So whats changed?
Nice of them to point out the changes... NOT!

reply from support.

QuoteThank you for your patience. We were able to retrieve the affiliate earnings numbers for everybody who is owed money. As soon as have a way of adding those earnings to your balance, we will. Again, thank you for your patience and for bringing up this important issue.

Since the Thinkstock change the Referral Balance has Gone at StockXpert.

Its money earned, that seems to have been lost? stolen? hidden? forgotten?

I'm still waiting for a reply from support.

I like the regular earnings, but what i don't like is the 25c partner program subs commission and the lack of any pay rises for Non-Exclusives.

Its high time that changed, the 2010 changes are effectively a downgrade for the Non-Exclusives!

Dreamstime would be more choice for the fairness of commissions and most progressive of the agencies, iStock could take some tips from them on how to pay their contributors fairly.

I suppose so... Mat the FT forum Mod says its probably a thing that is still in development.

Where is the fotolia Free API in use?
It would be nice to see how its being used at some sites, if anyone knows of any??
Cheers

StockXpert Old referral Earnings Gone after site update.

Has anyone else checked their old referral program balance lately?
Mine has gone, Only about $18 and from what I can see it has not been credited to my image sales balance.

If they are just closing down the old program they will be sneaking off with a load of peoples referral earnings!

Still not official site news, It really is just RUDE with their lack of respect!

The 'go-to guy' cool...
I have a little plastering job i need doing, when do you think you could pop round?? 

I feel 123rf is a slow grower, its been getting better.

I posted a polite reminder in the Fotolia forums this morning, I have just got home from work now and I find my thread has been deleted??? what is the deal with them?!

I was polite too, just facts and calling for obvious courtesy in regard to telling its customers when things change in the T&C's...  I mean, most other sites out there consult its members when they change something.

Quote from: Lee Torrens on October 09, 2008, 04:34
Also, since yesterday Fotolia have updated their website to exclude the terminology that refers to paying affiliate revenue for referred 'sales'.

How come the other sites post a statement of change to their Terms & Conditions and Fotolia just changes things?!

I'm still getting referral sign ups to FT but the earnings are practically nonexistent!

You've got to presume that everyone just rolls over and forgets about it, and FT must have something wrote into their / our contracts to cover themselves for changing things overnight without any consultation?! (Or if they didn't, they will have just added a few lines to the contract last night!)

That sounds rather crap!
I've gone from 100% down to 0% in referrals at FT now.
I don't believe it either, I know I have referred those affiliates, the amount of referrals I have had to other sites also backs me up on this!

All sounds very ' convenient ' ! 

same stuff here...
inconclusive and contradicting support replies, left with the response 'Let me get back to you on this'

the clock is still ticking, I've gone from very frequent referral earnings down to Zero!
It seems like they only removed the good paying referrers!!! The situation sucks!

this gives me a little more incentive to post a DVD, I had sent a support question asking if it was possible to send a DVD of files....  No answer from support so I just gave up.
I later noticed the FAQ states I could send a DVD!

What a cracking idea that would have been, it would have taken canstock from tiny to massive!

Quote from: lisafx on September 12, 2008, 21:02
I always thought Corbis went about entering the (overcrowded) micro market wrong.  They should have done what Getty did and purchase one of the established sites like DT.

Even someplace like Canstock would have been a better investment than starting from scratch.  At least they have a large image collection, functional website, and reviewing process and staff in place. 

If Corbis had bought an established micro, then all they would have had to do is spend some $ advertising it and I am sure the sales would have boomed.  No reason to have reinvented the wheel instead.

cool

not regularly enough, but the downloads have always been better than they have right now, regular uploads or not.

Is SS selling less and less since their price increase?
I used to make payout every month but now its stretching to every 2 months! 2008 has been a pretty poor shutterstock year!

Anyone else finding this?

slow sales, brilliant Referrals!

so it doesn't show to anyone else but me....
Just so long as I don't have my email spread online.

hi, just one question, how do I remove the 'email link' with my address in it?

just thought I'd say hi... clicked a link posted by Leaf.

thought I'd say hi