pablo Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Hogg Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Should be up to 3 months afterword's before getting paid unless I'm wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Same here, November. Unfortunately it's not unusual. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alamy Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 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) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony ALS Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 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🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 I have one from September. I've reported it twice and no word so far. Paulette 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jansos Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert M Estall Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 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 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jansos Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony ALS Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 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🙄 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooth Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 (edited) . Edited October 19, 2023 by sooth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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