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« on: January 09, 2010, 02:07 »
You can also get to the forums you're not supposed to see by entering English key words into the forum search. It gives you threads where your search word occurs, and the threads take you to the legal bord or the fotolia caf or wherever. But when you click on the main index, you're taken back to your "home" forum.
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« on: January 07, 2010, 01:03 »
All this doesn't really affect me much, but I would like to thank you anyway, Dennis! Cheers!
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« on: January 03, 2010, 07:24 »
That isn't correct, I am from the UK, I filled in the form without the ITIN and it was accepted but I am still getting tax withheld.
What isn't correct? That no tax was deducted from my sales? Do you mean that that's a mistake on their side? As I said, other contributors with Fotolia Germany are reporting the same. Also, our moderator, who is also a Fotolia employee, said that he is not going to apply for an ITIN because it's not worth it for him, as he has very few sales from US-buyers which of course indicates that tax is only going to be deducted for US-based sales.
This is for US sales only, perhaps you haven't sold any in the US yet? I have and have had tax deducted, after having the form accepted without the ITIN. I don't believe they would have different rules for the UK and Germany but this is fotolia, so anything seems possible 
Oh, sorry! I was under the impression that people were talking about having filled out their form and still having tax deducted for all their sales, not only those from the US. Now it's clear.
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« on: January 03, 2010, 06:42 »
That isn't correct, I am from the UK, I filled in the form without the ITIN and it was accepted but I am still getting tax withheld.
What isn't correct? That no tax was deducted from my sales? Do you mean that that's a mistake on their side? As I said, other contributors with Fotolia Germany are reporting the same. Also, our moderator, who is also a Fotolia employee, said that he is not going to apply for an ITIN because it's not worth it for him, as he has very few sales from US-buyers which of course indicates that tax is only going to be deducted for US-based sales.
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« on: January 03, 2010, 06:26 »
they only started on the first of January, have you had any sales since then?
Yes, I have. And no tax was deducted from any of them.
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« on: January 03, 2010, 05:49 »
I am from the UK, have filled in the form with 9a ticked,(without an ITIN), the form shows as validated and I am still having tax withheld. They definately want that ITIN to release the tax.
There's an option on the stats page now where you can see how much has been withheld.
I really don't get all this. I'm with Fotolia Germany, I filled in the form, it was confirmed, and I don't have an ITIN, but still no tax was deducted so far. From what is said in the forums, the same holds for other contributors in the same situation. It's only the contributors who didn't fill in the form or haven't received the confirmation yet who are getting tax deducted.
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« on: December 31, 2009, 11:37 »
Yes, they are lowering the commission and raising the prices. It was announced to start in January, but they seem to have started today. Sorry, but I can't remember where the information came from (I think there was a newsletter). Also, I don't know whether this was discussed here. You might want to use forum search here or look into the fotolia forum - I'm quite sure it was discussed there.
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« on: December 15, 2009, 10:25 »
I requested a payout 10 days ago as well, but it's still pending and I don't have high hopes of receiving the payment without submitting the W8-BEN.
I'm NOT letting them take 30% of my US income as the treaty says 0% for my country, but I have NO CLUE how to apply for an ITIN.
I was hoping that Fotolia would find out for themself that this ITIN is not necessary, but I probably have to go through all the hassle of getting an ITIN anyways.
How do I proceed? Anyone who reads this, how are YOU dealing with this as an individual? In my opinion, this is a major problem that is not being discussed enough.
The newsletter we received (AFTER they had put up the tax library) stated that you had time to sort your forms out by January 1st. So I don't think tax will be deducted for pending payouts. RT is completely right: They don't know what they or we are to do. I for myself am not going to do anything. I'm not willing to go through the ITIN apllication process for various reasons, and on the other hand, I'm quite certain that I hardly have any sales in the US anyway. They must be spending their time figuring out how they are going to get around sending out signed letters to all these individuals. It seems peculiar to me that there is hardly any discussion in the forums. After an admin confirmed that the ITIN is needed after all, there wasn't the uproar in the German Forum I expected at all. On the other hand, people know very well that they have no reliable answers or apoligies for the contradicting information of the past weeks to expect. Why bother and complain and getted barred.
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« on: December 12, 2009, 18:05 »
A week ago I would have been firmly in the "will stay independent" camp.
Now I am sorry to say I am edging closer to being on the fence again.
Must say I'm sorry to hear that. I would miss you on fotolia, Lisa!
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« on: December 12, 2009, 18:03 »
Thank you guys for the autohotkey tip!
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« on: December 12, 2009, 08:58 »
Does "disabling" files at DT actually mean what I think it does - ticking the box and typing in the reason for disabling for every single image?
Yes, that is how it worked that last time I disabled pics there.
Funny, easy, and quick! Isn't it?
What a lovely weekend that will be! 
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« on: December 12, 2009, 06:43 »
123RoyaltyFree, StockXpert, and Fotolia should all be instant removal, right? I saw someone mentioning some kind of partner site of Fotolia, was that something that you had to opt into? I don't recall ever doing anything like that.
Fotolia has loads of partner sites, and they don't list them anywhere. You don't opt in to the partner sites, your images are offered on the partner sites anyway. You need to be careful about that - I often find images I've deleted from fotolia still on these partnersites. It might help just to google your fotolia username, you'll find sites like "snapparazzi", "bilderking", "pixmac", they are all fotolia partners. Also, I'd contact support about this and file away their answer, so that you can prove to istock that you did everything you could to get your images removed from all partner sites - just in case.
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« on: December 12, 2009, 06:30 »
Does "disabling" files at DT actually mean what I think it does - ticking the box and typing in the reason for disabling for every single image?
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« on: December 10, 2009, 07:42 »
Fotolia was mentioned in a German TV-Program a while ago which for some reason calls itself "news", and the introduction to the bit of coverage was "The internet as a market place for amateur photographers - it works for anyone who has a digital camera and wants to earn money on the side". After that, we had quite a few people on the forum complaining that all their images were rejected ("it sounded so easy on TV - upload and earn"). The vast majority of people attracted by things like this will never get an image through selection process. We know that, don't we?
On the other hand, fotolia knows that too. I wonder why they did that and put themselves on a silly program like that. Isn't it much more important to get pros to become microstock contributors? And also, I wonder what ever happened to the media where we live.
I "rake" about the amount that I expected - up to now (about 18 months) it's enough to pay my rent and health insurance, half the amount I need to live on. That's what I worked for and aimed at, and now I'm aiming at and working for, well, the next level.
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« on: November 25, 2009, 06:49 »
fotolia is completely different. only one photo was accepted out of a series of 4 similars with corresponding rejection reason. so, i sneaked one reject in a few weeks after the fact and...they remembered and rejected with 'similar' reason.
Drat! There goes my strategy for resubmitting rejects at Fotolia. Maybe I should wait a couple months first.
If you resubmit a rejected image to fotolia, you should slightly alter the keywords. That way, you don't have to wait for a few months to resubmit. That works for me, and I also alter the keywords for similar images. They seem to have some kind of alert if several images have exactly the same keywords, and that makes them automatically reject resubmits and similars. That's what I assume, anyway.
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« on: October 20, 2009, 21:55 »
It might be a bad business decision, but Fotolia never really minded slapping the faces of their photographers, did they? Someone pointed out the fact that they had found a contributor to have gold status but only 2 sales on the German forum today. The moderator said he had no idea and would find out about it. I can't wait to read no answer to that tomorrow. Probably the thread will have vanished. 
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« on: September 15, 2009, 14:30 »
Ooooops - image isn't there anymore. Wonder why!
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« on: September 02, 2009, 06:07 »
I collect images in a folder too, and I find it interesting how, whenever I try something out that I've seen somewhere, something completly different comes out of it, pictures that have nothing to do with "the original". I suppose there's the difference between copying and and what they call inspiration.
I sometimes shoot easy-to-do isolated objects, depending on what I find in the agencies already. For example, I recently found that fotolia doesn't have much isolated butternut squashes, so I shot one, because I was shooting pumpkin soup anyway and put it there exclusive. Online for two hours, two sales already. But I only do isolated objects if something falls into my hands and I think that I can make a better image than there are already - which isn't too often. I don't think I'll ever feel like shooting an apple over white!
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« on: September 01, 2009, 21:57 »
It's strange, but I'm not experiencing that at all. Out of about 150 images I have submitted only 6 were rejected (something in the terms of "not what we need right now"), and 34 out of 35 were accepted yesterday. I'm sure my images are good but not briliant, so I'm wondering whether it might be the subject that makes it easier for me to get my images accepted (I shoot 90 percent food).
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« on: August 31, 2009, 10:18 »
Threads celebrating milestones, congrats etc. are moderated just as well. One of the reasons that the Blogs exist is to take part of that traffic, leaving the boards less cluttered.
I wonder what would happen to a critical blog article about subscriptions (that also left the boards uncluttered)...
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« on: August 31, 2009, 06:10 »
I'm very pleased to see that veer has kept the promise to sort the stats feature out by the end of the month. Thank you to veer for that!
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« on: August 31, 2009, 06:06 »
To tell someone how to feel about something that directly has an effect on them is nothing else than arrogant. THAT is what sucks, to me at least. How dare a DT admin tell contributors to be happy with a 20 cent sale? We're not schoolkids who need to be told off for moaning.
And why is it a privilege to post in a site's forum? if it's not every contributor's right to post on the forum, I really don't want to know.
Xalanx is absolutely right.
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« on: August 30, 2009, 05:44 »
This statement by the admin makes me sick:
"A sale is a sale. Someone appreciated your images and paid for them - be encouraged by that."
As if it didn't make a difference to anyone on DT whether it was a sale with a revenue of 3,60 or 0,20.
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« on: August 16, 2009, 17:13 »
This must be the thread with the least relevant topic ever here! But I like it! I think that abbreviations (except those that are actually part of spelling like e. g. or i. e.) are a conventional thing that a community decides about, merely by active usage. So there won't be a "correct" abbreviation for fotolia, so regarding the abbreviation it doesn't matter at all which part of the word is highlighted in which way. And fotolia itself doesn't use an abbreviation for their trademark. I have always used FT, and I have no idea why.
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« on: August 11, 2009, 17:37 »
Your European background doesn't show in your accent at all! Charmingly American!
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