LOL  Yeah now that I've cooled off and did some designing...it's easy to FTP there, so I'll just keep pluggin away.  It sure is hard not to read between the lines though.  Hopefully they'll keep it.  I really like StockXpert.   

Quote from: bendicks on June 01, 2009, 14:54

If you enter your SV user name in the search box for Veer Marketplace the search will return all of your images that have been transferred from SV to Veer.

-Don

Thanks for the tip Don. Nothing shows up for me, must have got the wrong email. Thought it was too good to be true. But on the upside you win a blue heart whatsit.

You might just be there    I don't show up either when I type in my user name, but when I use a keyword combination of mine that usually works to bring up stuff where I know mine will be there..my stuff comes us.  Play with some searches.

Apparently they haven't changed, or learned from your experience Lizard.  They haven't paid me and it's been well over two weeks.  Emails and forum posts go unanswered.  And mine is just a paypal payment, not even moneybookers.

I swear, if anyone is thinking of joining there..DO NOT.  My friend was uploading there and I told her about all this, and she stopped.  I will NEVER recommend that site again, not even to my worst enemy.  There is just no excuse for this.  The reply I did get about a week ago, they said my payment was still processing and they acted like they didn't know which way was up.  I asked when I could expect payment, and of course...crickets.  No reply back from them.

I'm so ticked I could spit.  *breaks into breathing exercise to cool off lol*

Password should be on the way now, I tried the forgot password and did see the problem and corrected it.     We had just moved to new web servers and simply missed adding our 'forgot password' email account (that sends out the password to you) to the new ones. Voila, instant confusion.

Thank You

Ok...I"ve moved twice since I last posted on these boards lol.  So, I've had to change my email to my stock sites, and I have a standard email box, not devoted to my internet provider. 

I CANNOT log in to my account.  I contacted support, and they updated my email but told me they couldn't give me what my password was, and told me to use the 'forgot password?' button.  So I did, only every time I do, I get an error saying it cannot do that at this time.

I'm not even exactly sure what my login is LOL.  I was pretty sure, and still am, but with it not letting me log in...frustrating.

Is there anything I can do?  I know that's a stupid question, but I figured I'd put this on here in case somebody else may have login issues.

Ok...I dug around...found the number to call for JupiterImages.  I explained why I was calling and the lady was super nice, took my user name put me on hold.  When she came back, she confirmed someone was "out of the country" lol.  She's got my number and said she'd call back today or tomorrow.  I also mentioned I wasn't the only one with this issue.

 

Well, I'm pleasantly surprised.  I gave it some thought and decided to put it to the test.  I'm used to manually uploading because I can't get StockXpert to take anything FTP.  So I did some uploading...and in the time it "used" to take one batch upload for me at Snap, I did three batches.  So, I'm rethinking this a bit.  I mean before, I could go start a load of laundry, and and do some folding lol.  Now, not so much.  Still a bit slow, but I'm willing to stick around.  I do hope they get FTP soon though..it would be a HUGE plus.

Quote from: FlemishDreams on March 28, 2008, 23:25

I put my prices up at FP half March and as a "result", I got 3 sales since then. 

Odd... I raised mine up to double what they were at FP and have had 2 sales since then as well... so I'm not sure that is a direct correlation...

Personally I'm trying to make more money with my images and am leaning toward the midstock sites to concentrate my efforts (although I must say that SS and IS are my top earners and no way am I going to stop what I'm doing there)... so I am going to favor higher prices on my own work. Perception of value is a critical concept here -- i am a graphic designer and my clients tend to be fine with spending $15-$30 for an image if they think its going to get them a better image -- people need to be shown and convinced that they need to pay a price for what we do since we aren't amateurs and there is a lot of skill, effort and overhead involved in this business.

Just MY 2 cents...

And your two cents nailed it on perception.  I'm 'used' to micro, and it dawned on me that I am dealing with 'midstock' here.  Don't mind me...just shifting my brains gears here lol

I just got this in my inbox at Zymmetrical..

Hi,

I just noticed you have been changing (lowering) prices as I bring them online. I don't know if you saw, but you had a sale for this file earlier for $5.  I look at at it now and the price is down to $2.

I know you may be used to other agencies and have the feeling our prices are set to high, but I would strongly advise waiting a bit before bringing everything down to the $2 - $3 mark. For example, we had two other raster graphic sales today, one for $11 and for $8.

As we are in Beta, there is at present very little spent on marketing and promotions at this point - however I guarantee after 4 years of experience running Flyerstarter.com that people will pay more than $2 for graphics (to that end, maybe you'd like to make some Flyer designs for submission there?).

Perception of value is very important to our marketplace, and while you're absolutely free to bring prices down to rock bottom, I just thought I'd shoot you this note - especially as our Art Manager is barbaric at this point and very slow to change files prices/tags (new version will be online soon).

Thanks,
Keith Tuomi
Director
Flyerstarter Services Ltd.
 
**********

The "$2" that I apparently lowered my pricing to...that is what I am assuming is the price for the 'small' size.  Am I correct?  I "was" going to price my port at Zymm, about the way that I do at Featurepics.  I was pricing at $5, and apparently someone likes it because I made a sale and have $3.50 in my account now.

So now I am confused and wanted advice on what others are pricing.  The perception of value kinda threw me.  I'm there to make sales.  So is that implication more towards leave our pricing structure alone?  I thought the part of the advantage of Zymm was that you could set your own pricing...rock bottom or not??

I won't change prices or rock the boat.

Thank you.

Hi,

We do not 'approve' people we approve art.  So yes one file means you are live on the site.

There is no 20 keyword limit. We read the first 40 IPTC keywords, and edit them as necessary.     There is no way to speed the process along as we are working as fast humanly possible for reviews.  When we run out of people, we employ more, however things must be done in balance. This helps ensure long-term profitability.


Thanks,
Keith Tuomi

Thank you Keith.  That is a relief, in that I am willing to be patient, as you are in Beta.  My latest frustration is trying to upload HTTP graphics lol.  They never show up, and the page just sits and spins with no bar showing progress of upload.  I think I will just FTP them from here on.

The bigger relief is I don't have to rekeyword lol   

After doing quite a bit of looking around on the site, and then clicking 'edit tags' on my one image, I realized you could only have 20 keywords.  I have a substantial amount in waiting at the moment, but I just submitted a batch with 20 or under keywords.  Can you delete those in waiting???  I know there are filters and stuff, but if I can delete what I got, I'd love to reupload with edited keys under the 20 limit.

My frustration is that when uploading, you can't even edit those images in waiting, or as Flemish pointed out, see if they uploaded with all data intact.  I love the site.  It's just gonna take me some getting used to.

It is that long since I uploaded there I cannot remember the process. I have submissions from 24th December still waiting to be approved, so don't hold your breath after you figure it out.
My plan was to see what they like, then to upload suitable pictures from my port. With over 1000 pictures to upload, and a wait of over two months for approval, I think I will be giving them a miss in the future.

I have to agree with this, since I uploaded sometime ago, and most are in pending and only one has been approved.  Frustrating, but it's beta lol

I made enough for a pay out through paypal.  I clicked on the request earnings button, and went through the steps.  Is that all I need to do?  It states that they need requests in writing, but if they want an email, they don't give an address to email and tell them.  I hope my request went through lol.  I kinda could use that money