BobD

An interesting thread. I am not involved but would be interested to know if Alamy win the case and are awarded costs, do they intend to refund the contributors they have deducted from.

Thanks Bryan.

3 from me from various Rochester festivals.

Better month than of late 7 for $238. Views and zooms holding up.

Not really insurance company have given her a hire car in the meantime.🤢

My wife had a small accident in her car 3 weeks ago and car not drive-able, still waiting for the ( insurance selected ) repairer to get the parts required.

I part exchanged the one I had no more use for. 😊

My wife using my old Nikon 600mm F4 The new one seems quite small in comparison.

The stupid thing is Alamy are doing their selves more harm through contributor unrest than the money they are receiving from the sales. A few people are saying they will not upload any new images. I think it's time for Alamy to rethink this deal, even if it's just for the sake of contributor good will. I myself haven't had any of these sales since the first round, thank goodness.

There is something fishy to me in these sales (not by Alamy). I know China is a big country but for an organisation to buy so many images, even at such low prices, seems odd. They must have bought hundreds of thousands if not millions judging by the sales of contributors here, which is a small representation of the total. I would not be at all surprised if these images are being re-sold within China.

3 from me

One of the first rules of business. Turnover for vanity, profit for sanity.

I pulled out of SS when they introduced the new pricing system. I still have 50 images or so on the software provider. I have earnt more from those 50 images this month than here on Alamy with nearly 3000 albeit a bad month here. The fact is no microstock agency sells images for 5 cents for normal use, so why does Alamy have to sell so low?

I don't know what Alamy are messing about at but some searches are returning no results while others are showing a fraction of what they should. Buyers must be loving this. Edit: My error. but I don't know how it happened. I did a search while looking at an image and somehow the same contributor filter was engaged. I did not select the filter however.