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« on: August 07, 2011, 10:22 »
Do you even know if Lobo is a real person, or just a pseudonym for IS staff? Like Scout, I believe that is a group, not a person, although I have been told otherwise.
sure it is a person, not a group, that woudnt make sense, if they are a lot of Lobos there... auuuhhhh
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« on: August 07, 2011, 08:34 »
IMO his approach could be improved a fair bit, but it's also a job that could be done a lot worse.
like telling guys to fu... off, thats a dumb topic or question.. eheheh
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« on: August 07, 2011, 07:07 »
OP,Please stop this love affair with Istock....
You have stated that you will no longer buy content from the site.You can't post in the forum but still you read the forum..Why?
Just grow some balls and continue with your own work.Keep slinging mud achieves what exactly?
A man of your years should at least appear to be mature !
ahah you are a joy! back in 08/09 you love the guy, 10/11 you hate it, now you love him again.. what a relationship you have found eheh go shank, love reading your stuff
5404
« on: August 06, 2011, 18:30 »
out of here, looking for that old dildos threads and the person who made them 
5405
« on: August 06, 2011, 18:20 »
shank_ali Sep 16/08
This guy makes the forum run smooth which is no easy matter and the personnel site-mails are helpful,courteous and friendly.Thank You. Regards Alistair
5406
« on: August 06, 2011, 18:13 »
This user has the power to wield the BanHammer, a weapon forged in the fires of hell for that get-off-my-planet quality you can't get anywhere else. Location: Right, Behind you (Canada) Business Phone: None of yours. RAWROBO (''')_( ;...; )_(''') RAWROBO Yes, you can contact me via site mail. Please make sure you provide as much information pertaining to your inquiry as possible. Just don't send me anything Goldfish related. About Me There is lots of rabble around me. Please don't rouse them. Interests Pie Recommended Media Pillow 3 minute thread life. Dec 05/08, 8:33 For the record, we have no record. However, I'm willing to establish 3 minutes as the current thread lock landspeed record.
eheh lets open a FB fan page for him
5407
« on: August 06, 2011, 15:11 »
Just like to add that my husband and I are putting in an offer on a house today. Two years ago I would have no doubt that I could afford the mortgage for the long term. Now, I am worried that because of Istock's and other agencies' actions, I may find my income drying up in a couple of years and not be able to pay the mortgage. I can't help but feel resentful that my hard earned income might be in jeopardy just when I need to rely on it more than ever.
This is why, instead of moving to a larger home in our area, we are finishing the basement instead. I'm not getting locked into double the payments, and I'm upping the value of my current investment.
number 4 and 30 having issues, bunhill help them out, giving some of your FAIR royalties
5408
« on: August 06, 2011, 12:13 »
cynicism.. it rules our lifes daily and watching IS thread and this one here says it all, it is sick the difference between both, some talk there one way other here (the same person) it is depressing to watch that, some think will take advantage somehow, other are just lunatic.. how can someone think that they still have a "great" business and contributors are happy?
other agencies might have a lot of problems but nobody is talking about them.. IS is just day after day, contributors fighting and struggling
5409
« on: August 06, 2011, 11:21 »
I do agree that iStock is despicable. They got too big to fold ... sorta like AIG? Not many people are will (or able) to quit them. But, are they really that much worse than the others? Arguing that one is better than the other seems rather temporary.
I see the top four threads are about hating iStock. Wouldn't it be better to just ignore them?
I cannot, they took me 2h per week during the last 130 weeks! 
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« on: August 06, 2011, 10:18 »
Well, 7 year comparison numbers look impressive. For iStock. Great corporate report. Most of us experienced growth as well, but we are sliding back in a hurry. Less sales by volume and less dollars than year ago, and even two years ago. Inviting new contributors 'en masse' is not working for old timers. Favoring Agency/Vetta collections is killing most of 'ordinary' contributors. This week sales are worse I've seen in years.
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« on: August 06, 2011, 10:11 »
I thought about this myself.. even thought of Facebook having a dislike button. As said before.. it will only be used in a dishonest and inefficient way.
FB does have a dislike button but you need to install one app and then you will see if other dislike too etc..
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« on: August 06, 2011, 09:39 »
..FT and DT both cut their percentages long before IS did. SS doesn't need to because in overall terms they're already at the lowest level in the industry.
SS pay their commission to non-exclusives, we're free to upload wherever else we want to. So I don't think it's fair to compare their commission with the average for istock because they have to pay more for exclusives. If you just compare non-exclusives, istock pay a lot less than SS.
And I like that SS pay less to those that don't sell much and have obtainable levels for those that work hard to get sales. There's also no yearly download requirement, when you reach the top level, you stay there.
Like I said before, FT are almost as bad as istock and I have lost my motivation to upload there. What I would like to see is a better way for all of us to sell our images. There's only a few sites now that give us a fair deal and I hope that will change in the future.
there is nothing to compare honestly, we all know that, SS is going up and IS need a big fix which will never happen even if we compare SS with ThinkStock, SS pays a lot more, everybody gets pretty quick to the 500$ which is 33 not 28cents
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« on: August 06, 2011, 09:22 »
I am working hard to build up my portfolio on other sites right now.
Sorry for hijacking this thread but this is so incredible. Mat, are you saying you are no more exclusive FT contributor?
Oh, that one slipped right by me. Is this true Mat?
if I remember well Mat posts it is about Editorial stuff which FT allow
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« on: August 05, 2011, 20:23 »
The payout script has just completed. By far the worst month this year. The decision to pull all my files was right, how long it'll take them to delete them is another matter.
Did you not consider ALL your options before joining the PP.
A few more contributors are now seeing regular payments for there work via the PP.Why else would you have your work available on the internet if is not for sale.
I like the fact that all my content, available for sale on the PP, is also still available on Istockphoto.If that option is removed in the future i would like to think that i will be compensated in some way for the loss of exposure.....
what does that mean? will we have files taken away from IS? tell us more please
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« on: August 05, 2011, 15:35 »
dont know, thats a great question, I keep mine long, regarding other agecncies I can tell you that I keep short titles on DT and keyword importance order at FT
5416
« on: August 05, 2011, 14:27 »
They probably think that by putting better quality stuff on there they can save the site. I wonder where they'll get that better quality stuff from?
The very name "Clipart dot com" sounds very 90s to me.
I know but....
Pete, where have u been?
LOL this forum is all about that these days
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« on: August 05, 2011, 14:03 »
better action camera, has more FPS
Which one? The 7D or the 5D?
7
5418
« on: August 05, 2011, 14:00 »
better action camera, has more FPS
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« on: August 05, 2011, 13:52 »
Feb 2011 - 36 25.98$ Mar 2011 - 60 38.95$ Apr 2011 - 61 40.48$ May 2011 - 77 64.99$ Jun 2011 - 106 81.41$ Jul 2011 - 100 91.37$ keep on working hard 123RF 
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« on: August 05, 2011, 09:34 »
dont have much to say but I can tell you that I take care of the people, family, friends and "other" who seem friendly and respect me
does she know any of you guys? it will be easy to screw us again without any conscience problem, what a better person to follow Getty desires? maybe she isnt going to do any bad but that was the first thing that run into my head
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« on: August 04, 2011, 18:45 »
If they feel there are too many files at Istock, that suggests content is going to get separated pushed to different sites.
That's old news I guess because Getty is already being purged. This will just be a further shuffling of Getty macro, Istock midstock, and TS micro subscription.
The unknown is whose files will end up where and what the end result will be.
this fall?
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« on: August 04, 2011, 18:42 »
anybody from 2004 or before can talk about the progression of the royalties payed to contributors? this not an attack or sarcasm or other, just want to know about it, looked around and havent found much.. thanks guys
I don't recall royalty percentages ever changing (at least from Nov '04 when I joined) until the beginning of this year. However, prices went up pretty steadily every year, which for me was always enough to offset the sales drop until this year. I believe customers paid $0.50 for a small and $1.50 for a large in Nov '04.
thanks
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« on: August 04, 2011, 18:02 »
the woo-yaying it is mainly from top exclusive contributors and staff, there arent many guys with a few sales saying that sort of "things", how long will they be exclusive? perhaps "forever", they have given up on other agencies so or they accept their actions or they have a lot of work, actually same stuff with non-exclusives I am perplex how the "discussion" is still holding without incidents..
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« on: August 04, 2011, 16:37 »
anybody from 2004 or before can talk about the progression of the royalties payed to contributors? this not an attack or sarcasm or other, just want to know about it, looked around and havent found much.. thanks guys
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« on: August 04, 2011, 16:02 »
I once dated a Singapore Airlines flight attendant, even without uniform (I mean with other clothes on), a simple smile would get me more excited than a $5 EL.
thats what is called love, too bad when it ends :/
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