The site is basically about the partners, I don't think Zoonar itself promotes itself much. I don't know if you guys are opted in with any of the partners, but if you're not, I think there's not much chance of getting too many sales.

England wasn't great, but i havn't seen them play well in ages. They have one of the strongest leagues in the world, but the national team is never really convincing.

England never give any priority to their national side. The league is where the money is, big money. The league is great partly because of the talent from around the world. It's a long and intensive season, with no winter break (some countries have them, I think). Preparing for the national team is always an afterthought, which is a shame. Countries like Germany take their national side more seriously and consequently always do better. I've never seen England win a major tournament and I'm not likely to unless we take it seriously.

Quote from: Microstock Posts on June 25, 2012, 02:03

Quote from: daveh900 on June 24, 2012, 22:51

My 123RF sales have increased quite a bit over the past couple of months. Still only about 15% of what I'm doing at SS, but still very much worth my time. If sales stay on track, I should be able to make the 45% tier when commissions change.

That's great. Seems like they're growing so much giving 50% to everyone. It just seems so right that we should reward them by giving them more. 

Next.

Think you made the point a few posts back. So no positive comments till 2013, right? Do not upload further to punish them? Yes, why not? I am sure I can take the 30% drop in revenue from my second largest seller with a smile for the rest of the year. 

Let us not be reasonable and see how things pan out over the next six months, till possible implementation. Come on, take the lead and delete all your images right now and teach them a lesson.... 

Next.

The point I was making. Being able to reach 45% isn't really a positive if you're on 50% now.

I bet for a tie in England vs Italy, with Italy winning the shootout.

How much did you win

I agree with Luis, it was such a boring game, both sides played badly. Italy probably deserved to win, but they weren't great.

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on June 15, 2012, 09:50

Serban once said the forum presence was a factor in the best match.

I believe that was an April 1 post though.

I sure hope it isn't a factor. Looking at my posts/income, my month with the most posts was one of my lowest incomes. I think most of my posts were complaining about commission cuts though.

In the past there was something about the DT contributor that effected the placement a lot because you would often see a whole string of images from the same contributor in a search.

Found this, written on April 1, 2010.

"You might not have thought of this but yes, messages and posts also count."

http://blog.dreamstime.com//2010/04/01//the-search-engine-revealed_art32040

haha, I haven't laughed this much much since watching The Ring. 

this is just great!

1 - they tell you that nobody is buying pictures, they are getting them on google, free sites or even cleaning watermark
2 - the demand on pictures is HUGE
3 - buyer will get it for free but they will pay you 1 cent (money from ads)

why are we going to "sell" our work for 1 cent if we can get a ton more

I am sure this won�t go anywhere, perhaps only snappers shooting cats and dogs on PS cameras

Now you can earn money from your rejected and non-downloaded images on other microstock sites which is probably 2/3 of your images.

who . is doing stock if they get 67% of their pics rejected??

No, they say, "over two thirds of your images are either rejected or never downloaded". We don't know where they get this figure from though.

There's no contact form, email address or number on their site. To sign up they ask for your phone number. Both of these things would be big warning signs to the average person.

They list free photo sites, they show ways of stealing images (for people who don't already know). It's pretty transparent that these guys don't give a f*ck about the artists, so they may end up doing very well.

Can someone please tell me that this is a coincidence.

Good news - watermark has been moved to the center of image.

It depends on the image, there are still plenty of images with the watermark in the top left hand corner. I deleted my small port there because of the new watermark placing, I'm not going to bother to upload again there.

Any thoughts on selling flowers?

Selling flowers? It's not the right job for me  

The comments here are interesting. https://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2011/november/24-hours-in-photos

As a few people point out, it's a massive waste of paper and ink toner. But I guess that's ok as the world's resources are infinite. 

I'm surprised by all the happiness from the absence of the captcha. I thought it was a Game 

If there is no bank that can cash your check, I'm clueless. If you have a friend in a country who can cash the check for you and then pay you back, that might be a solution. But the check would have to be written in his name. I'm kind of surprised that you supplied an agency but didn't enquire beforehand methods of being paid.

Must be tough though being a citizen of a sanctioned country and trying to do things like this, which the rest of us take for granted.

Did you ask your agency? What did they say?