Holy frickin' cow!!

Lisa, you could at least say it in Latin: Bovina Sancta! (but I don't know the Latin word for "frikin". Could that be "fotolia"?)  

Since the last change have you made more or less money?  My monthly income has gone up considerably since the last change

Not mine. I'm bronze since ages and my ELs should be priced 50 credits according to the (old) table, but my 3 most recent ELs were sold for 10, 10, 20 credits, giving me 3.2, 3.2, 6.4$, while SS gives me 28$ for an EL. Are you supposed to ask to get the proper levels applied?

I just did it. After I gave my password, nothing happened and the DOS window closed. I did it again. The password is not echoed, nor **** was echoed. Window closed, no trace of any application.
I opened the Task Manager and spotted an active process (no application) that I don't know. Killed it. Then changed my iStock password immediately.

I don't know whether the script made a payout request automatically, but my amount was still there and I asked payout immediately. It stinks. Leaf better remove the link, especially since the OP is a new user without portfolio links, and he has... err... "ru" in his nick.  

He can have left crap in my system. Im shutting down this PC and will use my PayPal password first on another PC, then all the other passwords. Not again please... This is the second time in a week I'll have to lose half a day.

I have signed up for further info about dreamcsoport, Peter started StockXpert and might come up with something as good again.

Thanks for the info.

But what of Group four, the one they forgot. I'd like to have my StockXpert photos moved to the new site, like the other people, not be penalized for having an IS account and not be penalized for being opted in for subscriptions and partners at IS. Oh thank you, because I've been working for you and have quality images on IS, I get penalized.

It boils down to that. I am in group 4 (opted in on subs/EL at StockXpert - opted out of photos.com on IS). Hence my content on StockXpert will not be moved over automatically to GettySub, no, I will have to reupload these shots first to iStock and pass the stricter acceptance criteria there and go through the disambiguation process.

If I never had uploaded to IS, my StockXpert content would have been moved automatically. No sweat, no re-reviewing, no disambiguation. In fact, IS-StockXpert contributors are punished.

Adding insult to injury, JIU, Photos.com and StockXpert subs paid 0.30$, now those images would earn only 0.25$. JIU, photos.com and StockXpert subs made up 3/4 of my income on StockXpert. StockXpert's customers were already asked to move over to IS, so it can be expected that the few remaining StockXpert credit sales will go down further. I can't see any reason to upload further to StockXpert under these circumstances.

So in hindsight, the Getty acquisition of StockXpert was a hostile takeover with the purpose to shut them down, and to increase market share by acquiring the StockXpert customers. What Getty bought was not the portfolio and contributor assets of StockXpert, but their customers only.

I too wondered if I opted out of StockXpert subs also.  To be honest, there aren't that many to be concerned about.  Are they killing their subs program or the whole site?

The StockXpert tick box has just gone. That can only mean that StockXpert subs will be phased out, and all (StockXpert, JIU) subs will be handled through the new Getty sub site. If you opt out there at StockXpert, all that will remain in 2010 are StockXpert ppd. Buyers were already advised a while ago to join iStock. In effect, this will kill StockXpert.

A view from the board room of StocXtanic.  

I found this one on HowStuffWorks by sheer luck. They got it from iStock (ref).

Yaymicro came good this year so perhaps Cutcaster can surprise me in 2010?

I closed my account both with YAY and Cutcaster this week. YAY didn't come good at all for me, just 11 sales and 11 euro. I never was notified of their mysterious third party sale so for me the time uploading there was a pure loss. Exit YAY, requiescat in pace.

CC gave some sales in the begin, but after the repair of the search engine, and putting some time in searching on relevant keywords, I found out that the big guys (Yuri, Monkey, Io, ...) are all aligned in front of us small shrimps. So Rinder will do well. Again, a lot of time wasted uploading for nothing. Exit CC.

It's hard to cut ties with very nice people, especially with Zym next year, but a man has to do what a man has to do.

Live is to short to dance with non-selling women. 

It looks like he's just posing for his web cam.  

It's a self-shot. Those are very difficult to do. For instance, you can't judge composition well and he couldn't probably judge the angle of the hammer well. The only one I'm aware of that makes great self-shots is Rui (Rolmat) on DT.

 Here's an idea. A search on iStock for "rake in the cash" or "rake in the money" turns up zero results. Get to shooting!

D@mn! Why did have to tell this? I already bought a rake this morning in the local DYI shop.  

Yep, I also noticed a significant drop in sales starting on Monday of this week.

Well this might be ebb and flow. I had an unusual good week at IS, when IS normally is far behind DT and especially IS. At the moment, my December $ count for IS is the same as DT, also because DT went dead for me the last 3 days. As I assumed, the best match changes that should favor exclusives at IS were announced, but not implemented yet. So maybe it's just the time of year.

IS is incredibly slow for me. They dont like me. But I like them somehow...

Shoot less street lamps and more models doing something