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« on: April 30, 2014, 18:45 »
So far 212 left. Just ready for kick them all- Ill leave one!  - this one fits to be last one standing -http://eu.fotolia.com/Member/IndexContent/23713697
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« on: April 30, 2014, 18:36 »
Nice one, this thread brings back memories
Alike?
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« on: April 30, 2014, 16:41 »
In 40 min will start day 1 here in Spain. I will delete some of my photos too for supporting our reasonable demands. In have opt out already.
Message for spanish speakers;
Aprovecho para animar a otros compaeros a unirse a la protesta y a rechazar la opcin de incluir su contenido en Dollar Photo Club, que est activada por defecto. Pueden hacerlo en;
Mi Cuenta / mi perfil / parmetros de colaborador / vender mis contenidos en Dpc
Gracias por su apoyo y comprensin
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« on: April 30, 2014, 16:34 »
So- for me the "game" has just continuing" - by by fotolia and last 350 deleteng mannualy. whops- sorry- I will leave one!
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« on: April 30, 2014, 16:19 »
D-day has begun in some parts of the world.
I think it's time to sum things up (Current forum time: April 30, 2014, 15:48).
According to the boycottfotolia.org 87900 images and 67 portfolios have already been deleted.
And according to the posts from microstock.ru (April,25) there was a number of 28,360,932 Royalty Free Stock Photos on the main page and now it shows 28,213,920, so it is minus 147,012 files difference! Add here all those uploads from the contributors who continued uploading. I think that only thanks to all that people Fotolia started some actions and communication. They made some changes to the DPC license and finally introduced opt out option. The problem is that by default everyone still opted-in and they didn't notify contributors about DPC. According to the forums those "You probably heard that we have launched Dollar Photo Club" messages got only the ones who somehow showed their awareness about DPC (by deleting files, support messages, clicking opt out button and even active forums discussions (if forum name is equal to fotolia's display name)). And of course they didn't remove cheap $10 Membership plan. Some contributors already tried and got approved to DPC within an hour - proof http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img835/2648/tsxi.png
It is a little bit sad to see some passiveness on English speaking forums about the issue. In comparison only on one of the three main independent Russian speaking microstock forums I've counted 4500+ messages about the DPC since April, 24 till now. It also sad to see people happy about opt out, pulling out your own port from DPC doesn't make the future of industry healthier having in mind that still only small group of contributors aware ot the situation. FT made this only after our petition and only to calm us down. Who knows what they will do some time later.
Thanks to all who signed petition, and helped to spread the world! I think that we should continue to inform contributors about DPC since FT failed to do so.
For now I would like to give you some D-Day tips to make things faster 
1) Open My Files page in your account and set show 100 files per page,
2) hold Ctrl and click all 100 deletes with your left mouse button near your files (100 new tabs will open in background),
3) move from page to page with Ctrl+Tab, and click on "delete this file" confirmation button, don't waite page loading - go on,
4) After that hold Ctrl+F4 or Ctrl+W to close all those browser tabs.
5) repeat N1 and have fun!
Don't forget that you can use StockSubmitter to do the job (look at the first message in this thread) and now you can choose not to delete videos and option to start with top downloaded, least downloaded, newest or oldest files.
I think everyone (and fotorob  ) can afford to delete some files to support D-Day and microstock community!
Happy D-Day!
Watch the numbers at fotolia.com and compare 
Well keep on! Thanks! And the day is in here allready begun! Off to delete section! See ya guys in #boycottfotolia.org
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« on: April 30, 2014, 16:14 »
Just imagine how proud they will be in 2 years when the whole marked is selling photos for $1 and they are forced to lower theirs to 50 cents.
Forced? I think they would be eager to do it.
Every day many requests are sent from Dollar Photo Club members wanting to purchase an Extended License. In response they are directed to Fotolia to make the purchase. Ive just been notified that Dollar Photo Club will soon be adding an Extended License. The commission paid to photographers will be an even $30 (US). The cost for the member for this license will be $50 resulting in a 60% commission rate for contributors.
I see the next thing fotolia is going to say to promote their disruptive initiative... you can make UP to 60% on a sale and up to $30 on Photos.com.
If 60% is sustainable on Extended Licenses, why not do it on all sales? That would be a real sign that they are working to increase contributor's revenue.
They (informally via Mike) did that.
Matt Hayward wrotes- Every day many requests are sent from Dollar Photo Club members wanting to purchase an Extended License. In response they are directed to Fotolia to make the purchase. Ive just been notified that Dollar Photo Club will soon be adding an Extended License. The commission paid to photographers will be an even $30 (US). The cost for the member for this license will be $50 resulting in a 60% commission rate for contributors.
O yes- every one someday wants to feel special. Especially for THE price. All that thing about membership is such a crap. Pay 10 bucks, (wich appearantly turn ouet to be credits, because you dont't loose them they say so). Next month comes your 10. usd payment- you still have left some, lets say 5 from previous. This month you sort of can downlod allready 15 hi res images/ vectors. And so go on on on. The only thing is- their quotation- (Need remarks, but tired to copy links)- looking for large amount buyers is so bull***,- if you need amount, you go to subscription. Any kind of them is better than this. And even if you buy something you don't need- it rather will be cheaper than buy from fck'''club, where you have to to pay so called membership (unless you opt out).
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« on: April 30, 2014, 15:45 »
Just imagine how proud they will be in 2 years when the whole marked is selling photos for $1 and they are forced to lower theirs to 50 cents.
Forced? I think they would be eager to do it.
Every day many requests are sent from Dollar Photo Club members wanting to purchase an Extended License. In response they are directed to Fotolia to make the purchase. Ive just been notified that Dollar Photo Club will soon be adding an Extended License. The commission paid to photographers will be an even $30 (US). The cost for the member for this license will be $50 resulting in a 60% commission rate for contributors.
I see the next thing fotolia is going to say to promote their disruptive initiative... you can make UP to 60% on a sale and up to $30 on Photos.com.
If 60% is sustainable on Extended Licenses, why not do it on all sales? That would be a real sign that they are working to increase contributor's revenue.
They (informally via Mike) did that. Matt Hayward wrotes- Every day many requests are sent from Dollar Photo Club members wanting to purchase an Extended License. In response they are directed to Fotolia to make the purchase. Ive just been notified that Dollar Photo Club will soon be adding an Extended License. The commission paid to photographers will be an even $30 (US). The cost for the member for this license will be $50 resulting in a 60% commission rate for contributors.
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« on: April 30, 2014, 15:43 »
Every day many requests are sent from Dollar Photo Club members wanting to purchase an Extended License. In response they are directed to Fotolia to make the purchase. Ive just been notified that Dollar Photo Club will soon be adding an Extended License. The commission paid to photographers will be an even $30 (US). The cost for the member for this license will be $50 resulting in a 60% commission rate for contributors.
For any of us who have been selling for a while and through multiple sites, the ratio of an extended license sales to others is reasonably well established. You cannot solve a basic pricing problem with the volume sales by having a few extended licenses (even though there's nothing wrong with the price and royalty for those, depending on what rights you're including).
This seems as if management thinks that dangling a nice, though very occasional trinket of an EL sale will cause contributors to forget about the fundamental problem.
The tech crunch article quotes Fotolia's owner saying that he's trying to use the pricing to take market share away from Shutterstock and iStock. Almost all of us would lose badly if that were to succeed, $30 EL royalties or no.
There we go! Even thou- there are missleaded buyers, who will think that they by EL instead of SL. If in the front page, when you sign up- there is 1$ no limits, no extra money- what do you mean with that? Hah? That's just misleading. The same thing- we are going to invent EL- so?! The one I just bought isn't fit on my cup? Etc... just recently they changed the limit to 500.000. What was there before that- unlimited. mark my words- there are more than few of such remarks. So- just keep reading their interpretation capabilities and deleting my portfolio.
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