Author Topic: Poll: YAYs 13 cents - what are you going to do about it? (Read 5377 times)

somethingpretentious · « **on:** April 23, 2013, 14:25 »

YAY is completely undercutting the market and are now giving some the worst commissions ever for small images, 13 cents. I am wondering if they can get away with this one.

noodle · « **Reply #1 on:** April 23, 2013, 14:29 »

you beat me .. my sale was 15cents

somethingpretentious · « **Reply #2 on:** April 28, 2013, 19:22 »

I am bumping this one in the hope of getting more than just 19 votes...

sharpshot · « **Reply #3 on:** April 29, 2013, 03:16 »

I would vote for "I am on YAY and I am going to wait and see what happens before deciding if it is a good or bad idea". If they get a big sales volume and my earnings increase a lot, it wont be so bad. If they have low volume low commission sales that don't improve my earnings, I'll have to decide if it's still worth using them.

dirkr · « **Reply #4 on:** April 29, 2013, 03:29 »

Quote from: sharpshot on April 29, 2013, 03:16

I would vote for "I am on YAY and I am going to wait and see what happens before deciding if it is a good or bad idea". If they get a big sales volume and my earnings increase a lot, it wont be so bad. If they have low volume low commission sales that don't improve my earnings, I'll have to decide if it's still worth using them.

+1

I'm not a big fan of their new idea, but they seem to be a lot more willing to create a fair deal for contributors than many other agencies.
Before I drop them due to that new scheme I should definitely drop 123RF and Bigstock due to their recent changes (and FT due to their general attitude towards contributors). And for all of those I haven't decided yet...

stockastic · « **Reply #5 on:** April 29, 2013, 10:56 »

It's spring, and time for another "you'll make it up on volume" game. It's like Charlie Brown and the football.

The photographer hopes his images make a slow trickle of money, for years. The people who operate an agency like YAY need to make a bunch of money next month. Cross purposes.