geogphotos Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 I must admit to multiple checks during a normal day. More than multiple. Many! Too many. I think it would be better to resist and check maybe only a few times a week but can never manage that. Or perhaps just once a day. Not sure of the psychology of it. Seeing a good sale obviously gives a good boost. Seeing a pathetic sale often is worse than nothing. Almost. Nothing is worse than nothing. 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Once a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Ramsay Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Much too often Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 (edited) One to three (OK, I lied) five times per day depending on how badly my OCSCD (Obsessive Compulsive Sales Checking Disorder) is acting up. 🤑 Edited July 28, 2020 by John Mitchell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reimar Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Before I joined some MS sites, it was once a day. There's so much action on those sites that I tend to keep them open and click about 5 times per day. Since Alamy is also open, I tend to click here too, usually to no avail. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertSnapper Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Too often. I wish they just updated the sales once a month. Then I could have my life back ! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abiyoyo Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 A few. I would like to receive an email every time that there is a sale. Should not be too difficult to enable/disable to have those notifications. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rico Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 I check twice a day to maintain my depression level in case I accidentally get happy. Just kidding.. I'm usually a happy guy😎 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avpics Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Maybe half a dozen times per day. More on 'newspaper day' as they often continue to build up as the day goes on. Like Reimar, I have a number of tabs open which need updating so I run from left to right across all the tabs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb photos Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 24 minutes ago, Abiyoyo said: A few. I would like to receive an email every time that there is a sale. Should not be too difficult to enable/disable to have those notifications. It should be possible, but as everything is really stretched at present might be 'they will get around to it one day'. Remembering back I'm sure I got an email from Alamy when I made my first sale. I usually check for sales every few days, then every day during the last week of the month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geogphotos Posted July 28, 2020 Author Share Posted July 28, 2020 (edited) 42 minutes ago, Abiyoyo said: A few. I would like to receive an email every time that there is a sale. Should not be too difficult to enable/disable to have those notifications. As I remember the story David Sanger had his phone set up to sound an alarm every time he got an Alamy sale, and he got many. No idea of the technology that was used - something to do with an alarm when a webpage updates. Edited July 28, 2020 by geogphotos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertSnapper Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 I've just checked again 😳 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Too many times a day...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Every two and a half minutes. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve F Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 (edited) Err.... More than I'm willing to admit. OCD at it's best. The question is, does anyone carry out any ritual to get a sale come in? Say, by standing on one foot and touching you nose you got sales a couple of times. How often do you do your ritual now? Oh goodie, let's talk about confirmation bias... 🙃 Edited July 28, 2020 by Steve F 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colblimp Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Every 15 minutes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Well, of course, Steve—but I won't be telling you what my ritual is. That could mean bad karma. 🙃 Seriously, I am under the impression that everything, including sales and zooms, are updated once a day. ??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariaJ Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 2 or 3 times a day. More often if people start reporting surges (I don't know why because I'm never part of that surge 😄). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sally Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 (edited) It's a well-established psychological phenomenon: intermittent reinforcement results in increased behaviour. 😉 Edited July 28, 2020 by Sally 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 1 minute ago, Ed Rooney said: Well, of course, Steve—but I won't be telling you what my ritual is. That could mean bad karma. 🙃 Seriously, I am under the impression that everything, including sales and zooms, are updated once a day. ??? The downloadable sales report seems (?) to be updated more often. I sometimes see sales pop up in the morning and then again later in the day, but perhaps I'm hallucinating. Also, since the pandemic struck, sales reporting appears to be less predictable. I guess this could have something to do with people working from home or Starbucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizBrown Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Once or twice a day after noon here so the next day in the UK. Also check to see what showed up in searches at the same time. Once, the second check of the day showed a new sale, normally not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 If I’m not busy, often. When I am busy with work and what not, only when I can. But at least once a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Kuta Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 Way back in the day when we ran programs on a mainframe through remote terminals, I would tell people that the more they clicked on the job status, the faster it would run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickygui Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 Once a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnans Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 13 hours ago, Steve F said: Err.... More than I'm willing to admit. OCD at it's best. The question is, does anyone carry out any ritual to get a sale come in? Say, by standing on one foot and touching you nose you got sales a couple of times. How often do you do your ritual now? Oh goodie, let's talk about confirmation bias... 🙃 Steve - I thought it was only me with rituals. Looks like a few here do that 🙂 . Unfortunately my rituals haven't worked yet for this month. I check few times a day although I have seen my sales always reported before 7:00 AM GMT . All the checks I do after that time are to do with my OCD 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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