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Messages - le_cyclope
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« on: April 06, 2010, 19:34 »
Go out there and find me any other microstock company that offers a similar service.
- and isn't anything a customer couldn't do in a few seconds themselves.
that's the point: anyone can do it. But how much will you get from that customer? 123 is offering to do that upsize and give a commission to the photographer. No one else is doing this. So I think it is unfair to compare the rate (13.3%) 123 is offering to regular commission we get on sales anywhere else. Claude
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« on: April 06, 2010, 17:08 »
Hey guys, let's see it from another angle; Customer 1 buys a large size photo, send it to a graphist (pay him few hundreds $) for touch up and upsize, ends up with a 450 mb photo. Photographer gets 5$. Customer 2 buys the same photo at 123 RF and choose the 450mb TIFF photo, and use it without any other work on it. Photographer gets 60 credits ( $ ?). What do you prefer? Do you know of any photograph that had received a commission on the work done after his photo is sold? I don't. (edit: agree with previous post! I don't type very fast  ) Claude
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« on: April 05, 2010, 10:12 »
The first question my broker asked was if I had some revenue from my camera. If so, then my home insurance would not cover my gear...
It ended up with a 40$ (+/-) premium added to my home inurance to have a 10000$ coverage on all my gear at home and a 5000$ coverage while I'm out.
Definitly worth it!
Claude
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« on: March 17, 2010, 18:12 »
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« on: March 11, 2010, 18:59 »
Cool!
But if you leave your mug in your car (like I do), you're gonna regret it...
Claude
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« on: January 12, 2010, 17:23 »
I would prefer the other way... Bigstock offering discount to shutterstock customers  Claude
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« on: January 07, 2010, 17:56 »
By the way, I just noticed that they change the way their W8 form looks and after filling it (again!) it went throught!  So if anyone has had the same error ( An error has occured. Please try again later) go ahead! Claude
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« on: January 06, 2010, 17:19 »
Ahhh! What a relief! Merci Denis, on t'en doit une! Now if you could only make my W8 form go through this silly tranfer error, please try again  Claude
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« on: January 04, 2010, 17:41 »
Done. Time spent is (at least for me) real time spent doing photos or uploading. It excludes hours spent watching sales and reading forums, which are much more Claude
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« on: January 03, 2010, 14:28 »
1. If you DO submit the W8 form (no ITIN) they deduct 30 per cent on all American sales.
2. If you DON'T submit the W8 form they deduct 28 per cent (where is this 28 % coming from anyway?) from each of your sales. All of them! No matter where they came from.
Correct based on my personnal situation. Canadian resident, two sales, non of them from US, they withhold 28% because I can't submit the W8 Form (see previous post). Let's see of other's situation to understand what is going on... Claude
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« on: January 02, 2010, 21:20 »
Oh thanks! That's why I take photos... Claude
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« on: January 02, 2010, 18:35 »
Thanks guys for your help!
I did check 9a before (i'm in belgium with 0%) and did again with still the same TIN error popping up... Turned out the issue was i filled in N/A in both TIN and EIN fields. As soon as i emptied them it got through.
Fotolia, not that you seem to care even a little bit, but the way you're handling this is just a disgrace! Bah.
Kind of lost here... What is that 9a form? The only choices I have are W-9 if I am a US resident, wich I am not (canadian) or the W8-BEN which gives me an error when I submit it. Arghhhhhhhhh Claude
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« on: January 01, 2010, 18:53 »
From what I see on my sales, the amount for the sale is shown without any deduction. You see the deductions in the Account Information (the left part of the screen) in terms of credit.
Claude
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« on: January 01, 2010, 13:50 »
Same here...
But the worst part is that I tried many times to fill and send the form but each time got an error message (An error has occured. Please try again later). Sent an email about what to do...
Does anybody knows if the withholding tax is permanent or it will be re-imboursed (is that the word?!) when forms are finally filled and accepted?
Claude
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« on: December 30, 2009, 18:43 »
We should email this wanna-be and ask them to provide their business plan, current government-issued identification cards of their owners, financial statements, and ten of their best images for us to inspect.
The way it is going now there will be more agencies than contributors in a few months... So I agree, let's ask them their Social Security Number and a copy of their passport! Claude
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« on: December 23, 2009, 07:57 »
And by the way, let us know how it goes with your IS exclusivity!
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« on: December 23, 2009, 07:55 »
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« on: December 17, 2009, 22:33 »
I wish you all the best; Peace for every one
Joyeux Noel et bonne anne tous!
Claude
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« on: December 16, 2009, 17:30 »
For me it is still not working using Firefox. Internet Explorer works fine though.
For me IE does not work and Firefox does. Weird.
Ha! Here with Google Chrome site is down but it works well with IE!!!
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« on: December 11, 2009, 17:47 »
Note that you can keep your account with most agencies in case of step back.
That should be the correct strategy, keep the acount but disable the photos. Is it ok with iStock? I mean keeping accounts with other sites? I guess so. Let us know how it will go, Vonkara. Claude
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« on: November 30, 2009, 18:14 »
However, what I dislike most is the doublespeak, for example, on the enticement to become exclusive, it says:
"Protection and resolution
Exclusivity makes it easier for us to protect our contributors. We can better enforce compliance issues when we know an image came from us and must follow our licensing agreement."
However, in the actual badly-written, ambiguous and obfuscating Exclusivity Agreement, it says:
"Notwithstanding the foregoing, given the exigencies of the stock photography business and the prevalence of royalty-free content, iStockphoto cannot take responsibility for the compliance by purchasers and licensees of the terms of such agreements. Accordingly, you acknowledge and agree to the possibility of Exclusive Content being used in a manner that is not contemplated in this Agreement or the Content License Agreement or any distribution partner license agreement, and you agree that notwithstanding any rights you may have to pursue the licensees of such Exclusive Content at law, iStockphoto shall have no liability to you or any person claiming through you for any breach by a licensee of the terms of any agreement respecting Accepted Exclusive Content."
I am totally stunned by this. You are right, Sue - the ability to enforce license compliance and protect your images from misuse has been touted by Istock for years as a major reason to be exclusive.
If the exclusivity contract itself negates that protection it diminishes the attractiveness of exclusivity quite a lot in my eyes.
I have already had to fight my legal battles over misuse of an istock image, but at least I have the extra income from being independent (20% over what I would make as a diamond exclusive) to pay the legal costs.
I think that there is no contradictions in these two statements. In the first, IS states that they will do their best to defend its contributors. But in no ways, IS should be held responsable in case of a buyer mis-using a photo. I think that there is a huge difference betwen helping someone against a fraud and being responsable for that fraud. So the question is: How much help will IS provide accordingly to their first statement? Claude
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« on: November 21, 2009, 10:59 »
BigStock introduced a fantastic new upload system, every photo is now automatically given the category People>women and Background>Misc, scientists are confident they'll be able to get it to work soon.
FT hit new highs in contributor relations.
DT have given each inspector a new training aid to help with model release decisions, it's has a picture of a head on one side.
iStock plans to hold a 'lypse' in everybodies home town by the end of 2010.
Shutterstocks forum is now available on the comedy channel.
362 new stock agencies open each week, 363 stock agencies go bust each week.
Photos of goldfish shaking hands and wearing headsets will be the big seller of 2010. (By the way goldfish shots now need model releases)
You forgot to mention the huge raises agencies gave to photographers in 2009. Expecting even higher raises for 2010 to attract new photographers. Claude
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