I also found one that has a lot of my photos:

https://www.freepik.com/author/solidstocks

 

After a few more emails sent to them....

Hi

The author has been blocked and his content removed from our site. Please allow 24 hours for the images to disappear from our site.

Regards


Copyright Department

my question is:

b) curious also - how are you finding your assets/finding out the ones they've taken?

thanks!

I have some specific images and so they are easy to find. A simple search immediately brings them to my attention.

Hi,

I wrote a review on google maps. They even replied to me saying that they "just answered my emails". I edited that yes, they did reply but they didn't solve my problem.

Today I saw a $10 payment in my account - "ASCRL Summer Distribution - DEC 2022"....
Very interesting....

 

From Alamy:


Hi Sebastian,

As you are aware we are paying back contributors 100% commission and a top up for the sales that happened in September. Regarding the sales you have recently seen in December these are not additional sales by the distributor and is an error in the way it has been displayed in your balance of account.

We are aware of this and checking this with our billing team, once the changes have been corrected when will let you know.
 

Kind regards,

Chantelle

Sorry to change the subject a bit I couldn't find the Alamy thread about sales for cents.
Having received another apologetic email from Alamy a couple of weeks ago along with a promise to pay a 100% commission on the Chinese distributor sales which they acknowledged shouldn't have happened in the first place due to being opted out, Alamay have sold another 17 of my images on 28/12/2022 for a grand total of $1.10. (gross)
How many more times will we have to go through this until they fulfil their promises to respect our choice to opt out of such sales.

Same here 

Right a few days after I got the email from them telling me I would be paid 100%

"Hi Sebastian,

 

After working with the distributor and as a gesture of good will, we are now going to rebill these images as a top up payment in your account, with the sale price being slightly higher than previously. These aren�t new licenses but are �top up� payments and you will see this reflected in your account over the coming days. This top up payment will also include the 100% commission that we were due to pay back to you from the corresponding sale(s) in September. Once again we�re sorry that this happened and apologise for any inconvenience caused.

 

Many Thanks

Louise"


How can we have even a little trust in such companies?? Basically they are liars with no respect for our work!

 

Huge drop in earnings last few months. Huge! I will wait few more weeks and if earnings not get recovered, I will delete all images.

The same thing happens also to me... For several months now only one sale.... Very strange.
I'm trying to make that $50 and then close my account with them.

 

over on the Alamy forum they posted

https://discussion.alamy.com/topic/15988-sales-to-china/page/2/

"
Hi All,

 

We're very sorry that due to a technical error on our part some of you who have opted-out of distribution are seeing image sales on your account via distribution sales.

 

We are aware of the issue that these sales shouldn't have happened for those opted-out of distribution, and we're investigating to establish what happened so we can resolve this as soon as possible. We'll be paying all contributors 100% of the commission from these sales. If you think you shouldn't have seen these distribution sales on your account, you can email [email protected] however we will be getting in touch with everyone affected once we have a clearer picture on the matter.

 

Thanks,

 

Alamy

"

I got a bunch of distro sales from China for 22 to 2 cents for which I get 5 to 0 cents. I'm opted out of China this year. Plus 2 cent sales for which the photographer gets 0 is never ok. They need to put a floor on the amount the photographer gets. It doesn't have to be very high, but it should definitely not be 0.

I just received the same answer from them.... 

I think it should at least be an optout for selling images to russia when shutterstock dont seem to have any problens selling.

Or maybe all images bought in russia going directly to aid Ukraine.

Good idea 

Quote from: Sebastian Radu on July 01, 2022, 03:44

I opted out on first of April and, again, I had yesterday 10 distribution sales... I asked them couple of weeks ago why am I still having these sales...

Quote

Hi Sebastian,

 

The image was downloaded by our distributor before you�d opted out of the Distribution scheme in April. Many of our distributors have long lead times and the sale has only just been reported to us.

 

Kind regards

Ellie

So, for how long I will still receive these "distribution" sales... I have no idea...

 

I was about to file a complaint when a saw your post. Let's see how many months it'll take to clear those pre-april sales.
0,01 out of 0,05 sale is simply outrageous. I have more than a hundred of those for june. Alamy really had our best interest in mind when they made a deal with those distributors, didn't they?

I still think it would be a good idea to send them all emails with our complaints...

Quote from: MatHayward on June 06, 2022, 13:08

Starting tomorrow, June 7 some of you will have the opportunity to re-nominate photos that are currently in the Free collection, or to nominate new photos for consideration. The window to nominate your photos will be open until June 22.

Hi Mat, thanks for the heads up.

What defines "some of you"?

Because when I look in the contributor portal I see no changes so I will not have the opportunity then, I guess.

I have the same questin as you

I've had quite a lot of food photography sell on FAA.  They can sell as wall art for kitchens and dining rooms, holiday food (Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine, Easter, etc) does well for greeting cards, I've sold several as jigsaw puzzles, a cake printed on a tapestry (of all things!). Heck, someone even purchased one of my candy photos printed on a shower curtain. So you never know.

Thanks for the encouragement! I'm really going to try to see if I can "squeeze" anything out of the photos I already have.

 

Same problem.. I stopped uploading pictures as soon as I had the first such sales, couple of month ago. Next month I will try to get out of all those "profitable" sales. If I still have such sales, Alamy will have the same fate for me as Shutterstock ... I'll delete the account and that's it.
Eventually, solutions will be found for us as well. Everything is cyclical. I hope