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Messages - goober
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« on: January 21, 2014, 00:04 »
Yeah, I'm getting killed. Finally gonna drop the crown because there's no way I'll make LESS going indie.
I respect your work Blamb. Kind of glad to hear it's not just me but it's disappointing at the same time.
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« on: January 20, 2014, 23:21 »
I dropped a Redeemed Credit level starting Jan1st. Even with the drop I'm still way down on downloads and royalties compared with Jan 2013. You'd think rather than leaving the 2011 Redeemed Credit Targets they should revise them down as they well know sales are down across the board.
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« on: January 16, 2014, 20:19 »
Illustration is now accepting 999images per 24hrs. Used to be 999/168hrs. I'm not sure when this change happened but it can only be a mistake or to benefit some large clipart factory to push through their crapola in a timely manner.
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« on: January 11, 2014, 05:58 »
Once again I call for an Istock accounting ledger page for each contributor. The Account page must be a true ledger of customer payment, iStock deductions, contributor portion. Do this for each transaction in the contributors account. Istock has the data to do the accounting - just make it transparent to each contributor. It's the only way for us to gain any confidence in the Istock accounting system now.
I Totally agree! We need a professional accounting system because we're making our living on this blind trust system and its not good enough.
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« on: December 18, 2013, 07:49 »
Speaking of google rankings. Why does canstock feature at the top of most google image searches? IStock only turns up on obscure searches. What is canstock doing that the others aren't?
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« on: December 17, 2013, 09:49 »
OVERSUPPLY!!!!! Welcome to the fray.
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« on: December 04, 2013, 21:09 »
Did you tell him how to disable it?
No. I told him how the backend is all stuffed as well.
That doesn't seem very helpful.
You're right. I think I need to do something else.
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« on: December 04, 2013, 21:06 »
Did you tell him how to disable it?
No. I told him how the backend is all stuffed as well.
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« on: December 04, 2013, 21:05 »
I've posted it here hoping that istock gets the message.
I doubt anyone from iStock besides Lobo looks at this forum, even many of the exclusives that used to be on here aren't anymore. If you want to them to change anything there are threads open on iStock or you could sitemail an admin or contact contributor relations.
I thought you were istock.
Sorry to disappoint just an exclusive contributor. Like I said, I doubt anyone from there pays attention to what's going on here.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight. (wink,wink)
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« on: December 04, 2013, 21:03 »
I received this from a friend of mine who is a top tier graphic artist. I didn't ask for this information. He wrote to me with this comment.
"BTW I forgot to mention that the new browsing user experience on iStock is a shocker!!! I dislike it so much Id switch services just because of that. You cant browse anymore without big popover thumbnails in the way even when you do want to see the popover I mostly get the wrong image showing up. Horrible!!!"
I've posted it here hoping that istock gets the message.
If he's a buyer, it would be better if he'd contact iS directly pointing out that it's so bad they should disable it by default.
But I'm not sure that they care for the views of buyers much more than those of contributors.
Most people don't complain. He mentioned it to me as he knows that I'm producing for iS.
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« on: December 04, 2013, 20:43 »
I've posted it here hoping that istock gets the message.
I doubt anyone from iStock besides Lobo looks at this forum, even many of the exclusives that used to be on here aren't anymore. If you want to them to change anything there are threads open on iStock or you could sitemail an admin or contact contributor relations.
I thought you were istock.
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« on: December 04, 2013, 19:44 »
I received this from a friend of mine who is a top tier graphic artist. I didn't ask for this information. He wrote to me with this comment.
"BTW I forgot to mention that the new browsing user experience on iStock is a shocker!!! I dislike it so much Id switch services just because of that. You cant browse anymore without big popover thumbnails in the way even when you do want to see the popover I mostly get the wrong image showing up. Horrible!!!"
I've posted it here hoping that istock gets the message.
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« on: December 04, 2013, 19:37 »
Oh my! Can it be true? Stats bars with only two days delay are back!
It would be great if we could get a reporting system like paypal or ebay or like my bank where every single line item is detailed by date and time. To know what sort of credit the item was purchased with and what royalty rate was used. To sort by date inputs and have printable PDFs of the results.
Maybe one day when the debt is paid off they'll be able to do such things.
These might be nice, but far more important is making sure the site stays stable for buyers and making sure buyers know they can turn off the still-annoying loupe. (Is this the 'improved' version?). I'd be nervous in case they made these welcome stats available for us and the whole selling side collapsed.
But in fact, you know your royalty rate anyway, so that's not needed; every line item has date and time (in My Uploads), (although that peculiar and eternal EL bug still applies, AFACS) and you can check the credit value with Sean's app (and anyway, there's nothing we can do about it, so why do we need to know? I only check if a sale seems abnormally low just to see how low credits are going for.)
And that bottom line is even with all that info in place, you're just taking their word for it, so if you're suspicious now, all of that wouldn't really help.
I miss seeing if files are going into private lightboxes (or not, in the case of new files). And I'm now realising that I would like to know what keywords files are being sold by.
Well, they have all this information in a database. I don't understand why they can't make it more flexible. Why do I have to use an app Sean made to find out what credit was used? Going through every image one by one in my uploads is impractical because you only see the total royalties but not the amount for that sale. Digging through every image to see what the last payment was is just too time consuming. They could also provide us with graphs for image views compared with sales.
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« on: December 03, 2013, 06:25 »
I'm not sure if there was an email telling the artists that it was going to happen. It would be nice if they did send one.
My take on it is that they are trying to get a buying frenzy going. People get excited by the prospect of cheaper prices and buy more than they intended. My sales numbers over those two days were about 70% extra but dollar wise I'm under by about 15% over the two days. If I'm down in dollar terms I guess istock is too.
Also, it occurred before thanksgiving so maybe they are trying to pull some of the next weeks purchases forward.
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« on: December 03, 2013, 05:37 »
I met him once and conversed with him a few times on sitemail. He was a great artist to be sure.
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« on: December 03, 2013, 05:33 »
Oh my! Can it be true? Stats bars with only two days delay are back!
It would be great if we could get a reporting system like paypal or ebay or like my bank where every single line item is detailed by date and time. To know what sort of credit the item was purchased with and what royalty rate was used. To sort by date inputs and have printable PDFs of the results.
Maybe one day when the debt is paid off they'll be able to do such things.
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« on: November 20, 2013, 20:33 »
There is absolutely no defending Istock's incompetence on this one
And I will take that challenge:
It's not as important as making the site better for customers. It should not be a priority when they obviously have so much else on. The site is working much better than it was even a month ago (I hope I don't jinx things saying that). And in general everything seems to be going in the right direction at iStock. Obviously that goes against the mood here - but this place does tend to be over represented by people with an axe to grind. And yet even here, even the indies have had to admit that the evil PP suddenly seems to have come good.
It isn't crucial - we can still see what we have earned, which images have sold etc and we can assume that sooner or later it will be back in some form. Though frankly I would be quite happy with a monthly report updated as a batch FWIW.
Wrong. Not good enough. A proper company would take the sales data and make it assessable and searchable line item by line item. Not expect us to search through CSV docs that aren't even up to date. And the reason why so many negative complaints get aired here is because they shut any negative thread down on the istock forums. I love istock, Ive done well out of istock but Im allowed to say when something is not good enough.
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« on: November 20, 2013, 19:09 »
It worries me when simple bugs like this turn up out of the blue. I've have several emails over the years saying we've made a mistake in calculating your royalties, here's XXX$ in your account. I don't see this extra turn up I just have to assume it went in at some point.
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« on: November 20, 2013, 06:23 »
This may be old news to you guys but I go to Stats today and all I get is extended license bars, but no regular sales bars.
It makes me worry when they can't get this kind of small issue correct. I really wonder if we're getting the right amount of royalties. Any accountant would call this level of financial reporting a joke.
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« on: October 18, 2013, 08:58 »
Why did they introduce the similar images feature and then two weeks later it has been removed? It's like the goal posts are always moving with no consultation or even an announcement.
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« on: October 07, 2013, 18:32 »
For $160 USD I'll give you the same advise all lawyers give - STAY OUT OF COURT! Even if you're in the right going to court can be financially devastating.
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« on: October 05, 2013, 04:06 »
A few weeks ago I got 18 cents for one download and yesterday I got 51 cents for another. Tell Getty's debt holders that Istock is bottomfeederstock.
I'm expecting that the person that paid 18 cents will ask for a refund.
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« on: October 04, 2013, 09:04 »
They need to send in special forces to rough these criminals up. Black opps.... We know where you live!
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« on: September 19, 2013, 09:08 »
Having everything I produce approved is what I always wanted but I didn't want it for everyone else.
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« on: August 19, 2013, 21:11 »
Yes, for anyone who put a lot of time into links to lightboxes in the description this is bad news as the user has to scroll down to see the links.
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