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« on: June 13, 2012, 06:09 »
thanks very much for posting  . * that is a lot of gorillapods, even for a shop. x-ray would have to be prerecorded.
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« on: June 12, 2012, 16:21 »
username is same on both so I searched for "username creativity" and brought up 2621 images  918000+ images, wonder how much they are are making out of this, that's got to be some some serious $ Almost a month since the first more details to come, good to see communication is a priority
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« on: May 31, 2012, 04:24 »
deleted double post
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« on: May 31, 2012, 04:11 »
took 6 months off uploading, started again about 2 months ago.
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« on: May 31, 2012, 04:09 »
Are sales dead for everyone else too the last couple of weeks? my last sale was May 16.
Sales were fine before, number 6 on my best earning sites list.
What the h..l is going on there lately? all because of this Alamy partnership which was a huge mistake anyway.
last month and this month each about 50% of normal months. Its now 15 days since Ryan said they working on an addressment... Really how hard is it?
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« on: May 26, 2012, 16:48 »
if there was no reviewing I'd do it . (how many shots of my dog do you want? (she is cute))
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« on: May 26, 2012, 16:28 »
Just a little remark about the prices. That site is from Mexico and the prices are in mexican Pesos, one being worth about 7 US cents.
I fully agree about the lack of transparancy and the urgent need for Veer to clear things up (and provide opt out per partner).
I saw a $ and didn't think about it being another currency - you're probably right though as I guess $ is used for pesos too. It says from 3 to 71 credits, wheras on Veer it's from 1 to 20 credits.
On Veer, 50 credits will cost you $67.50 and on PocketStock, 50 points will cost you 959 pesos, so it looks as though the per credit prices are roughly comparable. IOW Pocket stock is charging almost 3 times as much as Veer
oops sorry I did the same saw $ and assumed $US will see if I can edit original post
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« on: May 25, 2012, 19:35 »
oops the other one I forgot to ask. Veer has a 60 day lag for takin down an image, Alamy has 180 day. What happens when an image is taken down? Does it stay on Alamy for the other 120 days?
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« on: May 25, 2012, 19:27 »
Just a suggestion to those asking that their Veer accounts be closed. You might want to ask them to deactivate your images, rather than removing them. This situation will probably be resolved favorably and it would be a bummer to have to start over uploading again.
I closed my account a couple of years ago and they removed my images. Later things improved there, and the process of uploading at 50/week is so slow and arduous that it took me over a year and a half just to get back to where I had been before closing my account.
EDIT: Brian has posted while I was typing, so hopefully will get an answer soon  The fact we haven't got answers as yet suggests to me that we are not going see a great outcome on this. The collection on Alamy has grown by over 100000 images since I first looked (about when the thread was started). As I said the other day the Alamy licence is an EL, at the smallest size it is about $5, obviously Veer are not going to pay us for an EL on this as it would be about $95. If they ignore the fact it is EL sale at this size I think it is fair enough to assume that they will ignore the fact it is an EL sale at any size and just pay for a standard licence? I looked through the info on veer, there is no percentage commission just a set amount earned per sale, and it is same amount for api / partner sales. So when my images sell on Alamy through veer at the largest size. The sale is $365, Alamy get $146, Veer get $219 and I get $5.25! This equates to whopping 1.4% commission on the whole sale and about 2.4% of what veer gets in! I was hoping Veer would come back with some nice answers but they havent as yet so I went through the partners list on veer (havent looked at the others found in the thread on msg). Of those listed, one is now partnered with 123rf not veer, another with alamy and a third with yay instead of veer. I could actually only find my images from veer on 3 of their listed sites (and one of those only had a few images). Anyway clickphotos - $45 basic licence so 11.6% commission and Pocketstock.com.mx where I found my images with the veer id number on the site and gigante size - standard licence - mxn$840 = us$60 my cut is $5.25 about 8 percent commission. (EDIT: Despite carefully checking everything that I could, I still missed the fact that pocketstock is in mexican pesos not US$ so have made changes to the original post. Thanks Dirkr for pointing it out and apologies to everyone else).
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« on: May 23, 2012, 17:30 »
Not micro, but some here submit to Alamy, where the keywords are stripped out.
mine carry through to alamy ok in the bottom keyword category, so still have to do the 50 char and 'main'. description also goes through
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« on: May 23, 2012, 15:45 »
hi, the keywords will written to your image (iptc) and every agency will be able to see them when you upload
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« on: May 21, 2012, 15:48 »
I'm thinking of starting an antisocial network for people who hate the internet. Complete with a dislike button obviously.
Ther are several I think. I remember some hatebook thing with hate buttons.... you could choose between hate and dislike people were grouped up by hating each other. It's like a workplace.
LOL
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« on: May 18, 2012, 16:52 »
Hi All
We are currently working with Alamy to find a solution to this situation.
For more context here, we are regularly seeking ways to increase sales of your images through new agency relationships such as the one we've recently launched with Alamy.
These agencies offer additional exposure and access to different markets beyond that offered thru Veer.com.
Clearly, creating duplicates is not good business for any of us: for you, for us, or for our partners.
We will be providing additional details on this, and other partnerships soon.
- Brian
Thanks Brian, glad to hear that something is happening about duplicates. I am sure you'd understand that I'd rather have the images I placed direct on alamy as the one retained. What hasn't been answered though is what is the commission that we have been receiving on these sales to date? Are these coming through as standard veer sales?
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« on: May 18, 2012, 03:40 »
hmm must be a big addressment I feel a 5pm friday us time announcement coming
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« on: May 17, 2012, 07:20 »
this will be interesting from veer...
An alamy licence allows unlimited print run, multi-user and product for resale irrespective of the size bought.
So the commission from veer should be $35+$17.5+$43.75 = $96.25 (I've had sales on veer that included all three hmm...)
that's pretty good if someone buys one of the first four sizes on alamy (which are all under $95), but not good for $365 etc.
somehow I am thinking we are getting standard commissions $5.25 on a $365, but I sure hope not...
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« on: May 15, 2012, 15:45 »
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« on: April 29, 2012, 15:38 »
www.dyxum.com is a popular forum for sony users. Not stock but you will get more info there
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« on: January 03, 2012, 16:14 »
2x200,1x300
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« on: December 17, 2011, 17:01 »
I understand the annoyance for people who have not reached the levels, and it is never good to see rate cuts, but I am thankful to finally see an agency grandfather rates for the majority of people rather than slash for everyone.
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« on: December 17, 2011, 16:15 »
despite what some say here, it seems feeding the beast is a constant necessity still at SS....whether you're feeding it processed food, gourmet or utter crap doesn't always seem to matter
Huh? How would you know? From my experience I'd say that 'feeding the beast' is way more important at IS nowadays than it is at SS because the best match favours new images so much __ it hasn't done so on SS for years. I had 5 months off uploading anywhere this year. My income at IS went down and my income at SS went up. Why do you talk such nonsense on matters you obviously know so little about?
other than about 20 images in june and 20 in august I havent uploaded since april. like Gostwyck only IS income has dropped (I've had BME's on SS, 123 and Canstock during that time  .
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« on: December 13, 2011, 17:51 »
I'm another with shocking sales, got to think there has been a major best match shift. December has never been a good month, but everysite except IS is sitting on average sales so far. IS has more than halved, and for me this month is now 5th behind, SS, DT, FT and 123
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« on: December 03, 2011, 18:05 »
My latest record is one and half week still waiting... Does Australia have a long Thanksgiving weekend too, eating stuffed Kangaroos?
Can't work how Photodune operates. Didn't get an acknowledgement for the application.
I've heard kangaroos are an endangered species in Australia as they export too many of them to northern atmosphere for Thanksgiving dinner. Turkeys are unaffordable now with the debt crisis there.
lol, plenty of places they are a pest species (at least eastern greys) like rabbits mostly used for pet food when bothered with. Unique, strong flavoured meat that can be nice but doesnt take up other flavours well.
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« on: October 03, 2011, 02:23 »
123RF is increasing every day and FT is going down every day.
same for me, 123 earnt me more last month than FT
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« on: September 29, 2011, 16:10 »
I always liked an amatuer worries about gear a professional worries about composition a master worries about light
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