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Hi,

Are the site wide issues affecting payments?  I got notice that I'd been paid about a week back.  No money has showed up in my paypal yet.  Sent email reminders and waiting for response.

1:07 - "We have to modify our commission split to bring us in line with the competition"

In other words, everyone else is taking a grotesque amount from the photographer, if we are going to compete, we need to as well. 

50% is still good and what I'd call fair but it is still a big disappointment seeing them pressed to do this.  Interestingly he corrects the interviewer when she says that alamy is getting 10% more.. he corrects her saying "10 more percentage points".. really Alamy is getting a 25% increase in the share of a sale which is a seriously big amount.  All I have to say is hopefully they do something smart with it.

I didnt quite get the comparison to other sites,  think he named shutterstock and some others and compared alamy commission to them.  That argument doesnt work for me because shutterstock (as an example) sells tons more content for me than alamy, so the turnover makes up the numbers.  Alamy in comparison sellls much less.. its only worthwhile being in there because of the much better contributor cut.  Not happy they're reducing it

I think there's some kind of system there.  When I first started with 123RF the review times seemed to be few days at least.  Now I find them to be one of the fastest, usually within a day the pics seem to be reviewed and online.  Wish you success with 123RF!

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Dont know about the 24-105 but I use the 24-70 f/2.8 L and the 70-200 f/4 L usually with 5D markII and between them I got pretty much everything that I need covered for stock.  The 70-200 is tack sharp but the 24-70 doesn't lag too behind either. 

Congratulations. You continue to inspire ... wish you great success! 

Here are some statistics from our backend at PeopleImages.com from today :. Just wanted to celebrate a bit, since my sales are down on almost all other sites.
Peopleimages.com: 5 months in, $0 spent on marketing (to come later) and increases in sales by almost 100% per month. (Still low actual monthly sales, but with days like today, getting much closer to something that might actually go into profit one day)

Clients report two things they like:
The site is super fast and userfriendly. They are tired of waiting for pages to load on fotolia, dreamstime, istock, shutterstock, etc.
Customer support is extremely helpful and friendly.

Anyway. A little celebration. Y