Author Topic: Thinkstock earnings posted (Read 122309 times)

IvonneW · « **Reply #225 on:** December 10, 2010, 14:02 »

Wow, almost $4000 here, I think it's the Christmas extra. Nice

When will they wake up there?

stockmarketer · « **Reply #226 on:** December 10, 2010, 14:05 »

Wowza! I guess all these months I thought the ThinkStock earnings were reflected in the partner program earnings at iStock and we took payouts there. So I haven't even been checking my StockXpert earnings page until today. I feel pretty dumb, but also like I found a pile of cash on the floor. I'm going with the elated feeling.

What's the consensus on how much these are inflated due to the glitch? My balance is $2,892 with apparently $2,517 of that showing up today.... and yes, I'm seeing duplication on some, but not all of those downloads. Very weird. Anyway, I requested a payout of $2,892, so we'll see what happens. I'll probably end up with several hundred bucks I guess, which is several hundred richer than I felt earlier today.

mantonino · « **Reply #227 on:** December 10, 2010, 14:06 »

If you look at past months, they do report with repeated sales lumped together. Just not usually this many of them. Holy cow. If this is real, I'm fairly pleased, too!

stockmarketer · « **Reply #228 on:** December 10, 2010, 14:10 »

Another thought. Maybe these are all legit downloads and not duplicates. Perhaps today's numbers represent several weeks or months of downloads -- a period in which good sellers would have sold multiple times. For some reason the sales weren't posting to our balances as they should have been, and for whatever the reason, everything was dumped into our balances in one fell swoop today. That might explain why the duplication is inconsistent, with some files duplicated six times in my earnings sheet and others apparently appearing only once. I'm hoping this is the case and the numbers we're seeing are real. Will certainly make for a very merry Christmas at my home.

disorderly · « **Reply #229 on:** December 10, 2010, 14:21 »

Quote from: stockmarketer on December 10, 2010, 14:10

Another thought. Maybe these are all legit downloads and not duplicates.

More evidence that denial is more than a river in Egypt.

Going through today's reported sales, I find 7 images with 26 reported sales, 61 with 27 reported sales, 3 with 28 sales, 1 with 52 (2 x 26) and 1 with 54 (2 x 27). Feels like some tweaking or correcting between runs, but still way too consistent to be real sales activity.

lightscribe · « **Reply #230 on:** December 10, 2010, 14:37 »

SHHHHHH.........cash out, keep your mouth shut....this inflated sales doesn't even come close to what we lost when they dumped our images on TS. It is very possible these are sales that probably were never reported before and they are just clearing the back log. no need to start sending emails to IS they have too much to worry about for us to bother them such a tiny bug like this.

stockmarketer · « **Reply #231 on:** December 10, 2010, 14:38 »

Quote from: disorderly on December 10, 2010, 14:21

Going through today's reported sales, I find 7 images with 26 reported sales, 61 with 27 reported sales, 3 with 28 sales, 1 with 52 (2 x 26) and 1 with 54 (2 x 27). Feels like some tweaking or correcting between runs, but still way too consistent to be real sales activity.

I'm still going to play the optimist here. When I first glanced through my 10,700+ sales reported today, I saw clusters of several repeats, then some with none. I wanted to do a breakdown as you did on your sales, but each time I try to grab all the sales in the browser window for copying and pasting into a spreadsheet, my browser crashes. I guess I'll just wait and see.

RacePhoto · « **Reply #232 on:** December 10, 2010, 17:03 »

Quote from: disorderly on December 10, 2010, 14:21

Quote from: stockmarketer on December 10, 2010, 14:10
Another thought. Maybe these are all legit downloads and not duplicates.

More evidence that denial is more than a river in Egypt.

Going through today's reported sales, I find 7 images with 26 reported sales, 61 with 27 reported sales, 3 with 28 sales, 1 with 52 (2 x 26) and 1 with 54 (2 x 27). Feels like some tweaking or correcting between runs, but still way too consistent to be real sales activity.

I saw mine and thought, wow someone woke up the sales department. Then I noticed it was all repeats of the same images, over and over. Sorry but there "ain't no Santi Clause"

It's all going to get reversed soon.

Sad part is it would have been the first time that ThinkStock passed up IS or SS for me. LOL

I won't be buying that new wide angle for Christmas.

Karimala · « **Reply #233 on:** December 10, 2010, 17:09 »

StockXpert is now down.

http://www.stockxpert.com/home/closed

Karimala · « **Reply #234 on:** December 10, 2010, 17:11 »

Quote from: stockmarketer on December 10, 2010, 14:10

Another thought. Maybe these are all legit downloads and not duplicates.

These are definitely duplicates. My sales are being reported in identical clusters of the same 128 images over and over again.

borg · « **Reply #235 on:** December 10, 2010, 17:46 »

Quote from: Karimala on December 10, 2010, 17:11

Quote from: stockmarketer on December 10, 2010, 14:10
Another thought. Maybe these are all legit downloads and not duplicates.

These are definitely duplicates. My sales are being reported in identical clusters of the same 128 images over and over again.

Yes! I had 3$ before three days... Today I have more than 900 dls of same photos in many identical clusters...

cathyslife · « **Reply #236 on:** December 10, 2010, 18:08 »

Incredible, still no thread on the IS forum...unless there has been and it's been squashed like a bug so as not to ruin the big, exciting F5 news!

microstockphoto.co.uk · « **Reply #237 on:** December 10, 2010, 18:18 »

I can't access the stockxpert site right now. The login page is missing - maybe they're eventually aware.

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #238 on:** December 10, 2010, 18:25 »

Quote from: cclapper on December 10, 2010, 18:08

Incredible, still no thread on the IS forum...unless there has been and it's been squashed like a bug so as not to ruin the big, exciting F5 news!

There are two, but not much activity in either - here and here.

cathyslife · « **Reply #239 on:** December 10, 2010, 19:34 »

Quote from: jsnover on December 10, 2010, 18:25

Quote from: cclapper on December 10, 2010, 18:08
Incredible, still no thread on the IS forum...unless there has been and it's been squashed like a bug so as not to ruin the big, exciting F5 news!

There are two, but not much activity in either - here and here.

No wonder I didn't see them...one in the Help section and one in the Off-Topic section.

You're right, not much going on.

disorderly · « **Reply #240 on:** December 10, 2010, 19:44 »

Quote from: cclapper on December 10, 2010, 19:34

Quote from: jsnover on December 10, 2010, 18:25
Quote from: cclapper on December 10, 2010, 18:08
Incredible, still no thread on the IS forum...unless there has been and it's been squashed like a bug so as not to ruin the big, exciting F5 news!

There are two, but not much activity in either - here and here.

And not a wooyay in sight.
No wonder I didn't see them...one in the Help section and one in the Off-Topic section. You're right, not much going on.

melastmohican · « **Reply #241 on:** December 10, 2010, 22:07 »

It looks like they outsourced this site to kindergarten to save money :-)

RacePhoto · « **Reply #242 on:** December 11, 2010, 00:27 »

Quote from: melastmohican on December 10, 2010, 22:07

It looks like they outsourced this site to kindergarten to save money :-)

The merging and transition to ThinkStock was managed by the same kindergarten class. Even though I still have my StockXpert photos for sale, ThinkStock was either a way to trash the site, removing it from the marketplace intentionally or some executive with a bunch of yes people, who were afraid to say "What? Are You Crazy?"

Honestly there is a reasonable and simple answer. It has nothing to do with us, caring, or sales.

ThinkStock is a collection of outdated collections. Old sites that they owned that were lost and wasting away. This is all of those images, in one central location, getting squeezed for whatever small change they can get from the market. Go look. If all the IS partner shots were pulled by everyone, it wouldn't make a dimple in the size of the old stock warehouse. Small size, old content, it's kind of a rummage sale or outlet store, approach.

lagereek · « **Reply #243 on:** December 11, 2010, 02:20 »

So what are you all saying??? its worth joining TS ??

RacePhoto · « **Reply #244 on:** December 11, 2010, 02:36 »

Quote from: lagereek on December 11, 2010, 02:20

So what are you all saying??? its worth joining TS ??

I'm not an all and far from the regulars who have bigger selections. I'm positive some people will jump out of their chairs screaming about the low 25c payments and others will tell you that it's a nice little bonus.

In the end you'll have to decide for yourself if you want to expose your material to an inexpensive sub site and potentially dilute you sales elsewhere.

Personally, StockXpert took things that no other site would accept, so ThinkStock is the only place selling a bunch of my junk snapshots. If I can get paid for those, instead of having them nowhere, I'll take the quarters.

You can not submit to StockXpert anymore. You can not join ThinkStock. The only way to get new images on their site is upload to IS and include them in the partner program. So if you don't like 25c sales of your identical images that are on IS, being sold through subscription, the easy answer is, don't do it!

lagereek · « **Reply #245 on:** December 11, 2010, 02:46 »

Quote from: RacePhoto on December 11, 2010, 02:36

Quote from: lagereek on December 11, 2010, 02:20
So what are you all saying??? its worth joining TS ??

I'm not an all and far from the regulars who have bigger selections. I'm positive some people will jump out of their chairs screaming about the low 25c payments and others will tell you that it's a nice little bonus. In the end you'll have to decide for yourself if you want to expose your material to an inexpensive sub site and potentially dilute you sales elsewhere.

Personally, StockXpert took things that no other site would accept, so ThinkStock is the only place selling a bunch of my junk snapshots. If I can get paid for those, instead of having them nowhere, I'll take the quarters.

You can not submit to StockXpert anymore. You can not join ThinkStock. The only way to get new images on their site is upload to IS and include them in the partner program. So if you don't like 25c sales of your identical images that are on IS, being sold through subscription, the easy answer is, don't do it!

Agreeing with you!! so no thanks!

leaf · « **Reply #246 on:** December 11, 2010, 04:42 »

awwwhhh looks like I missed the gravy train yesterday

I can click 'log-in' but then I am taken to an error page.

rubyroo · « **Reply #247 on:** December 11, 2010, 09:30 »

Perhaps people really were withdrawing huge amount of money they hadn't really earned? That's the only justification I can see for pulling the site offline completely.

WarrenPrice · « **Reply #248 on:** December 11, 2010, 09:39 »

Quote from: rubyroo on December 11, 2010, 09:30

Perhaps people really were withdrawing huge amount of money they hadn't really earned? That's the only justification I can see for pulling the site offline completely.

I feel sure that it was a panic attack. "GET THAT THING DOWN UNTIL IT'S FIXED!!!"

cathyslife · « **Reply #249 on:** December 11, 2010, 09:42 »

Quote from: WarrenPrice on December 11, 2010, 09:39

Quote from: rubyroo on December 11, 2010, 09:30
Perhaps people really were withdrawing huge amount of money they hadn't really earned? That's the only justification I can see for pulling the site offline completely.

I feel sure that it was a panic attack. "GET THAT THING DOWN UNTIL IT'S FIXED!!!"

Yeah, that's what I think too. The IT team doesn't seem to be able to fix things in any kind of hurry. Money is flowing from StockXpert like water at Niagara Falls and the only way they know to turn the faucet off is to take it all down.

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Author Topic: Thinkstock earnings posted (Read 122309 times)

IvonneW

stockmarketer

mantonino

stockmarketer

disorderly

lightscribe

stockmarketer

RacePhoto

Karimala

Karimala

borg

cathyslife

microstockphoto.co.uk

Jo Ann Snover

cathyslife

disorderly

melastmohican

RacePhoto

lagereek

RacePhoto

lagereek

leaf

rubyroo

WarrenPrice

cathyslife

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