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Messages - maco0708
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« on: December 04, 2007, 10:39 »
This is so stupid!
Why they let you upload pictures without an ID?
I had 10 pictures pending for about 2 weeks after I started to look around here for answers. Yesterday I uploaded my ID and they reviewed the pictures in less than a day.
Oh well, good thing they review fast, now I can start uploading.
But they should let you know with BIG red letters to upload your ID first. I was the little notice but unless I have to, I don't like to send a pic of my passport over the internet.
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« on: December 03, 2007, 18:47 »
I guess I should complain here more often. My batched were reviewed today.
And the verdict was pretty reasonable: 16 out of 20 accepted (this are my early images so they are not so great).
So hopefully the era of massive rejections with no reason is gone.
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« on: December 02, 2007, 21:58 »
What is your current review time?
I have a batch sitting there since November 17th!!!
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« on: December 02, 2007, 11:32 »
That might be the case. One of mine has a free download and it actually said "steel cage".
You guys were right. It was a steel cage download. He is a copy of a line from my downloads summary: Thursday November 29, 2007, 10:51 PM SteelCage Free 0.00 Cool, I learn something new every day:)
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« on: December 01, 2007, 23:18 »
It is likely a steel cage download, which is some game of Istocks. It counts towards a download but you don't get anything. It's not being used for anything other than the game.
Cool, if that is the case I am totally fine with that.
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« on: December 01, 2007, 22:29 »
Hi, here is my image: http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=3717736It shows one free download. I never offered the file for the free section. So what does it mean? Who is allowed to download regular images for free? I don't really care about one sale commission, I am just confused and would like to know what's going on. Thanks!
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« on: November 29, 2007, 10:58 »
I would not bother. The only advantage by selling directly would be making maybe $15 extra dollars. But then what kind of agreement are you going to sell it under.
Maybe he will buy them from you for $20 and then he might think that he owns the pictures and send them to bunch of his friends. You might find out, it will make you angry and you would not be able to do anything about it (unless you want to sue someone in Hungary).
So if I were you I would just let it go and tell him that he can buy 10 credits on iStock. If that is too much for him, then he is not worth dealing with.
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« on: November 27, 2007, 10:27 »
That's interesting. Based on these numbers they have over 20,000 contributors but only about 2500 of them have over 200 sales. Some newbie data:
User ID 200434514
Overall rank 19,648 (3 sales)
...There is one good thing about my situation: the only direction I can take from the bottom is up :-)
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« on: November 11, 2007, 20:11 »
My average for October is $0.27/image.
Quite low but I uploaded very few images.
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« on: November 01, 2007, 09:41 »
My rank is 2168 (216 sales).
And I am pretty proud of it:)
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« on: November 01, 2007, 08:53 »
Breakdown of earnings:
IS: 53% (BME)
SS: 21% (BME for downloads)
DT: 15% (BME thanks to extended licence)
FT: 8%
BS: 3%
IS is better and better every day. If it keeps going I will consider going exclusive.
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« on: October 29, 2007, 16:05 »
The difference can be taxes, warranty and size of the market. I know that in Slovakia (maybe also rest of EU) everything comes with 2 year warranty (so the price should be higher). And yes, I live in the USA now  EDIT: But I do feel your pain somewhat. But you also have to take into account that this "cheaper in the US" is mostly due to super low $ so people in the US are also making less money than people in Europe.
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« on: October 29, 2007, 11:29 »
I see that stockxpert takes only 2 days.
Are they still rejecting like crazy or did they come to their senses?
I was accepted at StockXpert and I have ~300 to upload so I want them to be accepted:)
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« on: October 29, 2007, 11:24 »
I didn't even vote because I don't fit in any category.
I don't need my earnings since I have enough money in my account so I try to cash out when I have at least $500 to minimize the impact of the transaction fee from moneybookers. And also I try to "catch" a good exchange rate so I get more money from the overly weak dollar.
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« on: October 28, 2007, 10:10 »
Yeah I have good seller.
Christmas related I guess!
WOW! 34 files and over 3000 sales!!! That is impressive! I wonder why don't you produce more files, you could be making a lot of money on iStock. But I have to say that your success is heavily offset but that superseller.
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« on: October 27, 2007, 11:23 »
Based on how many uploads? My stats looked really good the first six months, but unless you can keep uploading large quantities of images every month, you will hit a wall at some point
34! And I didn't upload much the last 6 months!
I did hit that wall on Shutterstock already because of my low upload rate!
But Istock is doing better and better every month, I don't know why!
And Im not exclusive!
Do you have one VERY good seller? Can you give a link to your portfolio? When you have a very small portfolio (34 images is very small) one good seller can drive your entire performance on iStock. I have 250 files (which is still a small portfolio) on iStock and even for me in October about 1/3 of my sales came from one image.
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« on: October 14, 2007, 09:28 »
And only 2,300 golds. Of those, only 260 are exclusive.
How do you know this? Are there any other fun stats you know? I would love if iStock would start raking of photographers like fotolia used to do (but since v2 it has been stuck on the same number)
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« on: October 13, 2007, 21:59 »
Number of Images online: 2,253,903 Number of Contributors: 37,000 Did Simple math. Average number of files in a portfolio: 60.9 images. Considering there is a large number of people with 1000+ portfolios I think that with my 250 files I am still in top third of contributors. That makes me feel important
120
« on: October 09, 2007, 12:45 »
Featurepics has been completely dead for me for over 2 weeks. Jul-Aug had started to pick up and I had some hope for great things, then - nothing. Sales have been slow for me too. THe past months they have been like CanStockPhoto, which is not good, but overall I made more with them than at CanStockPhoto, and I had one pay-out already.
Regards,
Adelaide
How do you price your images? I have them at $4 with resizing and I have pretty much ZERO sales. I have about 200 pictures on FP for almost a year and I made $2.34. I am considering removal of my images.
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« on: October 08, 2007, 23:03 »
Well... they favor exclusives several ways. More uploads, more money per download and faster approval times. A couple of intangible ways are that the bar for approving an image is lower for exclusives and they show higher in "best match". Sean L. may tell you otherwise, but a bunch of us on the Micropayment list proved it about a year ago...
There was something else recently. I remember reading in the forums on istock that some people were angry because they had a special day where the exclusives got to keep 100% of sales commissions of their images for that one day. The nonexclusives were left out of it. Now, I can understand allowing people who are exclusive members upload more pics than nons, and I can also understand the faster approval time and overall higher commissions, too. But I would have to agree with the angry villagers on that one - that special day thing was just tacky. All contributors should have been allowed to keep the commissions that day, as they all contribute to istock's success.
I disagree. Exclusives commit a lot by being exclusive (to me the biggest thing is that once IS rejects your image you can't sell it anywhere else, which is important for me since 30% of my images would be a waste of time). So exclusives SHOULD be rewarded greatly. Honestly I don't think that IS appreciates them enough. And just to clarify I am NOT exclusive.
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« on: October 06, 2007, 19:02 »
Good to know this. I am ready to upload 300 pics but I will wait till they come to their senses.
Can somebody please post here when they start reviewing like the other sites (i.e. ~70% of good photos get accepted).
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« on: October 06, 2007, 18:44 »
Alright well I just placed the order. 
Canon 400D with 17-85mm lens $1099
Polarizer $29.90
2GB Flash Memory $44.90
Going to just pick up a tripod from BestBuy.
After talking with a good friend, I decided against buying any sort of lighting equipment to start with. I don't really fancy messing with all that to start with. That might come down the road after a few more payouts. 
I think you chose wisely. The only thing I would add right away is the Canon 50mm f/1.8 II
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« on: October 06, 2007, 18:23 »
I'm really angry so pardon my ranting:)
I sent over starting sept 14th until sept 29th each day different batches of 50 pictures, totalling about 7-800 pictures on at least 20 different themes. Now I just came home and was already desperately checking if they had possibly reviewed my pictures and YES THEY DID, but they rejected every single file, not one of them got approved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This must be warm up for april fool's, I don't see another logical explanation!
I won't spent any second more on that rediculous site!
Thanks!
Just to clarify: do you get pictures easily accepted at other sites (IS, FT,SS, DT,....) 
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« on: October 06, 2007, 11:58 »
Everyone takes a picture with the main theme of Fitness. If you ask someone who had never seen the image before what the image was about - they should say fitness in their first sentence of describing the photo.
I think this is kind of a problem. Let say you have a person running outside. I don't think that I would use the word fitness in the first sentence but I think it has a lot to do with fitness. Would a picture like that be OK?
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