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« on: April 14, 2016, 01:34 »
I'm not happy that I need to write them every time I need a review.
352
« on: April 11, 2016, 08:23 »
I have about 60 images and vectors pending, some of them for more then a month.
354
« on: April 01, 2016, 11:14 »
I fully support Alamy with their fair 50% and I would like to see them on the first place here and to be the best agency of all because of their respect for photographers (pricing images as they should be) but also think someone is playing something here. Maybe because people are tired of those 15-30% sites so to encourage new members to join Alamy instead of other sites it's okay, but those results are just nonsense and it looks like I'm not the only one who think this way.
355
« on: March 28, 2016, 15:51 »
There is no reason to panic but if i need MY money now (not their) i dont know how is it legal to hold someone else money and not giving access to it.
Will probably end with them after this
356
« on: March 28, 2016, 07:22 »
I had the same experience a while back and I needed to change my password. No problem since. I think they want you to change your password from time to time and not use the same password for too long.
thanks for your answer. It's probably true, because I didnt change it for a while, but when I want to change it in one step they need to send me verification number on my cellphone, but nothing. Waiting for it for almost 2 hourse
357
« on: March 28, 2016, 06:26 »
Greetings
Today I wanted to log in to skrill with my password (it's correct) and got message that for security purposes I can't log in so I need to reset my pass etc. I contacted them to see what's going on but no response.
Anyone had similar or same problem today with them?
358
« on: March 15, 2016, 15:36 »
anybody got their payments?
359
« on: March 15, 2016, 04:55 »
when are we getting payment for 123rf, is it today? (payoneer option)
360
« on: March 13, 2016, 16:53 »
alamy is more decreasing here, but I only have about 700 images there and all of them are RF
361
« on: March 09, 2016, 12:26 »
3 weeks here, maybe even more
362
« on: March 09, 2016, 10:32 »
363
« on: March 09, 2016, 10:13 »
easiest way to turn all WEB and PEL licencing off?
364
« on: March 07, 2016, 07:52 »
personal opinion: nonsense
not even close to fotolia, istock, 123rf or dreamstime
365
« on: March 07, 2016, 06:48 »
Alamy being in the UK has this from their website:
VAT Reg No. GB 718 2941 23
Company No. 3807789
US/Canada companies have nothing similar so you can't put it. May take a while to convince your accountant of this (mine just couldn't believe it at first!) but it is true!
thank you! looks like somebody from EU also has same "problem" as me. what about EIN number? isn't that something similar?
366
« on: March 04, 2016, 08:55 »
Today I talked with my accountant.
She told me that I am the one who need to make receipts not agencies (dont need to send recepits to them, but for legal purposes in my countries) because I'm the one who is receiving money from them. Ok it seems logical.
So... what we here need for receipt to be legally good in my country(EU) is my personal/company information and my VAT(or my company VAT number) as well as agencies information with their VAT numbers.
Do USA agencies have their VAT numbers and is it available somewhere online or I need to ask all of them for it?
Does anyone have any experience with this stuff?
Thank you very much?
367
« on: February 24, 2016, 03:20 »
wow congrats!  i really hope it isn't some kind of error/bug.
368
« on: February 24, 2016, 03:06 »
I also think as lanabyko. 1000 different images across 10 agencies is same as 1000 images on 5 agencies. It's 1000, not 10 000 or 5000.
But if someone have completely different set of images for RM (alamy) or something like that, it's another story.
369
« on: February 23, 2016, 17:09 »
You really don't seem to get it ....yes you can spend hours on a single pic and get a high return and you can spend minutes and get a lower return for high volume both are valid if they produce a profit.
Think I will stop now............
sorry, but I think all of people on this topic can see that I am not the one who don't know difference between earnings and profit.
Don't seem to remember you mentioning Costs? Sorry if I've misunderstood
you can read again if I was talking about expenses. I just answered someone who mentioned that. ok. maybe i was to harsh in my fist comment, my english isn't the best, I was negatively surprised that some people earn less then 1000$ per year with 1000 images portfolio. It can mean from 80 to even 50 dollars per month (<1$) that means someone with 1000 images earn for example 20 dollars on SS, 10 on IS, 10 on fotolia and maybe 10 on alamy and 5 on 123rf. and many people answered that. (18 at the moment)
370
« on: February 23, 2016, 16:53 »
You really don't seem to get it ....yes you can spend hours on a single pic and get a high return and you can spend minutes and get a lower return for high volume both are valid if they produce a profit.
Think I will stop now............
sorry, but I think all of people on this topic can see that I am not the one who don't know difference between earnings and profit.
371
« on: February 23, 2016, 16:10 »
Its only one stat you need more to make a judgement. For example person a spends 5 mins producing each picture and does landscapes. He gets a dollar per pic His Net income is $2,000 per annum for 167 hrs work so $12 per hour.
person b spends an hour on each picture and shoots models spending $1000 per annuum. He makes $5 per picture.
His income is $10,000 less $1,000 expenses $9,000 for 2000 hours work making $4.50 per hour.
Over time person b would catch up if the two portfolios remained "current" so you would need to factor in the lifespan of pictures. It MAY be that landscapes actually last longer.
These may be extreme for illustrative purposes but to understand a business model you need more that one stat.
as ShadySue said, this topic is about earning, not profit. If we take too many examples we can also said that landscape means travel expenses (not in case if someone only take snapshot 20 km away from his home) that can go much higher then 3 hours model shooting or even more if photographer is model him/herself (some do that too). I still believe that contributor with good commercial sense and technical quality is closer to earn 0.5-1 dollar per image monthly (from all agencies) not per year.
372
« on: February 23, 2016, 12:46 »
And I say no its not it depends..........the person earning can decide without you telling them ;-)
1 dolar is one dolar everywhere. It doesnt have anything with prices and what you can buy with one dolar in Japan or Bangladesh. I am saying that if me and you work similar or same job, selling our products for same price and for example you earn 10 times more, i guess i would need to rethink my subjects, processing, style as something isnt right.
373
« on: February 23, 2016, 12:35 »
from results it looks like some people really earn less then a dollar per photo per year?
so someone has 2000 images, across 5 or more agencies and earn less then 2000 dollars per year?
and still do microstock?
wow, looks like they need to change their style or IDK... profession?
On the same time, $2000/year can be more than the average income in some countries.
it's about 166 dollars monthly with about 2k images
ok for hobby, but with 2000 images/vectors and those earnings... i don't know. very few countries in the world have such small income.
@Justanotherphotographer agree with that... if someone stop producing, it can slowly drop in a few years.
@Pauws99 i talk about approved images already online.
Who says they do it full time if its 2000 images you already have and just need to keyword them it might be a nice sideline....you make too many assumptions.
Me? You started to talk about processing, keywording, average income. I only told that i mean it is just too little to earn less then dolar per image per year in microstock . And yes it is.
374
« on: February 23, 2016, 12:27 »
Thank you eyewave
So, how contributors deal with their accountants about income from different stock sites if there is no receipts?
You tell them how much you made?
Why not? i am not talking about tax gatherer or someone from goverment i am talking about bookeeper or accountant that i pay to take care of all my income/spent money. Maybe my English is problem here.
375
« on: February 23, 2016, 11:20 »
Thank you eyewave
So, how contributors deal with their accountants about income from different stock sites if there is no receipts?
are you worrying about the taxes?
yes, mostly about that but not only taxes. I think accountant need to know sources of all received money if someone have company
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