?, sorry, Not following. what do you mean.

http://support.shutterstock.com/contributor/articles/kbat02/000007489

the $2.00 sales are the under the 'Subscription all at Once' plan...

"These plans are now available at $39 and $69, giving access to five or ten files. The files can be downloaded anytime throughout the next 30 days. The royalties awarded are $2.00 for non-exclusive contributors and $2.20 for exclusives. These values are computed based on our historical average for downloads generated by both credits and subscriptions."
http://www.dreamstime.com/thread_35047

To begin with your keywords and descriptions are terrible.
Your descriptions aren't descriptive enough and I looks like you average 7 keywords (the few shots I looked at), not enough.

SmugMug.com

It never ceases to amaze me just how many people sign up without reading or understanding the terms and conditions of a legally binding agreement between themselves and the agency. You have to tick a box that says you read and agree to them before you ever submit. And then they come to the forum asking for clarification after the get their first .25 royalty, and are stunned. Unbelievable.

Last night submitted at 9:14pm -- All approved at 9:36pm

I have 3 pages, about 75 images, some uploaded as long ago as 10/28 still processing.

Quote from: Batman on November 27, 2014, 17:31

Quote from: Noedelhap on November 25, 2014, 16:19

Why not payout on the 7th instead of the 25th? Or even the 15th, no they want to hang on to our money as long as possible.

I didn't get the email either. Way to go.

Because IS is incompetent and unable to process sales for 30 days or more sometimes. They have to delay payments up to 45 days, and hold on to our money as long as possible. Nothing like SS that reports sales the same day and pays first week of the following month.

Money on their account for a longer period mean more bank interests in Getty's pocket! One way more to earn extra money, and how to show themselves as a "solvent" company with lot of cash due to their rating on stock market...
So conclusion is that Getty doesn't see us as their Partners in any way

We aren't and never have been 'partners'.
They are a business!
You are a business!
It's their job to make money for themselves.
It's your job to make money for your business. How you do that is solely up to you.
Expecting iStock or any MS Site to help you is naive.

But totally agree with your first sentence.
"Money on their account for a longer period mean more bank interests in Getty's pocket!"
There are also other costs involved with paying on demand as opposed to the new method.
This will save them millions in the long run.

 

Quote from: stockuser on November 22, 2014, 05:07

I'm not a native speaker but I think 'based out of USA' means 'located in the USA but doing business worldwide' for a non-native speaker this could be easily misunderstood as 'not located in the USA'. I think this is the way fairplay understood it.

Yes, Fairplay has probably misunderstood 'out of' as meaning 'outwith'.

And there's a word no American English speaker would ever use.

I had a few photos there to see what would happen. One $5 sale and paid via Paypal. Now that is $5 Australian, less Paypal fees, so I think I go something like US$3.40 in the end.

+1
And reviews take forever (if ever) - I finally got tired of waiting and deleted all my images.

I just 2 notifications from them.
One for a Sub sale with the correct amount.
One for a Credit sale - where the email says 'Your Profit $4.00" - when it should have been $1.84 (which is what the site stats say)

Edit: these are the first notifications in a few days, I got some on the 29th & 30th of Sept and all that were for credit sales had the sale price not the commission. They obviously have some sort of problem with the system since they changed format of the emails.