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Messages - Shelma1
2701
« on: January 03, 2014, 06:05 »
Inspectors' New Year's resolution, maybe? A couple of my B&W vectors were rejected because the inspector wanted "reference," though they accepted the color versions of the same art.
2702
« on: January 02, 2014, 13:53 »
"You? How'd your vectors do there last year?"
I think you have taken what I said too personally, I didn't mean to offend, just to point out how difficult it is to gauge progress by figures, sorry if it came over as personal.
Well, it seems by your icon over to the left that you don't do vectors, but somehow you found it necessary to post in a vector thread and attack the one person who (at that point) had actually responded to the OP's question.
2703
« on: January 02, 2014, 12:32 »
From a vector person's POV, I think you guys are beating yourselves up and second-guessing yourselves for no reason. Honestly, when an entire batch of my illustration jpgs are rejected for some ridiculous reason like "noise" while the vectors are accepted, it's clear to me the photo inspectors (or a few photo inspectors) are off their rockers. Either that or there's some incentive we don't know about for them to make mass rejections.
2704
« on: January 02, 2014, 12:25 »
I agree.
2705
« on: January 02, 2014, 12:15 »
I don't know what you consider a small number of sales. I make maybe 80-90 iStock sales per month, 1,000 PP sales. You? How'd your vectors do there last year?
Michele, have you been exclusive to iStock before, or you've been exclusive to none all the while?
No, never exclusive. So I have no idea how a direct exclusive/non-exclusive comparison would stack up. But it does sound like exclusives' sales have been dropping overall, while at least in my case the PP program really made a big difference in my earnings there. My iStock sales were stagnant, despite adding a couple hundred new images. Shutterstock still earns me a lot more than iStock, even with PP. But my port is much larger at SS.
2706
« on: January 02, 2014, 10:15 »
The U.S. has a lot of laws around the size, etc. representation of paper money.
2707
« on: January 02, 2014, 10:05 »
I don't know what you consider a small number of sales. I make maybe 80-90 iStock sales per month, 1,000 PP sales. You? How'd your vectors do there last year?
2708
« on: January 02, 2014, 08:47 »
Saying your income quadrupled is fairly meaningless from a comparison point of view.
Why? How'd you do, BTW?
2709
« on: January 02, 2014, 07:00 »
My income almost quadrupled at iStock, mostly thanks to PP. (not that I make a lot there.) Sorry. 
2710
« on: December 31, 2013, 14:51 »
Can't get to the Symbiostock forums, and my website is gone.
2711
« on: December 30, 2013, 13:06 »
There's always the danger that they'll 'discover' that October sales were 'wrong' and claw them back. It seemed odd at the time, that they'd ban exclusives from putting files there even if they wanted to, and shortly afterwards PP sales/prices seemed to soar.
This! For me at least October was the (positive) exception from the norm rather than November being the negative one. I think it's quite possible that they'll discover a "glitch in the matrix" or "gremlins in the basement" that screwed up October PP reporting (what with Halloween, and all  ).
What also could have happened in October was that they did some house cleaning and made a mass payment of PP royalties overdue from previous months for some reason or other. Maybe they had a "Get your credits now, pay six months later"-campaign going at some point...
Looking back, this seems to be the case. Though my number of downloads didn't vary tremendously in September, October and November, my earnings per DL were double in October. To me this means they either: A) under-report our earnings every month and in October the truth came out, or B) there's something off in October. Sadly, based on their past performance, I'm not sure which to believe.
2712
« on: December 28, 2013, 11:16 »
I sent this email to istock to ask for an explanation..
"Hello,
Please explain why october partner sales were decent and this months partner sales are abysmal.
this is going to be a court case if you don't provide a logical explanation.
Best Regards,
Cihan"
They do owe me an explanation.. I urge everyone to do the same.. Don't let them screw you like this.. We have the right to ask for transparency about why the sales were good last month, and suddenly awful this month.. Did they withdraw our files from those partner sites? Did customers stop using them?
Unfortunately, there will be no court case, and they won't provide any explanation.
There would be a court case if someone sued them. I'm thinking back to the month PP sales were late, and everyone ended up with two or three days where there was a steep plunge in PP sales. Only because there was an uproar on the boards did iStock look into it and "fix" it. What if nobody had complained? I simply cannot trust them.
2713
« on: December 28, 2013, 08:59 »
Sorry to say, but it seems fishy to me. My October sales were great, and then the next day, November 1, they suddenly dropped? Coming after the Christmas Eve Clawback (sorry, "refunds") in many people's ports, it's especially fishy. My most popular file of all time on iStock sold the most in November, but somehow PP sales plummeted.
November was my BME on Shutterstock. Same images.
I simply don't trust iStock to be honest about my sales any more, unfortunately.
2714
« on: December 27, 2013, 13:36 »
Oh, be fair. If it had been another company, this might have dragged on for weeks, especially over the Festive Season.
Yes. There will always be bugs popping up, but SS fixes things pretty quickly. Unlike some other site.
2715
« on: December 27, 2013, 12:02 »
90% of my port is gone..the ones that remain seem to be my best sellers.
2716
« on: December 26, 2013, 13:19 »
2+. I still have a few files on Fotolia and Veer, but I stopped uploading there years ago.
2717
« on: December 25, 2013, 07:19 »
Thanks for posting this, Monica, and Merry Christmas!
2718
« on: December 24, 2013, 17:20 »
Merry Christmas!
2719
« on: December 23, 2013, 18:53 »
Because some folks here were getting annoyed with continual Symbiostock threads, so the Symbiostock forum was started.
I'm sorry and I don't want to be rude, but it seems you're one of them and your posts are out of the topic and doesn't make sense, once my post is inside a Symbiostock sub-forum buit within MSG forum by MSG team. As you can confirm on the top of the page:
Eh. You'll find out otherwise when Leo reopens the forums.
2720
« on: December 23, 2013, 18:10 »
Because some folks here were getting annoyed with continual Symbiostock threads, so the Symbiostock forum was started.
2721
« on: December 23, 2013, 17:10 »
Yes...I guess Leo hasn't turned new registrations back on yet?
2722
« on: December 23, 2013, 15:45 »
Are you unable to use the Symbiostock forums?
2723
« on: December 23, 2013, 13:48 »
Just had a whole batch of jpgs rejected for "excessive noise," though they're just the jpg versions of my accepted vectors. No noise, of course. Just a cranky photo reviewer. Maybe photo reviewers need more coffee in the morning? I'm cranky without my caffeine.
2724
« on: December 23, 2013, 11:35 »
2725
« on: December 20, 2013, 19:40 »
I plan to do more drawing and uploading to really increase my portfolios, and less time working in ad agencies. I'm hoping to transition to illustration full time within the next two years. Then I'll move to a nice, warm climate.
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