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iStockPhoto.com / Stop Feeding the Beast!
« on: April 13, 2011, 09:32 »
  • Highest rate in the industry - 85%  comission
  • No protection at all against credit card fraud
  • Privacy intrusion - screenshot request for CG(as if they were providing us access to their books)
  • Very hard to upload process - with an ironic end "I love to upload to iStock!"
  • Impossible logic: commission rate is conditioned by the number of sales > number of sales is conditioned by the number of uploads - number of uploads is conditioned by iStock => comission rate is LIMITED by iStock!

For me it's enough. I decided to STOP UPLOADING = STOP FEEDING THE BEAST!

I know is hard to instantly shut down one's iStock account. There is a lot of work in it. But why should we continue? As long as one keeps uploading is simply feeding the beast. And the beast is asking more and more. Next step? 95%? Or what else? The managers are very creative people. The middle way to get out of it is to simply stop uploading to your iStock account. This way, your income will not drop down instantly and you will have the time to find other ways of selling your images.

Regards,
Dmitry

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General Stock Discussion / Stock Union
« on: March 07, 2008, 13:05 »
The submitters have become kind of new age slave: he/she has the main duty to upload as much as she/he can, to be well equipped, and mostly to obey all the absurd requirements of stock sites(to swap each and every pixel of noise, to explain how he made certain animation etc.) When it comes to money, the submitter has to wait as long as the stock site is willing as if the money transfer is done through stone age ways.
It would be an easy way to transfer money into someone's account directly from the site's one, instead of pumping money into MB and PP.

On short: the stock has all the rights and power it wants, the submitter has almost no right at all. It is time to organize ourselves, some kind of union, some kind of institution to represent and defend us against the increasing power of stock sites. The relation between the sites and submitters is almost humiliating. I heard someone from a stock site saying: what if X photographer is leaving? I get tens or hundreds to replace him/ her.

It is time to do something to defend ourselves.

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