I've fallen off the cliff!

[andremichel 267]

2 hours ago, Marb said:

Utterly utterly dead. Diabolical. Depressing.

How are your war of the worlds images doing? 

[Marb 110]

1 hour ago, andremichel said:

How are your war of the worlds images doing? 

 

Nothing. Dead in the water.

[Betty LaRue 2,478]

15 hours ago, John Mitchell said:

 

I wonder if things have slowed down in the invoicing department due to the sale to PA Media. There might be some kind of transition going on.

 

I’ve wondered the same thing. I’m looking for an excuse. After all, it couldn’t be my images, could it? 😎

[KFisher 19]

Having a good month on a few of the other sites but I'm dead over here. Two small sales and one teeny tiny .15 cent sale today. I didn't even know that was possible.

[Allan Bell 1,933]

5 minutes ago, KFisher said:

.15 cent sale today. I didn't even know that was possible.

 

MS.

 

Allan

 

[Michael Ventura 4,569]

I hit the cliff's edge this week, no sales since last Saturday.

[John Mitchell 3,877]

34 minutes ago, Michael Ventura said:

I hit the cliff's edge this week, no sales since last Saturday.

 

Nothing since the 11th for me.  At least there's a nice view from the edge of the cliff. 😵

[John Walker 265]

11 hours ago, Marb said:

Utterly utterly dead. Diabolical. Depressing.

 

A bit like my pet ant 😪

[Gina Kelly 130]

I do hope it's just a matter of things slowing down because of the sale to PA Media, I'm feeling pretty discouraged by the lack of sales. 😞

[riccarbi 104]

1 hour ago, KFisher said:

Having a good month on a few of the other sites but I'm dead over here. Two small sales and one teeny tiny .15 cent sale today. I didn't even know that was possible.

Did you have a .15 cent sale on Alamy? I didn't think this was possible with them either. Is it actually possible, then? If so, I would have to sell 700 pictures at that price just to repay the vintage Minolta lens I've bought on Ebay for 100 bucks yesterday...

 

Edited February 21 by riccarbi

[KFisher 19]

5 minutes ago, riccarbi said:

Did you have a .15 cent sale on Alamy? I didn't think this was possible with them either. Is it actually possible, then?

 

Yep... Started off at .50 cents, minus the .35 deduction - a big .15 cents to me. 

 

[andremichel 267]

1 hour ago, John Mitchell said:

 

Nothing since the 11th for me.  At least there's a nice view from the edge of the cliff. 😵

A bit crowded though. 

[andremichel 267]

1 minute ago, KFisher said:

 

Yep... Started off at .50 cents, minus the .35 deduction - a big .15 cents to me. 

 

That is below microstock levels. My ms experiment is averaging $1.10 net for Feb 

[aphperspective 260]

6 minutes ago, andremichel said:

A bit crowded though. 

Gang way coming through.😪

[Betty LaRue 2,478]

1 hour ago, John Walker said:

 

A bit like my pet ant 😪

Was that tiny white thing with angel wings hovering and reading this thread over my shoulder on my iPad your ant?

I’m thinking he loves the attention.

[Marb 110]

Absolutely diabolical month. Not a sausage. It just gets worse here, sales lower than micro stock. Sadly now going through a lot of exclusive images here to sell elsewhere as no point in putting all the eggs in one basket if the basket is broken.

Edited February 24 by Marb

[Alamy 289]

On 21/02/2020 at 18:54, KFisher said:

 

Yep... Started off at .50 cents, minus the .35 deduction - a big .15 cents to me. 

 

 

To be clear and avoid confusion - this sale was via a Korean distributor for a very limited use - internal use only for Data AI algorithm training. Images taken from the novel use pool only.

 

Alamy 

[meanderingemu 669]

3 hours ago, Alamy said:

 

To be clear and avoid confusion - this sale was via a Korean distributor for a very limited use - internal use only for Data AI algorithm training. Images taken from the novel use pool only.

 

Alamy 

 

 

curious was the information given with the Sale?  this would avoid speculation is known upfront

[Alamy 289]

18 minutes ago, meanderingemu said:

 

 

curious was the information given with the Sale?  this would avoid speculation is known upfront

 

Novel Use specification wasn't listed, but the sales details were presented in this way:

 

[Allan Bell 1,933]

And so endeth the lesson.

 

Allan

 

[andremichel 267]

5 hours ago, Alamy said:

 

To be clear and avoid confusion - this sale was via a Korean distributor for a very limited use - internal use only for Data AI algorithm training. Images taken from the novel use pool only.

 

Alamy 

I still don't understand why Novel use has to undercut microstock prices.

[M.Chapman 1,344]

5 hours ago, Alamy said:

 

To be clear and avoid confusion - this sale was via a Korean distributor for a very limited use - internal use only for Data AI algorithm training. Images taken from the novel use pool only.

 

Alamy 

 

Interesting. I imagine the customer bought 1,000s of images if they were dong AI training, so they may have been in a good position to negotiate. However, what may be crucial for AI training is accurate keywords, or they risk ending up with some strange results 

 

Mark

[M.Chapman 1,344]

On 21/02/2020 at 18:54, KFisher said:

 

Yep... Started off at .50 cents, minus the .35 deduction - a big .15 cents to me. 

 

 

Doesn't $0.15 = 15 cents?

[BobD 517]

There is no point being in the NU scheme then complaining about the prices.

 

[meanderingemu 669]

4 minutes ago, BobD said:

There is no point being in the NU scheme then complaining about the prices.

 

 

correct, and this is why i asked if it was indicated in the Sales term, as per above it actually wasn't made clear since this was a RF sales, so i would understand the photographer asking. 

 

this was worse case, NU and distributor.