So I received a reply from contributor relations this morning about my query on the $5.80 royalty. The person's math skills are apparently hopeless as the reply - which said my royalty was correct - included the following:

"The file was purchase at the $19.00 price Point (USD) not at the $34.00 price point and you have received the 17% of that amount."

I received $5.80 and 17% of $19.00 is $3.23, which I pointed out in my reply. I had mentioned the $34 price point as it was the maximum possible you could pay for that file and yet even that wasn't high enough to make a $5.80 royalty - a point apparently lost on the rep.

I'll post if I get any further response - it's like wading through molasses dealing with them...

LOL

I always experience the other way around, I explain something to my customer but they seem to miss everything I tell them. ;-)

Quote from: Poncke on December 08, 2012, 17:02

Why did you get a ban?

This post about the new Feast site.

It was a sarcastic post referring to the many current site bugs, one of which was that adult content (and other) filters kept getting reset. I was pretty miffed that they were spending time on stuff like that instead of getting the site working.

Lobo sent me site mail and told me to "take a little break". I've been banned ever since. Not only that but all the site mails lobo sent me and my replies to them were removed from my site mail. He was a bit rude, but nothing that could get him fired. I was pretty spooked that he'd go to those lengths.

That was September 2011. In May 2012 I opened the ticket to ask if the ban was permanent and if not, to ask for my privs back. September 5 2012 I received a comment on the ticket from Brenda (oldladybird) saying "I am going to forward this onto the correct department as it was assigned incorrectly and was buried in the ticketing system."

Three months after that, I guess it's buried in another part of the ticketing system...

I remember that thread, your ire was mine as well. In re-reading it it made me think, what the heck ever happened to pastorscott? He was so vocal and now I realise he has not been posting for a really long time. Do you know if he was banned as well?

I remember that thread, your ire was mine as well. In re-reading it it made me think, what the heck ever happened to pastorscott? He was so vocal and now I realise he has not been posting for a really long time. Do you know if he was banned as well?

I don't know. He's not around any of the groups of iStockers in off site forums anywhere that I "see" him. Even those not banned have generally figured that they should save their breath to cool their porridge, so to speak. Until Rebecca decided to try and stir the pot, anything said in the forums was just wasted.