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Bigstock.com / Re: W-8BEN form never been reviewed
« on: June 21, 2021, 13:04 »
Ok,
I sent a message to the support team using the contact form of the site, i hope it's the best way to reach someone at the team, if the team is not a stupid AI or other Zuckerberg entity (thanks to Roger Waters).

Any luck?

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It's not like, images with less than 4 downloads are bringing you bunch of money, so you can get 5$ for each selected or you can have them sit in your port for free.

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Bigstock.com / Re: W-8BEN form never been reviewed
« on: June 17, 2021, 13:14 »
I've got 32$, but still waiting for tax approved bacuse I don't want to pay 30% taxes.

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Bigstock.com / Re: W-8BEN form never been reviewed
« on: June 17, 2021, 10:43 »
Same here, I updated tax in December 2020 and nothing, now I updated it again about week ago thinking something was wrong the first time and still nothing.

I guess I should send them e-mail.

Whats the email?

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Then don't nominate any pictures. You have a choice. Problem solved.

I nominated everything that meets criteria. Because I don't want to go through my portfolio and checking every single image. Let Adobe do the work for me. Also, I don't expect much images to be accepted, maybe few at most. And just because a few of my images will be offered for free, I can't see how that could kill my otherwise "crazy sales" at other sites. I mean, you have an argument there, but is higly unlikely. I had 200$, 300$ gross sales on Alamy and the same images are offered on every single ageny. Those who shop on SS will buy at SS and won't be like "Hey let's google for that image if I can find it free elsewhere". Thats my opinion on it.

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Honestly, most sales from other agencies comes from subscription, and customers never use all the photos they can, so there comes the money from, from unused subscriptions. It's not like, they're going to search if there is that one particular image for free on Adobe.

I find those arguments just ridicilous.

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Canva / Re: Negative earnings anyone
« on: May 18, 2021, 19:21 »
My amount is ok.

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iStockPhoto.com / Stats for April are in
« on: May 17, 2021, 13:52 »
So, the wheel of fortune has arrived, pretty good month here, best in almost a year due to one higher earning sale.

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Alamy.com / Re: Commission lowered to 20%
« on: May 17, 2021, 09:24 »
I think it was net, but not sure, I just quickly went through it, I saw some mentioning of net....

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Alamy.com / Re: Commission lowered to 20%
« on: May 17, 2021, 09:05 »
Kind of hard reaching 250$ mark when you get sales like this:

11/5/2021       RF   0.27   -0.19   0.08
14/5/2021       RF   0.25   -0.15   0.10
17/5/2021       RF   3.45   -2.41   1.04

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Adjustment on SS
« on: May 13, 2021, 10:07 »
I got my first today, fortunately it's only -$0.14

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5 MB
1608 x 1068 pixels
459KB compressed
Bulk discount, flat rate   $ 0.27

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How can you have stats for April for iStock, when earnings are yet to be published around 20th of May?

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Seems like AS just got busted.

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Earnings for Mar'21
« on: April 21, 2021, 11:51 »
Now it's not "Loading data " anymore. Now it's error - "Unexpected error -  error may be transient but has been logged. If you continue to encounter problems, you can contact customer support."


Ok, we're now back at February earnings.

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Earnings for Mar'21
« on: April 21, 2021, 11:21 »
Now it's not "Loading data " anymore. Now it's error - "Unexpected error -  error may be transient but has been logged. If you continue to encounter problems, you can contact customer support."

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General - Top Sites / Re: Canstock Payment
« on: April 14, 2021, 08:39 »
I've never had any issues.

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Canva / Re: Canva, what's the plan now?
« on: April 13, 2021, 04:05 »
I think you are correct. I've made 88,5$ in February and 145,02$ in March, so I should get 163,4$ this month after taxex. In reality I got 158,34$.

In january I've earned  92,98$ so 7,32$ short of my double March earning, which would be 100,3$. Despite 7,32$ short I've got paid for January 70,31$ (100,3$ - 30% taxes)

Now if I calculate my February and March earning which is 233,52$ (before taxes) minus those 7,32$ I was short for double earnings in January, the sum would be 226,2$. After taking out 30% taxes, the exact sum would be 158,34$ which is exactly the amount, I was paid this month.

So basically, those 7,32$ that they added to my balance in January, the took it away this month.

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Canva / Re: Canva, what's the plan now?
« on: April 12, 2021, 10:05 »
So the March earnings were posted a few days ago. My best month there, almost triple from my last years March earnings and also best earner for March of all agencies.

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Canva / Re: Canva, what's the plan now?
« on: March 30, 2021, 10:23 »

so you totally believe everything the other agencies tell you about sales?  every week it seems it's another agencies night in the barrel.  at least canva is doing something - why do you support other agencies that give you ZERO from  their unused subscriptions, etc?

I am all for the idea of splitting a percentage of total sub payments between contributors based on how many downloads each contributor gets. It is much better than Shutterstocks new payment structure where we do indeed get zero from unused subs and SS gets to pretend they pay a much larger percentage to use than they actually do.
 
This isnt what is happening with Canva. They are paying out an amount each month, the level of which which they get to decide on with zero transparency, and without any indication of how they come up with the figure. I cant believe you are defending it and not pushing for better terms. Why would you support a business relationship where one side gets to 100% set the terms like that? Why not try and negotiate for a better deal. Its weird to me.

It's not, that we don't like transparency, but, even if they put out how they calculate it, what difference would it make? They can change those calculations in a heartbeat and you couldn't do crap about it. Just like with shutterstock. They basically cut sub royalties overnight, where did negotiations came in, remind me?

At the end of the month, all that matters are $$, and Canva for me it's one of the top tiers. And that's the only thing that matters.

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123RF / Re: Do you make $100/month at 123RF?
« on: March 03, 2021, 14:15 »
I've always been paid on time, usually around 15th, or maybe a day or 2 later.

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123RF / Re: What is wrong with 123RF
« on: March 01, 2021, 14:18 »
January and February combined together were my two best first and second month together since 2016.

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I just thought, it was funny, that this article came up ~2 days later after this thread started

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123RF / Re: Is this the oldest refund ever
« on: February 16, 2021, 11:19 »
Maybe it was from same customer? Anyway, I checked, and I also gad 1 refund, not the same date though Downloaded: 2020-03-15

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