Most places it will be like a 4 day weekend here.

I know about the 4th of July, but that's on Monday. Are ppl taking vacations earlier? 'cause yanks don't be buyin' sheat . Europe, as always is kickin a$$, but today even south America bought more from me, I got a single DL from the USA :s

Maybe they heard about how much you dislike them.

^^Yeah, but holidays should still start tomorrow in that case:s

Why wait to start. People been blowing off fireworks all week already in my neighborhood.

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Quote from: Slovenian on June 30, 2011, 17:27

I know about the 4th of July, but that's on Monday. Are ppl taking vacations earlier? 'cause yanks don't be buyin' sheat . Europe, as always is kickin a$$, but today even south America bought more from me, I got a single DL from the USA :s

Maybe they heard about how much you dislike them.

Lol, good 1! No, it's just more, than I'm making fun of them. I really watch too much Top Gear lately, it affects me

    What's that saying about biting the hand that feeds you...

Lots of people I know taking off all of next week.

I think the new Shutterstock Relevancy search has found me irrelevant.   

Pretty normal day sales-wise for me, actually.

Today I got some buyers from the US as well . But sales overall are a bit worse than usually (Friday is something in between the week days and weekend sales for me usually).

Is Tuesday a normal work day or still a holiday?

Hi Slovenian, it seems your are a little nervous because of the missing sales. Calm down and look at your sales at the end of the year not at the end of the day .

Checking your sales in microstock is like weighing yourself...don't do it every day. 

Checking your sales in microstock is like weighing yourself...don't do it every day. 

Or ever (in my case...) 

Canada has their national day on July 1, so that is another country not at the computers for a long weekend.

Canada? Where's that?

Just looking at the Shutterstock map, and there's definitely been a fall-off in North American sales.  Not completely dead, but more sparse than usual.   Thankfully Europe is actively buying, and tends to be a stronger market for me anyway, so I'm not losing too much.

I know about the 4th of July, but that's on Monday. Are ppl taking vacations earlier? 'cause yanks don't be buyin' sheat . Europe, as always is kickin a$$, but today even south America bought more from me, I got a single DL from the USA :s

I'm having the same day today, Europe kicking ass, Asia&Australia were good in the morning (CET), Africa and Latin America got a piece of the action as well, but just one of 28 DLs so far today from the states. Are they in recession again or what? I'm seriously asking that because IS is in a slump lately as well and there's supposed to be 75% of the buyers from USA.

curious I never had much sales from the USA at SS (other we don�t know I guess) but there from 9% to 16% (monthly %)

Dreamstime was very strong the first third of the month (with some nice credit sales too) but has stopped dead for the past week. 
Fotolia was dead in the beginning, picking up the past 10 days with steady sales (but small subs). 
123RF has really taken off with sales every few days, multiples on a day - just a few pennies behind IS, it's my #3 for the month so far.
IS is following it's usual odd pattern - I see a string of no-sale days followed by multiple sales on the same day, always 4 -5 days apart, never the same day of the week.  Dollar amount is less than half of last month
Got my first sale at Stockfresh too!

Exactly the same for me at DT and FT (although I had a few XXL sales in the last days), I've just made it to my first payout on FT a couple of days ago and I need less than a dollar to get my 1st payout on DT. While I'm gonna get to 36c on SS in August  . So I'm not sure if I should be happy about it. But I also didn't upload anything from Sep-Jun on DT and FT (that's most of my time in MS). I started on 123RF last month and got a 100 MB TIFF DL yesterday, which only amounts to pathetic 17.2$, but OTOH it really bumped my sales over there, which of course, are poor. SS really is making me more than all of the rest combined. Twice as much actually. I love SS

Quote from: leaf on July 03, 2011, 21:35

Canada has their national day on July 1, so that is another country not at the computers for a long weekend.

Canada? Where's that?

It's USA's 51st state. 

Seriously, then don't even have their own phone country code.

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Quote from: leaf on July 03, 2011, 21:35

Canada has their national day on July 1, so that is another country not at the computers for a long weekend.

Canada? Where's that?

It's USA's 51st state. 

Seriously, then don't even have their own phone country code.

I had no idea so many people here were such twits when it comes to geography. we're only the second largest country in the world in total area. you might also want to read about country codes before making such silly statements...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_calling_code

According to that it's +1 also....

Quote from: SNP on July 21, 2011, 08:22

I had no idea so many people here were such twits when it comes to geography. we're only the second largest country in the world in total area. you might also want to read about country codes before making such silly statements...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_calling_code

Actually I am very good in geography, and I know Canada very well. Still, Canada uses the same code as USA, therefore my joke.

And since we're talking about geography, Brazil is not a Spanish-speaking country and our capital is not Buenos Aires.

And why SNP gets "This user is currently ignored." status, for calling us Twits and having no sense of humor.

Although Canada is the second largest country in the world, the population of only 34 million barely merits a mention on the global scale. LOL

Quote from: SNP on July 21, 2011, 08:22

I had no idea so many people here were such twits when it comes to geography. we're only the second largest country in the world in total area. you might also want to read about country codes before making such silly statements...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_calling_code

Actually I am very good in geography, and I know Canada very well. Still, Canada uses the same code as USA, therefore my joke.

And since we're talking about geography, Brazil is not a Spanish-speaking country and our capital is not Buenos Aires.

I certainly wouldn't refer to Brazil as Spanish speaking, nor do I think they suddenly annexed Argentina's capital city...I don't know who did, but it wasn't me.

Anybody got anything on US sales? Nothing's changed for me, I know it's still a bit early for American buyers, but still, I got a couple of DLs from south America already.

my sales this week are messed......one good day, the rest up and down, up and down. I don't know what's going on so I'm just working and not worrying about it unless it lasts.

After an awesome July, it seems sales are slowing down, these first 3 days are rather slow. Yanks are buying though;)

Continue? When did you start? Not really trying to be offensive (but not trying not to be either) , I just like the term, and Brits are using it all the time and since I watch so many British TV shows I picked it up. Just like constantly making fun of Americans . I know lots of people here hate me for that. But I don't care . If they wouldn't be so oversensitive and had a sense of humour it wouldn't come to that. They'd respond with a joke and everything would be just fine .

And the worst thing of all is that we've come to that debate, when I was really saying something positive about them. They're buying, what's better than that? It's really a shame some (not meaning you in this case, it's ok to educate me, but this genrally happens over here) don't see the forrest for the trees .

I'm from the US, and the term yankee doesn't strike me as perjorative at all. But I'm in the western US and we're further disconnect from Civil War history than the east coast. We were fighting with Native Americans at the time...

Quote from: jsnover on August 04, 2011, 11:01

To continue your education in sensitivity to world cultures, you would want to avoid referring to people from the USA as Yanks or Yankees. Here, that term refers to people from the old Union states - usually said with something less than fondness by those from the former Confederate states. As in  Yankees!

Or it's a reference to a sports team.

As an expatriate Brit who used to use that terminology when I first came here (but they didn't withhold citizenship from me because of my former gaffes), I'm just sharing. I'm not in any way offended.

I like the Term "Yankees" too, but if you feel offended I am sorry and will change the term to "Estadounidense" (Spanish for "Unitedstatler". Here we cannot call them "americans" since "south americans" and "central americans" don`t want to be mixed up and may feel offended :-)

Indeed

Oh and by the way the dow dropped 513 points, worst drop since Oct 2008. That's probably some of the problem.

This seems to be turning into the 'who can we offend next next?' thread 

I'll pre-empt, and save someone the trouble.

Lots of love,
A Limey

Well, USAers, Canadians, Europeans - they're all "gringos", even in Brazil.

I was born in Texas but grew up in the north...I married an Illinois man. When we moved back to Texas he was referred to as an Yankee all the time. Well one of his friends finally figured out how to get them to shut up. He just looked at them and said  "If it wasn't for all us  Yankees, all you Texas would have been Mexicans" They pretty much let it go after that...at least to his face anyway....lol

That reminds me of a Canadian guy I know, when he was in Florida and all he would hear was Spanish, he arrived at his hotel and of course the staff was talking in Spanish too, so he asked "Are we allowed to speak English here?". And mind you, he was really upset.

You know what I find really interesting? Virtually no American in Texas (and all the states next to the Mexican border or Florida) doesn't speak a word of Spanish. How's that even possible? In my country everybody speaks at least one foreign language and almost everybody living close to the border speaks the other country's language fluently. Doesn't matter wether it's Italian, German, Hungarian, Croatian. I mean you Americans are so business oriented (the American dream!!!), so materialistic, those that don't speak spanish in the areas with large Latin populations are loosing out a lot - coz I know tens of millions of ppl in America don't speak English. Think of all the dollars you're loosing out . I'd like to at least know a few words so I could mess around with neighbours, coworkers, pool cleaners etc .

BTW don't they call you blancos as well?

You know what I find really interesting? Virtually no American in Texas (and all the states next to the Mexican border or Florida) doesn't speak a word of Spanish. How's that even possible? In my country everybody speaks at least one foreign language and almost everybody living close to the border speaks the other country's language fluently. Doesn't matter wether it's Italian, German, Hungarian, Croatian. I mean you Americans are so business oriented (the American dream!!!), so materialistic, those that don't speak spanish in the areas with large Latin populations are loosing out a lot - coz I know tens of millions of ppl in America don't speak English. Think of all the dollars you're loosing out . I'd like to at least know a few words so I could mess around with neighbours, coworkers, pool cleaners etc .

BTW don't they call you blancos as well?

LOLOL .... That's the point...there are more who don't speak English in America than do.

c�llate est�pido ...do you know what that means??? Shut Up Stupid....
(disclaimer: This is only a joke!!!!!!!!

You know what I find really interesting? Virtually no American in Texas (and all the states next to the Mexican border or Florida) doesn't speak a word of Spanish. How's that even possible?

I really do try and stay out of these threads, but as usual, Slovenian, you are spouting complete and total crap.  I live in Florida, and know a lot of Anglos who speak espanol pretty well.  Nearly all of us speak un poquito. My daughter has studied it for 7 years, speaks it (fairly) fluently, and just returned from Spain where she received excellent grades in the college she attended outside Madrid.  

Have you ever even been to Florida?  How do you imagine you know what we do or don't speak down here.

Aqui es la traduccion de este mensaje en espanol hecho por mi hija:

Usualmente yo trato de evitar estas tipas de conversaciones, pero, como siempre, Slovenian, no estas diciendo la verdad.  Yo vivo en Florida, y yo conozco a muchas personas gringas que pueden hablar Espanol asi asi.  Casi todos de nosotros hablamos un poquito.  Mi hija lo ha estudiado por 7 anos.  Ella puede hablar casi con fluidez, y acabo de retornar de Espana donde ella recibio notas muy buenas en la universidad que ella asistio cerca de Madrid.

Has visitado a Florida?  Como puedes imaginar que tu sabes lo que si o no hablamos aqui?

ETA:  Donna and PPDD beat me to it.  

Well nice to hear that. But really, how many ppl (%) do speak Spanish in those states?

Glad to have surprised you.

I can't speak for other states, the ones I don't live in (unlike some people....hint, hint), but in Florida nearly all the anglos I know speak some words and phrases in Spanish, but it is less common to find ones that are fluent.  In South Florida (Miami, FT Lauderdale) when I lived there, more anglos spoke Spanish than they do here in Tampa Bay.

And yes, there are some folks that are deeply offended to have to speak any language other than English in the US, but gradually as the population shifts that will probably taper off.  

I'll give you that people in the US seem more reluctant to speak other languages than folks in Europe - at least according to the Europeans I know.  But when you consider we live in a vast continent where more than 2/3 mostly speaks the same language, there is less of an imperative than if we lived in Europe, which has many countries with different languages closer together.  

I guess it's just your style, but the broad generalizations, and the assumptions you are making about places and people you have no experience of can be really annoying.

Notice I haven't put you on ignore, because some of your posts are quite enjoyable.  Just not the ones trashing us "Yanks".  Which BTW I do not take offense at being called.  

And yes, there are some folks that are deeply offended to have to speak any language other than English in the US, but gradually as the population shifts that will probably taper off.  

I'll give you that people in the US seem more reluctant to speak other languages than folks in Europe - at least according to the Europeans I know.  But when you consider we live in a vast continent where more than 2/3 mostly speaks the same language, there is less of an imperative than if we lived in Europe, which has many countries with different languages closer together.  

There are a few countries in Europe, that most ppl can't speak any foreign languages or are reluctant to. The worst I've come across is Hungary, Spain, Italy and France. In Hungary I was looking for a street and of all ppl just a guy working at a petrol station spoke English and let's say 2/10 spoke a few words of German, but they were really awful at it, even worse than myself. I was in Spain for a couple of weeks in May and out of 7 or so hotel receptionists (RECEPTIONISTS!!!!!) only one spoke half decent English, two did speak a bit, but really refused to, after saying a few words in English they immediately switched back to Spanish because I could understand a word or 2. In restaurants nobody spoke English unless it was a bit pricier restaurant (Oh yes, there was one guy in Granada that did speak English in an awesome tapas bar), so mostly we had to guess what we're ordering, you just know that you ordered a fish or something with chicken meat. Unless you were at a tapas bar where you can just point to anything you wanna eat. Even most young folks don't speak English, we did talk to a few students (girls) and just one could say a bit more than a few basic words. Ask your daughter, she was there . Italians and French are notoriously known for not speaking any foreign language, although when I was in Sicily last year, every hotel receptionist spoke at least some English (mind you all of the hotels were really cheap, low class), although I speak some Italian. On the streets and in restaurants they mostly don't but luckily my Italian is good enough to make orders and find my way around town. And they are such nice, friendly, open people always trying to help even though you're a complete stranger. I'll never forget my first day on Sicily. As soon as the plane landed I wanted to buy a bus ticket for Trapani, but I got the wrong ticket. The bus driver who was driving a different bus (say to Palermo) and had nothing to do with it, came with me to make sure I got the right one, when I got to the right bus, the driver asked everybody where they were going, so he drove everyone as close as he could to their destination (like a cab really), I had a map with me with the hotel location and everbody tried to help figuring out where it is and then the guy in the front row offered to give me a lift, since the bus couldn't get through the narrow streets. So the bus stopped near his house, he took his car out of the garage and drove me straight to my hotel. He even waited for the B&B owner to open the door (making sure everything was OK, it looked like a father dropping off his son ). WOW! I never ever though that was possible, that ppl like that existed. It was over 11 PM and I wanted to take a walk through town, grab something to eat etc. The owner wouldn't let me just walk, he offered to take me there by car and show me around. I really didn't want to burden him with that and it really was late, but he didn't want to hear it. He showed me all of the sites, we drove around town, walked through historic center and grabbed an awesome pizza slice. He was fluent in English too (the first person that spoke English that night). Again, I was amazed! And for the next few days, ppl were nothing like I expected, everybody was really friendly and polite, which is not usual (the polite part) for southern ppl at least when it comes to balkans. Ppl on the streets are saying scusi (excuse me) for almost bumping into you. For instance if you're in NY and you bump into someone you really can't be sure wether you're gonna get someting along the lines of mess you, watch where you're walking, get a hatefull look, or get stabbed . My mum and her husband went there a couple of times and was instructed to avoid eye contact especially on the subway etc, that it can be dangerous to look at "the wrong person" . I really am different and went to south Bronx at dusk in '98, I admit, I was sweating on the way back, being alone, the only white person among all those suspiciously looking ppl. But it was a great experience, walking around the blocks, music pounding on every corner full of muscular topless (or wearing just undershirts, basketball jerseys etc) Negros. It really was like in all those gang related movies, I saw everything I hoped for ( I didn't hope to witness a drive by though . What I really wanted to say is I love NY, it still is my fav city, just the ppl aren't usually nice, on the contrary they can really be rude, impolite and unfriendly. But of course there are some nice as well, I remember a black bum being really cool and the waiter at an Italian restaurant, serving food that was just so much above everyting served at other (also expensive places, since you really don't wanna eat the the cheap self service restaurant, because the food looks like puke), it tasted as good as on Sicily (really top notch and I did eat a lot of good food in my life) was really nice and friendly as well.

Quote from: lisafx on August 04, 2011, 19:05

And yes, there are some folks that are deeply offended to have to speak any language other than English in the US, but gradually as the population shifts that will probably taper off.  

I'll give you that people in the US seem more reluctant to speak other languages than folks in Europe - at least according to the Europeans I know.  But when you consider we live in a vast continent where more than 2/3 mostly speaks the same language, there is less of an imperative than if we lived in Europe, which has many countries with different languages closer together.  

I was in Spain for a couple of weeks in May and out of 7 or so hotel receptionists (RECEPTIONISTS!!!!!) only one spoke half decent English, two did speak a bit, but really refused to, after saying a few words in English they immediately switched back to Spanish because I could understand a word or 2. In restaurants nobody spoke English unless it was a bit pricier restaurant (Oh yes, there was one guy in Granada that did speak English in an awesome tapas bar), so mostly we had to guess what we're ordering, you just know that you ordered a fish or something with chicken meat. Unless you were at a tapas bar where you can just point to anything you wanna eat. Even most young folks don't speak English, we did talk to a few students (girls) and just one could say a bit more than a few basic words. Ask your daughter, she was there .

You may be right.  Impossible to know if the locals in the areas of Spain she visited spoke English.  She was there for full immersion in the Spanish language, so she was speaking Spanish the whole time, except to a couple of her housemates who could not speak it very well. 

Sounds like you have traveled internationally quite a bit.  How fortunate for you!  Normally travel makes one more broad-minded.  I echo Jbarber's surprise that you are so quick to stereotype. 

Just because I do travel I know the situation elsewhere and know that ppl in Europe are usually not nearly as friendly as Sicilians. When it comes to subway and safety in big American cities, we all know how dangerous it can be and that your crime rates are something like 25 times higher than for instance in Slovenia. So if some of you feel so safe, than why are you taking detours around the ghettos etc?

"Turn off the TV and talk TO people, not AT them and you may find out that people the world over are actually pretty much the same."

You just couldn't be more wrong, looks like you could do some traveling yourself. I mean how can you even compare ppl of 2 different European countries, for instance someone from Holland and an Italian, or a Scandinavian and a Greek? This are not states man, where ppl are much less the same, you all have thanksgiving etc, some states really stand out, because of the minorities, like Florida, especially Miami, where you can just get that Cuban feel etc. And yeah I do talk TO ppl, I thought that was obvious from my Sicily post.

And guess what, I just booked vacation there, July's SS earnings more than covered it

Saying you've been to NY and you understand the US is like saying "I've been to Paris, I totally understand Europe!" and Europeans are more or less all the same! This is an attitude that gets ignorantly perpetuated by small minded, uninterested people in the US - "Europeans" are all lumped together. Sounds like you've got a running start at forming an inclusive, interesting worldview, but you easily fall into some very silly generalizations. 

In my experience, outside big towns people are often friendlier and more helpful, even if there is some communication barrier.

Once in Bavaria, we were spending part of the day in a city then moving on, and the left luggage at the train station was closed for lunch. We passed by a B&B and the owner was outside, we asked him if we could leave our luggage there for the afternoon, he was very helpful, didn't accept any payment for that, and as he could be out when we were back, he showed us where to find the door key.

Just because I do travel I know the situation elsewhere and know that ppl in Europe are usually not nearly as friendly as Sicilians. When it comes to subway and safety in big American cities, we all know how dangerous it can be and that your crime rates are something like 25 times higher than for instance in Slovenia. So if some of you feel so safe, than why are you taking detours around the ghettos etc?

"Turn off the TV and talk TO people, not AT them and you may find out that people the world over are actually pretty much the same."

You just couldn't be more wrong, looks like you could do some traveling yourself. I mean how can you even compare ppl of 2 different European countries, for instance someone from Holland and an Italian, or a Scandinavian and a Greek? This are not states man, where ppl are much less the same, you all have thanksgiving etc, some states really stand out, because of the minorities, like Florida, especially Miami, where you can just get that Cuban feel etc. And yeah I do talk TO ppl, I thought that was obvious from my Sicily post.

And guess what, I just booked vacation there, July's SS earnings more than covered it

    You don't understand what i'm saying. As many others have pointed out here, the nature of people is pretty universal. In most places i've been, which includes 8 different nations in Europe, the people have been helpful, respectful and kind. You're bringing up stereotypes as reality, and I'm saying look past your prejudices.

@Slovenian   Don't ever forget how your countries freedom was achieved. Great isn't it, the Yankees saved your butt so you could have the right to slag them off - the irony of it

@Slovenian   Don't ever forget how your countries freedom was achieved. Great isn't it, the Yankees saved your butt so you could have the right to slag them off - the irony of it

LOL looks like you have a lot of reading to do, I know your school system is all about America is the greatest country in the world BS, that's also the reason most of you know nothing about the world outside of US, but still seems like you consider yourself enlightened so this is no excuse. I see you carried on liberating countries like Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. It's just a shame you always leave a trail of millions of innocent dead civilians, mostly women and children and leave the country in ruins. But as long as you get your precious (oil) and as long as ppl close to government and their companies earn billions of taxpayers money, that just OK for you. That's how imperiums thrive, right? Oh yeah I forgot about economical hitmen, that devastated dozens of countries around the world so American companies could profit, so I guess it could be done without waging wars as well (if you don't count overthrowing governments and assassinations of democratically elected leaders).