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« Reply #125 on: August 31, 2015, 09:55 »
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I've said many times any site...ANY site who comes in and offers a 50/50 Split across the board weather it's SS of FT or whoever could control the market as far as contributors. And the competition would dry up and go home. I for one would love to upload to one fair site instead of 9 frustrating Ones that are ripping us off and getting wealthy doing it. The time saved alone would be worth it, IF  time is money and to me, It is.

Adobe could very easily have a complete monopoly if they wanted and that would justify a 50/50 split. If they did that Everyone would bail out everywhere else. But. It would probably be exclusive. Im In. Maybe Im just tired But....I would be in. And vice versa, If SS offered this, same deal.

50/50 split for exclusive you are right, they could take over and kill the competition at once.


« Reply #126 on: August 31, 2015, 11:34 »
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I've said many times any site...ANY site who comes in and offers a 50/50 Split across the board weather it's SS of FT or whoever could control the market as far as contributors. And the competition would dry up and go home. I for one would love to upload to one fair site instead of 9 frustrating Ones that are ripping us off and getting wealthy doing it. The time saved alone would be worth it, IF  time is money and to me, It is.

Adobe could very easily have a complete monopoly if they wanted and that would justify a 50/50 split. If they did that Everyone would bail out everywhere else. But. It would probably be exclusive. Im In. Maybe Im just tired But....I would be in. And vice versa, If SS offered this, same deal.
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For many years I was thinking exactly in your terms but today I am not at all sure. SS is not the company it was. After going public the  nickel and dime squad moved in and they seem to be turning the place upside down in order to please the shareholders. The otherwise so stable SS we have come to know/work with is fading.
plain language, I don't trust it anymore, seems to wobble its way through the days.

Adobe/FT? well who knows its early days yet but so far I have trebbled my already good earnings over there. If its because of Adobe or not I don't know but right now the place is buzzing and most people seem to be happy.

One thing is sure, no agency is going to do any favours benefiting members if anything we have to be happy not getting cut down any further and that goes for the entire industry whatever model.

« Reply #127 on: August 31, 2015, 14:25 »
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SS is not the company it was. After going public the  nickel and dime squad moved in and they seem to be turning the place upside down in order to please the shareholders. The otherwise so stable SS we have come to know/work with is fading.
plain language, I don't trust it anymore, seems to wobble its way through the days.

wa, my thoughts exactly. don't trust ss anymore for long-term as they brown nose shareholders who is not interested in growth, only vulture mentality of quick profit and carcass kill.
oringer can do something incredible by buying back all the shares shorting and not only push the price down to make a final glory killing by having to replace the shares shorted, and also to announce ss is no longer public.
this will resurrect confidence with contributors and i am sure they will be back to the close 100% ER we used to see with ss.

until that happens, no one will hold their breath for ss. looking at your monthly earnings this past month(s) is enough to make you spit blood.

« Reply #128 on: September 02, 2015, 03:36 »
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I've said many times any site...ANY site who comes in and offers a 50/50 Split across the board weather it's SS of FT or whoever could control the market as far as contributors. And the competition would dry up and go home. I for one would love to upload to one fair site instead of 9 frustrating Ones that are ripping us off and getting wealthy doing it. The time saved alone would be worth it, IF  time is money and to me, It is.

Adobe could very easily have a complete monopoly if they wanted and that would justify a 50/50 split. If they did that Everyone would bail out everywhere else. But. It would probably be exclusive. Im In. Maybe Im just tired But....I would be in. And vice versa, If SS offered this, same deal.

50/50 split for exclusive you are right, they could take over and kill the competition at once.
And if they did kill the competition, you would be lucky to get 20%.  Lots of sites have offered 50/50 or better and they haven't made contributors dump the sites that pay us a much smaller cut.  So I doubt it would work and it would probably be bad for us to only have 1 site anyway.

Rinderart

« Reply #129 on: September 02, 2015, 12:11 »
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I've said many times any site...ANY site who comes in and offers a 50/50 Split across the board weather it's SS of FT or whoever could control the market as far as contributors. And the competition would dry up and go home. I for one would love to upload to one fair site instead of 9 frustrating Ones that are ripping us off and getting wealthy doing it. The time saved alone would be worth it, IF  time is money and to me, It is.

Adobe could very easily have a complete monopoly if they wanted and that would justify a 50/50 split. If they did that Everyone would bail out everywhere else. But. It would probably be exclusive. Im In. Maybe Im just tired But....I would be in. And vice versa, If SS offered this, same deal.

50/50 split for exclusive you are right, they could take over and kill the competition at once.
And if they did kill the competition, you would be lucky to get 20%.  Lots of sites have offered 50/50 or better and they haven't made contributors dump the sites that pay us a much smaller cut.  So I doubt it would work and it would probably be bad for us to only have 1 site anyway.

Yes, There is That. the sites that did offer 50 were not real Players in the game. Adobe and SS are. Big difference I think.

« Reply #130 on: September 03, 2015, 02:39 »
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Dreamstime was a real player that used to pay 50%, Pond5 is for video and would be for stills if we all left the lower paying sites and just used them.  Alamy is a real player paying 50%, I have no doubt we could all just use these sites and make more money but it will never happen.  Its easy to blame the sites but the real reason we are stuck with sites paying 15 to 30% is all down to us.  I found that out after deleting most of my istock portfolio only to see most of the big non-exclusive contributors uploading their limit every week despite getting less than 20%.


 

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