If developers are interested, much of the work has already be done, in the open-source OpenBazaar project.

Maybe some tweaks are needed for stock photography and a search engine.
Payment is always in cryptocurrencies.

I assume eventually someone will do it. Then, in a few years, when clients learn about the search engine and get more accustomed with cryptocurrencies, it will never be the same.

Internet has removed the first generation of intermediaries, peer-to-peer blockchain technology will remove the second generation.

It's not even a matter of if, it's a matter of when.

I don't get why you are complaining.

Not getting rich on microstock of course, just selling OK in DT, based on a small, selective portfolio of 243 photos, payout is once or twice a year.

DT is one of the 3 sites I keep uploading. I have stopped uploading on another 6 sites.

Here's the portfolio:

https://www.dreamstime.com/Airphoto_portfolio_pg1#res1029464

I just needed to delet this msg. Wrong topic. No delete button here?

DT still works for me including some 5-6 $ commissions.

I just wish they didn't need 2 weeks to accept an image.

Very good image resampled from 24 to 8 mpx gets rejected for focus.
A week later the same image now  resampled from 24 to 7 mpx is aproved.
Different reviewers have different criteria, but that's just my 2 (euro)cents.

I like DT more than any other microstock site, but I opted out.

DT management may want to read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game

and know we are way below the 30% "fair" limit

Hi!

has anyone tried selling his own images via a Wordpress site and WordPress Photo Seller Plugin?

Can you comment on usability and SEO?

Thanks in advance.

Greece: 26% +1-3% on profits (that means 27-29%)
plus 800-1200 US$ "profession tax" (you pay it even if you don't have profits)
plus $3600-$6500 per year for a "social insurance" that gets you almost nothing
(we pay again the private sector for health or education and tolls on highways are 4 to 8 eurocents per km!)

With what remains you buy goods that include 23% VAT.

On top of that the recent crisis sent everyone's income to 50% of what it was.
By now, almost 2/3 of the Greek business owners can't pay their liabilities to the state, which is confiscating bank accounts and will soon start to confiscate houses.

Thanks chromaco & farbled for the clarification.

I'm patient and I know I'll have to build...


Thank you!

Just when I was finally "sold" on the idea of creating my own SY site...

As it wasn't very clear for me, is Leo abandoning the project?
Is there someone else who will continue updating the code when needed (eg new versions of wordpress, or new versions of plugins)?
or adding new features when needed?

Also stopped uploading there a long long long time ago, for their behavior, not for low sales...

Having only 127 photos on 123RF , the decision is simple:

Stop uploading there, portfolio will stay at 127 photos forever.

I just don't like being treated like that!

Aerial Photographer

We had the same problems, but upgrading to the latest version of FILEZILLA
(instead of using the one we already had) fixed it.

Just go and download the latest version!

Let me report my first $19.85 "Fotosearch Regular" sale on this file

https://www.canstockphoto.com/file_view.php?id=1836334

a file that has 0 views(!)

Something ALMOST EVERYONE does not mention is that:
US law demands that SS withholds taxes on U.S. Source Income ONLY, generally defined as income from Shutterstock's U.S. customers ONLY.

So it's not 30%  it's something smaller.
Unfortunately SS did not mention this on the first posts that caused all the trouble.

http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/abt62633.html

Quote from: lclark on May 30, 2009, 00:20
Just got another email now:

There's a lesson SS should learn:

Don't make a public announcement that will irritate people, unless you've double-checked and prepared everything.
Going back and forth, looking unprepared and is NOT Professional.

Quote from: FlemishDreams on May 26, 2009, 01:20

Quote from: airphoto.gr on May 26, 2009, 00:33We're listening...

"We"? Speak for yourself. 

Actually we're three people in his team, so we'll stay with the plural  

1 euro / 1.5 $ flat (retail price) for the higher resolution.

How much do they keep? How much do we make?

Also they're giving away our images for free to the bloggers. We need more details on that...

The "beta invite" is not a privilege. They need to convince us, in order to help them.

We're listening...

Your link to PDN at the Fotolia forum was removed.

Quote from: madelaide on May 23, 2009, 18:38
Using the PDN article, I started a thread in FT forum.

http://www.fotolia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=206316#p206316

Maybe they can explain us something good that we fail to see.

A very bad move.

They'll get the traffic, the members' emails, maybe the right to make them offers (permission marketing), maybe some ads...

They haven't showed us what we'll get out of it.

They're devaluating the concept of microstock to zero.

DECISION: As the simplest "penalty" possible, we stop uploading there. They don't deserve our photos

Quote from: FlemishDreams on May 18, 2009, 11:38

Quote from: click_click on May 18, 2009, 04:05The remedy is quite "simple". Do better, produce more.

... with Claudia Schiffer as business model with headset, shaking hands with Brad Pitt, and selling those shots for 0.35$ on CheaperStock - what would change?

Angelina would get mad, that would change... 

Now that you've mentioned...
we must be investing more than 3.000 % of our microstock earnings
but our business model doesn't depend on microstock so don't follow that road... ;-)

Quote from: arquiplay77 on May 14, 2009, 15:40
and hope the price of dollar will rise again in the next days.

Don't hope on that!

The US$ is more likely to keep falling against the Euro, than rise.
They keep printing money in the US, much much faster than they do in Europe
(It's called "quantitative easing").

Look at the graph in the following blog post, especially the blue line in the top right corner
http://www.bloodhoundrealty.com/BloodhoundBlog/?p=7563

The differences are:

1. YOU SET THE PRICE, not to $0.25 as in microstock, but as high as you like...
2. You DON'T refer the clients that visited YOUR OWN site to a microstock agency, because all your competition is also there and you may lose them!
Instead customers that visit your site go to Clustershot, buy, and you get the 88% of that amount via Paypal.

Why bother setting up a shoping cart in your site?

Again check the link mentioned above to see the way it is implemented.

Quote from: melastmohican on May 13, 2009, 22:04
How does it differ from putting link to my photo from other agencies? I was thinking about something which allow me to use micro payment system like PayPal, Google Checkout or Amazon FPS on my own website.