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« on: December 14, 2011, 18:45 »
My Balance carried forward:$322.14
Cleared balance:$22.00
I have a question: On 20 September 2011 had sale $102.80 which is not cleared.
I know it takes 45 days to be cleared but it's two months by now. Can someone explain the payment process.
Thanks
I remember waiting as long as 7 months for clearing of some payments. On the other hand on of the recent purchases was cleared in 3 weeks.
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« on: October 18, 2011, 09:06 »
http://www.asmp.org/strictlybusiness/2011/04/an-a-ha-person-from-sb3/"I was writing for a difficult client who subjected my writing to a panel of editors that squeezed the personality out of my words and with it all joy in writing. I realized after reading Colleens post that every week I continued to write for that client, I was further damaging the confidence I needed to continue to do my all important personal work. I quit the job the day after reading her post."
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« on: August 30, 2011, 19:47 »
give new content to other sites first - for a few months - and only to iStock later.
That's exactly my plan, making 3-4 months delay.
Lisa,would you go with this? If we can really somehow publicize this idea and let as much contributors on board, as possible - it may make a difference.
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« on: August 30, 2011, 00:19 »
I'll be staying but monitoring my sales on SS and overall monthly income from all sites.
If I see sudden drop in sales on SS I'll reconsider this matter.
Also,
I always uploaded my content first in IS and then on other sites.
I'll probably start delaying new content and sending it to IS 2-3 later, after other sites.
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« on: May 23, 2011, 18:12 »
For people who didn't notice,
according to TOS
For images uploaded after '04/15/2011': Once an Image is uploaded, FeaturePics can sell licenses for 360 days. The Image may not be withdrawn during this period.
I don't sell there that much to justify 1 year lock.
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« on: January 20, 2011, 21:24 »
buy IS and turn it into cooperative of artists. If you dont contribute you cannot be shareholder.
You can contribute and as soon as you passed certain level of sales you can become a member. Pay $50,000 entrance fee and have share in profits
I know some Doctors cooperatives built in this way.
At $2.4 billion ( the buyout price paid for Getty to go private), you would only need 48,000 contributors to pony up $50,000 each to buy it back. Better get started right away.
you can open new site, if you know how to market it
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« on: January 20, 2011, 20:48 »
buy IS and turn it into cooperative of artists. If you dont contribute you cannot be shareholder.
You can contribute and as soon as you passed certain level of sales you can become a member. Pay $50,000 entrance fee and have share in profits
I know some Doctors cooperatives built in this way.
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« on: January 12, 2011, 19:40 »
Was this due to a copyright issue? I can't think of any other issue that would generate such a response.
Not copyright. Images are too sensual and our customers don't need them. (I do have a lot of very sensual images, however those were relatively mild no genitals or nipples are visible)
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« on: January 12, 2011, 18:27 »
Its obviously not going to be for everybody.
SS accepts nudity and BS doesnt allow at all - bare butt is no-no, Im not even talking about nipples visible.
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« on: January 12, 2011, 18:10 »
Last week I got several rejections from one site (I don't want to mention which one)
I'm sending message to support, saying that theyve accepted several images of this type from me in the past and they are selling really-really well.
Also I've sent examples of similar images from other people ports.
Response was brutal. -
Basically: We reviewed your examples and decided to remove them from the site as well.
I've checked examples from other people ports are also removed.
I've learned my lesson. Never ever again I'm going to appeal.
And I want to apologize to photographers whose images were removed because of this.
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« on: September 12, 2010, 12:26 »
don't forget,
it's already second cut for independents.
They cut prices for L, XL not that long ago.
Yes,
I'm not removing my content from the for now.
But it's just making less sense give hem new content.
May be I'll submit there rejects from other sites.
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« on: August 03, 2010, 20:15 »
Good luck! Do you really want to put now 10 images in one file and sell it for .35c on subscription - 0.03c per image? ==== You can create sets of similars (several shots included within the same image). That will help the file sell better and generate higher royalties via our level-based system.
i noticed this new explanation on latest rejects for similars. i submit similars all the time, since i cant predict which of 5 similars dt will like, and sometimes they take all 5.
but my question is - has anyone had success in submitting 'sets'? i see it all the time for illustrations, but wondered if anyone had luck with sets of images - mountains, food, people, doors, etc - in the past i've those rejected saying they'd rather see the individual images [and their separate sales] . similar are montages, where diff images are combined, so a designer would have to spend a lot more time finding all the individual images. dt is the only one of the majors that accepts http://cascoly.com/trav/montage.asp montages.
steve
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« on: July 07, 2010, 22:56 »
I noticed that several times.
all the same pattern.
apparently reviewer goes through images and check them one by one.
But as soon as he/she runs several images in row (I don't know how many -2-5-10?) with the same rejection reason - they just stop reviewing this batch and reject the rest with the same rejection reason.
I do have kind of proof of this behavior.
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« on: July 01, 2010, 19:05 »
Hopefully they will bring comissions to up from .25c
67
« on: July 01, 2010, 01:50 »
If you try to log to crestock - there is new Membership Agreement, they ask you to agree. One of the things - their address now in Toronto, Canada.  I still haven't got my payment requested 6 months ago  (
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« on: June 22, 2010, 03:56 »
Mine is pending since May 11th - 6 weeks.
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« on: May 31, 2010, 22:45 »
Thanks Sean for that read. Not very exposing a lot of new facts but I have to comment on the following:
...He had read that the average lifetime return of an accepted microstock image is about $14 for Arcurs, but more like $2 for the average photographer. ...
I hope a few full-timers can chime in here but I would have left microstock a long time ago if my average return per image would be $14.
I can only imagine that an image factory is "able" to achieve such low results by producing so many images that their downloads are spread out across their entire archive.
Across all sites I contribute to (including very low earners like Crestock, Scanstock, 123RF and Canstockphoto) I average at $25 return per image.
Why even adjusting colors of an image not to mention retouching it if you are epxecting $2 of lifetime earnings??? These are very funny numbers. I find that hard to believe.
He is talking about earning per month, not over lifetime
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« on: April 01, 2010, 03:12 »
mine numbers also started jumping backward.
I've send them e-mail.
Unless they provide transparency and log of daily sales,
it may be good idea to gather group of people, hire lawyer and demand independent audit.
I've recently read interesting article about situation 10 years ago, that claimed - "every audit of stock agencies accounting discovered mistakes, under reporting and underpayment to contributors."
I don't know if that would be the case today for 123rf?
anyway whoever is thinking that audit may be idea to consider,
feel free to drop me private message.
I'll start compiling the list.
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« on: March 17, 2010, 16:13 »
I'm going to email support daily until they fix it or respond. Please join in. I shouldn't need a calendar and a calculator to determine what sold today.
same here, I asked them several times to keep this page running. Let's e-mail support every day, everybody. so they know that people need this.
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« on: March 03, 2010, 19:05 »
Strange that they updated on the same day as BigStock!
exactly. starnge
73
« on: February 25, 2010, 20:27 »
I got my first rejections for the reason of "r rated" on Shutterstock today. Are they no longer taking nudes?
reason of "r rated" means that you forgot to check "r rated" checkbox when submitting. Just re-submit and don't forget to check this box
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« on: February 17, 2010, 19:19 »
This month I have made so far the earnings as the whole last month. +1
My guess is that they absorbed part of the former StockXpert buyers. That would explain the glitch with their servers (server load?) too. This is guess is further confirmed by the low number of subs sales at DT this month, as well as by the unusual high number of ODs on SS. It's as if some StockXpert buyers are first testing the waters with credit sales before deciding where to buy a subs package.
If I'd judge by my sales across sites in February, Id say that most buyers from StockXpert moved to DT and FT.
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« on: February 16, 2010, 20:21 »
I believe so, since you have other income, but a hobby/biz can only lose money relative to expenses 3 out of five years or something like that.
If you are hobbyist, you cannot deduct more then you earn on this hobby. So you your deductions for lenses, camera, etc would be limited by $200 you earned. to qualify for business you have to be profitable 2 years of each consecutive 5, unless you want to go through IRS audit and argue with them. If you don't know, I'll tell you - you don't want to go through IRS audit
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