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Shutterstock.com / Re: Ridiculous rejections
« on: December 12, 2011, 18:00 »
My point is, I get a much fairer commission at Alamy and Fotolia (and do great there each month), and their sign-up requirements didn't spit in my face. Therefore, Alamy and Fotolia earned my business. I am currently visiting review sites and informing new artists where the real money is and where the corporate greed and lack of ethics are. I and others remember that we, the artists, control the success or failure of these sites, not the other way around. By informing people, we will see to it that fair and ethical sites succeed and greedy, dishonest sites get edged out. I've steered several people away from SS in favor of the truly profitable sites and they have thanked me and are spreading the word themselves. This will result in more sign-ups at other sites, which in turn will mean more profit for those sites. This will result in better ratings and reviews, resulting in still more sign-ups, which will ultimately snowball. Pond5 has left its stock video market competitors in the dust and the gap is only growing. This is due to positive word of mouth, which in turn is due to fair commissions and an easy, non-nazi sign-up procedure. I and others are the reason for this, because we constantly post on the review sites and report who's screwing us artists over and who isn't. You SS fanboy hoop-jumpers that don't mind making $20 a month for weeks of work can save your keystrokes, I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to people that value their time and trouble and remember how much time they spent studying and how much they spent on their gear. I'm talking to people that don't enjoy a constant corporate erection in their anus. The rest of you should just stay bent over and save some wear and tear on your keyboard. That is all.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Ridiculous rejections
« on: December 12, 2011, 14:12 »
I conducted an experiment after reading some negative comments about ShutterStock to see if it was worth my time to contribute: I uploaded 10 images. 4 were rejected for very vague reasons (they claim to make these reasons clear so that newcomers can learn from their mistakes, but no such luck). In addition, they make submitters wait an entire month before they can submit another 10 photos. This makes absolutely no sense and totally justifies all the negative things Ive read about the site. So a month later, I submitted the exact same 10 photos. This time, 5 were rejected and 3 of the accepted ones had been rejected the first time! This proves that they have no set standards and whether you get accepted or not depends entirely on which reviewer you get and his/her mood on that day. This, plus the total arrogance of their sign-up processs (seriously, my credit card number???) and other requirements that NO other sites have (no spaces in file names, what are we, back in the nineties???) make shutterstock the worst stock site on the internet. shutterstock (it doesn't deserve capitalization) is a completely dishonest and arrogant company and doesn't deserve to make one penny from someone else's hard work. They'll certainly never make a penny from any of mine.

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