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« on: April 17, 2013, 05:25 »
Yes, I contacted them yesterday. Still waiting for an answer... It might be helpful if more contributors would contact them. So if anybody's images are affected, please don't hesitate to contact that travel agency. 
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« on: April 16, 2013, 19:39 »
Hello folks, I have found an image of mine being shared on Facebook in high resolution (2048px) by a travel agency https://www.facebook.com/ruefaThey have lots of high-quality high-resolution travel images being shared by hundreds of Facebook users. The images seem to have been bought legitimately by them, but they seem to not know or neglect the fact that they are not allowed to post images in this resolution on the web. You might want to check if your images are affected too (if you bother at all)..
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« on: March 27, 2013, 12:40 »
Well this is true for standard business handshake type images, but in my case I have some niche travel images in my port and by deleting those from 123RF I reduce the buyer's choice, hopefully driving him away to other agencies... 
You can believe that if you want to.
I work in a place that uses a lot of stock images, so let me give you the perspective of one "buyer". Someone at my place of employment decided a while pack that BigStock was the place we'd purchase all of our stock images. They purchase a big pack of credits every few months or as needed. When we need an image, we use BigStock... period.
If there was an amazing image that was absolutely perfect for our project, we wouldn't know it existed if wasn't on BigStock.
I would imagine that same thing holds true for a lot of buyers. They have an agency of choice where they have an account and that is their first, if not only, place that they look for images.
123RF has loyal customers and they will not track you down at another agency if you delete your portfolio, because they will never know you even existed in the first place.
Thanks for the insight. Everybody has the right to have his own opinion. I will just ignore your personal comments.
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« on: March 27, 2013, 11:11 »
I can understand why some people are frustrated, but why delete your portfolio? Stop uploading if you don't think it's worth your time, but deleting approved images seems silly.
Simple. 123RF takes away sales from other agencies that pay-out a lot faster.
The trouble is that if I remove my port from anywhere it won't make the slightest difference to anybody except for me as I will lose out on my earnings there. I'm 100% sure that no buyer is going to follow me around looking for my images is they are no longer at one particular site. Unfortunately that is the truth of the matter.
Well this is true for standard business handshake type images, but in my case I have some niche travel images in my port and by deleting those from 123RF I reduce the buyer's choice, hopefully driving him away to other agencies...
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« on: March 26, 2013, 18:05 »
I'm right now in the process of deleting my images from 123RF. Not sure yet if I will close the account or just leave it there with 0 images. But before I delete everything I wanted to retrieve my earnings statistics, preferably also with earnings per image. Just for my future reference, in case I need it one day... But it seems they don't offer any downloadable statistics like a csv file or something similar. Or am I too stupid to find it? 
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« on: March 26, 2013, 09:30 »
Sales are a little worse than 2012. It's ok, considering the fact that I deleted some of my best / most unique files on Jan 1, 2013 when the RC system went online and sent me down to level 1. I also stopped uploading new stuff on the same day.
Finally reached payout few days ago and will close the account shortly.
I think I could have reached level 2 quite easily by now if I didn't delete anything and kept uploading, but even a 35% cut of their very low prices just doesn't seem feasible to me..
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« on: February 08, 2013, 19:04 »
I asked them if I would leave immediately, would they pay me my 12$ earnings or if I'd have to wait until my earnings reach 30$ to get my money and close my account. This is the answer I got: Hello,
We understand your concern.
One of the reasons behind this change is to provide our contributors with a higher chance to earn higher royalties. Subscriptions can allow more downloads, and higher total earnings, and you will still make the current amount from downloads made using credits.
We encourage you to stay, allowing the chance to see your earnings grow.
We cannot issue payouts beneath $30, if you close your account now you would be forfeiting those earnings.
Please let us know how you would like to proceed.
Kindest regards.. So now I have to wait for another year or so to collect the remaining 18$, then I can leave BS. But stopped uploading immediately 
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« on: February 08, 2013, 18:39 »
Interesting... I must be doing better then the average . With a small port of around 80 images at SS I made 150 downloads last month and am now at around 50 downloads in this month. Port is only photos. But only my best photos are in the port, not many variations of the same subject.
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