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GLStock / Re: Sudden rise of sales
« on: January 18, 2014, 18:50 »

They did mention last year that the new Google Images layout was taking away lots of traffic. So it's not your portfolio ;)

But you're right; easy uploading, good commissions...It's still a site that deserves our support, no matter the number of sales.

That's an interesting point of view  :D

Well okay, at least if sales are > 0 ;)

1802
And once again they're leaving us in complete darkness for another whole weekend about how much they're going to claw back. Their laziness and complete lack of punctuality is crazy.
Don't we know, deep down, that the clawback is going to be almost exactly the extra we made, beyond what we had come to expect? In my case, almost exactly 50%.

Yes, but I don't know how much extra I made. I have an estimated guess, but I'd just like to know some exact numbers ASAP.

1803
GLStock / Re: Sudden rise of sales
« on: January 18, 2014, 13:16 »
I have had three sales in January, it was unexpected

As I had no sales last year I asked them if there was some problem with my portfolio.
They promised me that from January 2014 things we go better.

If this site really sales it could become the best one: easy to upload, good commissions, etc

Let's see!

They did mention last year that the new Google Images layout was taking away lots of traffic. So it's not your portfolio ;)

But you're right; easy uploading, good commissions...It's still a site that deserves our support, no matter the number of sales.

1804
GLStock / Sudden rise of sales
« on: January 18, 2014, 09:13 »
I never had much sales on GLStock, but December and January have been surprisingly good for a low earner (especially considering their RPD). Has anyone else experienced a sudden rise in sales or am I just lucky?

1805
And once again they're leaving us in complete darkness for another whole weekend about how much they're going to claw back. Their laziness and complete lack of punctuality is crazy.

1806
iStockPhoto.com / Uploading issues
« on: January 17, 2014, 09:58 »
Lo and behold, Istock manages to screw something up again.

All of a sudden, upload is broken.

And this message from Lobo is hilarious:
"We only provide FTP uploads for Video. We haven't ever provided FTP for the other file types. I have no idea why we haven't ever considered FTP for photo but I'm sure there is a good enough reason considering we haven't had the option thus far."

Every other microstock site has FTP, but iStock has a "good enough reason" not to use it  ::) (Failing IT department, perhaps.)

1807
MicrostockSubmitter / Re: Updates
« on: January 17, 2014, 09:42 »
Istock uploading seems to be broken, it keeps on submitting over and over again (goes from 100% back to 0%, to 100% again, etc.).

(Might be a site issue, though.)

Edit: Okay, it IS a site issue, please ignore my post ;)

1808
What happened to: "somewhere next week we'll send everyone an e-mail"?

1809
I posted it on istock forum but it was deleted instantly. But here they can't do anything

After reading this article it's become clear that this is a fraud. They desperately looking how to reducing debt. And I don't want to pay for that.

https://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-downgrades-Getty-to-B3-from-B2-Outlook-is-Stable--PR_285298

P.S I don't understand why they delete my post on istockpoto forum. Because it's not a secret information. Everybody can find it and read.

After all this I've decided to start delete my portfolio from istockphoto. I don't believe them any more.

I don't think it's fraud. They're just incompetent.

1810
My blood is boiling. I can never trust iStock again (not that I ever did). If there's a big bunch of sales, it's credit card fraud and the money gets refunded. If the PP royalties for ONE SINGLE MONTH turn out to be rather good, it's an overpayment.

It's as if they don't want us to to make any decent money.

1811
Shutterstock.com / Re: Should I be angry at shutterstock ??
« on: January 08, 2014, 17:55 »
I dont feel its right for ss to charge us for a service which finally benefits them with better photographers and better stock photographs.  I believe it should be free and considered an investment in their workforce (which is us), ultimately their business is to sell our stock images not make money giving courses. 

Bollocks. It's a service they offer. Either pay for it, or leave it. They don't owe you anything. Why should they give lessons away for free? These lessons are not necessarily an investment for them, since you can also use your newly acquired knowledge tp upload better photos to other agencies.

1812
Lobo has banned me twice for simply making a -slighty cynical- remark about some kind of problem that popped up at iStock. I was never rude, nor was I out of line. If freedom of speech is considered important at a forum, then Lobo is a horrible moderator.

I understand that dealing with frustrated contributors (or customers) can be hard, but it's his job to always be polite, explanatory and professional. And he simply isn't.


1813
123RF / Re: 123 is the next one which kicks the bucket?
« on: January 04, 2014, 09:37 »
I dont want to have my stuff surrounded by such a big amount of lousy work, embeded in even worse coded environment.
I like it much more to be in a agency with other good artists than to standout because the rest is crap.

So, in other words, you don't want to stand out from the crowd, and you'd rather have strong competitors stealing sales from you?

1814
Since they don't mention the PP from November (December), I assume this probably means they paid us too much. I KNEW this was too good to be true! Unbelievable.

It's always, ALWAYS the same bogus retard problems at iStock.

1815
iStockPhoto.com / Re: iStock PP has started for November
« on: December 29, 2013, 17:57 »
Number of sales is slighty down, but the most alarming thing is the lower RPD compared to last month. 

1816
iStockPhoto.com / Re: iStock PP has started for November
« on: December 29, 2013, 10:01 »
I've sent a support ticket. I want to know what's going on. I'll probably get a canned response.

1817
iStockPhoto.com / Re: iStock PP has started for November
« on: December 28, 2013, 17:04 »
I think October PP sales were a one-time special month only, and now it's back to the normal, low-RPD. I always considered October's PP sales completely out of range compared to 'normal' PP sales.

However, they should give an explanation as to what happened.

We are not talking about a few contributors.. everybody,  without exception,  had a good month.. and now everybody is having a bad month.. what's the deal here?

I'm not saying it was about a few contributors.

1818
iStockPhoto.com / Re: iStock PP has started for November
« on: December 28, 2013, 13:21 »
I think October PP sales were a one-time special month only, and now it's back to the normal, low-RPD. I always considered October's PP sales completely out of range compared to 'normal' PP sales.

However, they should give an explanation as to what happened.

1819
iStockPhoto.com / Re: iStock PP has started for November
« on: December 28, 2013, 08:35 »
Yeah, what happened to the big sales?

1820
Bigstock sucks big time and my low earnings have been roughly the same as last year.

1821
Doesn't it give you the same results if you'd search for illustrative AND editorial? In my experience, a keyword phrase limits the possibilities of finding an image, since the phrase must be typed exactly as it is keyworded.

1822
iStockPhoto.com / Re: November and December sales
« on: December 22, 2013, 08:22 »
Kind of stupid they couldn't run the PP sales this weekend so we could cash out our money before the end of the year...

1823
iStockPhoto.com / Re: November and December sales
« on: December 19, 2013, 20:25 »

I think the OP was only meaning the blue bits, i.e. sales directly out of iStockphoto.

Exactly.

1824
iStockPhoto.com / Re: November and December sales
« on: December 19, 2013, 16:14 »
I cannot say as I do not see the PP sales   >:(

What about your iStock-only sales bar (the blue one)?

1825
iStockPhoto.com / November and December sales
« on: December 19, 2013, 15:25 »
Is it just me or is anyone else having a back-to-back Worst Month in two years as well?


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