FINALLY got verified

All the following figures are in Pounds

If you have a unverified personal account

you can receive �250 /month
you can withdrawl �500/month

until you withdraw a total of �1,500 then you HAVE to get verified to withdraw any more money

Verification is a three step process

1 - provide your bank account details (if you have been withdrawing money they have that anyway) they deposit two small amounts in your account and you have to enter those on the paypal site.

2 - provide credit card details *

3 - provide your landline phone number you receive an automated call and you have to enter a number on your telephone.

* I eventually received a letter with a six digit code at the address my credit card bills go to which I had to enter on the site.
(I had to e-mail to ask what the **** was going on I gave them my credit card details back in November)

Then you are verified and you can withdraw with no limits any withdraws less than �50 incur a 25p fee over �50 no fee.

HOWEVER you still have the �250/month receiving limit. This limit resets on a particularly day each month (the anniversary of the day you opened the PayPal account).

If you want to receive more than �250/month then you will have to upgrade to a premier or business account, whetre you may incur fees.


According to Kiya + GeoPappas if you have a premier or business account

no fees on receiving money from SS iS FT DT StockXpert
but fees from CanStockPhoto??

anyone know about 123, FP, BigStock?

Monthly receiving limit UK/ Euroland/USA �250/ ?? ? ??
monthly withdrawl limit UK/ Euroland/USA �500/750E/$750
total withdrawl limit UK/ Euroland/USA �1,500/ 2,250E / $2,250

If you entered your keywords in Pixvue it will sort them from A-Z a bit of a bummer for FT as their first 7 keywords are most important or is this another microstock myth like their 2 million images.

SS 1,412, 948 [1,391,148] (1,370,882)  +21,800
IS  1,388,436 [1,368,672] (1,352,660)  +19,764
FT  2,202,564* [2,144,384] (2,091,567)  +58,180

DT   910,000 [890,000] (870,000)#  +20,000
BigStock 824,000 [808,000] (795,000)  +16,000
123 [500,000+]

StockXpert 366,318 (360,625)
CanStockPhoto 352,366 [348,447] (343,705)  +3,919
FP   168,880 [162,464] (157,296)  +6,416

SPM  98,410 [97,535] (95,301)  +875

* Finally decided to disregard FT claimed number of images in fact they may be lower than DT.

I suspect the eggs did not sign a model release but the photographer maybe be claiming to have model releases for all their photos just in a customer is doing a search for only photos with model release, its one of their options.

I have now over 2,000 RM images online at Alamy so I am rather hoping to have another sale there.

StockXpert one of the easiest upload systems but one of the worse review systems, in my opinion.

I recently had one photo rejected for being too dark and it was accepted by iStock and given 5/5 within a day of uploading.

On a brighter note I had my best day at iStock yesterday nothing to break open the champagne but considering they were my 5th best site with 8% of my income it looks promising for 2007  especially with the increased upload limits if only I could pass their illustration test 

SS generally like my illustrations but are more picky with my photos always best to split similar photos into different batches and wait until the first has been reviewed before submitting.

Obviously SS don't believe FT 2 million image count either.

I am sure this was discussed and explained about a month ago but i can't find the original post.

Here is the little table I made back then

New Price structure starting Jan 2007 photographers will receive 20% of the actual price of the credit sold

300 x 400                 1 credit          19c - 24c
600 x 800                  2 credits        38c - 48c ( old price 1 credit  payout 20c)
1200 x 1600 2mp       4 credits        76c - 96c - (old price 3 credit payout 60c) - medium size
1920 x 2560 5mp       6 credits    $1.14 - $1.44 (old price 5 credit payout $1)
2800 x 4200 11.7 mp 10 credits   $1.90 - $2.40
3300 x 4900 15 mp    15 credits   

I must admit I was a bit disappointed about the hold on uploads being away from my broadband since the 18th of December and I was eager to upload illustrations. I was surprised by the strange financial details but their subscription payout increased again 34c per DL in December 

I missed a couple of weeks being in away in an internet free void but its MOnday so here are the numbers

FT 2,038,858
SS 1,351,038
IS 1,335,000

DT   860,000
BigStock 781,000
123 500,000+

StockXpert 330,000 ++
CanStockPhoto 338,944
FP   151,184

SPM  94,308

When did Fotolia break 2 million?

We have removed the photos below for the following reason:

We can no longer take images of English currency or the Pound symbol.

I had four photos deleted three of which just used a very small part of a scanned bank note the �10 bit in fact. I made a vector replacement as some were selling reasonably well but if the � symbol is now off limits.

I notice my pics are still coming up in the search as others of much more blatant copyright issues virtually the whole backnote

I hope the dollar and euro are not next.

3pod did they delete your zulu pound 3D rendering? that really would be taking it a step too far.

After having being very lucky at SS with accepatances two bad batches

9/49 rasterized eps files (Christmas/new year themes so maybe they are just sick of thme this late in the season)

8/38 London

unfortunately reviewed by the same reviewer

Yep 2-3 day wait for media received not reviewed e-mail.

The test batch always takes ages

In my experience

Day 1 post media
Day 3 media received e-mail
day 6 processing - number of images mentioned
day 14 awaiting QC (approximately)
day 30 passed QC

Huge keywording exercise and then viewable with 24-48 hours

Usually 4-5 weeks to get them pass QC though if you send a few CDs a few weeks apart sometimes the later CDs get uploaded faster. I had one CD online within 9 days.

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