Thanks for the reply, Alex!

I'll wait and see what happens.  Hopefully, they want all three!!! 


Cheers

Phil

I received a payout on the 15th of March, so I got paid! 

Now I'm just waiting for my huge payout on the 15th of April!!! 

Unfortunately, you can't request a payout from 123RF. 

If your sales total is $50.00 or more at the end of the month, they automatically pay the amount on the 15th of the following month.  Consequently, cashing out the funds is not an option. 

Seven hours later, the sales and the amount are still showing.  It's time to send them off an e-mail.

I was checking my daily sales for today on 123RF, and I nearly fell off my chair.

My sales for the day show that I've had 4 sales all on the same image......one 'S' sale and 3 'PEL' sales.  The total of the 4 sales is $367.675

This just has to be an accounting error, doesn't it?

 

My photos are on my personal Facebook page:  http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1444590705

They are also on my web-site: http://www.phillipminnisphotography.com/

Please feel free to add me as your friend! -:)


Cheers

Phil

I uploaded my portfolio to Mostphotos a couple of weeks ago.

I have to admit I am not expecting any great sales from the site.  However, in the past two days I've had two sales...one for 1.50Euro and one for $3.00Euros. 

If sales like that keep happening each day, this site will easily out-perform a number of the other sites that I upload to! 

I've got my fingers crossed that it's just not a fluke!!!

Hi I'm Gillian, I'm new to the site and quite new to microstock. I've dabbled a little this past year and have a very modest portfolio, but looking at really concentrating on it this year. I guess I'm still in the honeymoon phase where a single sale gives me a buzz, and a rejection breaks my heart.

Living in Brisbane, Australia, one husband, 3 kids, 2 dogs, 12 chooks. I freelance for the media, trying to write this year in addition to photography. My flavours: Nikon, BMW, Apple, coffee over tea, chardonnay over sav blanc, shiraz over merlot, beef over chicken, beach over country and autumn.

Hello, I'm Phil, and I've been a member of this site for a few years, and I've been into microstock for around five years.  My portfolio is relatively small compared to many....around 2000 images, and I now only add around 200 images each year.  Currently, I upload to  19 microstock sites.  I'm no longer in the honeymoon phase, and I'm not happy unless I earn at least $100.00 each week!   Rejection?  I guess I suffer from that every day, otherwise I'd be earning $200.00 each day!   

I live on the beautiful Southern Highlands of New South Wales....about 90 minutes south of Sydney.  I live with four females.... one wife, two daughters (in their late teens), and a female dog (does anyone feel a tad sorry for me?  ).  I operate a busy tour company from a home office.  My flavours: Nikon, BMW (I'd have one if I didn't keep spending 1000s of dollars on driving around Europe each year), coffee over tea, red over white wine, any meat I can sink my teeth into, snow over the beach, cold over hot (the reason we head to Europe in Winter each year), classical music over rock music, a traditional roast dinner over a BBQ, driving over being driven, conservative over radical, and success over failure!

All in all, I'm a little bit unusual but quite normal.

At the end of December I had over $100.00 in my account. 

On the 1st of January it disappeared, and went back to zero.

The missing amount is not listed under the 'Pending Payment' heading, however, in the 'Click to Show Payment History', it shows the amount was paid on the 13th of January.  So far, it has not lodged in my PayPal account.

Is this normal? Have others had this happen to them?

I sent the site an e-mail, and I received a standard reply within seconds, stating 'Our office will be closed January 2nd for New Years Holiday. Responses may be delayed a bit longer than usual'  Perhaps someone should notify them that it is now the 17th of January! 

Thanks for the reply, Drew.

I've just sent you an e-mail.


Cheers

Phil

Quote from: Lizard on November 08, 2011, 23:48

Can somebody please point out what to do after  uploading  files with ftp , for people like me .... obviously stupid ?

Thanks

It took me a little time to figure it out.

First, go to your profile page on PhotoDune.  Mine's http://photodune.net/user/disorderly.
Click on the Dashboard tab.  That'll take you to http://photodune.net/author_dashboard.
On the right under Begin Upload, click on the Upload button.
On the right under FTP Uploader, there will be a count of images it sees on the FTP site and a Process button.  Click on it.
When it finishes, you'll see thumbnails of your images.  You can edit them if necessary (it'll get all the data from IPTC if you've included it) and then click on Submit.

If the images don't show, maybe you put them in the wrong place on the FTP server.  Your images need to go in a directory called "photos" inside a directory called "bulk_import".  Put the model release for these images in the "model_releases" directory inside "photos".  As far as I can see, there's no way to know if you put the MRs in the right place.

Hope this helps.

Well, that might work for you, but it doesn't for me!!!

I uploaded 1000 photos two days ago, and I've followed the procedure as stated above, and nothing shows up!   I really think I totally wasted my time and effort in uploading these 1000 images.  This is now the 4th time that my uploaded images have gone missing!  I've never encountered uploading problems on a site before, like I have with this one!

Obviously, it's not only me having the problems.  Perhaps I and others are doing it the wrong way, but in my case, i think I've carefully followed the uploading instructions. 

OK, now I'm nearly over trying to upload my 10 sample images to this site. 

On two occasions, I uploaded the 10 sample images, and within 24 hours they'd disappeared.

After complaining about it, here, I have received e-mails from Collis, Pete and Brad, trying to sort out the problem.   It was soon ascertained that I had not uploaded the images correctly to the site.....I had not sent them through in a zip folder.....I had uploaded 10 separate images.  Due to the fact that I had never uploaded a zip folder before, I did not know how to do it.  Support sent me a link to a tutorial on how to do it.  I followed the instructions carefully, and I created a 'zip' folder containing the 10 sample images.  It was around 67mb in size.  I uploaded the zip folder to the web-site, and it all worked correctly.  However, I did not receive the 'Congratulations' message at the end of the upload process that each successful uploader is supposed to get.

This morning, I checked to make sure the folder is still in the upload area of the site........it has gone!

I'm about to upload the zip folder again, to give it one more chance.  I have never spent so much time trying to get 10 sample images on to a site!  It had better be worth it!!!

Before closing I must congratulate the team at the site......at least they reply to e-mails within 24 hours, and try to be helpful!

Hi Anglee

Thank you for your reply, and thanks for arranging to have my rejected images re-inspected.

I note that out of the 42 uploaded, 21 were accepted into the Royalty Free section, whilst the balance was transferred by your inspector into the Editorial section.  

iStock, which is regarded by many as being the most strictest when it comes to releases, accepted all of these images into the general Royalty Free category earlier today.  This means that out of the 15 sites that I upload to, 123RF were the only ones to reject 21 images into the Royalty Free category and place them into Editorial.  

Why is that?