Five years ago I also thought I had to stop doing shoots with people, animals and outdoor subjects because of hip artrosis (at 50!) and very painful wrists/shoulders.  My physiotherapist said that moving less would make things worse, and she was right.  So I changed my eating habits drastically :  0% sugar  , less meat and much more fruit and veggies, plus daily turmuric, glucosamine and mild exercise (20 minutes/day on my home trainer bike).  Today I can do every photo session that I want, as long as I don't have to walk great distances ... and I haven't seen my physiotherapist in 2 years 

I am not saying these things will solve your problems, but as nothing of the above is unhealthy, and there is no prescription medicine involved, anyone with joints/muscles/back problems could give it a try.  Only, you have to be very patient - you'll only see improvement after 4 to 6 months, and it's not a temporary thing, it's for life ...

Hi Lisa,
You made me check my numbers, but the results are quite normal.  My average PP sale is between 0.32 and 0.38 (average of 2013 till now), and February has an average of 0.35, so that's quite normal, and there must be non-subs in it, otherwise it would be 0.28.

If they've underpaid contributors -- then I don't know why they don't wait until they sort the whole thing out, rather than set up six monthly installments for each contributor involved, and then additional transactions to repay the money they underpaid?  Seems like it would be cleaner to me. 

Because "(50 x 6) - (2,5 x 3)" is a LOT more complicated for IS than "50x6" and THEN "2,5x3"

Has any of the European Istockers received his/her e-mail yet?  I haven't got mine yet, and I don't believe for a second they'll forget me (my October PP was more than double of September).

Quote from: Anyka on February 23, 2014, 11:51

This made me smile :  what if I made a list of my 10 crappiest, out of focus, noisiest photos on DP, and listed them here on MSG, so people with some free time could buy them, and ask their money back     Childish?  yeah, I know, but fun!

Fun, but given the company in question, risky.
Given their track record of being - how to put it politely - economical with the truth, who's to say that the money back guarantee is any more solid than the hand picked curated collection of high quality noise free images?

True!  Very risky!   

Yes, you really have to add a not, to avoid a warning from SS.  I just got a batch of 20 accepted for 50%, the other 50% was refused again, but for different reasons.

Ft doesn't care, but they are consistent in rejecting the same images. They have a record of rejects that you cannot delete.  if you go into your files, there is a icon that says "show deleted files" or something like that.  if you click on that it will show you all the rejections and there's no way to get rid of it. So wile I resubmit to them over and over rejected files, most never make it in.

Hey, I never noticed I could not delete the rejected Fotolia files! 
I'll submit a few rejected landscapes this evening, with a little note.  I'll have to submit manually, as I can't seem to find the "note to reviewer" when I use the indexing method ...

Hi, I usually do not resubmit anything, except on SS with corrected flaws + a notice to the reviewer, but sometimes I get cranky when I see how many well-selling files there are in the "refused" folder of the other agencies.

Does any of you have experience in resubmitting to FT/DST/123rf/GLO/DP/CAN ... ?  Do they allow it, and if yes, should we draw their attention to the fact that it's a second time, or to the first refusal-reason?   

For SS I know that resubmitting is only allowed if you "announce" it, and you're supposed to correct the file first, not just resubmit it, but what about the others?  Has any one ever had a problem with it ?

Right now, there's no problem - yet.  I save my originals in layered TIF's, so no PSD's needed (not even with adjustment layers or smart objects).  If I would stop my CC subscription next year, I can always go on working in my previous non-CC software, which was CS5.  However, in a few years, I'll buy a new PC, and this PC with probably run on a newer Windows version.  One day, my CS5 won't be compatible with WindowsXXX anymore.  THEN I'll have the choice to either renew my subscription, or degrade to PS Elements.
I also wonder how long my subscription will be "affordable".  Right now, I think the � 10/month is very acceptable.  But as I have the intention to live another 40 years ...

Strange, I expected that they would do the December reporting and the October Clawback simultaneously.  The way they do it now (report December first), we are able to cash in December PP + January Sales ... or at least we are able to submit a payment request BEFORE we know how much they'll take back. 

I don't think it was the .jpg addition ... I got the same rejection today :   12 out of 20 images rejected for the same "Title should be in English ...." reason.  I don't have dots in my titles or the word JPG, just English words.  Example :  "Young pear trees in Belgium" and "Beagle puppy".   And yes, these images were of pear trees and a Beagle puppy.

I feel like a dog who's been given a delicious (and unexpected) $300 cookie.  And now, almost 2 months later, with the cookie half eaten, the Boss wants it back.  And I'm not the only dog with a half eaten cookie.  There's 25000 doggies like me.  I think Istock is pretty courageous to mess with 25000 dogs.

You can only get onto your own contributor page if you ask for a login.  And also :  the contributor site royalty reports only start half-way January, so you have to check your e-mail reports and add the totals of December 2012 and half of January 2013 to know how much they still owe you.