https://www.dreamstime.com/thread_45836

I may have misunderstood.

I sent a message to Dreamstime support:

"From discussion in the forums, I understand that it is possible to change the minimum payout to something as low as $40. I would like to change my minimum payout (it is currently at $100, and I can't wait that long between payments) but can not figure out how to do that."

I did get a prompt response, which is better than most sites.  However, it was this:

"There must be at least $100 USD in the earnings for the payment system to accept a payment request through your account"

*sigh*  I knew that.  I said I knew that.  I want to CHANGE that.

Does anyone here know how to do that?

I found uploading to Envato to be so difficult, and poorly explained, that it bordered on traumatic.

I have been struggling through the maze of Envato's sites, trying to figure out how to upload and submit something.   I finally got a vector submitted to Graphic River (I think) and it was rejected for "quality" with no clue as to whether they meant quality of the image, or quality of the file.  And, of course, I can't figure out how to ask for clarification.

Can anyone tell me WHAT is selling there that is making such a good earnings rating?

Is it worth the struggle to navigate their site*, and make all the little jpgs, to submit to Graphic River? 

Or are the earnings coming from templates, or videos, or audio, or something else I don't have to submit?

Envato is making me cry, literally.


*I gave up hope of finding my way back to a particular page, and just started bookmarking important pages as I found them.  Envato has its own folder in my bookmark folder.

Hi guys! I'm a newbie. Seems like I registered to a good forum.  Looking forward to learning new things here.

Run away!  Save yourself!  It's too late for the rest of us, but YOU may be able to save your sanity.

Here in the desert, it IS a big deal.  If someone puts dams on their property to stop rainwater, it can seriously affect farms downstream.

Sure, nobody is going to complain about a couple of rain barrels, but this guy was putting up ten foot dams.  He wasn't just catching the rain on his property, he was catching the rain running down from uphill areas.

When the annual rainfall is about 14 inches that can make the difference between life and death.

Especially since the rain comes in chunks.  If you don't get the water you expected from the big rainstorm in July, you may not get more until October.  That water flowing down from higher up is very important.

Well, I don't think I'll wait for the amount they owe me to get higher... but still not get paid.   After all, if I'll give a panhandler a few dollars, I suppose I can let CanStock have a few.  I wouldn't want the owner to freeze to death over the winter. 

I will generally stick with a site through periods of low or even no sales, because it's not really any effort to wait.  Eventually, most sites will get their act together, and sales will pick up again.

So, I have been uploading new work to CanStock along with my other sites.

Suddenly, I'm getting rejections for inappropriate keywords, and no satisfactory response from support about why.

I am not going expend energy on a dying site to get things accepted without the keywords they need to sell.  If I can't label an image about "bad attitude" with "bad attitude", what's the point?  That moves the possibility of sale from "unlikely" to "impossible".

It's sad, I have always liked CanStock for some reason.

No property release, not editorial, just up there like wildlife photos.

ha ha hahahahahahahahaha

Meanwhile, this door was rejected for intellectual property.

Heck, for all we know, it's money laundering.

Aargh!  I've been uploading a new set of vectors all week, all accepted...

today, all rejected

Edges--Paths are sloppy and/or poorly constructed.
Reference Image -- A reference image is required for this image.

All of them.

I'm uploading hundreds of vectors.  Shutterstock ain't getting a reference image with each and every one.  I get so frustrated with them sometimes, I think of dropping them even if they ARE my best seller.

*grump*

I'm going to resubmit them without changes.

I gave up on Alamy, because they never sold anything, wouldn't defend my copyright, and couldn't get my stuff listed correctly (they kept offering it as RM instead of RF)

If this continues, I may have to go back to them.  Maybe they had a coup.

This should be interesting...