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Messages - Smithore
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« on: February 05, 2013, 03:32 »
Oh, this thread is really great, I already use wordpress for my blog and like it so much!
Here is a good alternative to build a progressive seller community.
Thanks so much for your work.
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« on: February 03, 2013, 09:23 »
Plus 250 deactivated at noon for the coffee break, I found I've forgotten some files with few downloads, now the 650 files I left have 0 download. Total: 2250 files deactivated.
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« on: February 03, 2013, 08:05 »
Istock video upload is a pain for earning peanuts, 15% commission is insulting, hopefully customers are smart and video selling at Istock are very rare for me last year. Here is the social and economic model of Istock, fotolia and other greedy agencies like deposit photo and photodune: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakhanovite_movement About video, I'm earning between 100 and 200$ /month with around 150 video. Pond 5 is great but sales are lower than shutterstock since 6 months. Be careful with fotolia, don't forget to uncheck "include video in subscription plan" in your profile to avoid low commissions and to respect the video stock market. If one day Fotolia delete this option, I will delete my video files immediately.
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« on: February 02, 2013, 17:44 »
Ok, so, in total, around 2000 deactivated for me. I left 900 photos with 0 download, some videos and some musics.
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« on: February 02, 2013, 17:22 »
My 500 best sellers was already deleted 15 days ago. Now I've deleted all files with at least one download, so in total around 2000 photos. For now I'm leaving the last 900 with no download, my videos and my musics... just to play a little bit with the site before deleting everything.
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« on: February 01, 2013, 19:00 »
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« on: February 01, 2013, 18:56 »
no text, error, sorry
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« on: January 28, 2013, 13:00 »
Carlyle group don't care of anything except money, Bush/Ben Laden and Sarkozy are part of us, we know they sell armament. How can "free" photographers like us can expect anything good from these devils?? They have nothing to do with art, nothing at all. They just want to grab all the money at the cost of killing everything. We are nothing.
The two solutions are making the most possible "buzz" against them and fleeing away from Istock and Getty.
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« on: January 24, 2013, 07:57 »
I was just about to create a thread about this!
I've deactivated my 200 best sellers and also 400 at the queue, and since 2 or 3 days some forgotten stuffs are selling again!
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« on: January 15, 2013, 16:30 »
They have accepted 99,9% of my photos files.
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« on: January 15, 2013, 11:41 »
Update: I've just received a message saying my updated item has been approved, the designer contacted the team.
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« on: January 15, 2013, 11:37 »
A designer asked me to apply some modifications on one of my files for using it in a template. I have to re-upload it as an update, so I attached the new file, clicked on the submit button and after a minute i have a blank page with the message: "405 Not Allowed", my file is a 12mb one. I've tried 10 times with model release and without and nothing change.
One more time Photodune upload doesn't works, waste of time in a feudal age.
Thank you Photodune.
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« on: January 15, 2013, 11:19 »
Dreamstime is lowering prices each 6 months and sell almost only sub sales 
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« on: January 15, 2013, 11:17 »
GL is a really fantastic site in many points, for the model release it's like a dream: just need to upload them one time and no need to attach them to each files! The site is fast, reliable, modern and very easy to use, the staff is very friendly and efficient. I think it's a very good choice, it needs only more contributors and customers.
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« on: January 14, 2013, 15:31 »
Looks like we can easily get up to 10.000 images deleted on 2. feb.
That is a message!
Sorry but 10.000 will not be a message. It will be 0.1% of the total library. And it will be 1 day worth of uploading.
Not that I have much hope anyways that things will change. But I think to make a point the minimum you'd need is a 100k.
If the 10000 are top sellers of each contributors, it makes a huge difference!
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« on: January 14, 2013, 13:14 »
I've deactivated my best 100. Don't see much point in deactivating the low sellers first, as that helps istock.
Indeed, people with thousands of images deleting their bottom 10% makes no sense at all, it doesn't hurt them, you actually make them a favour since you're taking the garbage out. Now deleting all your flamed images, that would send a message.
Sean made this nice script, but did he, in fact, deleted any files himself? I hope he did or at least plans to, making a script and using it, would really send a strong message, especially since he's #4 at IS
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I imagine he's considering it, given that he created the script. (unless this has been around awhile and I never heard about it.)
It's very easy to check by browsing the portfolios, the deactivated files are notified in red: http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-8577895-technology-panic.php?st=94f5c78
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« on: January 14, 2013, 12:55 »
If the owners of the pictures in the istock front pages could deactivate their files, it could make a real splash.
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« on: January 14, 2013, 11:59 »
I see the photos of the best sellers, included ones in this thread who are always active, it won't hurt anything if they choose to keep they flames burning. Deleting the crappy ones doesn't mean nothing.
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« on: January 14, 2013, 11:25 »
I've deactivated my first 100 and 502 other.
So 602 for me.
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« on: January 14, 2013, 11:02 »
As i'm not good in English, maybe just paste and copy the original istock forum link discussion ??
Facebook is a powerful media.
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« on: January 14, 2013, 10:10 »
How can you deactivate files from stockxpert account?? My stockxpert account was closed when the site was sold.
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« on: January 13, 2013, 18:11 »
I tried to leave a reply to the first comment and it said it was posted but it's not appearing. Perhaps someone else could try adding a reply to that first post expressing the outrage. Many may not bother to read down too far to find all the angry comments and the initial few posts make it sound like a good thing. I've tried two times 20 minutes ago, the comment never shown too.
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« on: January 13, 2013, 10:41 »
Do you think he needs to buy the original files to edit the backgrounds, or just use small blurred files preview downloaded on the sites?
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