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Agency Based Discussion => Shutterstock.com => Topic started by: gunnar3000 on March 26, 2009, 16:08

Title: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: gunnar3000 on March 26, 2009, 16:08: Hi,
today I had loooots of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS. I “sold” so many Images today like in the whole past 3 months (I know, the BackUp CD thing is not really a sale).
Is this just me? Do you experience the same phenomena?
Or is it just a coincidence?

Thank

Gunnar
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: sharpshot on March 26, 2009, 16:34: There was a thread in the SS forum about the lack of these lately. I did get a rush of them today, so perhaps buyers do read the SS forums? I better get pimping again :)
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: arquiplay77 on March 26, 2009, 17:24: i had 3 of this sales today, been the only ones of the month.
guess they do these backups on certain days of the month????
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: lisafx on March 26, 2009, 17:46: I had a whole bunch of these today too.
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: borg on March 26, 2009, 18:12: 2 today ,that is all till now for this month.
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: sharply_done on March 26, 2009, 20:57: Bizarre - I've got 70 and counting.
Wonder what's up with that.
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: snaprender on March 26, 2009, 21:53: I got some today too, after not having any for a while
Snaprender
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: vonkara on March 26, 2009, 22:00: http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58453&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=75

The same for everyone. They probably got stuck for the whole months and get recovered today
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: cmcderm1 on March 26, 2009, 22:45: Very strange indeed.

No back sales for several weeks (even months)
Someone complains in the Forum
Rash of backup sales (at 0.05 cents per)

Will someone complain about 5 EL's days!!!!
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: goldenangel on March 27, 2009, 01:02: I guess someone suddenly remembered they need to do their backup :) 4 so far for me today, while none this month.
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: gunnar3000 on March 27, 2009, 01:23: I got 24 of these yesterday.... to bad that we are not talking about ELs ;D
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: Fred on March 27, 2009, 06:46: Not a word from SS management but this appears to be a screw up on their side that they were not even aware of until people started chatting about it in their forum. Wonder what other contributor revenues have been falling through the cracks.

Interesting - if this happened at FT without a peep out of management there would be a revolution. With SS no one seems to think it is serious.

Go figger.

fred
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: Magnum on March 27, 2009, 06:53: That´s because noone dare to say anything and risking getting thrown out. That´could easily happens with sales also. We´ll never know. I wanna belive I can trust such big agency though.
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: Fred on March 27, 2009, 07:04: Quote from: Magnum on March 27, 2009, 06:53
That´s because noone dare to say anything and risking getting thrown out. That´could easily happens with sales also. We´ll never know. I wanna belive I can trust such big agency though.

Oh, I'm not questioning their honesty but I am beginning to wonder about their competence. Maybe their database can't handle the load any longer.

fred
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: Magnum on March 27, 2009, 07:09: Yeah, Quite a lot of numbers to keep in place. It´s amazing it´s not more glitches. (That we know of)
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: fintastique on March 28, 2009, 04:44: I had 20 back up sales in the entire month of Feb at SS

Then nothing in March until the 26th when I had 44 and another 10 on the 27th
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: ozbandit on March 28, 2009, 08:25: Same here, had a rush of them in the past few days, strange hey
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: Dreamframer on March 28, 2009, 09:40: I didn't have any for months, and then suddenly... 5 in last 3 days
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: sgcallaway1994 on March 31, 2009, 17:16: Never had one before, today my first one shows up! ;D
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: stockastic on March 31, 2009, 17:32: I also got a couple of 5 cent backups out of the blue. Of course, there's no way to know if ANY sales revenues are actually being reported. It's a weird business where there's no 'inventory' as such. It's not like I could upload 10 copies of an image and be notified when they'd all been sold, and it was time to upload some more.
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: Moonb007 on April 21, 2009, 13:33: Ok, so I am new to the site...what does the back up CD do for the buyers or what is it really?
Title: Re: Rush of these 5 cent Backup CD “sales” at SS
Post by: NancyCWalker on April 22, 2009, 08:00: It's a physical CD that is sent to the buyer with the images they licensed on it.