38 cents

28 bucks

What the heck are we doing (have we done) to ourselves!

I dont know whats worse the money or the fact that we go around bragging about it?!?!?

Quote from: ouchie on November 20, 2012, 23:04

Seams like I'm blocked or you cant see my posts lately or you don't want to respond cause you have no rebuttal or defence in what i have been saying. but i way it anyway.

When are you people going to put on your big boy (and girl) pants on and stand up for yourselves!

I am not sure who this is directed to, but it's never a good sign when someone quotes Sarah Palin to try and win an argument.  Not to mention being unable to master spelling of basic words and sentence structures.  Sarah, I did not know you were doing microstock.  How are pictures of Alaska selling? 

If you notice, we are not all delighted with these changes.

I'll make you a deal.  You send me a check for $60k to cover my daughter's last two years of college, and I will quit all the unfair sites right now.  PM me if you need the name and address where to send the check. 

Lets see if this makes it on line and does not get blocked, again.

@  lisafx,

wow thanks for your nice words, great to see this response on Thanksgiving morning.

It was not directed towards you, it was for everyone on this forum.  don�t be so pompous to think everything is abt you!

Sarah Palin: I don�t think she was the one who coined that phrase? And the furthest thing from my mind was her?!

Wow, lisafx you are full of vile today. And I liked you. I think you were put up to this response. I have never seen you this mean, ever!

My my my, I must have touched a nerve or said something that you absolutely can not defend against. So you attack someones, spelling and sentence srtucture. Your back must be up against a wall. Very sad.

Why would I pay for your daughters college? Who are you to me?

I don�t need your address or name. I know your name and where you live, the next town over from me.

Then I guess I should have expected that kind of response from a Floridian.

So other then attacking me did you have a point to be made with this response???

My main point is: Just because some company�s dish it out does not mean you have to sit down to dinner WITH then. Acting as if they are family who care for you and your circumstance.

 If you do that�s a choice YOU made!

We all have created these company�s by accepting there terms, over and over again.

I say it again they will pay us nothing if they could!

Did you not notice how nervous and weasely Mr. Alamy is in that video?

He is nervous cause he is afraid we will all unite and say that�s it that�s the last straw, im pulling out!

that�s why I have been suggesting we ALL put on our big boy pants on and not stand idly by while we are repeatedly abused by these company�s.

AND worst of all is that you defend them!!!!!!!

Dont think u have any defence.
this applys here:
if microatock sites were farmers.....

Mr. microstock~~~~hey Bill would you like to help me harvest my 20.000 acre potato field, i will give u a 1lb sack of potatoes for every acre u pick?

dumb ass us~~~~~~~~~Geeeee whiiz yes id love to!!! (thinks to himself whiz ima gona b a farmer, Yiihaaaa!)

Mr. microstoc~~~~~thanks Bill for breaking your back bending over picking the potatoes out of the ground all day long. even though I'm taking all the risk operating the farm and your just getting potatoes for free basically. Id like to do you a little favor cause your sooo valuable to me. I'm gona give you these FREE 250 moomoo-cards but u gota pay the shipping! Think of all the ppl you can impress telling them you are now an official farmer. lucky you having a nice boss like me!

dumb ass us~~~~~~~~~~oh wow, thank you, thank you sooooo much! I'm not worthy.

us~~~~~~~~~~(thingking) what a nice guy that Mr microstock man is! you know what ima gona do, ima gona go out and buy me one of them thar new fangled machines (by Nikon that costs 6k) that u drive around in and it picks up the potatoes for you. now that i got a few sacks of potatoes, i can use some as a deposit! then next year i can make MORE $$$$$$$$$$!

Mr. microstock~~~~at home relaxing with a drink (thinking): man i shure did find a huge bunch of suckers out there in this world, theres one born every min. cant believe i got them to harvest my fields and only payed them a few potato sacks each. man life is good

dumb ass us a t home~~~~~~hunny give me  some paper and a pensssiel, ima gona do some maths and figure out my RPR (return per potato) ima made operating this here new biznes. and how much more i can make once i buy that new shinny Nikon potato picker contraption. din i tellya baby stick with me ima goin places. I think ima ready to quit my job at the coal mine!!!!!!

if microatock sites were farmers.....

Mr. microstock~~~~hey Bill would you like to help me harvest my 20.000 acre potato field, i will give u a 1lb sack of potatoes for every acre u pick?

dumb ass us~~~~~~~~~Geeeee whiiz yes id love to!!! (thinks to himself whiz ima gona b a farmer, Yiihaaaa!)

Mr. microstoc~~~~~thanks Bill for breaking your back bending over picking the potatoes out of the ground all day long. even though I'm taking all the risk operating the farm and your just getting potatoes for free basically. Id like to do you a little favor cause your sooo valuable to me. I'm gona give you these FREE 250 moomoo-cards but u gota pay the shipping! Think of all the ppl you can impress telling them you are now an official farmer. lucky you having a nice boss like me!

dumb ass us~~~~~~~~~~oh wow, thank you, thank you sooooo much! I'm not worthy.

us~~~~~~~~~~(thingking) what a nice guy that Mr microstock man is! you know what ima gona do, ima gona go out and buy me one of them thar new fangled machines (by Nikon that costs 6k) that u drive around in and it picks up the potatoes for you. now that i got a few sacks of potatoes, i can use some as a deposit! then next year i can make MORE $$$$$$$$$$!

Mr. microstock~~~~at home relaxing with a drink (thinking): man i shure did find a huge bunch of suckers out there in this world, theres one born every min. cant believe i got them to harvest my fields and only payed them a few potato sacks each. man life is good

dumb ass us a t home~~~~~~hunny give me  some paper and a pensssiel, ima gona do some maths and figure out my RPR (return per potato) ima made operating this here new biznes. and how much more i can make once i buy that new shinny Nikon potato picker contraption. din i tellya baby stick with me ima goin places. I think ima ready to quit my job at the coal mine!!!!!!

Quote from: velocicarpo on November 16, 2012, 09:07

Well, that doesn`t mean they have to raise their prices. I know you are a fanboy of SS, but if a company is making more Profit on the goods we supply I think a raise for us would be a good thing.

I'm a 'fan boy' of any well-managed microstock agency that delivers steady growth to my income over several years, doesn't cut commissions, doesn't do sneaky currency exchanges, doesn't lie to us and doesn't do dodgy claw-backs for supposed credit-card fraud. Hmmm *thinks really hard* __ that'll just be SS then.

Ok, we make $$ @ ss but lets be real.

STOP thanking them for the crumbs that fall off the table.

~~~~ss philosophy: start them with low pmts and keep them low, no raises for the masses!

What, we should say thank you for paying us 25c a dl!!!!!

why don't u do the math, figure out how much you made for the year and how much you made for ss for the year.

then tell me u r happy.

and what do you think they are going to do now that they r a public co.

Better get out the KY and bend over

you bunch of baffoons.

Oh yes ss we love you, please can i become exclusive with you so that u can rape me on a daily time schedule and i cant say ouch.

Please can i, can i, P L E A S E! ! ! ! ! ! ! 

So... if my pics are already up on P5 via 123rf.
I send P5 info to cancel 123rf becuse i will upload my pics myself, in order to get the better commish (1/2).
do i then realy have to upload all my pics?
Im thinking they are there already, why do i need to upload again?

OOOOOPPS, post removed due to language, i wsnt thinking, sorry. here it is cleaned up.


have not read the posts BUT-----------------the heck with-----------------------------STOCKFRESH!

What other co. you know that does not even review your inital port.   

Just tell me i stink and fail me! My port has been in review since they jst abt started. wasted time uploading to those (insert exxplative) relating to a bodily orifice.

I HATE new little co. (i know they were stockx) but now they are just another little new comp.

little co. jst wast your time uploading and then u get 2 sales a year.

bite me stock fresh

Thats the way i do it also but i get "internet cannot display web page" since the wknd.

i will just sent a support ticket.

Goos 2 know im not the only one.

tnks

Since the weekend i can get on to veer but i cant get into my dashboard.

is it just me?

thanks

Insert Quote

You can not change what is. Just deal with it.

I agree, too late now.
If when subs had just started, we all (or most) said "heck no, i will not upload to your site for sub prices". Then mabey something would be diffrent now.

BUT yes "You can not change what is. Just deal with it"- i agree.
What is the best thing to do now i think, is get as much out of every co. as we can. while this boat is still afloat.

Quote from: zenpix on December 16, 2011, 18:54

I say that cause prices can only go down...thats scarry.

Everyone has been saying that for several years, and prices continue to go UP. Even the cost of subscriptions have gone up (which has raised concerns for SS contributors since our commissions have been frozen). At some point you have to look at the facts, which show that prices have been going up. Dreamstime raises their rates every year. At Warmpicture, we don't try to under cut anyone. The buyers we do have seem more than willing to pay for quality. Our average selling price is over $6 per image, with 50% going to the photographer.

What we need are some of these smaller agencies (which many of us champion) to start raising their prices.

i dont know about that (I might b wrong?) but i dont recal any raises lately.
maybe some co's. have increased the cost to the customer (charging more) but they have kept the diffrence for themselves.

lets just ride this (watered down) gravy train till the end of the line.
and see where we end up.

Great, i was curious if people were actually getting sub sales yet.
comparativly speaking, 83c is not bad for subs?
For some reason (i think its the nice chunks of $$) i like Veer and wish the the best.

NYTumbleweeds:

FYI, my tax form was just confirmed and i was able to request my payout right away.

So if you cant then something is wrong.

nick