Quote from: YadaYadaYada on April 10, 2009, 14:38

http://unsharpmasked.com/blog/2008/05/2008-stock-photo-market-crash/

C'mon, catch-up. According to most reports this is 2009 already.

I managed to get a few accepted, none have sold.     You have to keyword everything in their unique scheme, and it's tedious.  Some of the rejections made at least some sense, others were just off the wall.    Reviews and appeals take weeks.  There's more, but why go on. ..

Way too many hoops here for me.  If they ever sell one I might submit some more.

They should change their name to PITAphoto.

Quote from: avava on February 01, 2009, 13:34

 That to me is someone trying to control the response of others through aggressive verbal remarks. More flies with honey my friend. You don't have to cover something in sugar to be polite and courteous it is just being reasonable and respectful.
 Once again, if you don't like the post just don't read it but maybe try to bring the expletive's down a notch if you want people to here you. There are people on this site that are concerned to speak up because of responses like that.
 I would much rather get as many contributors as possible talking here. Maybe next time unless it is a question or informative you might choose your words more carefully before posting, or not. Thanks for your time.

2 Cents,
AVAVA

Considering the amazing display of venom you spewed out on New Years Eve, I'm surprised 'reasonable' and 'respectful' are in your vocabulary. I wonder what your kids would have thought if they'd seen it. Not many did though as the thread and your previous identity soon went south.

After that I would consider you the last person to preach on forum etiquette.

Quote from: YadaYadaYada on December 20, 2008, 07:45

You take photos have them stolen or have concepts stolen while sites sell them for peanuts. You work to take pictures that are rejected for dumb reasons and complain that reviews take to long. Then we drool on our face being happy that we made a sale for a dollar and complain that it takes two weeks to get paid.

You came here anonymously which doesn't help with your credibility. You only made a few posts and most are complains about microstock. All serious traditional photo stock businesses already realised that microstock business model works and allows to earn quite substantial money. You are too late mate (by a couple of years)

25 cents or $5.00 both amount are ridiculously low and there is no real difference.  Neither amount will buy a new camera, pay for a studio, models, computer or internet. 

SS is the only site that has developed the kind of volume that makes sense of the subs model. Everywhere else it's dribs and drabs - just enough to be irritating but not enough to really add to the bottom line each month.

It gets old waiting a year, two years, almost three years to reach a first payout, and the idea of waiting another year or two or three for another payout seems totally ridiculous.

LOL that is really funny and the contributor is probably a 13old hacker from siberia  .
I doubt that a fraud like this is possible at places like Corbis or Getty so maybe another reason why buyers prefer places like this.

Keep an eye out on all the major microstock sites for your own images uploaded under a different username. So far, I've found that someone has stolen (and re-uploaded) a large collection of my portfolio at Fotolia and BigStockPhoto. I have a large portfolio at both agencies, so the thieves obviously aren't very bright.

Just today, someone bought up $250 worth of my portfolio at BigStockPhoto with a stolen credit card.

Not been a good year for me at FT....Subs,odd rejections,below par sales, and now this!

Bad of them to let this out without any announcement too. I'm way off moving up anyway so I wont be affected, but I feel sorry for those about to jump up a level. Cry

All in all unfair treatment yet again from them!

This forum is comprised mostly of casual and part-timers with absolutely no professional experience,

I am sure a lot of others are like me, sick of the boards being spoiled by bullying and petty jealousy.

Quote from: YadaYadaYada on December 20, 2008, 07:11

None of the above until they start charging more for mine work and paying more. You can make more begging on a street corner.

Speak for yourself, YadaYadaYada.

Okay i checked he is not exclusive at iStock but he should really change the L-license at Alamy and the exclusive status at FT and DT otherwise he is in trouble.