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1426
« on: January 27, 2017, 16:57 »
We get a better percentage with some of the distributors.
Could you please clarify with a list? It would be great to see how much we would actually be paying for your service. For example: Pond5 51% instead of 50%? 70% instead of 50%? Makes quite a big difference...
1427
« on: January 27, 2017, 16:50 »
its not sneaky and they re not hidden. all fees are listed, been like that for years, just check which fees apply to you and you know your cost to use paypal. the Internet is full of people too lazy to check, they rather complain and accuse paypal. clueless
The fee is hidden upon each withdrawal. Of course all fees are listed in other places, but they try to hide it from the average customer upon withdrawal. I know it's 2.5%. You know it's 2.5%. But it's still sneaky. Anyway, the main thing here is not that there ARE fees, or whether or not they're clearly visible - it's that the fee is currently 2.5%, which is quite high.
1428
« on: January 27, 2017, 16:42 »
PayPal fees are not hidden at all. ALL fees are in the T and C you signed for when opening your account. don't blame PayPal for your ignorance
Where did you dream up I was ignorant about the fees? Of course they are in the T&C since they have great lawyers, but they're hidden in a sneaky way at each withdrawal by being baked into the exchange rate. What reason other than to sneak in high fees would there be to not just write out: Currency conversion fee 2.5% = $xx.xx? Of course they're trying their best to hide it from the average customer. They used to not even mention anything about a currency conversion fee, but they have changed it now, I'm sure due to complaints.
1429
« on: January 27, 2017, 14:09 »
I spend almost 5 hours in a meeting documenting everything. The banker told me, that 3 weeks before she could just have opened it for me with no problems.
So maybe its not that easy anymore.
I think you can run into tax problems if you get big amounts of USD into a US bank account.
1430
« on: January 27, 2017, 14:09 »
So my account in local bank is strictly in USD (I can set EUR if I want to but it's USD ONLY as it is) and is totally different from my account in domestic currency (RSD, Serbia) and I have that account tied with PayPal. You are all saying that PayPal will convert USD to RSD and then again from RSD to USD and then send transfer me the money in USD? Doesn't sound logical to me.
Sure I must convert USD to RSD between my accounts in local bank but that is fee-free with my bank.
Logical or not, PayPal won't send USD outside the country as far as I understand. Naturally, they want their juicy fee.
1431
« on: January 27, 2017, 09:10 »
I get internel error when I try to calculate withdrawal now, but I am almost sure that I withdraw usd and I dont get charged with currency convertion.
It's hidden as a really bad exchange rate, which translates into a 2.5% fee. The average exchange rate today should be around 1.83 levs per dollar.
1432
« on: January 27, 2017, 08:29 »
While we do take 50% I think it's worth mentioning that we also get a better deal with the agencies than a standard contributor.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Yes, what does a better deal mean? Search position? Percentage? Features?
1433
« on: January 27, 2017, 08:07 »
I know it don't matter it needs a clean out anyway. Got a feeling that in order for the portfolio to surface properly you have to do away with really old files.
Now can this feeling of yours be backed up by actual data or search position changes? 
1434
« on: January 27, 2017, 08:02 »
I don't have any good solution - but I do always try and leave a USD balance in Paypal account (my bank account is NOK) and whenever I need to buy photo gear, website fees, or other items, I try to purchase from a store that takes USD and paypal. That way I can use my money and avoid the currency exchange.
Yes, I believe this is the only way to get around currency conversion, but unfortunately it doesn't work for rent, pizza and beer... It's not really convenient to buy camera gear from online US shops either if the same stuff is available locally. The prices are almost the same (often even cheaper) if they are business expenses, meaning no VAT and customs fees. Ordering from dollar stores often means shipping + 10% customs for EU + VAT (25% or less depending on country).
1435
« on: January 27, 2017, 08:01 »
is it possible to have USD and Euro balance in one account? so that there is no loss from conversion
It doesn't matter what currency your balance is in your PayPal account. You can have USD, EUR, and Imperial credits at the same time. The conversion happens when the money goes OUT to your standard local bank account.
1436
« on: January 27, 2017, 04:43 »
The important thing is: When you can use the money, like buy milk, what currency is it in? The conversion happens somewhere and remember that the PayPal fees are HIDDEN, it doesn't say: look, here's the fee, they just give you a bad exchange rate.
1437
« on: January 27, 2017, 04:11 »
Probably your main currency is euro, I live in Bulgaria and somehow my main currency is usd and I just attached debit card with usd currency to paypal so I do not get charged for currency conversion. Although I get charged for the opposite, when I receive euro I need to withdraw in usd  , so in the end it always costs me money.
I thought they stopped doing this. It doesn't matter if your card is in dollars if they see it's in Bulgaria. Right now, $1 should equal 1.83 Bulgarian lev, what are you getting at PayPal if you withdraw $1 right now?
1438
« on: January 26, 2017, 16:43 »
Really? I thought I had read in this forum you contributors could set prices there. Only on photos, GraphicRiver (Photoshop templates etc.), and a few other marketplaces. Not on footage or music, yet. So they are the armpit of microstock!
I certainly don't think so but if you say so.
1439
« on: January 26, 2017, 16:21 »
Appalling?? It's only 2.5% no worse than banks or anyother financial outfit.
They have to make some money in order to offer a great service like that
Then you should probably switch banks. 2.5% is really high. My bank has a reasonable 0.5% currency conversion fee. If they could only be sent dollars from PayPal I would save many, many monies.  2.5% can make sense if you're sending $100, but when the numbers go up to $10,000+, the fees become ridiculous. $50 should be the maximum fee at 2.5% and then 0.5% on top of that.
1440
« on: January 26, 2017, 14:06 »
Haven't found a way other than opening a US bank account, but then you would have to pay US tax.
I hear Payoneer might be slightly better.
1441
« on: January 25, 2017, 15:21 »
1442
« on: January 25, 2017, 15:17 »
Yeah, not sure what information you're getting but HD clips are $8 and 4k are $25. If they are extra long (over 20 sec, or over 1 minute etc.) the prices are a bit higher.
In the future they will probably implement author pricing, but it's not here today.
1443
« on: January 22, 2017, 16:09 »
How can you say that a traffic site is good when you don't have access to the real numbers? It can be 0-100% correct and you will never know unless you get the actual traffic numbers.
They are all just guessing based on installed extensions that no computer savvy people use.
1444
« on: January 20, 2017, 14:09 »
Selling something for the price of 2 months worth of earnings might be the cheapest business sale recorded in the history of time. If you need $500 now I would wait two months and keep ownership.
When you sell stuff like this, you should be charging a price equal to 5-10 years worth of income.
1445
« on: January 20, 2017, 14:01 »
I'm sure they put in a couple of hours and some substantial financial risk too...
1446
« on: January 20, 2017, 13:52 »
The GH5 will not compare to the a7S II regarding low light, no. Not at all. BUT, it will win in many other areas.
The 12 mp of the a7S, however, is quite low when it comes to timelapse/photos. It is JUST enough for a 4k timelapse without any possibility to crop in post if you want to keep the quality. Naturally, the 12 mp is the reason why it's so good in low light.
Regarding the a7R II, many professional timelapsers say it's probably the best timelapse camera in the world. The big downside seems to be the battery life, and you need to find a solution other than the internal battery when it comes to long timelapses.
No camera has it all...
a7R II - best for photos/timelapse.
a7S II - best for low light filming / full-frame look.
GH5 - best for overall filming up to ISO 800, maybe 1600. More of an allround camera.
1447
« on: January 20, 2017, 08:50 »
4k will become more and more what people want so there's really no reason other than $$$ not to shoot 4k since you get HD at the same time...
But yes, people still buy HD much more than 4k, at least on the non-self pricing sites since the pricing is a bit too high compared to HD in my opinion. $199 vs $79? I think more than double the HD price is just wrong. I think $129 is a good 4k price point if HD is $79, and if priced like that you would see lots more 4k sales.
1448
« on: January 18, 2017, 09:12 »
Comparing 2015 to 2016, my income in SS decrease in 12% and sales in 10.7% 
The increase of my port there in 2016 was 10.8% (total of ~3500 files in the port)
Yes, but what was the increase in Shutterstock's TOTAL portfolio? And the market? Those are the interesting numbers.
1449
« on: January 17, 2017, 09:16 »
Quite slow here too in general - good thing a 4k sale made up for 236 image sales...
1450
« on: January 16, 2017, 06:57 »
Better pay EU contributors in Euro. PayPal, Payoneer, Skrill is all the same scam.
Well, someone, somewhere, has to pay for the conversion. I do agree the hidden fees are twice as high as they should be though.
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