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Quote from: Milinz on March 27, 2009, 14:05

No really... They are behaving as lords of all people who give them their images on sale... I doubt that such Lordship is well accepted in majority of Crestock contributors... As I am aware and well informed - many people are just waitng to make payout money and then to run as far from Crestock as they can go... Whch will be very clever thing to do ;-)

Sorry, can you give me some examples of the "lordly" behavior?  I have 4400 pics there and haven't had any problems with them.  

Not saying it isn't happening, but so far the only example given is one unfortunate person who hasn't been paid.  Any more situations like this?

Yes there are , two people that dont use or dont want to use their forum contacted me on another site PP , apparently they are also waiting for months and their e-mails haven't been answered.

Someone that wrote at their forum is  beating my waiting record for good ,  and waits from 01.09.08 ( so that would be almost 7 months if I'm right) , and  few more people claim they are waiting for months so I'm apparently not a separate case. 


There are even people who claim they requested paypal payment and have been waiting for months , but I don't know if they have been paid. 

Im in the same boat , especially because I moved to FF so that 200mm is not enough anymore.

I like the option to frame without walking too much so I think I would go for 100-400 ,  it also cover almost the whole range of my 70-200 so I wouldnt need that one exept in low light conditions.

The question is how good is it , cause if it comes anywhere near 70-200 that would be great cause that's far best and sharpest lens I used , but my problem is that over here they don't allow you to try the lens before you buy it , and I took the risk with 24-105 and I don't intend to do that once more cause my copy of 24-105 sucks big time.

I didn't read the reviews and I didn't try those lenses so I cant talk about quality, but I think I will get 100-400 when the time comes.

 

well in defense of crestock, I have gotten numerous payouts, the last one being requested and paid in January, and altough they are not the fastest ones to pay out, they are not the slowest either.  That was with paypal however.  But my point is, that it is obviously not about having the funds available to pay photographers, it is about getting moneybookers to work, or finding another way.

Here is the crestock thread if you want to follow along there
http://www.crestock.com/forum/general-help/Getting-payed--4921.aspx?page=1

I would agree with you but..

They offered me direct bank transfer , so they obviously can use that method , but when I wrote to give them my bank account info  I never heard them back about that.

You can clearly see I ask them that in my post in that topic on 3. Feb , what should I do when they are not replaying to mails , write my bank account  info on public forum ?   

I don know maybe am just over frustrated but I think they do anything in their power not to pay me out , I'm interested about what you think about the situation



I know the have some moneybookers problems so I waited to reach 300$ and requested my money, I was thinking that It will be easier to them this way.
Somewhere in mid November I requested payout , no one responded to my e-mail for a while.

On 24. Nov I started a topic on their forum cause my e-mails were useless , and they told me I will be paid soon in a week or two.

They were making payouts , but as I was explained in a e-mail to people who had small payments (I was at 350$ at that time) , and asked me if its OK with me to receive a direct bank payment.
I didn't saw that e-mail at first (my fault) , but then again they told me to forget about that , after I asked them If they still need my bank account info for payment.  They told me they should be able to pay me via moneybookers in a week or two.

Again nothing , so I wrote them another mail , and they didn't reply.

Then they wrote again  In the forum that I will be paid in a week or two.

That circle has been closed few times but I wasn't paid , no one wanted my bank info to pay me out.

Again I found a forum post that we will be paid at the end or last week or this Monday or Tuesday   , a you can guess what happened.


I wrote a forum post , but It seems they don't care cause nobody explained what happened this time, and people have mailed me about that so I know Im not the only one with this problem.
Even people with paypal were waiting for few months , as you can see in their forum.

So they don't reply to mails , they have stopped writing about it in their forum , and I'm waiting for my payment since mid November ( so almost 4 months) , I have more than 500$ that I need in their account and they are apparently paying small amounts to be able to pay to more people.

As they wrote me I know they can pay me with direct bank transfer , but when I offered them my bank info info  they stopped communicating with me.

I tried with a PM to Josh here , with no no luck , I don't know if he got it but I didn't receive a answer.

So they are holding 500$ that I fairly earned , and the best they can offer Is a week or two payment promise and they always brake it.

I was trying to hold my horses and not to start a topic about that outside their forums for a while  , but since they apparently don't care about that I was pushed over the edge.

I think its the basic thing about this business , to pay the contributors but some of us are not lucky enough.

Here is the original forum topic I started there so you can see I'm telling the truth : http://www.crestock.com/forum/general-help/Getting-payed--4921.aspx


Any suggestions ?



 







 

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Well I'm waiting just 3 and half month now

Well I prefer this than that other one in which whatever you searched, you'd get only photos showing  crowns 

Glad to hear the $20 EL was a typo

Was it ?
I mean , even if it wont take effect ?
Was it ?

You know I have a neighbor who wanted a hat.
She asked her husband to buy her a nice little sport car ?
Poor guy was so happy when he was paying for that hat.

And If you ask me she wasn't into sports cars anyway.

I feel as an exclusive contributor on istockphoto my images should be placed alot higher in the best match than an independant contributor.
Free Moo cards ,quicker review times,higher % on sales and the ability to upload more files per 72 hours are ok perks but i want best match to showcase my work ALL THE TIME.

As a non exclusive contributor I think they shouldn't , you have been given quantity , you should compete other contributors with quality not by being prefered by best match.





 

I realize this is a little speculative (but not greatly so, given the current state of play), but I believe this is the reason why, in the not too distant future, 'models' will be computer generated and not real people at all. The advances in CG characters in cinema in the past five years have been pretty spectacular.

Maybe then artists will have legal problems with real people who will clam that model is generated on the bases of their look , cause the model will have to look somehow , and there will probably be a real human that is similar to the model.

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Quote from: LostOne on January 06, 2009, 19:53

New laptop from Apple:
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary?utm_source=embedded_video

Stupidity has no limits

Yes, this is true.

Hello? This was a parody.

Well, i just watched few seconds , without thinking but..

After they introduced laptops without optical drive nothing from them can surprise me , cause that almost equals this.