Found this on petapixl

"Stipple Trying to Turn Microstock On Its Head with In-Photo Ads"

SO, would you work for clicks???

http://www.petapixel.com/page/2/

hope shis isnt 2x post last one did not go through?

Quote from: zenpix on April 28, 2011, 21:13

I understand you can set it up to sel EL for more $$, can i do that.
BTW: im only bronz right now, i might not have that option?

Bronze members can set the prices of ELs to 50 credits, silver members and above to 100 credits.

thank you for the info! To bad u cant do it all at once u have to go one by one and set the price higher.

Thanks again,
Nick

This prob will not affect me much, i just started at IS, very few pics. Although i have had a large batch of $ taken away from me at another micro co, for the same reason, "fraud".

This is what is in my mind:

lets say we make and sell a crap load of wiggets to walmart (for resale) and walmart in turn sells them to the public, via there stores.
along comes a groop of scammers/criminals who bought a butt load of our wiggets with stolen credit cards.
walmart would not be charging us for the stolen items?! They would just absorbe it as the cost of doing biz! And possibly follow up with the authorities to try and recup the loss.

Why is it not like this with the micros?

OK, makes sense.

its that sometimes i see someone going too far, complaing "my photo" was copied.
but it was just the concept that was copied. Not the photo exactly!

In this case i see what u guys are saying its an obvious attempt to "EXACTLY" copy yuries photo.

Its a fine line.

What if i copied the photo in question and varied the angel. Camera high right for example. Did i copy it of was i just "inspired"?

Anyway you guys ar right, its a blatant attempt to copy his photo.

I agree, i love VEER.

Wait till you get a few $35.00 sales.

VEER sales come slower but stronger.

Plus they seem to be a stand up company.

Rock on VEER!

Quote from: QR8Design on February 15, 2011, 07:25

Each store has its own licensing agreement, we provide the starting point which each store owner can change or replace. That is the agreement buyers accept as the transaction is between them and the store owner direct - we just provide the software to do so.

Unfortunately I expect that buyers will get really confused by this approach.

The idea behind your site is not bad, but having a common framework for licensing (either RF or RM) saves time to people. What if a buyer is looking only for RF images? this very basic search is not possible on your website.
And even if he finds a bunch of RF images, then he should read all terms&conditions on each store because each artist may have changed the agreement and restrict some usages.
For instance, I've seen an image of a laptop computer with the windows logo on it. There is no mention if it's RM or RF. The title on the page states "royalty free image", but this is really confusing since there is no info about release!

Sorry to say it, but I feel that if something is not clear and easy to understand, people will shop elsewhere.

Yes, thats what i was thinking also. One lic aggrement or two, one rm and one rf, standard. this would keep the buyer confusion to a min.

Thanks or answering my questions above.
I belive you said that you will market it iwith the search engin of google? im not to clear on the responce.

one more question: if i bring a buyer to my site and they then search for "...cow smoking a cigar, will results be for just my images of for the entire site?

Wikileaks~~HA, thats funny

How is that possible, we r talking about photolia~they wont move through to review until you finalize the file, keyword order, catagories....
Did u do that already?

Oh no!

i just deleted the pics and it stopped.

hello,
i uploaded 2 pics to your site  and sent one of them to Dt and one to FT. As a test run.

one photo was sent to DT
but
18 photos were sent to Photolia (the same pic)!!!

i deleted them all from FT but your site was still sending them to FT cause the icon for the photo was still yellow meaning it was still uploading.
So i just deleted it (both photos) from your site.

I hope this stops the uploading to FT. Or maybe u can check and see what is going on?

I REALY hope FT does not count this in my aceptance rate!?

I remember reading some site counted photos uploaded but then deleted before they went through to be the review proces against your aceptance percentage.

Anyone know if photolia does this???

Im one of those people who realy sweats his aceptance rate.

Hi, just wanted to say i was able to log in yesterday then today i could not get in again?
but now i can.

Same here, i think for over a week for me.
I have been uploading via ftp and i get no thumbs.
i just delete it and then upload via there upload (not ftp) and then they show up but it takes a long time, like the next day!

are you able to log into 123?

I cant since this morning.