Agency Based Discussion > Super Image Market
Upload photos and get PAYMENT
Fredrick Lee:
--- Quote from: etudiante_rapide on July 24, 2015, 11:32 ---hello Mr. Lee, how are you???
the first thing that caught my eye on your home page was
the line that said pay nothing for storage.
first time i hear a stock agency charging for storage of your images.
please explain
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We hope contributors upload their best work to superimagemarket.com. And we do not want contributors upload lots of similar photos. So we charge storage fee. And We provide 10 GB for contributor in Level 1 ( account with 1 flag ) for free, and 100 Gb for contributor in level 2 ( account with 2 flag ) for free. If a contributor make its account into level 3, this contributor will get unlimited free space to storage images.
Fredrick Lee:
--- Quote from: Shelma1 on July 24, 2015, 12:11 ---Supposedly they don't charge storage fees if you sign up by jan 1, but you still can't remove your work until it's earned back $1,000 in royalties. And do microstock agencies ever change their T&C's? (rhetorical question.) if I had 10,000 images I'd pass.
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The advance payment is optional.
Contributor can remove their images freely. You can sell images or remove as your wish.
But if a contributor accept advance payment, we have to limit this contributor to remove images.
Jo Ann Snover:
There's a relatively small group of contributors with over 10K images. I'm guessing that they're earning enough elsewhere that getting paid $1,000 up front isn't any incentive at all to upload to an unproven site.
I'm guessing there are less than 20 members here with over 10K images to consider uploading.
You keep coming back here with more gimmicks. What's needed is some sort of marketing plan - how you plan to attract and keep buyers for the site. Also, past offers to pay a bonus for uploads were not an advance against future royalties but a flat payment. I understand that money now versus money later is worth more in real terms, but this isn't all that great a deal (even if you ignore the lock on content)
marquixHD:
--- Quote from: Fredrick Lee on July 24, 2015, 12:33 ---
--- Quote from: etudiante_rapide on July 24, 2015, 11:32 ---hello Mr. Lee, how are you???
the first thing that caught my eye on your home page was
the line that said pay nothing for storage.
first time i hear a stock agency charging for storage of your images.
please explain
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We hope contributors upload their best work to superimagemarket.com. And we do not want contributors upload lots of similar photos. So we charge storage fee. And We provide 10 GB for contributor in Level 1 ( account with 1 flag ) for free, and 100 Gb for contributor in level 2 ( account with 2 flag ) for free. If a contributor make its account into level 3, this contributor will get unlimited free space to storage images.
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That whole SIM "business plan" is "too smart" for a simple mind like myself...:
(1) on one hand, stringent selection is wanted -- but on the other, 10,000+ images are "more wanted", hence rewarded with an advance of a grand (or, rather, 10¢ per piece); how likely is it that 10,000+ pictures only represent one's "best work" (or is it just me shooting crap and only having just below 9999 award-winning photographs here)?
(2) SIM is an agency (taking 20% in commissions" proves this fact) and, at the same time, is "providing storage space" (how utterly kind)... No, it is in SIM's best interest to "provide space" and store images in order to increase the chances of applying a better multiplier to those 20% and increase their own automatic stream of income running from a system-built-once and providing perpetual cashflow that way. Nothing wrong with that, but pretending to "provide something" when it is primarily for one's own benefit is a big no-no.
(3) Level-3-contributors being "awarded even more" kind of only confirms points (1) and (2) raised above.
(4) Expecting people here to *not read* the T&C and lock away our creative work somewhere in the Chinese back alleys does not inspire much confidence either.
Also, the guy in that cover image is grinning on at least $2,500 -- I guess, this is for 25,000+ images of his "best work"?!
As I said, all a bit too "intelligent" for most people on this forum, I'm afraid. As for me, it's Thank you but no-thank-you...
etudiante_rapide:
Mr. Lee, thx for replying.
as you can clearly see, your agency has a lot to rewrite conditions before you can get any contributor to join you.
nothing personal, as we are indeed looking for alternatives, but alternative that is better than shutterstock... or getty for those before the upheaval.
as already pointed out, the gig per annum and the numbers don't match. anyone with item images of 10,000 would already earn far more than 1K.
anyone with item images of less than even 999 would still not go with your storage charge .
but pls do continue to communicate as this is the only way you can do business... old or new...
to gain the trust of contributors here.
other point which is a big point is what joanne said, what's the marketing strategy? who and how much have you already gain market play in stock photography? 1k for 10K images is not a big carrot, really.
your turn !!! 8)
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