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Shutterstock.com / Shutterstock 1099s - VENT

« on: January 31, 2024, 11:25 »

FYI - seems US 1099s are going to be late.
I got an email from Shutterstock two days ago saying that the link to download 1099s would be available on January 31. Today (January 31) with no link, I emailed them again. Now they tell me that, because of the "generation of the format of the download link", it will be sometime in March. I'm annoyed at in "fixing" the site, the contact link doesn't work, and now in only two days, they have broken the download link.
Per my tax preparer, who is also an IRS agent, their deadline for 1099 filing is today.

ETA last email from Shutterstock, which is the third in three days, now says it will be sometime between January 1 and March 1. Still a month past the due date.

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iStockPhoto.com / A farewell post from a long time iStock forum moderator

« on: April 01, 2017, 22:16 »

Wow.

Donald was one of the good ones.

https://contributors.gettyimages.com/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=7324#post76701

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Adobe Stock / Suspicious website offering Fotolia images??

« on: May 18, 2015, 09:07 »

I noticed this site offering derivative products from Fotolia images -- looks like they scraped the whole site, because all of the images have Fotolia watermarks. Fotolia says they're not a partner site, and that in order to sell these, they would need to buy an extended license, which they haven't on any of mine (nor for two other Fotolia people I checked with whose images are here also). Fotolia has been notified (the only guy that deals with this was out of the office for the week), and the website company hasn't responded to two emails.

Does anyone here know anything about this site?

vimagio.com -- enter any keyword to search

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iStockPhoto.com / Getty Making 35 Million Images Free

« on: March 05, 2014, 21:03 »

http://www.bjp-online.com/2014/03/getty-images-makes-35-million-images-free-in-fight-against-copyright-infringement/

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iStockPhoto.com / New iStock Subscription Announcement

« on: March 03, 2014, 20:14 »

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=359606&page=1#post6990310

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iStockPhoto.com / Bye Bye Moo Cards

« on: June 25, 2012, 15:52 »

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=344957

The part about Moo cards doesn't surprise me, I couldn't see that going on much longer under the circumstances. Too bad though, it was one of the few remaining perks. Not sure what to think about the Getty Connect / Yahoo Partnership thing.

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iStockPhoto.com / Watch your refunds

« on: December 23, 2011, 14:16 »

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=338731

Another bug? Refunds where the entire amount of the purchase (not the royalty) is taken back??? Of course, we won't know if it's an isolated occurrence, or a bug in the wild, because the threads get locked.

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iStockPhoto.com / Refunds?

« on: December 08, 2011, 20:42 »

Just saw this thread about the large refunds from so many contributors in the last few days :

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=337937&page=1

Strangely, these refunds seem to be around the time that the system broke (didn't last downloads stop showing up about the 21st of November, and STILL not showing up between then and the 5th of December?), and just before the "maintenance". At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, this seems oddly coincidental to me.