The Alamy payout was $250 and is now $150. Payments occur automatically at the end of the month when your balance is over $150.
These are the terms we agreed to when we signed up, so there's unlikely there's anything you can do.
I don't know what happens if you quit your account: there's a 6 month tie in for your images anyway, so you can't just quit in a moment. (That's in our contract too.)

It's $175.  But whatever.

Hi all.  I have had one sale at Alamy and it was a year ago this month.  It was a nice size sale, but my profit was under the $175 payout.  I thought just maybe I could pay a processing fee to finally after a year get a payout.  No luck.  The person / persons I've been e-mailing with have given me brief answers that are basically that I'm out of luck.  I've been told to submit more images so I can make more sales.  Period!  I even checked the contract to see if I terminated my contract with them if I would get a final payout and I couldn't find anything regarding that.

It's so frustrating knowing I have over $100 hat's been sitting out there earning interest for another company which they already made a chunk of change on and I can't touch it!

Anyone have any info on what I could do?

Thanks bunches,
Connie

I just found these two:

Me as the angry librarian.

http://shkolazhizni.ru/archive/0/n-10350/
 
Pair of gardening tools I bought at the 99 cent store.  They cropped the left of the photo but at least I got line credit!

http://home.howstuffworks.com/replace-broken-garden-tool-handles.htm

I am having no luck with Tineye, but I do have this one: 

http://www.fotolia.com/Member/IndexContent/5460914




http://www.amazon.com/How-Deal-Antiques-Fiona-Shoop/dp/1845283007/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221244780&sr=8-1

Connie

I have quite a few city editorial, and event shots that would make good editorial shots but I need to know who accepts them.

Thanks,
Connie

I think you misunderstood my post.  No one stole this picture, it's one I sold on one of the 2 stock sites it's on.  I just "happened" to see it in person.  I'm pretty sure the United States Coast Guard pays for it's images and they would need the large file to print it as big as they did. 

Jazzed means "Happy!"

Connie

....and what are ya gonna do if you catch this freakin' thief?

Nothing? Hire a lawyer and sue him? Ask him to please stop selling your images? Think he would?
Suppose he askes you for proof you took the photo? suppose he says he took it? Can you prove he did not?
Suppose he claims..."Yeah I remember you!" "You were standing right beside me when I took this picture"

Your only recourse is to take his birthday away from him. Just take it! That'll at least piss him off.

Cranky MIZ

Dumb question:

Does "going exclusive" mean "YOU" only sell through a specific site, or does it mean a certain "IMAGE" is only on specific site?  As in, if I am on several sites and wanted to be "exclusive" with IS (my largest selling site) would I have to pull up stakes at every other site or could I just upload specific "exclusive" photos to IS?

Thanks,
Connie

My shot from iStock that appeared in the back of last months Los Angeles Magazine sold for 25 cents and then I bought 2 of their magazines for over $10 total.  It's relative.  I would rather get $20 for a photo that's going to be on a sold product than 25 cents.
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Hmmm,

Los Angeles magazine says that it has a paid subscription base of 180,000.
The TOS for a standard license a SS is no more than 250,000 in a print run.
The thing that bugs me here is that the magazine is on racks all over the place.
Those prints are not accounted for in the 180,000 subs info.

If in reality the magazine does have a print run over 250,000, you should have gotten an extended license payment for that and not $0.20.

See, this is the reason that the RM guys laugh at us.

Does iStock have the same rule for print run as SS because as I stated it was IS that sold to LA Mag.  I would be interested to know if that is the case.

I recieved my first Enhanced License sale today on Shutterstock... besides getting $20 instead of 25 cents, what does that mean?

Thanks,
Connie

A friend of my sons sent him a cell phone pic after seeing his photo in Los Angeles Magazine.  We were shocked and then laughed our heads off.  My sons name is Jim, yet the writer named him "Craig".  The one page article is hilarious.

Mag cover: Los Angeles - April 2008


Full page:


My image: "Craig"


Another image of mine was sent to me from iStock.  The gardening trowel in the photo is mine.


BTW, how do you guys find your images posted in German magazines???

Connie

I'm confused about keywording on Alamy.  With the 3 different levels of keywords, when people do a search do all those words come into play?  My pics are all active but the only one I could find in a search said "no keywords" at the bottom of the page.

I'm confused!

Thanks,
Connie

So I guess I'll try again in about 10-15 minutes.  Do you know which other companies also accept editorial?

Thanks,
Connie

Thank you!!! Thank you!!!  Thank you!!! 

I too must have tried a dozen times to get on each time needing to calm myself knowing it just couldn't be gone forever.  This group and you Leaf have been a blessing to me and my beginning with stock.

Happy to see you all again!
Connie