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Messages - jsolie
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« on: February 28, 2009, 16:08 »
Yes, SV images, user names, accounts, etc. will be moved over automatically.
Will we receive an email indicating when our images, account, etc. are moved over?
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« on: February 27, 2009, 00:54 »
Back out of stock now. 
The $200 rebate requires purchase of the body, a lens (one of a specific 4), and a 580 EX II all on the same receipt. Great deal if you were going to buy them all anyway, otherwise not so hot.
I was getting ready to kick myself because my receipt is dated February 4, but then I noticed that you had to get a lens and a flash with it, so the kicking will have to wait...
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« on: February 08, 2009, 15:58 »
Hi, I finally had a sale on MostPhotos! WooHoo!  However, I'm having some difficulty with getting the payment. I've been contacted a couple of times now by MostPhotos indicating that PayPal is not letting the payment go through. The message they're getting is: This recipient does not accept payments from non-U.S. PayPal accounts. I'm at a loss as to what else needs to be done to my PayPal account to let this payment go through. Anyone have any ideas as to what settings I need to look at? Thanks! -- JS
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« on: February 02, 2009, 17:06 »
January was my BME, but not by a whole lot. I was able to increase my portfolio across most agencies for the most part. There's a couple where I'm holding off of new uploads.
I'd have to say that SS, while better than the last several months (and nearly double what December was), has been much lower than earlier in 2008. It'll be interesting to see if that trend continues, or if SS can pull off some marketing magic.
IS 33.40%
DT 14.79%
SS 13.31%
FT 12.34%
StockXpert 8.80%
BigStock 7.50% BME
123 6.58% BME
SV 1.65%
CS 1.25%
CanStockPhoto 0.37%
FP/YAY/CC 0.00%
/MP/SR
100.00%
Overall: BME
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« on: February 02, 2009, 16:50 »
I just signed up and am in a holding pattern while my stats are collected. I'm curious to know how it handles the same image across sites, but with a different title on some sites.
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« on: January 29, 2009, 17:14 »
Congratulations!
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« on: January 29, 2009, 16:57 »
SS has done better this month than in the last two. It's still doing under my monthly average for them by a little over 35%
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« on: January 25, 2009, 13:24 »
That's exactly what I thought.... Oh no, it's BACK...  I think someone's going to spend some time Monday morning fixing a database... 2 months ago the same problem working on the system they say..................
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« on: January 20, 2009, 23:05 »
I got the same message, too. At least I didn't send her/him/it anything, so I guess they're outta luck.
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« on: January 10, 2009, 17:36 »
Anything that gives the buyers better tools to find and buy images is top on my priority list. +1
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« on: January 10, 2009, 17:04 »
Just got the same email. At least it'll save me some time in maintaining my stats. "...and another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust..."
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« on: January 03, 2009, 18:34 »
I finally had some time to finish up my numbers. December wasn't too bad. It certainly wasn't a BME, and it did exceed my running monthly average.
The December breakdown:
StockXpert 23.18% BME
IS 22.11%
FT 17.06% BME
DT 11.85%
SS 8.93% WME
123 7.78%
BigStock 5.25%
CS 2.47% BME
CanStockPhoto 0.80%
SV 0.56%
FP, Yay, SR, CC, MP 0.00%
Here's how 2008 broke down. I don't have any 2007 numbers to compare it to, as I started doing microstock in January 2008.
IS 29.31%
SS 24.02%
DT 13.47%
StockXpert 9.79%
FT 9.55%
123 5.78%
BigStock 4.40%
SV 1.57%
CS 1.14%
CanStockPhoto 0.44%
FP 0.31%
Yay 0.15%
SR 0.06%
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« on: December 23, 2008, 14:56 »
Absolutely. I'm taking some time off from the day job and I have plenty of time to spend on my stock work. 
89
« on: December 23, 2008, 01:38 »
I submitted a batch of photos today at SS, and they were reviewed within a few hours. FT sometimes is quite fast, sometimes a couple of days. StockXpert usually is a couple of days.
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« on: December 04, 2008, 17:47 »
Shooting & mood.
My day job eats my creativity, I'm burned out when I finish so the microstock part suffers from this. Can't wait to quit my day job and enter the full-time photography.
I hear you on this one. Another thing that slows me down is keywording. Many times I find that I've mis-spelled a keyword, and this is after I've uploaded the offending image to several agencies. Some make it easier than others to correct typographical errors. I'd absolutely LOVE it if Adobe could put a spell checker in LR or PS...
91
« on: December 03, 2008, 16:43 »
I've still got two from 11/17 that are still stuck in the queue. My third stuck image (from the 12th) processed through last night. From support: Our development team is working fervently to try and gather and process all of the files that have been stuck in limbo. We have run a script to gather all of the files and take the necessary steps to get these images into the system properly. Most files have been reprocessed and added to the queue for inspection, however in our audit of this process we realized that some slipped through the cracks. Our Dev team is manually processing these one at a time. Right now it looks like there are approximately 400 photo and video files that are still affected. Cancelling your upload will not make the process go any faster. In fact, the file will still be touched by us in the reprocessing and will make the process take twice as long. I understand your frustration with this and believe me, we also feel it on our end and are working our hardest to get this matter corrected and corrected properly.
Please bear with us while we work through this. We hope to have it resolved shortly barring any major difficulties. In the meantime, if you have any further questions, please feel free to send us a ticket to contributor relations and we'll be happy to help you out. (fingers crossed for my other two images)...
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« on: November 16, 2008, 18:47 »
I always add them, too. I figure it couldn't hurt, and it's much easier than some sites.
93
« on: November 13, 2008, 16:49 »
IS, SS & DT. If I doubled my DT earnings, it would still be less than IS.
94
« on: November 09, 2008, 16:16 »
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« on: November 09, 2008, 13:36 »
It's turning out to be a very dreadful month. Whatever changes they've made to the best match has effectively turned the faucet off.
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« on: November 04, 2008, 11:50 »
...Supposedly notes to that effect are supposed to be going out soon. The note just arrived: If you are a contributor who participates in the Photos.com and JIUnlimited Plus programs, this e-mail explains the anomalies that occurred with your Photos.com earnings during the first two weeks of October, and from October 22nd to the present. Furthermore, this only applies to Photos.com Plus earnings. Your JIUnlimited Plus earnings were not affected.
If you do not participate in the Photos.com or JIUnlimited Plus programs, this e-mail does not apply to you.
A software bug was discovered during the second week in October that prevented Photos.com Plus earnings from displaying in your Stockxpert report. This bug was fixed on October 22 and only affected earnings between October 3rd and October 21st.
At the same time as the bug fix, we implemented Jupiterimages 14-day return policy to all Photos.com Plus images. The return policy allows customers who purchase single images (also known as pay-per-download or PPD) to return the image for a full refund within 14 days of purchase. This policy was already in place for Stockxpert high-resolution PPD images on Photos.com, but we had to implement it for all images to accommodate PPD purchases for all image sizes on Photos.com, including Photos.com Plus subscription sales. So, instead of reporting these earnings to contributors at the time of download and then deducting the earnings for a refund, we held off reporting earnings until the 14 days had expired.
On October 22nd you received the missing earnings for Photos.com sales between October 3rd and October 8th. These earnings are reported in the Photos.com line item for October 22 in your Stockxpert report. All Photos.com earnings from October 8 onward were subject to the 14-day delay. For example, missing Photos.com earnings on October 9 were actually reported on October 23. Missing Photos.com earnings on October 10 were reported on October 24, and so forth.
After analyzing the sales and refund data, we've determined that refunds on Photos.com Plus are rare. So, on November 4, we will be changing the 14-day delay in reporting Photos.com Plus earnings to 1 day, regardless of image resolution. On November 5, you will receive all Photos.com Plus earnings from October 21 to November 4 and going forward, you will see Photos.com earnings for a given day on the very next day. In fairness, if there is a return, the purchase will be deducted from your account when it comes in.
To confirm, since JIUnlimited works the same way as Stockxpert subscriptions (i.e. $0.30 for all resolutions), the 14-day delay issue did not apply. It only occurred with Photos.com Plus earnings.
On a separate but related note, a small handful of contributors received $0.30 instead of 30% for some PPD sales on Photos.com since the August launch of Photos.com Plus. Contributors who are affected by this bug will see in the Photos.com line items of their report that downloaded images with a long dimension of 3,300 pixels or greater received $0.30. We produced and verified a report of all affected contributors and we will correct earnings on November 4th, which will appear in affected accounts on November 5th. The bug causing this problem has been identified and will be fixed by mid-next week. After the bug has been fixed, we will run a final report from November 4th to the date of the bug fix and pay out any final PPD earnings affected by this issue.
We're truly sorry for the inconvenience this has caused and we apologize for not communicating this information more clearly and sooner. October was a difficult month at Stockxpert as we had a major new release, the bugs related to payments were complex and a couple of key developers were out. We now believe that all issues have been resolved and by November 5th all payments will be current. If you believe you are still experiencing payment issues, please let us know right away.
As usual, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Thank you for your patience as we worked through these issues.
Regards,
The Stockxpert Team
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« on: November 01, 2008, 14:54 »
Overall, this has been my BME, but not by a whole lot. For some reason, SS has gone down a lot, yet I uploaded more images in October than in September and August. Either a saturation point has been hit, or the images I upload are not appealing to buyers. Another point of interest is that YayMicro is not at 0% this month. Hopefully this isn't a fluke and they can continue to attract image buyers. Over half my sales at StockXpert were subs  and several were from photos.com or jiu. Still not sure what happened to the "October 2-25" time period. I'm being hopeful that they'll figure it out soon, but then my stats for two months will be messed up. ]IS 36.27% BME DT 14.91% SS 12.68% WME FT 11.07% StockXpert 11.02% 123 5.93% BigStock 3.36% CS 1.68% YAY 1.65% BME + 1st sale SV 0.78% CanStockPhoto 0.65% CC+FP+MP+SR 0.00% Overall: BME
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« on: October 31, 2008, 11:14 »
I was wondering what happened to niltomil... Sorry you got hacked and hope you get it all sorted out soon. I'm curious...what will you do if some kids trick-or-treating tonight ring your doorbell and they're disguised as Nigerian scammers? 
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« on: October 22, 2008, 19:06 »
I'll be curious to see how Pixmac responds to my request to remove my portfolio from their site.
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« on: October 22, 2008, 14:50 »
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