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Alamy.com / Alamy distributor commision

« on: December 19, 2014, 16:05 »

Alamy way of calculation commission is realty creative

When they sell through distributor,
distributor gets 40% and Alamy 30%, so you left with 30%.

In usual distribution business of normal goods you usually get % of whatever money you delivered to next entity in the food chain, not form end price.

They really should charge 30% not from original price, but from whatever was left after distributor got paid.
so in more fair world it should be 40%*30% = 12% of original price and our cut should be 100%- 40%-12% = 48%.
almost 1.5 times higher

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General Stock Discussion / shutterpoint is infected

« on: May 12, 2013, 19:45 »

shutterpoint is infected with "Exploit Blackhat SEO".
Unfortunately even page with contact form is infected.
does anybody know their e-mail to let them know?

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General Stock Discussion / UK.gov proposes massive copyright land snatch

« on: July 02, 2012, 12:52 »

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/02/govt_copyright_white_paper/

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iStockPhoto.com / Partner program sales list

« on: May 24, 2012, 16:08 »

for a while I'm pressing Istock to provide us with reports of what files were sold through Thinkstock and Photos on monthly basis.
Currently they only provide lifetime stats.
So dynamic of what they sale is pretty much concealed.

They are playing games trying to persuade me that this information is already available (since I can go and see it for each particular image).
Obviously that's completely impractical to go through thousand of images of portfolio and do it.

I encourage everyone who cares about this, send messages to support and bombard them with this requests regularly, week after week.

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General Stock Discussion / Ellen Boughn - quit reasons

« on: October 18, 2011, 09:06 »

http://www.asmp.org/strictlybusiness/2011/04/an-a-ha-person-from-sb3/

"I was writing for a difficult client who subjected my writing to a panel of editors that squeezed the personality out of my words and with it all joy in writing. I realized after reading Colleen’s post that every week I continued to write for that client, I was further damaging the confidence I needed to continue to do my all important personal work. I quit the job the day after reading her post."

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Featurepics.com / 1 year lock time.

« on: May 23, 2011, 18:12 »

For people who didn't notice,
according to TOS

For images uploaded after '04/15/2011': Once an Image is uploaded, FeaturePics can sell licenses for 360 days. The Image may not be withdrawn during this period.

I don't sell there that much to justify 1 year lock.

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General Stock Discussion / Dangerous support

« on: January 12, 2011, 18:10 »

Last week I got several rejections from one site (I don't want to mention which one)

I'm sending message to support, saying that they’ve accepted several images of this type from me in the past and they are selling really-really well.
Also I've sent examples of similar images from other people ports.

Response was brutal. -
Basically: We reviewed your examples and decided to remove them from the site as well.

I've checked – examples from other people ports are also removed.

I've learned my lesson. Never ever again I'm going to appeal.
And I want to apologize to photographers whose images were removed because of this.

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General Stock Discussion / Shutterpoint?? Site down?

« on: August 04, 2010, 13:25 »

Apparently http://www.shutterpoint.com/ doesn't work.
gives me error pages.

Is it just me or?

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Crestock.com / Crestock - new owner?

« on: July 01, 2010, 01:50 »

If you try to log to crestock - there is new Membership Agreement, they ask you to agree.

One of the things - their address now in Toronto, Canada.

I still haven't got my payment requested 6 months ago

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General Stock Discussion / Never mind

« on: February 11, 2010, 20:43 »

figured this out

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iStockPhoto.com / Jan stats.

« on: February 01, 2010, 20:32 »

Jan stats.

Jan stats thread on IS shows overwhelmingly earnings increase among exclusives
Several non-exclusives who responded there mostly reporting earnings decrease. Although most of the independents reporting there have really tiny portfolios and under 2500 downloads. So I’m not sure how representative it is.
Mine states are even lower then in December.

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StockXpert.com / StockXpert payment schedule

« on: January 13, 2010, 19:00 »

got response from support:

All royalties will be transferred to your Paypal or Moneybookers (as you
chose in your account preferences) account this coming Friday, January 15,
2010.

Starting January 15th, all payments will be processed weekly, every Friday.

We apologize for the delay and appreciate your patience during this
transition time.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Yours,

Darek

iStockphoto Team

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Crestock.com / Crestock.com is down?

« on: December 03, 2009, 18:39 »

Is Crestock.com dead? cannot access it.
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UPD: disregard. It's back again

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iStockPhoto.com / Istock site - 503 error

« on: September 24, 2009, 09:13 »

It's again.

site is hiccupping
Up and down
The most ironic part: off site server to provide emergency status http://www.istockscoop.com/ is down as well