Quote from: nopow on April 07, 2011, 13:32

I'd say "anger" is justified. We signed up with the promise of a certain commission rate, we put up with their lousy site, and we were rewarded with a 25% paycut.

At least get your math right, if you make 25K a year at IS then your pay cut is 5%-10% .
If % is what bothers you, go exclusive and make 40% .

Are you serious? Going from the former rate of 20% to the new rate of 15% is a 25% paycut. This is what the majority of contributors experienced.

I've been getting those invites too. The fact that I can't understand the site raises too many concerns for me. There's no way for english-speakers to track their sales. They just send you that data over email. So basically, they could pay you whatever they want. On the other hand, it might be one of those things that ends up being really profitable. If anyone wants to give it a try, let us know how it goes.

Probably carrying on as usual. I'm as pissed as everyone else, but they got me right where they want me. I'm a full-time contributor and I rely on my IS income, as it's my top earning site. Any change in my uploading pattern would be a bad business move. They know it. And they know that I know it.

I would, however, be interested in participating in some kind of organized strike, but it would have to be on a mass scale. If Yuri took the lead on something like this, then contributors would follow and it would force changes in istock, or drive their buyers to other fairer-paying sites. But I think it would have to be Yuri - the importance of his portfolio to the site and his influence on the community can not be underestimated.

Meanwhile, I do what I can by telling as many buyers as I can that there are other sites out there with fairer prices and fairer payouts.