Quote from: luissantos84 on October 12, 2010, 15:22

why have you left Fotolia? communication with them? thanks

I left a couple of years back during some uproar over something they did to contributors. To be frank, I can't even remember what the "crisis du jour" was, but basically I had had it and took my photos down. Something similar to the latest istock restructuring.

A lot of others here are still with them and doing well, but I think the drama still continues.

Yep I see.. I was very pissed at the beginning and made a lot of things but nothing come from that.. I am from Europe (Portugal) and I have entered/registered with a US link so I am receiving in $.. which is a complete fraud.. around 30% loss

I took a brief look at the portfolio mentioned by eggshell.  It's not terrible by any means, but I somewhat agree with eggshell that if these are recent submissions, they're not what I'd expect to see approved.  But who knows.  Sometimes I think buyers are subconciously choosing images based  qualities of color, light and a certain flat, bland, safe look that is a bit alien to people who actually like doing photography.  I'd certainly describe those images as bland, even by stock standards. Almost deliberately so.  And oddly framed in some cases - again, maybe this what a lot of buyers really want.

I guess eggshell was a lot nicier than your statment..

First hello to everyone, I just registered my account over here..

I wanted to avoid creating a new thread about the same topic so I will raise up this one even it's warning me that nobody posted here in the last 4 months...


I'm considering the idea to go Exclusive on iStockPhoto.

The major problem I have is that I'm already working for several agencies and one of them is Dreamstime who is causing me most of troubles because of their 6-months waiting period.

The last upload I did over there was about 2 months ago so basically I will have to wait another 4 months to be able to go exclusive on iStockPhoto.


The first question I have is:

What is the 'deal' with the other stock agencies like 'BigStockPhoto', 'Fotolia' and 'ShutterStock'? I know BigStockPhoto changed the Terms of Use and now you have to wait 90 days of the last upload in order to terminate the contract with them. What about Fotolia and ShitterStock? Can you terminate the contract with them at any time you want? I've read the Terms of Use and didn't find anything like the 90 days on BigStock or 6 months on DT but I'd still like to double-check here to be 100% sure.


The second question is:

Is there any way to terminate the contract with Dreamstime before the 6-months period? I know there are no nice ways like contacting them and telling them that I want to leave DT but is there any alternative like telling them to go to hell... spam with photos that have porno content or whatever... or anything like that?

I mean 4 months is quite a long period and I'd like to know if there is any other way to leave DT as soon as possible? Anyone tried some alternative when leaving DT and going exclusive with iStock?

Thanks in advance,

Daniel

looking at your portfolio, sales, etc.. I don't see why you are wanting to be exclusive at IS, don't have enough time to the others?.. I am sure you know what you are doing sorry

Is the forum gone on the StockXpert-site? Or did they put some place where I can't find it? 

noticed the same days ago.. is gone!

guys let's respect eggshell..!

New Sites / Low Earners / New Sites - General / Re: StockFresh - from Peter Hamza and Andras Pfaff       on: August 04, 2010, 02:25
Got accepted two weeks ago . Snappy upload and very fast image approval ( within few  hours ) .
Clean and user friendly layout . Overall - very pleasant site experience

eheheheh I feel pretty bad now... still waiting eheh

last week I had the same issue with BigStock, contacted support and everything was fine the following day

what really pisses me off is the difference between BigStock and SS accepting policy..

BigStock gets almost everything.. SS is pickier! why?

I don't understand the anger some of you display in so many posts. Any agency is at complete liberty to accept of reject any photo or photographer. When they can choose from the creme of the crop, why not take in the best ones first? That way it will be easier to get buyers attracted, something that will be benefit all contributors in the long run.

Que order? Is this a post office line? Do you expect your job applications to be reviewed in the order they were recieved too? Of course not! The best applicants will get interviewed first, not the ones who mailed their letters first.

I'm not in, and I don't expect to be accepted for a long time yet.

glad to know that contributors have low expectations from agencies (at least you can stay happy all time)

how about the queue order talked here days ago..?

Quote from: luissantos84 on October 07, 2010, 13:38

Quote from: rubyroo on October 07, 2010, 12:31

Quote from: qwerty on October 07, 2010, 05:43

Accepted today

Congrats qwerty!  

I have a qwerty and nothing here..! Respect the queue Peter, no answer to that?

I've been waiting for many many months, I can't remember exactly how long. I can assure you I had to wait in the que

Nah, not true for SURE!.. I have joined on the first day so..

Quote from: rubyroo on October 07, 2010, 02:24

Just my guess, FWIW. If those who are still waiting had high acceptance at StockXpert, and have high acceptance rates at other agencies, then I'm obviously barking up the wrong tree.

Indeed, i have a very high acceptance ratio at all sites.. and over 10.000 images online.. still not in.

Patrick.

ps :not complaining, just stating facts.

something is pretty * WRONG for sure.. at least with your port..

ONCE MORE!.. when will 123RF be profissional???.. is there a way to clean the queue without rejecting massively??.. it is * absurd, how can I agency act this way??