marc Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 Another $2 sale to Bauer Media Radio. Customer Marketing. Alamy shortchanging us again with sales to a company with a £250m turnover. Instead of paying a sales team to set up deals where we are the losers, pay them to get high value for our images. Do Alamy think Bauer won't pay $10 for an image? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Standfast Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 (edited) Probably proof that Bauer won't pay $10 for an image. Nice pics btw! Edited September 18, 2023 by Mr Standfast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert M Estall Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 Bauer have always been extremely mean about paying reproduction fees; even long before the digital age Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webby Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 $2 ? Lucky you. My last two sales to them were $0.19 each! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc Posted September 18, 2023 Author Share Posted September 18, 2023 8 hours ago, Mr Standfast said: Probably proof that Bauer won't pay $10 for an image. Nice pics btw! Thanks. If the sales team want to race to the bottom with our images, then why should anybody pay decent rates? It's a fool's errand finding clients who will pay peanuts. Alamy should allow us to opt out of their useless deals like this and Bauer can pay the advertised rate for images they clearly want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted September 19, 2023 Share Posted September 19, 2023 Yeah, one of my sales was to Bauer. A dollar something, my last sale. Cents to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted September 19, 2023 Share Posted September 19, 2023 This is how wealthy companies get or stay wealthy, they take advantage of people or businesses much lower on the food 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 See my post in "Images sold in September 2023". Better still I will copy it here. Anglia Ruskin University East Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire England Country: Worldwide Usage: Editorial, For editorial use on social media and digital platforms produced by Bauer Media Radio. Customer Marketing: - Internal publication services - “In house” produced marketing. Media: Website, app and social media Start: 18 September 2023 Duration: Unlimited $ I hate sales to Bauer Media Radio. So far they are very low prices. Allan Can't we stop sales to them or are you willing to keep them coming? ITMA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avpics Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 On 18/09/2023 at 09:02, marc said: ....... with sales to a company with a £250m turnover..... My main local newspaper is published by Newsquest (Net income 114 million (2021) ) and pay absolutely zilch for photos, but find enough people happy just to see their name credited. Even the nationals will jump on social media posts with "can we use....with credit given". These are not the avenues which are ever again going to pay more than pennies going forward. I'm grateful for being able to offer 'real' news images for the greater values that such images gain, but stock news is largely a lost cause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Standfast Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 (edited) 28 minutes ago, Allan Bell said: See my post in "Images sold in September 2023". Better still I will copy it here. Anglia Ruskin University East Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire England Country: Worldwide Usage: Editorial, For editorial use on social media and digital platforms produced by Bauer Media Radio. Customer Marketing: - Internal publication services - “In house” produced marketing. Media: Website, app and social media Start: 18 September 2023 Duration: Unlimited $ I hate sales to Bauer Media Radio. So far they are very low prices. Allan Can't we stop sales to them or are you willing to keep them coming? ITMA The fee is dreadful but the worst bit is "radio". Yes I know it's a web service but the thought of my pictures being good enough for radio confuses this old fossil...😎 Nice pic mind... Edited September 20, 2023 by Mr Standfast 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Yarvin Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 Marc, it doesn't matter what Alamy thinks, they get what they can negotiate in a very competitive market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc Posted September 22, 2023 Author Share Posted September 22, 2023 (edited) On 20/09/2023 at 13:00, Brian Yarvin said: Marc, it doesn't matter what Alamy thinks, they get what they can negotiate in a very competitive market. They are undermining their own revenue and the photographers and developing a business model that makes no sense. You can't have such variation in prices and expect clients paying more not to complain. Edited September 22, 2023 by marc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc Posted September 22, 2023 Author Share Posted September 22, 2023 (edited) On 20/09/2023 at 12:35, Avpics said: My main local newspaper is published by Newsquest (Net income 114 million (2021) ) and pay absolutely zilch for photos, but find enough people happy just to see their name credited. Even the nationals will jump on social media posts with "can we use....with credit given". These are not the avenues which are ever again going to pay more than pennies going forward. I'm grateful for being able to offer 'real' news images for the greater values that such images gain, but stock news is largely a lost cause. Bauer is not a local newspaper. It owns a group of radio stations that are lucrative. Local newspapers are dead in print. There is no logic in going to Bauer and giving them a deal that undercuts the prices paid elsewhere by similar companies. That is a formula to end any business. Edited September 22, 2023 by marc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb photos Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 On 18/09/2023 at 12:16, Webby said: $2 ? Lucky you. My last two sales to them were $0.19 each! My last sale to Bauer earlier this month was an astounding $1.57, worse than previous moans re Culture Trip. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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