Good old cheesy Microstock-days, saturation rules
Back to topic yes your balloons have been stolen let us know what SS did about it!

I cannot submit or upload to Pixta for more than a day.

There is no way to get past authorization.

This Electron window (which is painfully slow btw..) just sits there and never disappears like for exampla after Fotolia login

yeah but it's Pixta fault I simply started to ignore them, they are such a small earner not worth the hassle anyway.

The problem is not that the price of the software is too high, the problem is that microstock just produces so little revenue nowadays that is it hard to justify any expense!

I'm doing photography full time and I would like to do some heart surgery at a side. I'm not so interested in the money but I love the comments I do get from my kids and their friends after I successfully band-aided them. I can imagine people are even more thankfully after a successful heart surgery so any tips to get into the business and to offer my free surgery service would be very much appreciated.

I made 310,-� since 2008 with 3000 Files. I don't upload to them anymore but I don't see a risk to leave my images there.

They are looking for real editorial content not the unretouched iPhone showing a Google search. They are aiming to be the next Getty why should they waste time with the lame pseudo-editorial content from microstockers. I understand the frustation but they obviously doing everything right!

I'm wondering when the hipster with a beard and skateboard will become cliche ...

Well they are cliche.....

Quote from: 50% on March 27, 2017, 05:22

There is no mention of VAT in the article but the fact remains that VAT already doubled this is quite something, and VAT is only paid by the people every single business can deduct VAT to 100% I'm sure you know this...

Is this correct? I though VAT could only be offset against VAT paid by the business on its expenditure, not deducted at 100%.

I know there has been an argument for doing away with corporation tax all together and including it in VAT as it avoids corporations going offshore. VAT is paid where the goods are sold regardless. I guess if they decided to do this they would have to rethink the offsetting as companies would just come of with new dodges by inflating VAT paid on expenditure.

you can offset it but if you pay more VAT than you earn VAT you get it back, at least it is the way here where I live but it should be the same elsewhere.
But in most cases when a business pay more VAT than it earns it is running at a loss so the normal thing is simply to offset it

Quote from: 50% on March 26, 2017, 09:09

Quote from: sharpshot on March 26, 2017, 08:25

Quote from: 50% on March 26, 2017, 06:56

Quote from: sharpshot on March 26, 2017, 04:37

Why would Germany want the UK to have a good deal when that would encourage more countries to leave the EU?  I think this is going to hurt, the tariffs might look small but it will be worse for manufacturers that have to move components from Europe to the UK and back again.  It will be hard to keep all the European car manufacturers in the UK.  Lowering business taxes in the UK is an option but wont the EU do something to counteract that?

There is a general misconception among British citiziens that Germany is the enemy, but Germany was always the closet ally of the UK in the EU and is still so. The UK and Germany are actually the biggest losers of the Brexit vote. Also the EU is not ruled by Germany actually it is a degressive proportionality in the EU smaller states like Malta and Luxembourg have ten times more influence per citizen as bigger states (Germany is the biggest state by citizens in the EU). Easily to research its a fact!
Lowering business taxes is an option and there is nothing the EU can do against it, but it means less money for the state so the state has to compensate by higher taxes for the normal citizen. So Brexit in the end is just another scheme to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, quite tragic that actually the poor voted for Brexit and made it possible.

A lot of people argue the opposite, that lowering business taxes attracts more business and increases tax revenues.  Maybe the UK will find out what really happens.  This is worth reading http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/21345/economics/does-cutting-corporate-tax-rates-increase-revenue/

Yes interisting read but it actually proofs me right lowering business taxes since the 50s while increasing individual taxes and that globally - make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

I don't agree with that.  That doesn't seem to be what the article is saying at all.

Actually yes the article clearly shows how business taxes decreased multiple times in the last decades (globally) while VAT for example in the UK doubled.
This is what Wikipedia says about VAT: Opponents of VAT claim VAT is regressive and is paid by all consumers whether they be rich or poor, young or old.[9] The poorest also spend a higher proportion of their disposable income on VAT than richest.[7] An Office for National Statistics report showed that in 2009/10 the poorest 20% spent 8.7% of their gross income on VAT, whereas the richest 20% spent only 4.0% of their gross income on VAT.[51] Similarly, the poorest 20% spent 9.7% of their disposable income on VAT, whereas the richest 20% spent only 5.2% of their disposable income on VAT

Thanks I will try it but there are a lot of free keywording applications so I wouldn't expect to much feedback, but thanks for your work and sharing!

Why would Germany want the UK to have a good deal when that would encourage more countries to leave the EU?  I think this is going to hurt, the tariffs might look small but it will be worse for manufacturers that have to move components from Europe to the UK and back again.  It will be hard to keep all the European car manufacturers in the UK.  Lowering business taxes in the UK is an option but wont the EU do something to counteract that?

There is a general misconception among British citiziens that Germany is the enemy, but Germany was always the closet ally of the UK in the EU and is still so. The UK and Germany are actually the biggest losers of the Brexit vote. Also the EU is not ruled by Germany actually it is a degressive proportionality in the EU smaller states like Malta and Luxembourg have ten times more influence per citizen as bigger states (Germany is the biggest state by citizens in the EU). Easily to research its a fact!
Lowering business taxes is an option and there is nothing the EU can do against it, but it means less money for the state so the state has to compensate by higher taxes for the normal citizen. So Brexit in the end is just another scheme to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, quite tragic that actually the poor voted for Brexit and made it possible.

Quote from: 50% on March 25, 2017, 13:17

Second one:
Okay let's make it the other way round, I hear the argument the EU can't afford to have no trade deal with the UK because they wanna continue to sell their wine, their cheese and their Mercedes and Audis etc to the UK for sure this is true, but not all EU countries produce this items and trade with them. Instead of trading goods with the UK they send their people to work there. Why should these countries agree to any future EU-trade deal with the UK then their people are not allowed to work in the UK anymore? You see the difficulty? Against to popular (British) belief the EU is very democratic and the Veto of this countries will count in this case there will no deal at all.

Its all too apocalyptic there are plenty of people in the UK from non Eu Countries that work here. I doubt very much in the real world there will be a total ban on EU citizens working here.  Theres plenty of goods bought in the UK from countries with whom we have no free trade deal with.   

I guess you misunderstood me at least a little bit. My concern is that there will be no deal at all after the two year divorce period.
The reason is simple after triggering article 50 there is no way back, article 50 is only about how to manage the divorce even the tiniest new trading deal will be handled like every new deal is handled with a non-EU member.
There seems to be a misunderstanding in the UK how the EU works, it seems to me many people think that EU can act like one voice but the truth couldn't be further away from that. Even if 26 EU members and the UK can find a deal that all likes if the 27th member even the tiniest one doesn't like it and give it's veto, than there will be no deal at all!
So how likely is it that all 27 remaining members plus the UK will find a deal that everyone agrees on it? Very unlikely!
So after two years the trading relations between the UK and the EU will fall back to WTO terms. Look at companies like Airbus which manufacture different parts of the Airplane all around the EU and UK and sending this parts back and forth how should this work under WTO terms? Totally impossible!
Add to this that the UK can't sign any other trading deal as long it is a member of the EU (and it is a member till the very last day of the two years divorce period)
So at the end of the two yeard divorce period it is very likely that the UK will have not a single trading deal, it's not apocaliptic it's just totally crazy.

Second one:
Okay let's make it the other way round, I hear the argument the EU can't afford to have no trade deal with the UK because they wanna continue to sell their wine, their cheese and their Mercedes and Audis etc to the UK for sure this is true, but not all EU countries produce this items and trade with them. Instead of trading goods with the UK they send their people to work there. Why should these countries agree to any future EU-trade deal with the UK then their people are not allowed to work in the UK anymore? You see the difficulty? Against to popular (British) belief the EU is very democratic and the Veto of this countries will count in this case there will no deal at all.