... if some new company comes asking for my work, it's 50% or it's not going to happen. I'm not interested.

Just thinking - if here comes new agency that offers you 50%, you take it! Price is 1$ so you take 0,50$, ok? But there comes another one, better, fair - pricing agency, that offers you 80%. Interested? Very! But the agency sells image for 0,50$. We know they need compete. Now you can get 0,50$ - 20%.
I mean, we never ever should forget about the reasonable minimum. We all scream about 50% but I can see nobody is asking what is the price.
Is it worth selling your RF (!) image for... what price is good today? What is the minimum?

If you could have a choice, let me ask you, what price would you like to get for the small and full size image in wide RF license? Would it still be 1$ as it is today? You (all) don't accept less than 50% but 1$ is accepted? Just hard to believe

Soon there will be no big 4 agencies left which the MSG has not fallen out with. And then what ?

Then we all meet in places like Pond5 - exclusive, unique files with self-fair pricing? Can you imagine how the world turns upside down?   

Yesterday I got email from new future stocker (maybe), young boy that doesn't know life. He's trying to get to microsites and he asked me what to do because he gets rejections for a year, all the time over and over again! He wants to sell his work with micros so much... 
He has read that it's so great business, you just do what you love and upload images and voila, money is coming in streams to your wallet. Really, he was expecting that. I saw the images and it reminded me last uploaded on DP (do they review it ever?).

He doesn't care if he gets 0,30$, 30% or less... He'll sell in milions DL... Poor boy has now idea how many has changed since the old article was written. We see changes going very fast, month by month new is coming. Agencies don't care a lot who will bring them new stuff. We should care who will sell our work!

Spiral is going down faster and faster, right into the bottom. New young stockers with poor images come, old pros go away. Nobody sees there's a hole ready to fill. Good pros need some good place. Fair pricing, serious offer and reasonable clients. Trust is what we need for sure. I'm not asking anything else. I'll give my images exclusive but give me fair treating.
In current micros I don't see any courageous.

DT doesn't take 70% of the profits, not even of the sales. The 70% out of independents' sales must cover also the ...

No? DT doesn't take 70%? SO where it goes? Lets see - we have 100% income, where 70% goes to DT and the rest 30% for author, right? Still saying DT doesn't take 70%? It's easy like 2+2
But wait, you say DT has cost? Hm, did I get my gear for free? Nikon, would you give me full new system stuff, please? My old is to old to work anymore. No? buu... And I need to pay for my computer as well, post processing isn't for free, taxes (grrr, it's to big!), my tax men isn't working for free (bad men!), travel, tickets or session costs, food isn't coming from the sky, for free... Some of us have people working on images that we take, they're not just 1 person. If we have registered business (we usually have to, depends on country) the cost is HUGE!
ETC...

So tell me please, how is it - I get 30% and need to pay my bills (all th.above) and who gets more?
Btw. I can count only on myself, my few hundreds/ thousands images and agency has milions ... streams of income. Can you feel the difference?



Edit.
I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry that I get this 30% or 0,30$ for image... We crossed the reasonable line long time ago. Time to wake up and say no in some cases.

500px? Oh right.. I've forgot about it, thanks!
It got quiet quickly.

Two weeks ago I asked some questions to Crated here on the forum, but still waiting for reply... Not motivating.

More people had NU sales lately. All is on Alamy forum.

I think it does show that they are really feeling the effects of the opt-out campaign, which is good. I'm not really surprised that they acted like this...

No? And I'm surprised. If FT (any other agency) feels that is doing something wrong, why not stop it (and say sorry, our mistake)? It just doesn't make sens They are very hard to learn, no conclusions...

Do they pay out money if less than 50 C ?

Many thanks Ron for that text! Lots of LOL here, despite it's really sad situation...

I remember my first time when I saw RF, I was sure it means FREE from royalties... Btw, there's the joke (or it's not a joke) - tell chinese man it's copyrighted and he'll do copies as he get's it as right to copy
Royalty free? Of course it means free!

Back to serious, if someone doesn't know the right it doesn't mean he's free from responsibility.

... Well, I don't think it really even needs saying, but frankly I think this says that we're a bunch of suckers.
... let's be real about this; even 50% isn't great. It's better, but ...

... But how about we start here: Any would-be new agency comes knocking, the terms are 50% or don't bother even asking for my images. I don't care if you're name is Google. 50% or don't bother.

50% shouldn't be regarded as a great deal. 50% should be the minimum.

Her reason was "I did sign up with shutterstock and thought that I could use it, but I will try to correct this now"

Yeah, sure... It reminds me what I've found lately in some forums of graphic desingers (from memory):
"- should I buy EL for this image usage?
  - as you wish, but why pay if nobody can see? You'll pay if they (authors) find it in use... Pay $1 and sleep well. After all you can say: "ups,, sorry, I didn't know"
  - that's my thought, $1 is fair enough".