I had a XS sale for .10 in December, so I think it will take a while or an announcement to tell for sure when things are changed, although Gostwyck's example looks like pretty good evidence that it hasn't happened yet.

That would be pretty slimy (and typical) to make it retro-active. I am guessing they need to sort out the RC mess before they can implement the drops though. I'd be pretty annoyed if I were one of the few that was supposed to benefit and I wasn't yet.

Quote from: aeonf on January 02, 2011, 08:28

So from what I understand some of the other sites not only pay less then IS but also have no transparency what so ever...
Why does everybody flame IS night and day but not the others

That is a good question with no answers what do SS pay people can't or won't answer but 25 cents must be under 15% for the sub donwloads

I don't know what % SS pays its contributors (and it is a bit messy to determine with subs in any case), but it is more than Thinkstock pays, and anyone serious at SS will not stay at .25 for long, after $500 in earnings you go up to .33 . The next 2 jumps take longer.

option G: stopped uploading when they made the announcement, their competitors get all the new stuff unless they make some changes in my favor for a change. I have no expectations of this happening.

I think it is completely wrong to say the new system is fair for all parties - especially not the indys. If they changed it so the total commission was just redistributed that would be maybe ok, but they just took a larger chunk of the pile for themselves. I'd have to look at their books to make a real judgement about what is fair, but I am pretty sure it isn't 80-20, especially not with the incompetence shown of late.

I did send a message as Anglee suggested above and it went from 0/13 to 8/13 accepted. That is reasonably in line with my normal acceptance ratio. Thanks for looking into it.

Hopefully if this was one reviewer just blanket refusing anything then that has been looked into. I realize that the reviewing process is inexact, but getting mass rejections is a waste of time for the submitter and the agency.

What about a prediction that sometime during 2011 "Istock will go an entire month without finding yet another way to screw it's contributors or customers and the search engine will actually work as intended"?

that is just crazy talk.

I got an XS for .10 so I am assuming that credit cost them .50 or else there was some other discount involved or they were bought years and years ago.

That site has some issues lately, but my biggest issue with them is going to start in a few days.

glad to see Lee hasn't been sleeping like microstockdiaries has.

Lots of interesting stuff in there, thanks for posting.

IS does seem to be able to sustain these blunders though. It is somewhat impressive in a sort of train wreck way.

Gaja is close to a meaningful #, but the relative time to upload to a site should also be counted if you want to be really anal.

The important number is total $ in - total $ out and how much time you spent to get there.

If all you care about is RPD, then you are nuts to be in microstock.

If I wanted to boost RPD and RPI at DT, I could delete all my pictures below level 3, but that would probably be a stupid thing to do to my total income. In general my RPD and RPI have been going down and my total income has been going up across the board. I'd rather that than any sort of reverse of that.

I think the FP views might get triggered by google or other webcrawlers. In any case they don't seem to link very closely with sales. I have had 0 sales there and months that they were ahead of Bigstock. I had 2 ELs there in the last 3 or 4 months that make a huge difference in the total. They are nowhere near as steady as the top 7 or so I'd guess. the 50% is nice though, especially on the ELs. Also upload is easy so I usually just send everything there once a month or so. The Els were out of the blue though and I hope it is a trend and not a flash in the pan.

to make things even more murky, the sites often give even bigger discounts to large credit or package buyers or discounts for new accounts, or when the sites screw up and want to appease buyers (not sure why we should have to pay for that, but we do).

I think listing the "maximum" you could get is disingenuous and they should really only list the minimum if they are going to list one number, or list the ranges. Unfortunately it appears that this trend is accelerating and the pricing schemes etc. are going to only get more confusing as time goes on. It does make SS look good, although we are about due for a raise there I'd say.

lisafx has the same name, but a good number of people here are anonymous because some sites - notably FT - have closed accounts on the basis of things they didn't like said here (yes, an off site forum). It's really unfortunate, but understandable in the circumstances.

You may find you start to recognize people by their postings, however

I would like to say I find it unfortunate that people have to be anonymous, but it is understandable considering what some sites have done. It is in no way understandable that the sites would punish people in the way they have for what those people have said elsewhere (although it is still unfortunate).

--=Tom

they might accidentally drop all non-exclusives to 15% or some other glitch like that. I bet that would be really hard to fix. It might take a few months.