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Messages - rene
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« on: June 09, 2009, 22:21 »
I suggest we get busy and remove our images from dead or dying sites like 123RF. I don't want companies like this to go out of business while in possesssion of my images. When a business goes under, all assets get unloaded at fire sale prices and no questions are asked.
Agree. I've just deleted all my images from there Does anyone know how to close an account at 123RF?
I left them about 2 months ago. They told me to manually delete all of my files first, and then they would close the account. Plan on a long process. You can only bulk delete images uploaded on the same day.
They refused to delete images, I had to do it myself. With this link you can delete images faster: http://www.123rf.com/submit/myuploaded.php?display=a
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« on: June 07, 2009, 08:04 »
I've opt out at StockXpert from the beginning. Opt out at IS too.
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« on: June 07, 2009, 08:01 »
6 sales! Congratulations, microstock rocks 
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« on: June 07, 2009, 05:45 »
In general, when a site changes conditions unilaterally, you can get out at once by not agreeing to the changes.
Good news for OP. Djmorgan you can get out once DT have lowered our commissions. So you signed a contract with DT which stated they could not add subscriptions? Please share this with us when you get a chance.
So you signed a contract with DT which stated they could not add subscriptions? Please share this with us when you get a chance.
There's nothing about paying DanP68 1ct/download tomorrow neither. So it means you would be ok with this?
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« on: June 06, 2009, 20:48 »
I can't feel any sympathy with the OP since he agreed to terms uploading at DT, now wants to change them at his convenience. He knew it, right? I can't feel any sympathy with DT. They change rules. When I've signed up there were no subscriptions. Then one day I woke up and the subscription wrere there. No option out, no possibility to cancel account before 6 months. So what about initial contract? Now DT will decrese our earnings. Who breaks rules ?
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« on: June 05, 2009, 06:45 »
I would be livid if fotolia took away all the earnings from one of my images without a very good reason and a full explanation.
I have not official response from FT but after checking my portfolio it seems that they have remove few of my images. For each removed image they take 2cts. They don't take away the earnings. All removed images have unrecognizable persons in background.
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« on: June 05, 2009, 02:55 »
Please Elena. Can we have a limit on the size of images available as subscription downloads. If not I will have to remove all my XXL images from FP and replace them with down sized versions.
+1 But I'll delete for sure but I'm not sure to re-upload later.
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« on: June 04, 2009, 22:14 »
'Intellectual property' means that you probably had some images sold with breaking rules about copyright ot trademark and you are in that case to be loosing money because that is not allowed. Any author should know what is subject to intellectual property. It is the same when someone breaks terms of licence and then he must pay money for excuse or go in jail!
Don't give lessons about intellectuel property too fast. Me too, for the first time, I had few cents refund for intellectual proprety issue. I'm very careful with IP so I know that cannot be true reason. Maybe they just need money. I think everybody should check credit page at FT (only there you can find it, FT doesn't send any message about it).
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« on: June 04, 2009, 19:01 »
I do have a right to ask questions if you see it as complaing then that is your problem. a complaint would be me saying why in the past 2 weeks has DT taken back sales due to credit card fraud?
Another thing unique to DT....see! that's what's called complaing
Credit card fraud isn't unique to DT. I had fraud happen to me at iStock as well.
Are you sure it was Istock? In 3 years it never happens to me at Istock. In their forum one admin said that they don't do it for credit card fraud. It's only IS lose and not contributor's. In my experience only DT and Fotolia make us paying for their errors.
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« on: May 24, 2009, 07:25 »
Bring new customer and get 10$? IS keep 80% from each sale - with this money they can find customers by them self.
336
« on: May 21, 2009, 22:13 »
They are smart. They know that a lot of contributors are ready to sell for 0.25 (even Yuri and Lisa have images at Crestock). And StockXpert will disappear soon...
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« on: May 18, 2009, 23:32 »
Good news - BigStockPhoto is doing great. We are in absolutely no danger, we're financially strong, and to boot, we've seen new all-time record sales figures this year already.
You are doing great, I suppose that paying us 20% helps.
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« on: May 16, 2009, 11:14 »
Lately I got a lot of very low credits here, like $0.20 for subscription and 0.60 for print size sale. It makes 1 credit=0.20$ !
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« on: May 16, 2009, 07:45 »
Goldenangel, you are right. Sales are so rare at 123rf that each time something sells there we should start new topic. 
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« on: May 15, 2009, 01:38 »
Just checked, I've the same problem as you.
Time to delete my files from there.
341
« on: May 13, 2009, 09:18 »
anyway guys, stop going in a rant against BigStock  At the end of the day, they still pay better than IS, right? What a good example for all of us! IS?!
Not necessarily __ we have no way of knowing what the average payout level is. For all we know it may be little better than 20%.
At least IS can justify the low payout level by all the marketing, etc that really does generate the money. IS are generating more than 20x more income for me with my portfolio than BigStock.
It seems to me with BigStock we have the worst of all worlds __ very low payout percentage with very few sales. The site is generating $M's for it's owners though.
OMG Now I understand why I earn 0.5-2$ at BigStock. I though this was slow but the honest site. I agree with Gostwyck, BigStock is the worst site (ex-aequo with Crestock)
342
« on: May 11, 2009, 09:35 »
Thank you Sharply_done and Whitechild.
I'll contact support first and if doesn't work I try the macro function.
343
« on: May 10, 2009, 22:39 »
Hi,
I want to delete my portfolio from here but keep my account. Is there possibility to do it fast? Deleting file by file from history page is very slow.
Thanks
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« on: May 09, 2009, 07:33 »
IS
SS
Alamy (I sell RF here)
FT
DT
waste of time:
BigStock
123rf (will delete my images soon)
Featurepics
and now StockXpert
delete my images from
Canstock
Crestock
Albumo
Zymmetrical
345
« on: May 08, 2009, 19:22 »
WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THIS? What can istock do to protect you guys as photographers and me as an agency that is getting stolen content uploaded to my site that came from istock in the first place?
Delayed payment for new contributors.Let's say 2 months. It's enough to find stolen images and block an account. If thiefs have no chance to be payed thay will stop to do it. Then the blocked money can be given to the right artist.
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« on: May 06, 2009, 03:33 »
Agree with OP.
Pandora's box should stay closed.
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« on: May 05, 2009, 05:02 »
"they've got the guns but, we got the numbers" ...
I think we can have great power we don't use. We have experience, representants of almost all professions (including IT) and we live all over the world. Why not to create a company? I'm ready to put $1000 in this adventure. If we are 1000 it makes 1.000.000$. Maybe with this amount we can start something?
I have over 1000 images in microstock and about the same number of (better quality) images on my HD. If the big players are in, very quickly we can have 2-3 millions of images.
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« on: April 28, 2009, 03:11 »
Do you downsize images for certain agencies? Which ones?
Yes, to all agencies with unlimited subscriptions size : DT and SS. I've stoped uploading to 123rf and opted out at StockXpert. I downsize to 4-5MP. Does this make sense?
For me it doesn't make sense to sell 24MP for $0.35. I prefer to support sites that pay me much, much more. Does it reduce OD sale potential on SS?
Not sure but I don't think so. Does it lead to improved sales on other agencies?
Maybe. IS rocks for me.
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« on: April 21, 2009, 23:00 »
If the top seller in microstock is moving toward other revenue streams, it probably means that the rumored point of dimishing returns is a reality we will all have to deal with.
Can you usefully extrapolate anything from what one photographer does? Surely you have to look at trends, cost:earnings ratios etc. Personally I always wondered whether his costs were running rather high.
Only he knows what his business model is. Then again building his brand may be more important than just selling pictures at a profit. Perhaps he wants to try to use that brand for something else. Who can tell?
Sure, "something else" is comming. Soon, there will be more contributors than buyers in microstock business. Some people will try to get money from photographers. Services like teaching photography and postprocessing, keywording, uploading etc. will appear. Maybe even sites will try to make us pay storage fees.
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« on: April 16, 2009, 23:30 »
At least in DT you can opt-in an image after uploading. As I said, I only opted-in after I noticed an almost exclusive performance of those images. I believe opting-out is not a simple one-click procedure, unlike opting-in.
You cannot option out by one click. You have to write to DT team to do that. It needs 30 days. At DT all option IN are very easy but to option OUT is another story.
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