Distributor sales -Japan

[pablo]

I have a couple of sales via Distributor in Japan dating back to November last year. Has anyone any idea about the usual time delay before payment? I know distro sales usually take longer, so just wondering.

TIA

Paul

[Alexander Hogg]

Should be up to 3 months afterword's before getting paid unless I'm wrong  

[spacecadet]

Same here, November. Unfortunately it's not unusual.

[Alamy]

Hi All, 

 

Distribution sales can take up to 6 months to clear. If you see a distribution sale which is over 6 months still uncleared, please drop us an email at contributors@alamy.com, along with the image ID and we can chase for payment. 

 

Thanks,

Louise (CR Team)

[Tony ALS]

I have two or three over 6 months but the amounts are so small I haven't bothered following up. I'll make the effort at some point🤔

[NYCat]

I have one from September. I've reported it twice and no word so far.

 

Paulette

[Jansos]

I'm assuming Japan must have its own stock agencies, similar to Alamy and others. Are the pics that you sell to Japan via Alamy distribution quite niche? Curious to know why an advanced economy like Japan needs to purchase this way.

[Robert M Estall]

Some Japanese agencies and big clients have strange arrangements and ways of operating. I ran into it through a specialist handling my work and I really didn't like it.

[Betty LaRue]

I have Japan as one of my very few distributors, but always in the past I have had direct sales from them for decent prices. I may take them off the distributor route the next go-round. They bought one of mine for $$$ recently but I got distributor pricing.

[wiskerke]

4 hours ago, Jansos said:

I'm assuming Japan must have its own stock agencies, similar to Alamy and others. Are the pics that you sell to Japan via Alamy distribution quite niche? Curious to know why an advanced economy like Japan needs to purchase this way.

Not a whole lot of Japanese people like to speak/read/write English. Not that different from German or French people 20 or 30 years ago.

Do you research Japanese, German or French subjects in their respective languages? 

And that's even not thinking of having to deal with invoices in foreign languages.  And then there's subscriptions; bulk deals or preferred partnership.

 

I had some nice book and tv sales to Japan. And some Japanese subjects to the ROW.

 

One of my nicest covers is a Japanese book. And yest it's a distributor sale. For not a whole lot of money either.

Still I like it a lot. So sometimes there's that aspect too. Vanity.

 

wim

[Jansos]

8 hours ago, wiskerke said:

Do you research Japanese, German or French subjects in their respective languages? 

And that's even not thinking of having to deal with invoices in foreign languages.  And then there's subscriptions; bulk deals or preferred partnership.

Good points but I would have thought that if you were buying a pic via Alamy, or any other agency, you would simply use a localised/translated web facility so there would be no need to read in English.

[Tony ALS]

On 31/07/2023 at 14:10, Tony ALS said:

I have two or three over 6 months but the amounts are so small I haven't bothered following up. I'll make the effort at some point🤔

I chased up one of these and it got paid within a couple of days so I'm $0.63 better off🙄

[sooth]

3 hours ago, Jansos said:

Good points but I would have thought that if you were buying a pic via Alamy, or any other agency, you would simply use a localised/translated web facility so there would be no need to read in English.

Dude, like your previous post "assuming" Japan is an advanced country. You really don't know anything about Japan. They might be advanced, but business use of technology is pitiful with many businesses still preferring old ways of doing things, fax machines, hanko stamps for super important documents, and embracing bureaucracy.

 

It's easy to understand it's easier to delegate a specialist to do photo research rather than rely on some wonky auto translation app that can get you fired if it mistranslates something. Even the best western translation app like Google translate is extremely poor in translating Asian languages and especially nuance, context, etc.

[wiskerke]

31 minutes ago, sooth said:

Dude, like your previous post "assuming" Japan is an advanced country. You really don't know anything about Japan. They might be advanced, but business use of technology is pitiful with many businesses still preferring old ways of doing things, fax machines, hanko stamps for super important documents, and embracing bureaucracy.

 

It's easy to understand it's easier to delegate a specialist to do photo research rather than rely on some wonky auto translation app that can get you fired if it mistranslates something. Even the best western translation app like Google translate is extremely poor in translating Asian languages and especially nuance, context, etc.

 

I agree. However on the streets it's a different thing with people using the then new Google instant translate very early on a couple years back.

 

wim