Quote from: caspixel on February 09, 2011, 02:23

Yeah, they are getting spoken to privately, alright. With a nice message telling them they are banned. LOL

I doubt that many buyers have ever been banned from buying. Obviously presumably excluding fraudsters

AFAIK people are sometimes given a cooling off period if they seem to be getting over-heated at the forums. But that is surely just good housekeeping. That happens at most forums. Any forum ultimately needs to be a useful resource not a total free for all.

From what I've seen these "cooling off periods" include a ban from both sitemail and the forums and usually last several months, if they are ever reinstated at all.

I've had DT refund monies for a small sale when the client meant, and re-paid for, a large. FT has taken back monies for a refund. It's a sale here or there. Not a weeks worth of sales in one hit.

I think the real point here is that agencies like BS were able to stop the fraud in hours while it took IS over a week. BS had minimal losses because of their timeliness, where as IS lost thousands because of their incompetence. We're now on our 3rd suspected case of fraudulent downloads at IS since Dec.

I'm $5 shy of a payout. Guess I'll wait it out and then make a final decision once I hit that.

I haven't had a sale since I got to within $5 of a payout. That was in early Nov.

http://www.dreamstime.com/thread_25551

From Achilles

As you all know, Dreamstime sells content using a large distribution network, additional to our own site.  From time to time, we audit our distribution partners to ensure that everything is going as it should.

Earlier last week, we have decided to remove the access to one of our distributors for a serious infringement of the terms of our contract with that distributor.  More specifically, we discovered that the distributor has been selling some images at a higher price point than agreed with Dreamstime, with the extra amount not being reported by the distributor.  The added amount per image varied from a few percentage points up to several times the acceptable price.  Furthermore, some of the files were duplicated and used, via a caching system, to allow future downloads from new and previous customers, without any payments sent to Dreamstime or its photographers.  Dreamstime considers this to be a serious violation of its contributor�s rights � one which we intend to see remedied by any and all available means.

We have consequently removed their access to all Dreamstime images, and we�re currently preparing a legal action towards this company.  I will not name the company here, due to the nature of the legal process.  Once this process ends, and we recover any royalties due, we will add any additional missing royalties due.

We are making this post to publicly advise our distributors and contributors that we will not tolerate any kind of infringements.  Similarly, we will not quietly end an infringement, endorsing suspected instances of fraud this way.  Strong ethics must prevail and should be the very first thing one analyzes before joining a partnership, no matter its type.

We will keep you posted.

Same issue as Sue. I uploaded over the weekend but there is nothing in my pending edit.

I'm not changing. But then again I was never in the favored group either.

Quote from: azurelaroux on January 02, 2011, 08:42

(Fotolia) percentages work out to 25% - 46% (non-exclusive) across 8 levels for regular downloads. Subscribtions are .30 cents to .46 cents depending on your color level.

Neither of those statements is accurate. As I stated above, the percentages at Fotolia are not based on the purchase costs of credits, so they mean absolutely nothing.

Also, I have plenty of recent subscription sales there for 22c, so the minimum is not 30c.

Numbers are according to FT's stated chart of percentages in the contributors section. http://us.fotolia.com/Info/Contributors (scroll down for charts)

SS is money based. 25 cents for a subscription download and $1.88 for an "on demand". Regardless of cost of credits.

DT is 30% - 50% based on image performance level. The more the image is downloaded the higher the commission you get per download.
FT has a system based on your color level (like IS canisters) and size of the image licensed. The percentages work out to 25% - 46% (non-exclusive) across 8 levels for regular downloads. Subscribtions are .30 cents to .46 cents depending on your color level.

The issue is that my keywords are listed (IPTC) in the box but when I click "Add", nothing happens. Is this an issue only for me or are others having the same problem? Even if I delete all the keywords and then paste/type them in the "Add" button still does not function.

They have always sent me an email stating that the money would be deducted and why. I've had both "suspicious transaction" and "returned file". This was back when I was exclusive.

Another question..

I accepted all the partners but after i upload, i seem to have to manually select all my photos and then select the partner again "pending partner approval" icon for the partners to show.  Is there a way to have this happen automatically?  As well the choosing the Microstock option?

Go to the image edit page. At the bottom there is a checkbox for each partner. Select the partners that you want your images to show up at automatically.