Alex Ramsay 600 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Anyone else? No sales and one refund during the first two weeks, and then three modest sales on the 15th amounting to the value of the refund. Nothing since then - can't remember whether January is normally so quiet. Alex Link to post Share on other sites
Robert M Estall 340 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 nothing, nada, zilch, so far in January. No refunds at least! Link to post Share on other sites
Sultanpepa 1,003 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 I'm hoping for a 'surge' of tiny newspaper sales to save the month from a blank. 🙁 Link to post Share on other sites
Steve F 909 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Was slow, just one sale on the 12th. Then 2 sales on the 18th. Zooms were none existent until the last few days. If I get another 2 or 3 sales this month, it'll be an average month for me then. Link to post Share on other sites
losdemas 2,984 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Nowt so far. A few found usages, which will hopefully show this month or next. Link to post Share on other sites
meanderingemu 1,290 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Sales up to my monthly average of last year already, so OK. $$ low, with the only licence over $20 being a distribution deal, so 70% commission hurts.... slow views and zooms however, so expecting dip in couple of months... Link to post Share on other sites
Avpics 1,701 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Roughly half of a normal average month. The database is also back to its old ways in being many days behind and with Live News not going into stock. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
David eastley 79 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 as 2020 was my best year ever I was rather hoping for a strong start to this year but only a dribble so far. Still 10 days to go Link to post Share on other sites
Kat 317 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Also a slow month for me. 2 small distributor sales dropped in yesterday. Only one zoom for this month so far, which is unusually low for me. And a couple of sales from last year, which should have been cleared by now, are still showing as uncleared. Link to post Share on other sites
Normspics 130 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 (edited) I have sold the same number of images month to date as I did same period in January last year however the value is three times higher than last January, an encouraging start. Should add no distributor sales so far this month. Edited January 20 by Normspics 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Cal 207 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 (edited) Things holding up ok here, zooms significantly better than late last year with CTR at a level I am more comfortable with now, one sale in the bag and hopefully a few more from some of this months/last month's zooms. Up until this month sales through Oct, Nov and Dec were higher than the amount of zooms I was getting. Views currently high as lots of searches going on for subjects I've covered heavily in the run up to the new year - covid-19/anti lockdown protests. To get an "average" month I'll need one or two more sales before Jan ends so fingers crossed. Interestingly enough one of my recent sales came in not long after I'd added a batch of keywords (mainly synonyms) that I hadn't thought of before. 1 hour ago, Avpics said: Roughly half of a normal average month. The database is also back to its old ways in being many days behind and with Live News not going into stock. Indeed. My blue number <<<<< 1725. Click it and oooops! The 17 images I bagged and tagged yesterday are nowhere in sight! Not to be seen again for another 12-24 hours. Last time this got remedied it was right after I prodded them about it. I also had two sales clear that I've been waiting months for right after messaging them about that, too. Maybe I should have another whinge?! Edited January 20 by Cal 1 Link to post Share on other sites
meanderingemu 1,290 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 3 minutes ago, Cal said: Indeed. My blue number <<<<< 1725. Click it and oooops! The 17 images I bagged and tagged yesterday vanish! Not to be seen again for another 12-24 hours. Last time this got remedied it was right after I prodded them about it. I also had two sales clear that I've been waiting months for right after messaging them about that, too. Maybe I should have another whinge?! we shouldn't have to whinge though.... I have 2 sales past their 4 months to clear (one closing on a year), both from the same news organisation, a three letter acronym in the UK. ok so i'm whinging. Link to post Share on other sites
meanderingemu 1,290 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 5 minutes ago, Cal said: Indeed. My blue number <<<<< 1725. Click it and oooops! as i reported in other thread, my blue number has now gone up yesterday, and today, without a new image appearing for sale. I don't remember seeing this before, two updates of server in, but image not appearing..... Elizabeth, when you have a break between locking S****** posts, can you send a note to the server team @Alamy 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Cal 207 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 15 minutes ago, meanderingemu said: we shouldn't have to whinge though.... I have 2 sales past their 4 months to clear (one closing on a year), both from the same news organisation, a three letter acronym in the UK. ok so i'm whinging. I quite agree, I think it's unbelievable that some customers of Alamy can apparently download images and not bother reporting them (given the stories I have read of contributors having to "report the usages themselves") but it is a fact we have to contend with. I'm still waiting for a known usage over a month ago to even report, I have a sneaky feeling it either never will or will be upwards of 2 months before it will. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Bill Allsopp 115 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Zip, Zilch, Nada ...... and zooms are through the floor. Link to post Share on other sites
Normspics 130 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 25 minutes ago, meanderingemu said: my blue number has now gone up just noticed my forum blue number is showing my approved uploads from yesterday but they are missing from the portfolio page too. Link to post Share on other sites
Pekka Liukkonen 66 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 January couldn't be slower than this... No sales, no zooms, no nothing... Well, back to hibernating... Link to post Share on other sites
PAL Media 189 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Slow month 😞 Link to post Share on other sites
Dave Nelson 127 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Zero. Patiently waiting... Link to post Share on other sites
John Gaffen 109 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 (edited) Had four sales so far this month, of varying amounts ranging from a few dollars up to to reasonably high amounts. Edited January 20 by John Gaffen Link to post Share on other sites
Alamy 595 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 42 minutes ago, meanderingemu said: as i reported in other thread, my blue number has now gone up yesterday, and today, without a new image appearing for sale. I don't remember seeing this before, two updates of server in, but image not appearing..... Elizabeth, when you have a break between locking S****** posts, can you send a note to the server team @Alamy Hi, We're sorry for the delay - the team are aware and the server will be updated as soon as possible. Thanks, Shannon 3 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites
wilkopix 7 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Bit slow here too .. with the rubbish (UK) weather I'm busy re-keywording older images and hope that might lead to some additional sales. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Alex Ramsay 600 Posted January 20 Author Share Posted January 20 And, predictably, no sooner had I started this thread than a sale dropped in . . . maybe I should try moaning more often Alex 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
BradleyPhoto 151 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 56 minutes ago, wilkopix said: Bit slow here too .. with the rubbish (UK) weather I'm busy re-keywording older images and hope that might lead to some additional sales. Not a bad use of this bad weather! if you have any of those actual cookies in your photos, I’ll buy a cookie and a photo! Link to post Share on other sites
Sultanpepa 1,003 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 1 hour ago, Pekka Liukkonen said: January couldn't be slower than this... No sales, no zooms, no nothing... Well, back to hibernating... Yes, and just 45 views for yesterday doesn't give me encouragement. Link to post Share on other sites
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