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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