Those are sales to "Premium" customers at SS

Overall I like VideoBlocks. The 100% is obviously great, the $49 for HD is ok, and the site is pretty user friendly.

However, there's one thing that I really do hate about VideoBlocks, and that's the way they market their subscriptions. They'll send out non stop emails saying that there's a special offer of $99 (which is 90% off) for a year, and that you need to hurry as this offer will expire in two days or three days or whatever.

The thing is, the offer never expires. It just starts again as soon as the last one ends. I'd be very surprised if anybody has paid the $1000 a year that they're insinuating the subscription should cost. And if it is, always has been, and probably always will be $99, then surely it's not 90% off... as the regular price is $99?

Maybe I'm getting worked up over nothing, but it just feels like some kind of sleazy used car salesman tactic... or those shops that always have closing down sales but they never close down. I'm surprised they're not giving away a set of kitchen knives if you order today!

Although, they do have 'proper sales' form time to time when it's $49 or something. They should keep those, and do away with the constant bombarding of non-existent sale. It sounds cheap and it feels cheap and I'm sure it's not that appealing to professional organisations who could be potential buyers.

Surely presenting it as one, consistent, transparent, low price for a quality offering... is better than using the kind of sales tactics that appeal to customers of late night shopping channels and get rich quick schemes? "But wait! There's more..." 

Anyway, just wanted to get that out of my system. Peace out.

They heard you, it's now 84% off and 149$ per year

Quote from: SpaceStockFootage on August 06, 2016, 18:14

So yeah, on Envato, if you've filled in the W8 then you won't have tax withheld on non-US sales. Based on the amount of info provided and preparation Envato did to get people ready for it, I'm going to assume that Envato are doing it correctly. Either way, they can't both be right, so one of them is withholding (or not withholding) taxes incorrectly.

@alijaber, how do you know what countries your VB sales are from?

I don't know really, but after years of watching SS map, I know that my buyers are mostly EU and Middle eastern.. almost all my content is related to Middle Eastern countries and for sure it's impossible that all buyers on VB are from US, that's why I'm complaining from getting tax on all my sales there

Quote from: alijaber on August 06, 2016, 07:53

What really bothers me is this 33% tax on all my sales: US and non US, unlike all other agencies. For me I get more with regular P5 sales (50%=39$) than those from VB (100%=33$), that's the real sadness

Well, to be fair, Pond5 should be doing the tax thing too... Don't know why they aren't forced to already.

That's won't change things much for me if it will be on US sales only, like SS and Ft. On SS a little part of my sales is from US, the majority comes from Europe, Middle East than the rest of world.. I wouldn't mind P5 taxes on US sales if VB removes taxes on non US sales.. Last month was my BME on VB (25 sales!), so you can imagine my disappointment when I saw taxes numbers

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This is the most downloaded.. but not the one that gave me the highest earning 

Also stocksubmitter doesn't read my metadata (IPTC) that I made in Bridge, is this normal?
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I'm new to stocksubmitter, most of my files show that error (the file name is too long).. file names are not long and I can upload those files using normal ftp

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It is the second time that I read that once the customer runs out of the 5 or 10 cips from the membership, he has to buy them from the marketplace.
How wrong and naif is this idea? He can of course get a second membership.
A monthly download for 5 clips cost as much as purchasing a simple clip!
The only people who are still experiencing sales in the pond are artist who contributed, and apparently not all of them. This is because they get pushed up on the search, but also because not all customers have yet become aware of the crazy dumping of the membership area.
Give it a month and all sales outside the membership zone will disappear.
Give it 3 months and SS and FT will have to lower their prices to $9 per clip to survive.
Give it 5 months and p5 will be finally dead and buried

This not true.. The membership collection is really small with many missing areas. The strange thing is the disappear of buyers.. I have 2000 clips where more than half of my collection is unique (specific to Middle east), there is no competition for me, despite that my sales dropped 60-70% since February.. my clips still at the top in the search results with no membership competition.. I wonder what's really wrong with P5 those days

Last 3 months (number of sales): 3, 12, 5. This months: 4
It's somehow random

Same here.. this never happened before

About a 35% drop from January to February for me.

A 50 % drop here, and yes it's completely random, this month may be my BME, no one knows..