Their FTP system seems to be broken - the ftp works ok, but then nothing happens for a long time. I gave up and used the web uploader. I took a few weeks off and when I came back the ftp images had been transferred over.

Pretty good month for me a bit to my surprise when I added things up - only June 2012 had a higher total. Alamy was the star with strong performances by SS and Veer.  DT looks like it is falling off a cliff with both low numbers of sales and low RPI.

For this month DT is pretty sad - the sales numbers are low and the RPD is low too - lots of subs (now all .35 too). At least the dry spell of nothing seems to be over. Still things at DT seem to have been worse for me the last 2 months. Hopefully this is temporary.

I'd use my 5-1000 f1.2 IS L - since we are in fantasy land.

Maybe I could use a heap of cameras with different sensor sizes to make up for the lack of different lenses.

I got that but then reloaded and it worked...
keeping fingers crossed.

BOO, I was glad when that went away. I thought the API would be where the bots went to get data so they could do away w/ the annoying illegible captchas.

I just poked around with the calculator a bit. I didn't know you got less on DT if you were a referred contributor although I thought they skimmed for referred buyers - both should come out of DT's take as a marketing cost.

I also was unable to get anywhere near as low as my lowest sales or credit amounts on IS - I suppose they would say it was due to "old credits" or something like that.

Still any effort to shed some light on these somewhat underhanded agency tactics is worthwhile.

I also notice he says IS rounds up to the nearest cent. I remember reading differently (unofficially), so I wonder what is correct.

Although it can be confusing sometimes it is nice the way Alamy reports the sale amount and any deductions. I think if all the sites reported sales like that we would be horrified by how much they are taking out of each sale.

I think my laptop has LED backlights for the screen - I have noticed no problems w/ it at all (although I do get "light" rejections from time to time, I did w/ my old computer too). I think the main advantage is lower power consumption - and if you plan on opening it up to tinker I think there is lower voltage inside.

Personally I'd love to see Getty and Fotolia crash and burn. I can see why others that still have lots of eggs in those baskets wouldn't be so happy.

There is definitely something wrong with the whole finance business though. Lots of smoke and mirrors and people that think they are the smartest people in the room * the money out and leaving a mess in their wake.

Quote from: cclapper on July 03, 2012, 10:10

I wonder why they always quote the lowest amount we ever get. They never seem to mention the average $5 (at SS) OD download, or the $16.80 other downloads or the ELs. Last month I made about $.70 per download. With a stagnant port and no effort. Think what I could do if I really tried.

Same reason everyone at IS makes $.19 a download

You mean $.07 don't you?  

People always do seem to grab the numbers that appear to make their points though. It would be nice if we had and people used more meaningful statistics - like the average or mean or something.

Quote from: pancaketom on June 29, 2012, 12:37

Maybe they should rethink this similars policy now that subs buyers are going to be buying so many more images...

I guess I should suggest that over on DT, not that they ever listen to me.

It just looks like a price drop for buyers and for us. At least it doesn't come with a commission % cut too, although if this moves subs buyers from SS to DT it won't benefit me any (unless I get enough regular credit sales of images that are higher level because of subs sales - doubtful). If it moves them from thinkstock, that is great.

It does come with a commission % cut more or less.  You will now get a less percentage of an image because they dumped the tire system.  No more 70 cent subs, just 30 or 35 cent subs.  DT simply caved in to the other agencies' pricing and realized a quick revenue scheme.  Those in here that say this won't be a big deal then why did DT make that move?  Revenue, margins.

The reason I say it is a price cut (for buyers and us) and not a commission % cut is that before a sub sale "cost" from 1 to 3 credits and we got 1 to 3X our subs commission (usually). Now the price has been dropped across the board to 1 sub credit. Had level 3 images still cost 3 subs credits but we only got the .35 that would have been a % drop too.

I didn't say I liked it or that I thought it was a good idea.

Quote from: djpadavona on June 21, 2012, 15:31

They rank 6th out of 9 agencies for my portfolio. High acceptance rate, decent amount of sales. Their RPD is being helped by the new single image sales, but overall I do much better with Veer. I know this doesn't add up with the overall poll results, but I get an overabundance of EL's through Veer.

Same here, they are number 6 for me. June has been a BME but
I'll never rise above contributor level 2 / 35% commision which means a 15% cut.

Interesting that most of my ELs have been on Veer. It's number 3 for me right after SS and FT.

Going from 50% to 35% is a 30% cut.

One thing I noticed while having the camera set up this way is that when I use my remote trigger (home-made wired, with a 1/2 press focus button and a full press shutter button and a switch for bulb) I couldn't focus without pressing the button on the back of the camera. I set up a user mode with the back button focus and one w/o the back button focus so I can switch between them and see what I like.