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1001
« on: October 28, 2015, 12:56 »
And aside from people who watched x-files, what's your proof that they have special people or boardroom specials or cousins. I'll stick with what I can really see. They reject mass quantities of good work, and if it was all about making numbers, that makes no sense. If they wanted numbers, SS would be more like they used to be or more like IS.
1) i don't watch xfiles 2) da vinci said the world was round , a long time before the rest of the world was allowed to think that da vinci was correct 3) it is much easier to be Thomas 
1002
« on: October 28, 2015, 12:47 »
be thankful because it really does not matter if you got them approved or not.
it takes you as long as a year to more to reach payout with comatose-dreamstime
than it takes you a month , two at the most on ss.
1003
« on: October 28, 2015, 12:29 »
1004
« on: October 28, 2015, 11:13 »
You've hit the nail on the head I think. They needed content to start the site up now they can generate their own. They just need enough for a "good enough" selection. They aren't a stock site. A very cynical way to go about it or treat people but makes sense from their side I guess.
that's true , i red-ed the comment in point. a long time ago it was the same treatment with the indie music site, i won't mention the name but we were 20 years younger and i was in a band and we were the first bunch of indie on that site. they got us convinced with their plan, "level playing field for independent musicians". we gave them our music and got paid 0.0004 US cents per download and our cds were sold and bought by fans from Japan, Holland (as it was called at that time), Brazil, etc. Even got to the top 5 of the blues, electronic , pop charts based on downloads. we were big, as with our peers. until one day, they started getting non-indie names like the guy who used to play with Santana, and then Tori Amos. next thing we knew, we all got an email saying we will have to pay for our songs with them if we wish to continue. they became well-known then, and no longer needed us . they suddenly contracted alzheimer and forgot who made them to be considered worthwhile to finally get noticed by Tori Amos,etc. nothing's changed,,, after 20 years, our music is forgotten, but i am sure that site is still around under a different name selling only commercial top named recording people. but why are we surprised??? even the great Prince got screwed ... which is why he went indie . then again, musicians now have youtube to market themselves. we need a youtube for microstock photography 
1005
« on: October 28, 2015, 10:30 »
Nobody seemed to like my theory - but I'm saying, these were never reviewed. SS is having this stuff done internally, or commissioning someone, and loading it directly. No one is spending time uploading 10s of thousands of things like this, and SS wouldn't pay reviewers to look at it. Maybe they just want to pad their numbers and reach some new milestone of collection size. Or, maybe they want to show some subset of customers what a vast collection of icons and similar stuff they have.
Of course, I could be wrong. One way to prove me wrong would be to find the same material on another microstock.
Can't accept this or similar theories. Why wouldn't they just accept our work if they need numbers. We have better quality and not spam repeats.
sorry yada3 , i agree with stockastic on this one. they do not just mass approve you and me, they have certain people who can upload everything and sh*t and all gets approved without looking at their work because of their position in the boardroom this is not just a plague in ss, it's a common practice with all business controlled by shareholders. nepotism is a commonplace in business, and with shareholders, it is not unusual for them to get their good-for-nothing sons, daughters, wife, mistresses, cousins cousins cousins..etc into the management office without an interview, or qualification,etc
1006
« on: October 28, 2015, 09:00 »
I told my husband about this and he said "won't SS lose money if people can just steal the images?" Doesn't ss realize THEY will lose money too in the long run by doing this?
I couldn't sleep last night over this ...
or those "customers" and even some of the other controlling shareholders of ss are actually sleeping partners of Getty 
1007
« on: October 27, 2015, 16:48 »
Today I had to buy an image of a hand holding a marker (like in an animated whiteboard video). So I went to SS. I got this, endless pages filled with the same, repetitive stuff. And not even close to what I was looking for.
betcha this contributor is a good friend of the mass-rejection villain team of atilla household and this is the only time i am all for serbian's "two is too many when you upload 2000 of the same stuff" implementation.
1008
« on: October 27, 2015, 16:17 »
to me, the old size is enough with the magnifying glass to a certain area. no need for the whole picture disponible encouraging pirates. don't ss give comps to long-standing big corporations who are regular customers with history of loyalty  i think that should be the only people given special treatment, so if you are one of those regular customers or firm with loyalty patronage to ss, you can see this very large preview. but for the rest of the audience, no can do. this is my thought.
1009
« on: October 27, 2015, 12:26 »
Just out of curiosity, for those of you who are Stocksy photographers, what is your image acceptance rate?
For most series, probably about 85% for me. A few series have been completely or majority declined, which then go elsewhere.
wow, completely/majority declined??? from even sjlocke??? that's atilla 's kind of slaughter
1010
« on: October 27, 2015, 10:51 »
Just out of curiosity, for those of you who are Stocksy photographers, what is your image acceptance rate? I have images with the micros and separately with Getty and my acceptance with the micros has always been very good. Acceptance of images with Getty, via their Moments collection, very hit and miss, sometimes great, often not so much. For every ten images you send Stocksy, how many do they accept? Just average or estimate would be great.
Thanks
The answers to this question are going to be so subjective I'm not sure they will help you. It entirely depends on how selective you are with your uploads.
lol, i think what stock shooter is trying to ask is whether stocksy also hire atilla and her mass-rejection children from ss
1011
« on: October 26, 2015, 18:08 »
this is something i don't know even if it happens regularly. only that sales have been bad and spotty for a few months. i am wondering that our sales have gone down not because we are getting scr*wed by ss
but more so due to site being down more than usual.
if we can't get in or if the site is not up 100% or down in certain areas, it can explain why some of us are seeing a significant drop in sales.
does anyone know if it is only affecting certain countries??? most of my sales used to come from EC
and for the downtime, EC has not been buying from me. i wonder.
1012
« on: October 24, 2015, 20:06 »
I just received a note from Lee that someone had pointed him to this post and they're closing my Canva account - "You are no longer welcome as a Canva contributor"
So anyone who wants to stay with Canva would do well to take this warning shot and remember to keep your mouth closed in public places about them or their actions.
I seem somehow to have this affect on agencies 
yes, i remember getting such treatment as a wee child . picture this, and replace me with joanne... school assembly. "joanne ... please come to the front!" hush and whispers with fear on the faces of many timid schoolgirls..(gosh, is joanne in trouble???) "joanne, you have been a bad girl. we do not allow behaviour here in our school. put out your hands... (slap, slap, slap... director hits joanne with the cane"... \ thought-bubble of director (... let this be a warning to anyone else who thinks she can be a smart ar$e saying what 's in her mind".) assembly bell rings.... joanne walks back to class, no one dares utter a word. today on, joanne is to be avoided , just to be safe, we should all stay away from joanne. nasty nasty director... is now one of the top people with Canva.
1013
« on: October 23, 2015, 16:53 »
wow, sad news. just when we think canva is a straw for a drowning ss contributor and when it all looks like a good alternative to what was a healthy business after the end of istock and the questionable sorry state ss is in these days. now, it looks no difference from the great G and is and ss and all that exclusive bs (no, i don't mean bigstock but the other thing ...) i guess no one can be trusted in this business anymore. time to look for a day job or a new career... even sanitory inspector (what we call WC cleaners here) would be a better alternative; at least you know the sh*t you need to clean won't jump up and splash you in the face after you think it all smells nice and pink candies
1014
« on: October 23, 2015, 16:24 »
Advice to Management
Board of Directors should fire the CEO - is running the company to the ground. All talented people, all levels and departments left because of viciousness and lack of vision and strategy."
not surprised. it's the story of every once excellent company to work for. 20 years ago, i too was victim to a company ran afoul by CEOs and someone who called himself an Organizational Expertise Consultant or whatever. he came into the company, sacked my regional maanager, and told me to find another job quick before he fires me too. a month later, the company closed down across the country, and the top man, the sales executive went home and put a bullet through his own brain. my buddy, the top salesman in our region, went out to drive a cab to survive, while the rest of the company disappeared without a trace. it's not surprising as these are the vultures that continue to make money killing everyone else except themselves. 20 years later, nothing's changing in the corporate world.
1015
« on: October 22, 2015, 15:30 »
Not too good to be true - just one of their corporate customers buying a custom license.
The only bad aspect to this part of SS's business are that we don't know the license terms offered for those prices. I'm not a fan of the "trust me" model, but SS has been asked and has refused to share the license terms of these SOD sales with contributors. The $94 your customer paid could have been a bargain if they got a lot of rights in the license
At the 30% rate I've had royalties from 38 cents to $120
to be honest, 38 cts users could also be unknowingly misusing our images; for that reason, i would be less demanding to know of a customer who paid me 28 to 120 bucks commission. at least that is a hundred times usage for a 28 cts commsiion... or 400 times usage for 120 bucks. frankly, 28 bucks is good with me, 80 bucks is better, 120 bucks, i go celebrate and spend every penny i get on beer.
1016
« on: October 22, 2015, 11:24 »
lol, don't celebrate just yet... as the previous commentor said 100% of nothing = .... (close your eyes and you can see what you will get better!!!) as bad as i hate ss these days, in all my years with ss, i make more in 6 days with ss than i make in a year (s) with the other agencies. some other agencies, i make more in one day with ss than i make up to date with those other agencies. as i said, close your eyes and see what you will get with those 100% commission agencies
1017
« on: October 21, 2015, 16:04 »
[rant] A bad roll, unfortunately. I think my weekend reviewer from Shutterstock quit and moved to Dreamstime. Rejections for too simple, poorly executed, too similar (Christmas vs. Hanukkah...yeah, they're definitely the same holiday), auto tracing (I don't auto trace anything), blah blah blah. At least Shutterstock gives me decent sales. Dreamstime is just annoying.[/rant]
lol, that is funny . well, we'll see, in a couple of weeks. if ss forum comes out happy and pink flowers cheering for their new work being properly reviewed and most approved, it will mean you guessed right. in that case, the rogue reviewer from ss must have been fired or decided to taste fresh roadkill after the spell of massacre during working as a reviewer for ss. i hope you are right, because they can reject 100% of my dt work and it won't hurt me at all as dt has been sleeping, no, correct that to read comatose for a long time already.
1018
« on: October 21, 2015, 14:47 »
you can't fool everyone all the time.
so, i would say that most of the sell-off is by investors who realised the ss they bought is not the ss they are today, after visiting their forum and here on msg to read so many unhappy contributors.
that, plus the recent intrusion of their network, and the stories, no, not stories, but evidents of the asleep at the wheel reviewers, management,etc
no one want to be there when the stock crash-dive after the main shareholderders finish their damage on what was once the number 1 microstock agency that was runned excellently,
until they went public and started to let shareholders control this company.
iow, eveyrone smart is using the lifeboat of the titanic before there is no lifeboats left.
1019
« on: October 21, 2015, 11:04 »
subjects like this are why SS will not answer to review questions. Theres no point in answering, when nobody listyens.
lol ss was dead the moment oringer went public with ss .
1020
« on: October 20, 2015, 12:35 »
hatman, ditto .
as someone else said months ago, if you remove the SOD large single sale of $28 to $102
you will see there is in fact a very large drop in sales compared to past years.
with your thread, i went to take a review of my sales and yes, for sure,
remove the SOD large amounts and i see a shocking drop from the years
where i had no large SOD sales and even smaller portfolio
new images, almost not even make 20% of the sales. you wonder why you feed the beast.
1021
« on: October 19, 2015, 17:35 »
Shutterstock is responsive in that they come here to manage our perceptions, in regard to their lack of security and the recent measures needed to protect our accounts because they were asleep at the wheel.
oh wow, you explained what my first impression was when ss immediate responsive to the matter. i just could not find the right words to my thoughts... it's like crooked politicians damage control or the corporation or military middle management sleeping on the job and had to quick wipe off their evidence before their bosses find out and sack them all. i am sure there will be scapegoats to take their blame, of course. much like the public service always hire temps in this time so they can blame the temps for their f**kups sleeping on the job, like you say...so correctly on the mark. well said.
1022
« on: October 19, 2015, 17:12 »
i have used vistaprint as well as another called moo.
i got introduced to moo when fotolia gave us free cards with moo and to be honest,
i prefer the moo business card that i got free with fotolia
than all the business cards i made with vistaprint.
i don't know if they do calendars , but you can go check moo out.
1023
« on: October 19, 2015, 10:56 »
Shutterstock rep Vincent responded immediately to "Has Shutterstock Been Hacked" yet they've ignored months of contributors questioning Shutterstock's reviewers.
Yep, I noted that too. Tells us something, doesn't it?
They respond about important things like security concerns?
i think leaf should close this never-ending story with the last word to sjlocke and martha and modvi ss address important things immediately ie to say contributors issues no matter extending 38 pages on ss forum and how many more pages here on msg is not important issue. capiche? read my lips, you contributors, me ss insiders, reviewers,etc don't give a hoot about you contributors concern because you are little ants we can step on and brush aside with so many millions willing to lick our **** and thank us for the little crumbs they get
1024
« on: October 18, 2015, 15:23 »
It is all butterfly's and puppy dog kisses as long as you go along with the group crowdspeak
+10 . yuri is not the only one who speak his mind. everyone does here. only problem is if your name is yuri arcurs, you will offend certain ppl... but if yuri arcurs came in here under a pseudonym and say the same thing it will get a lot of +'s
1025
« on: October 18, 2015, 13:45 »
I'm not sure in what way we are calling Yuri a leader. He definitely was and maybe still is the sales leader in microstock contributors. Let's don't confuse that with being a leader in the contributor community.
Yuri always market himself well and look out for his own interests. Thats fine. No name calling from me. But that isn't the same as being a leader for contributors. I would say there are others who taken a stand speaking for contributors like Sean and JoAnn, and they were punished for it by agencies. That was bravery and real leadership. When these two speak I listen because I know they are looking at the whole industry, not just their own interests.
punished by the agencies for speaking out... yes, and others like lisafx (remember her???) also got punished for speaking out like yuri is doing . we must remember that this here like anyway else is a forum. a forum if i remember is a place you can speak out without being stabbed by your friends and fiends pretending to be your friend. but ah yes, the first forum , we had stabbing too and today here in this forum and elsewhere we have even more great grand children of Brutus if you and i are allow to speak out, so should yuri and lisafx etc so long as it is not directly at you or me or yuri personally. yuri is speaking out at msg not everyone but certain ppl who knows who they are. i don't think this is not acceptable, since it is a fact he did come in here and got hammered. as i said, i don't like yuri for certain obvious reasons, but that does not mean he is not allowed to open his mouth, like you and me
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