Murasaki Izumi Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 On 7/7/2020 at 12:56 AM, Mark A. Williams said: I notified SS by email (Privacy@shutterstock.com) on May 29th to close my account and pay me my remaining earnings. I have yet to see any action on their part. Has anyone had any success doing this? I've notified them three times already. Have got no answer. I think I'll miss SS, I liked it really. My portfolio is not so big, just over 3000 images, and my sales went on rather slowly and it was not my main income all the same. I'm fond of photography and I think I can do without stocks, taking photos for the sake of photos, as I did and do as usual. I just thought once: why not sell it if I can? Someone told me about selling at a photostock and so here I am. And I had a good time. Still, I'm not going to let them get money for my work while I'm getting this. I'm trying with Adobe now. Let's see where it will lead. And welcome to my twitter. 6 Link to post Share on other sites
Gray Photo Online Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 I wouldn't expect much of a response nor forum presence from SS on this matter. At this point everything is probably just noise to them. Prune SS from your workflow. You have to cut the dead flowers from the garden to get new ones to grow. Bitch mail, carping about it in the forums, petitions, it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is how much their stockholders raise hell. The pandemic will affect all stock agencies. Some will figure out how to make it, others will make mistakes, some will bite the dust most likely. Photographers need to realize that this is a supply and demand business, so when supply exceeds demand, your images lose value. As long as photographers believe 10 cents per download is a good idea, the supply of 10 cent photos will stay high. I learned in business school many years ago, there is generally room in a market for two major players. Everyone else just kinda competes for scraps. Right now, from my view of the road, Adobe and Getty are doing a better job for contributors than SS. SS can have the scraps. I've seen people bitching about Getty too, but I sell about 3 times the number of photos on Getty than I ever did on Shutterstock and my average earnings per day is twice what I was making on SS before the profit skimming started. SS could be snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Their bean counters may figure it out sooner or later. 15 Link to post Share on other sites
tom hollett Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 The way you words things is a shame. Ten cents per photo!!! I find more than that on the streets. Link to post Share on other sites
John S. Reid Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 Murasaki, You need to have the minimum payout available before closing out your account. you can change it to the lowest of $35. I had over the minimum and closed out my portfolio and got my payment the next pay cycle. I did a video on this, check it out: 3 Link to post Share on other sites
paula french Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 On 7/11/2020 at 4:29 PM, Mirko Rosenau said: I don't think that this is making up for all the 10 cent sales. No you're right - but it was good to see a decent sale for a change 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Jonas J Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 7 hours ago, John S. Reid said: Murasaki, You need to have the minimum payout available before closing out your account. you can change it to the lowest of $35. I had over the minimum and closed out my portfolio and got my payment the next pay cycle. Actually a little bit of research shows that this is not actually the official policy. According to the following, they will pay out any earnings above $1 if requested, and then disable the account. If I read it correctly it even sounds you can actually reactive at some point in the future, if Shutterstock should come back to their senses. Have a look at the second option in this article: https://www.shutterstock.com/contributorsupport/articles/en_US/kbat02/How-do-I-deactivatedelete-my-contributor-account That's from the official support docs. Whether or not it will actually happen is a different question. I have just requested it though, so I guess I'll find out. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
luchschenF Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 On 7/10/2020 at 1:21 PM, baypinar said: As an amateur who has portfolios in 7 other agencies, I apply the following actions : Everytime an image is sold for 0.10 cents in Shutterstock, I delete it from Shutterstock. Ha! I'm doing the same thing))) 6 Link to post Share on other sites
Tony Dunn Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 On 5/29/2020 at 9:54 PM, Kiev.Victor said: I wish more buyers would go there after realising what SS are doing cos I've uploaded 139 images to DT but no sales. 4 Link to post Share on other sites
Keith Tarrier Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 59 minutes ago, Tony Dunn said: I wish more buyers would go there after realising what SS are doing cos I've uploaded 139 images to DT but no sales. I have been with them since 2008. I have 3000 there... compared to 5700+ here. Sales have only been 20% of SS on average... but some months are good, some months have almost no sales. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Chris_M_Rabe Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 I'm not sure I get that whole gay theory above this post .... Anyway, I disabled my image sales as soon as I had my payout after this was all announced. Couple of days ago I got a "subscription" sale for $43? What the hell is that about? Link to post Share on other sites
Mirko Rosenau Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 7 hours ago, paula french said: No you're right - but it was good to see a decent sale for a change Yeah, I understand and would be excited too. Right now I'm waiting for Shutterstock to confirm my deactivation. No word yet. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Romeo Ninov Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 3 hours ago, Tony Dunn said: I wish more buyers would go there after realising what SS are doing cos I've uploaded 139 images to DT but no sales. I was in DT for > 6 months, >2000 images and sold 0! 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Murasaki Izumi Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 14 hours ago, John S. Reid said: You need to have the minimum payout available before closing out your account. you can change it to the lowest of $35. I had over the minimum and closed out my portfolio and got my payment the next pay cycle. No, I have to get more than $1 and contact them at privacy@shutterstock.com. That's what is said in the help article: https://www.shutterstock.com/contributorsupport/articles/en_US/kbat02/How-do-I-deactivatedelete-my-contributor-account. All I could get from them is vague answers from SS helpers about SS staff being busy with the pandemic and new earning structure situation. Unfortunately, I have not reached the minimum payout, so I can not get it in usual way, as I removed my portfolio from sales in the early june. It's not a big money really, I just want to get what is mine and set off, it's a matter of principle. 🤠 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Birdiegal Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 (edited) On 6/11/2020 at 6:34 PM, ribeiroantonio said: mestock - what is? Can't find any reference. me = i There is definitely an uptick in sales at AS for me, hope the buyer migration trend continues. Edited July 13, 2020 by Birdiegal more info 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Shark Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 its SO SAD seeing so many contributors complaining about the new earning structure and they still have their images online!What are they waiting for ? that SS will feel sorry about it? 16 Link to post Share on other sites
Gergo Csorba Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 I don't have a big portfolio but seeing my recent sales go for 10 cents is just a joke. Previously they went fro 25 cents...that's a 60% drop. I'm not sure if it's worth the time to even upload and keyword them anymore. 5 Link to post Share on other sites
Thomas Barrat Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 This has been in place, and now I find that I mostly am paid $.10, even for my best selling image. Why should I feel good about this change? Seems like and I have more than 6,000 approved images? I am not a beginner. SS, I think this decision should be revisited - the contributor fee schedule!!! 8 Link to post Share on other sites
RoJo Images Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 3 hours ago, Thomas Barrat said: This has been in place, and now I find that I mostly am paid $.10, even for my best selling image. Why should I feel good about this change? Seems like and I have more than 6,000 approved images? I am not a beginner. SS, I think this decision should be revisited - the contributor fee schedule!!! I just looked at your portfolio and you have many beautiful photos of so many amazing places. Selling them on SS for .10 is a total crime. 10 Link to post Share on other sites
Pixellicious Photos Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Now the hashtag #boycottshutterstock has stopped appearing in autosuggest on Twitter. You need to fully type it. 7 Link to post Share on other sites
Gert Hilbink Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 I've send 6 emails (privacy@shutterstock.com) to Shutterstock to stop my account and pay out the outstanding amount but they do NOT answer or take action. What the Fuck do I have to do to stop and remove my account? Getting payed $0.10 for a work of art is Theft!!! 5 Link to post Share on other sites
Adam Janukiewicz Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Well I am out. Not that I was making much money out of this before, but for every 10c picture that I sold now, means that somebody's picture for sale for a little higher price elsewhere wouldn't get bought. I guess you can call it solidarity. 14 Link to post Share on other sites
Chris_M_Rabe Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 I think I get why that subscription sale for $43 appeared. It was just below my payout amount - so the only way I could get a payout for it, would be too re-enable my images. Or simply lower my payout amount - which is what I did. Did anybody else get this kind of high value sale? Am I just creating conspiracies in my head? Link to post Share on other sites
Anita Ponne Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 18 hours ago, Paul Shark said: its SO SAD seeing so many contributors complaining about the new earning structure and they still have their images online!What are they waiting for ? that SS will feel sorry about it? Not everyone is in the lucky position to delete their portfolio just like that. Let everyone cope with this problem in the time frame that suits them best. I have to think of a way to generate more income besides this, which isn't easy considering my age. 11 Link to post Share on other sites
luchschenF Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 7 hours ago, Gert Hilbink said: Я отправил 6 электронных писем (privacy@shutterstock.com) в Shutterstock, чтобы остановить мою учетную запись и выплатить оставшуюся сумму, но они НЕ отвечают и не предпринимают никаких действий. Какого черта я должен сделать, чтобы остановить и удалить мою учетную запись? Получение $ 0,10 за произведение искусства - это кража !!! 2 Link to post Share on other sites
RoJo Images Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 7 hours ago, Gert Hilbink said: I've send 6 emails (privacy@shutterstock.com) to Shutterstock to stop my account and pay out the outstanding amount but they do NOT answer or take action. What the Fuck do I have to do to stop and remove my account? Getting payed $0.10 for a work of art is Theft!!! You can go in and disable your sales by yourself until SS gets around to closing your account...see post above this one to see how to. You can also delete your files manually one by one if you wish. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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