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« on: March 05, 2010, 19:44 »
I have requested deletion of my images from PatherMedia and have received a kind confirmation from Robert on January 21, 2010. Then I got a sales report on Feb 5, 2010, so I sent another deletion request, including sending a request from PM's site. However, I still found my images on this site which I assume is a partner site of PM: http://www.reflexstock.com/image/14306260/White-orchid.htmlWhy my images are not deleted and how can I get them removed from both PM and partner sites?
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« on: March 02, 2010, 11:56 »
Good points!  @Sharply Done,
no. I will never let money take over my life.
No matter the amount.
I will not let the fear of competition and losing sales stand in my way of helping people.
I feel good about it, it's in my nature, and I will always do it.
But it gets even worse.
Not only I want to help newbies, but I'm constantly pestering my friends and collegues to join microstock. I'm irritating everyone around me and I keep at it.
No, I have no referral links, I never will.
I think the fear of the newbie/ competiton is absurd. A futile waste of energy and a lost fight.
@Louis Santos,
do whatever you want with your blog and referrals. Get as many as you can for all I care, good luck to you!
But I have a favour to ask you
Take ThinkStock/Photos.com off your list.
It's not the bewildered newbie and his Canon Rebel who's a danger to this industry. It's the 0.25 cent from Getty.
Unfortunately there are a lot of experienced photographers who actively upload there. Not much I can do about it.
The time has come to fall in love with IStock's upload limits.
My only hope.
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« on: March 02, 2010, 04:28 »
Hey, I think it's better for 123rf's reputation to pay the money owed to its photographers first, before pretending to be generous.
Pay me!!!
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« on: March 01, 2010, 08:00 »
My earning balance is still in the negative. All my earnings from September 2009 were wiped out.
No one has bothered to reply to my inquiries.
123rf, do the honorable thing!!
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« on: February 25, 2010, 19:55 »
Amounting earned + negative balance = discrepency
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« on: February 25, 2010, 18:49 »
For me, my earning discrepency is over $70.
Besides, 123rf should have the decency to reply to those of us who are affected and have inquired about it, with an apology!
I have not received any reply from 123 management. I'll wait and see if I receive any money I am entitled to.
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« on: February 24, 2010, 05:31 »
I used to be Alex's defender on another forum. Now I don't know what to think. This has nothing to do with my browsers. I have checked this from various browsers from different computers in various countries. It looks like 123rf thinks that it can keep my earned income if it plays deaf. That's theft!! I just uploaded a batch of 10 to 123RF and all went fine without any glitch, as it is always the case. I can and could always log in and check my earnings. I never had negative earnings and they pay out automatically between 55 and 80$.
The site is programmed well, they have the best Model Release module around and they don't have categories. Their rejections are a bit odd regularly, but that's their loss and not mine. It takes no extra effort to upload there and finishing on site is done in one minute. In short, a low maintenance site with no drama.
They pay me a nice seafood dinner for two every month, plus a nice cold bottle of beer of 1l (making me very happy, toasting to Alex), plus the taxi forth and back. Some months it's a bit less, some months a bit more.
I don't have any idea about the glitches reported here. Maybe it's a browser issue? I use Filezilla + Firefox.
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« on: February 24, 2010, 05:28 »
123rf management has not responded why it has not paid me for the income earned before Feb 2010, and nor responded to my inquiries. My negative balance remains unchanged.
If 123rf has decided to keep my earned income to itself, at least it should offer an explanation. It's totally illegal and a breach of contract. I am totally disgusted.
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« on: February 23, 2010, 13:21 »
Apparently it works great for low light conditions and very fast. Professional journalists love it.
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« on: February 22, 2010, 16:00 »
As I said in another thread, even though I had reached a payout, my account balance went to minus after I deleted some photos and they have not paid me, nor replied to my emails.
I would never had thought that 123 would do that!
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« on: February 22, 2010, 12:43 »
How do I know if my pictures appear under Hemera collection? I have searched Thinkstock and didn't see my pictures No, unless your pictures appear under Hemera collection.
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« on: February 22, 2010, 08:49 »
I still haven't heard anything from 123rf. No payment was made either.
The Chinese New Year has been over.
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« on: February 22, 2010, 08:48 »
I searched both my name and user ID, there was no results.
Do I still have to delete my StockXpert photos in order to become IS exclusive?
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« on: February 19, 2010, 16:07 »
I would like to believe it was because of the Chinese New Year but I saw Alex's response to someone's posting yesterday.
365
« on: February 19, 2010, 15:35 »
I just don't understand why 123rf remains silent on this. If they want to keep my $55, at least they should give me a good reason. If it's unintentional, they should remedy the error and move on.
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« on: February 19, 2010, 07:41 »
Besides, what's exclusive in photos that have been sold everywhere else before you went exclusive ?
What do you mean?
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« on: February 19, 2010, 07:39 »
I hope you are right. Had I received the payment on Feb. 15 or had a reasonable reply from 123rf, I would not have been concerned. Apparently the payment didn't arrive, and no replies from 123rf. How do you call them? I may try live chat tonight. While I understand that it is not good that they did not reply promptly to your mails, I don't think they are doing this intentionally. Rather looks like a bug in their system - the balance total may be based on a sum counted from sales from your images and deleting them causes the balance to go down.
I would expect that they will look at that and pay you as, obviously, doing otherwise would be clearly illegal. I don't believe they will go that route. You may want to call them. Phone is always better in these matters.
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« on: February 19, 2010, 02:24 »
My earned balance was over $50 at the end of January 2010 so I was expecting a payment from 123rf in mid-Febuary.
Since I am preparing to go exclusive with IS a few months later, I have been deleting my photos from almost all other sites.
After I deleted some of my photos from 123rf, I realized that my earnings became a negative balance. My sales from the past disappeared. I have not received any payment yet even though I am supposed to receive it around Feb 15. I have emailed Alex and Mimi twice and none has replied to my emails. No one has responded to my posting in 123rf forum either.
Does anyone know why 123rf is doing this??? Does it mean that 123rf will not honour my earnings because I am leaving?
IS had requested that I notify all other sites of my intention to go exclusive at the end of December 2009. I received courtesy and kind replies from every sites, including Fotolia and Dreamtimes. PantherMedia paid me even though my earning was below the payout level. Only two sites didn't not reply. 123rf was one of them.
I used to praise 123rf for its courtesy to the photographers. Cannot believe they are taking this approach, and I hope it was just a site glitch and not a dishonest act.
Alex, if you read this post, please let me know what happens. Thanks.
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« on: February 19, 2010, 02:05 »
I have been away so am very much behind everything. Sorry if my questions were discussed before.
It appears that stockxpert will cease to exist as I can no longer log into my account. I plan to become iStock exclusive sometimes later and was informed that I should delete my StockXpert port in advance.
However, I can't do this since I cannot log into stockxpert anymore. What happens to my photos? Am I allowed to contribute to Thinkstock if I become IS exclusive later? Where is my Thinkstock info if I am automatically switched? Or am I not automatically switched?
I have sent StockXpert a sitemail and haven't heard anything back. Thanks.
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« on: February 19, 2010, 01:58 »
I have received my payment, didn't appear to be any problems for me.
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