The contributor experience whilst we're all tackling the Covid-19 pandemic

[meanderingemu 727]

7 hours ago, Johnnie5 said:

Years from now when someone on here speaks of what a disaster the Pandemic was the newby's will think it about covid-19.😄

 

we can only hope

[Allan Bell 2,083]

Thank you James.

 

Hope you will like this one.

 

I have found a computer anti-virus program which checks for Covid - 19.😌

 

Allan

 

[sb photos 233]

40 minutes ago, Allan Bell said:

Thank you James.

 

Hope you will like this one.

 

I have found a computer anti-virus program which checks for Covid - 19.😌

 

Allan

 

 

No doubt you've seen the drilled and elasticated old Norton Anti Virus CD strapped to someones face as a mask that had been doing the rounds on social media.

[Allan Bell 2,083]

3 hours ago, sb photos said:

 

No doubt you've seen the drilled and elasticated old Norton Anti Virus CD strapped to someones face as a mask that had been doing the rounds on social media.

 

Actually I have not seen that. Wish I had thought of it though.

 

Allan

 

[formerly snappyoncalifornia 31]

I think we all must do what we must do in order to help publishers, designers, and the photo buying world to survive, especially gig workers many of whom have no medical insurance (yeah, I'm in the USA). If these people, our clients, go out of business then we will circle the drain with them. Speaking strictly for myself, I say discount the images to the point where Alamy is barely breaking even as long as it helps them stay afloat. Better they should become loyal buyers at the back end of this nightmare then we all go down the tubes together.

Edited April 23 by formerly snappyoncalifornia

[Filip Jedraszak 0]

Does this include clearing a payment and then after 5 days or so un-clearing it?

[spacecadet 3,386]

2 hours ago, Filip Jedraszak said:

Does this include clearing a payment and then after 5 days or so un-clearing it?

Alamy explained this.

[meanderingemu 727]

3 minutes ago, spacecadet said:

Alamy explained this.

 

 

"explained" .  They gave a reason, which though plausible to me seems a bit too clean.  Who is this massive distributor that so many of us had sales with  in last couple of month.   

[Filip Jedraszak 0]

1 hour ago, spacecadet said:

Alamy explained this.

Where? Sorry i missed it. Its quite chaotic where im at.

Never mind i found it. Thanks anyways.
(i guess i was just upset as in these times its all very hard for a lot of us and i could really have needed those few dollars)

Edited April 25 by Filip Jedraszak

[spacecadet 3,386]

4 minutes ago, Filip Jedraszak said:

Its quite chaotic where im at.

No problem, it's quite chaotic where everbody's at.

[Teia 0]

Hi,

I'm new contributor on alamy website.

I've  just registered on 24th of April. I try to understand how it works as I submited ilustration files and I don't have any feedback and the images apreas in QC since then.

This is the regular procedure and tournaround now or I'm ignored because I'm new?

 

Thank you!

Teia

 

[meanderingemu 727]

11 hours ago, Teia said:

Hi,

I'm new contributor on alamy website.

I've  just registered on 24th of April. I try to understand how it works as I submited ilustration files and I don't have any feedback and the images apreas in QC since then.

This is the regular procedure and tournaround now or I'm ignored because I'm new?

 

Thank you!

Teia

 

 

 

Sadly Alamy is located in the UK which is currently dealing with a Pandemic, which is altering business delivery.  

 

 

https://discussion.alamy.com/topic/12897-qc-wait-times-during-covid-19-response/

 

Edited May 12 by meanderingemu

[Teia 0]

Thank you!

I just received the approval after almost a month. I know how things work at the moement in Uk as I live in Uk too. Most of the IT companies sorted the workers to work from home.

Hopefuly it will not take that long with the next lot.

 

[MizBrown 270]

On 15/05/2020 at 11:18, Teia said:

Thank you!

I just received the approval after almost a month. I know how things work at the moement in Uk as I live in Uk too. Most of the IT companies sorted the workers to work from home.

Hopefuly it will not take that long with the next lot.

 

You do need to caption them and add keywords for them to b on sale.

 

 

[David Priddis 0]

Is any one else having problems with the web uploader? It manages to upload 2 to 3 images and drops out for me. I have no other internet connection problems. Zoom etc. work fine.

[Bill Allsopp 99]

18 hours ago, David Priddis said:

Is any one else having problems with the web uploader? It manages to upload 2 to 3 images and drops out for me. I have no other internet connection problems. Zoom etc. work fine.

I found it occasionally slow and / or falling over with more than a few. Now I use Filezilla ftp (which is free) for most submissions.

[Nigel Grist 0]

On 04/06/2020 at 13:46, David Priddis said:

Is any one else having problems with the web uploader? It manages to upload 2 to 3 images and drops out for me. I have no other internet connection problems. Zoom etc. work fine.

I'm having the same experience. Upload fails after three images.

[rickygui 26]

Everyone take care! Health is utmost important. That said, unless vaccine is found, the spread of coronavirus remain absolute contagious. 

[Bill Allsopp 99]

On 15/05/2020 at 18:18, Teia said:

 

Hopefuly it will not take that long with the next lot.

 

QC clearance gets quicker as Alamy get to know the standard of your work.

[Bill Allsopp 99]

On 05/06/2020 at 18:51, Nigel Grist said:

I'm having the same experience. Upload fails after three images.

I find FTP better for larger batches (a fail after just three files does seem unusual to me though.) FileZilla is easy to use and free.