think like this, someone needs a few images, like 3-5 or so, he can either spend 60 dollar to get 4 images, or pay a subscription plan for 350 images, its all too cumbersome and expensive and overkill, so he goes to canstock and buy the 4 images and pay $24 with his credit card.

but now, he can buy 10 images for 29 dollar, so he buys his 5 images, and get another 5 for the next blog.

In scenario 1 you would have gotten 0 dollar, and in scenario 2 you would get $8.70

great port, obviously not what they are looking for.

did they tell you

�   Inappropriate content type
�   Composition/Lighting
�   Authenticity and commercial viability
�   Too many similar images

Which seems to basically cover all of their 15 million images then

right, because no one ever uses defocussed backgrounds in their ads? surprising that a photographer doesnt grasp this concept. yes the buyer can do this themselves, but there is an argument for selling the end product.

sandeel, what they mean by that is that if you have files on other marketplaces your account remain active. if you are only selling on photodune marketplace then you will get paid your balance, even if its under the payout threshold. i have to say, thats very nice of them, that they decided not to keep your money.

booted too, thousands of images,

the thing that annoys me most is the arrogance of Mr. James, bigshot CEO, sending out a canned email to all contributors with the same reasons for elimination and then write a big forum post telling everyone discussion is not possible.

admin edit: threats / attacks removed.

we're back to square one, ask shutterstock to lodge the money into your bank account. they cant. so you use paypal to get paid, great service, so you pay for that. dont understand the moaning. if a client tells you that your image is too expensive, they say, its digital, cost you nothing to shoot a photo, just your camera. what do you say? but but but my time, the editing, my electricity bill, the office rent,  etc etc all cost money. same difference.

haven't had a sale since they introduced that elite plan

you get paid 2 months late every time, missing out on interest, plus you have to cash the  checks as well, costing you time and probably petrol, plus you have to invest time to manage multiple payment streams, you will have more layers in your administration, all adding cost, which you dont consider.

i think if you properly calculate all the cost of receiving  checks, you will probably find that the cost are higher than using paypal,

not sure how that works for your principals, you want to incur higher cost, because paypal is too expensive, doesnt make sense. you cut of your nose to spite your face. paypal is a widely accepted payment processor, making my life and business so much easier,

quick calculation shows you would probably lose out on 0.25% interest alone over your 100K, and surely you can deduct the paypal fees from your earnings in canada as well.

Quote from: Microstockphoto on January 27, 2017, 16:31

Quote from: increasingdifficulty on January 27, 2017, 04:43

The important thing is: When you can use the money, like buy milk, what currency is it in? The conversion happens somewhere and remember that the PayPal fees are HIDDEN, it doesn't say: look, here's the fee, they just give you a bad exchange rate.

PayPal fees are not hidden at all. ALL fees are in the T and C you signed for when opening your account. don't blame PayPal for your ignorance

And where can you see the recipe for the single transactions? There is no recipe. Its totally intransparent like Istock.

Do you ever try to deduct the pp fees from tax?

again people spouting stuff because they dont know how to use paypal. first of all, you need a paypal business account, because you are a business. and if you already have one, you have many options for reporting, including transaction reports, which will show you line for line everything that happened for each transaction, including your fees.

people just like to rant, leaving out all the facts

and yes, i have deducted my fees, its simple as 123 with paypal transaction reports.

the number of downloads for january was very low compared to other months, but the last week was very good, it completely pushed january to a good month, my RPD was 1.93, about 90% higher than normal,

still worried about the decline of downloads because these freaky good weeks are rare

people, life style, travel, food,  vector /illustrations, videos, etc.  I diversed  long time ago,  but the rot is  setting in

jonbull,  still uploading

yada,  yes more competition,  but my sales are plunging faster than ever before.