 19, 2013, 06:57 »
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I have none yet. I think they're still fooling with their scripts.

« Reply #513 on: July 19, 2013, 09:37 »
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Sometime overnight, one sale on the May 19th was added (to the one sale on the 2nd that appeared last Friday).

Looking at April 2013, even with my gutted remnants of my IS portfolio I had 20 sales, so I'd expect something similar for May

WarrenPrice

« Reply #514 on: July 19, 2013, 09:52 »
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The silence is deafening.   :-\


« Reply #515 on: July 19, 2013, 10:03 »
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The silence is deafening.   :-\


There is an update:

ADDED FRIDAY JULY 19, 2013:

Here is what we know:

    Payment batches are not in chronological order.
    Weekday payment transfers are incredibly slow
    We are only barely halfway through the payments



Yesterday I provided the Dev team a list of contributors with the average PP payments they have received over the last 6 months. I've provided them with a list of high volume Non-Exclusives as well as a handful of Exclusive contributors to review.
(and there's some more here http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=354958)

Beppe Grillo

« Reply #516 on: July 19, 2013, 10:20 »
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I've got a new one today
One at a time, sometime

« Reply #517 on: July 19, 2013, 10:41 »
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I posted this on June 12 in the iStock PP forum, got banned quickly thereafter and later the post was deleted.

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I have a buddy that works in IT at iStock and he told me that iStock cut the banana rations of the monkeys who key in the PP data and the monkeys went completely bananas!! (pun intended) The monkeys are essentially rioting, destroying equipment and throwing feces all over the place. Total disaster.

The monkey problem is so bad the iStock IT department is considering switching to computers to both automate and speed up the process. I for one welcome that change.

But, hey, that's just what I heard. :)



It was a cheeky post but my intent was to have a laugh at iStock's expense and bring a little humour to a troubling situation. I think it was quite obvious that it was fictional.

Now as the problems continue on for nearly another week, I am beginning to think my fictitious anecdote, as impossible as it seems, was totally accurate.

No wonder I got banned from the forums so quickly, I inadvertently exposed their dark monkey secret.  ;)


Hmmm.

There may be some truth to that. Check out the istock home page http://www.istockphoto.com/ You may need to login to see the blinking ad in the top left corner of the display.

fritz

  • I love Tom and Jerry music

« Reply #518 on: July 19, 2013, 11:41 »
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Being banned from their forum but my advise is to all 65k istock contributors (who are not banned) to post  PP stats  to show them that the PP is broken (if they don't know) and there is no way it's halfway done and the only issue is slow process like lobo wants to  convince us.
IS now is trying to steal our money or somebody is not telling the truth.
Remember couple of years ago when T-Mobile tried to cheat me I never ever become their customer again.
Now it's the same with IS.

lisafx

« Reply #519 on: July 19, 2013, 12:20 »
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Even though it doesn't provide much info, I appreciate their trying to keep us updated.  The silence is/was the most unnerving thing of all. 

However I doubt they are halfway through as stated. So far I am just barely at 1% of an average month. 

tab62

« Reply #520 on: July 19, 2013, 13:11 »
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If they are half way done I am screwed!

« Reply #521 on: July 19, 2013, 19:31 »
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If they are half way done I am screwed!

It's going to be a cluster fk.  They will say they are done then thousands of contributors will bombard CR because, as usual, they didn't get it right.  And it will take weeks, if not longer, to address the underpayment issues.  I am fully convinced that they won't be correct and they will just make up a payment "somewhere in the vicinity" of your average using an algorithm.  Knowing them, that algorithm will then over pay us and they will claw back the money IMMEDIATELY, as they have no issues EVER doing that.

tab62

« Reply #522 on: July 19, 2013, 20:12 »
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at least they should provide some free KY Jelly to us before they screwed us! I am sick and tired of this and I only joined with them this year!

« Reply #523 on: July 19, 2013, 20:35 »
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Ha..half way through...I only have one PP for May..

« Reply #524 on: July 19, 2013, 21:08 »
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I just got banned from the istock forum.


Dear Bruce,

The administration team at iStockphoto has revoked your forum privileges.  Comments from iStockphoto Administrators (if any):

Take a break from it for a while. You\'ve been overly active repeating the same comments since the beginning. If you have an interest in participating beyond trolling you can let me know.

Lobo

If you would like to discuss this with client relations, please email [email protected].

Best Regards,
iStockphoto.com


He probably has a point but my frustration with this mess and my need to make the payout cutoff is got me pretty much upset. I'm 8.32 away from the 100.00 needed, and been that way for the past 3 weeks. About to close out the account if I ever make it to the 100.00. Flat out frustrated.


 

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