Matt. Do you think it is a good sign that people only viewed and still didn't comment? Not good feeling really. The pattern is already known

Quote from: Uncle Pete on October 09, 2020, 14:25

Quote from: Digital on October 09, 2020, 10:05
There's another question that bugs me. Even with such an excellent port (stolen) did the guy make any meaningful sales, other than the usual $0.10?

Or those lovely connect sales for fractions of cents. You mean 2¢    July I had three 1c sales and one 2c sale. August the lowest was 14c

I need to be fair, my IS RPD was .70 last month, but I only made $6.28 - they removed "disabled" 3,657 of my news photo and now have disabled all my audio. I'm not as good as the images the thief appropriated, but I still have 733 images left (605 photo, 128 illustrations) and make under $7 a month now?

I didn't dig into how long it was there, but IS is $100 for payout. There's a good chance that he never reached payout. Only the original artists lost on this, as Getty just absorbs the money. There's no way for accounting to go back and credit 100 people for their pennies that were obtained by some illegal uploads.

No way to know how many downloads or for what amounts the image thief stole from the legitimate owners. Maybe someone can write him? 

Yes it absorbs. Then:thieves are like a manna forf agencies?

Quote from: PhotoBomb on October 07, 2020, 21:30
Today his portfolio is still visible but clicking on individual images brings up a -  404 error page

Just now tried - images can be opened. Different rules applied to different locations?

Quote from: Microstockphoto on August 20, 2020, 22:42

QuoteTo be fair, TrustPilot is untrustworthy.

it is not, because they remove fake reviews whenever detected, but you cannot stop them all. its one of the better review sites out there

Not only. They remove negative reviews on demand of businesses. And for them no matter if the review is real and true. Cannot believe that they do this only as volunteers.

Second communication - their changed system doesn't work. No mail with a link after payment demand, only promises. Does somebody else have such problem?

lol Their 2 steps authentification  is piece of sh..t. I cannot absolutely change phone number, they refuse e-mail which exisy already 8 years! I never selected this type of authentification. They did this to not to pay?
p.s. they always , already several weeks send code by mail when it is already expired. 

Account disabled because of enforced 2 steps login. Asked to send code by mail, but login page allows only phone number. Because of this bug account is blocked. Where did you look for developers? Wasted my time with your bugs

Thank you, trek

Hello all! Please help - how to delete images from bigstock? tried, spent time - cannot delete, and for editing they ask for reasons. I want to spend time once for deleting

Had sale which gave 100 times less royalty than calculated. Because of this disabled "transfer design" and "sell on other sites" features. Not sure if it will work because exactly about this there are complains on their forum.

Bookmark, use this browser not that etc etc. I need my sales info available on the first page of my profile. Then if i want i will open the tops of all kinds. I need to see what and for how much was sold in a given period. This exactly i have to dig? Then, guys, you have lots to hide from us.

People spend time giving advises to agencies. Result - less and less suitable interface, the move in opposite direction. Do you remember how many clicks were needed before and after? FT vs Adobe? Common trend, not only in photostock business.

Nothing. Probably they do updates by groups of users. Anyway last changes are not good. I am not a buyer, i am not interested to see something else than my digits. before they were visible on load, now are hidden and badly organized, similar to istock

Do we see something different? I have a popup with new rules which tells that withdraw is 25$ but you have to wait 45 days and there should not be any pending payouts during this time!

Now it is not possible to see prices of images sold, only totals, too shady. Default tab now - Contributors of the week, of course this care is "motivating". Adobe choose iStock way. Interfaces starting to get similar, going to buy popcorn.

Down 60% this month

Hi. I didn't upload for a long time, because of this i am not sure is it a bug or a "feature" which i cannot appreciate. I uploaded one image, and all keywords which i sent in IPTC, were replaced by other keywords, which have nothing to do with content of the photo. For example, there is no paper at all, but Adobe added this, as well as "object". Nothing from keywords i thought essential for this image was in their selection.
If every time i have to switch to "paste keywords" myself, it is a waste of time. I am really discouraged again.

Quote from: Chichikov on February 26, 2018, 09:34
There was a lot of time that I did not upload on GL Stock.
So this morning I decided to give a try.

1) Uploading panorama images with one side under 2000 pixels and one over 2000 pixels I get the error message "Height or width must be at least 2000 pixels". If both sides should be over 2000 pixels the message should be "Height and width must be at least 2000 pixels"

2) Uploading a model release, once the file has been uploaded, the "Next" button has absolutely no effect

3) I can't find a place to see my already uploaded releases

4) I cannot find any explanation about how to upload vectors (single eps, eps + jpeg, zipped eps + jpeg)


Sales are very slow on this site, I should say non-existent, especially after the restyling of the site...

Seriously GL Stock, what are you doing??

This is common now. Not only in IT. Everywhere companies stopped to invest in employées and wait for ready solutions from freshers "after school".

Sorry - to be sure: here "framing" is the same as "hot-linking"?

Long discussions, collected statistics - all this just shows that for old contributors exist only 2 options: 1. to support existing earnings level, knowing that any progress is not porssible. How many efforts and which kind of efforts - this is very individual. 2. search for other fields, with real profit

another "exciting news"

They are calm, selling images from closed long ago account and sending generous commissions to photographer
"Getty Images (US) Inc. has sent you 0,01 USD."
How do you think - GDPR will help?

"Actually, not that many people complained on this thread."
Yes and it is normal. Useless. Thank you for some people which have shared the info, that is. Looking at diagrams of my account i see changes like steps of stair-case. Good month is following with the bad one. There is no curves in monthly sales diagram, really steps. Before (incl 2016) changes were looking like curves, descending-ascending except the steps of overnight changes. That was reported here and it was in the same chronological order like others. Generally the volume of sales is fallen in may.

Yes and size of the photos is usable for blogs articles, small printed ads for example. Not surprised that again sales are fallen overnight.

It is the same scenario - they remove exact keyword, leaving only common terms. I left IS after many cases when a name of the food was removed but keyword "food" they left online. I had no answers from them. Of course competing files with intact keywords had more chances to be sold. Who i have to be for them to have my files not edited?