Bryan Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 I've had a pretty good year/month, thank you Alamy, but today I get this RF sale $8 Usage: iQ sale: Educational book, editorial print + digital use, front cover, one time use only Once upon a time, and not so very long ago, a textbook sale would bring in a decent 3 figure sum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Especially front cover RF. Disappointing Kumar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Disappointing indeed . . . and humiliating and outrageous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Disappointing. That is not why I came from micro in 2009. Perhaps it is time to leave the maicro business before the fading a has gone completely. I know that just saying so is to stir up a hornets' nest of disapproval and red arrows, but perhaps one's time could be used in a better way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 I'm a big fan of the Red Arrows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broad Norfolk Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 I've just come in from a day in the field trying to do something different for sales, only to logon and find a sale of $8 for a front cover! Disappointing is an all too polite a word, let alone the thought of the Buyer laughing all the way to the bank. Sales like this do nobody any good in the long run. A glum end to the day. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpics Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Aw, that sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Mayall Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Bryan, i feel for you as well as myself, this year i have had some bad sales across the various archives i am with, i am happy to say Alamy has not sold images of mine as low as $8. Let's hope this is just a one off. Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDoug Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Perhaps contributors should have the option of selecting a "thanks anyway" minimum price point. I think some other stock agencies offer something in that vein. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adepooler Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Any comment from Alamy perhaps to justify such a low figure.I am just starting out but this is just discouraging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MircoV Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 I think the answer is simple. How much i dont like to hear it but Microstock exist. I can inmagine that a client says to Alamy: I just found a similar image on micro agency X for much lower price. Can you make me a offer? And BAM 8 dollars.... taken. I think this will happen more and more in the future. It is like a group of cats that are used to drink water. The first day you put a bowl with milk on the other side of the room the cats will still drink from the water bowl not realizing yet that there is something "better". The day will come that the first cat discovers the milk and start to drink. The others will follow. It is just a matter of time. Alamy will need to adjust just like other agencies are doing otherwise ......... This is the truth i think how much i or you dont like it . James mentioned one time on a video. Alamy will be there for the long run just some changes will happen. Mirco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Bryan, i feel for you as well as myself, this year i have had some bad sales across the various archives i am with, i am happy to say Alamy has not sold images of mine as low as $8. Let's hope this is just a one off. Paul. Had 5 sales this month under $ 7 (Gross!!!) Lowest was $ 2.49 to the poor people of SWEDEN (distributor sale leaving me ............... $ 0.74) I wouldn't dare putting it in a beggar's cup Cheers, Philippe I too helped the failing Swedish economy with a $2.49 sale this month. I see today that there is a $5.15 distributor sale now waiting in the wings, don't know yet to where or for what usage. Next year could turn into a real humdinger if this keeps up. Not sure what to say about an $8 RF educational book cover. I thought that only RM images were licensed under the IQ scheme. My lowest IQ sales have been in the $30-$40 range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 B.t.w. what happened to the $ 180 textbook sales? This month: 0 (zero). Never happened before! I haven't had any recently either BUT in the last two months I've had three Country: Worldwide Usage: iQ sale: Single company - multiple use editorial only Industry sector: Education for over $200 - maybe the price has gone up!!!??!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Perhaps the exceptionately low price derived from the fact that it was an RF image being licensed for "one time use only." If so, it would be a good argument for sticking with RM on Alamy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 I have one of those $8 IQ sales today also. It is a duplicate of one I had in July for $40 with the only difference being the dates. I know IQ was supposed to have various advantages for the buyer and perhaps this may have something to do with that. By the way, my image is RM. Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 I have one of those $8 IQ sales today also. It is a duplicate of one I had in July for $40 with the only difference being the dates. I know IQ was supposed to have various advantages for the buyer and perhaps this may have something to do with that. By the way, my image is RM. Paulette Uh-oh, there goes my RF theory (see my last post above). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertSnapper Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 I wonder if it's one of those all-encompassing licences, where the one fee and licence are for all sizes/placements, and whilst the cover image being possible, most are actually just little pictures inside the book ? Still rubbish tho. Guess it was a peanut deal or no deal. . I see today that there is a $5.15 distributor sale now waiting in the wings, don't know yet to where or for what usage. Next year could turn into a real humdinger if this keeps up. I've one of those 5.15 tiddlers waiting in the wings too. My image was used back in May, in Italy, about the Italian recession............... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 With many seeming to have this, you'd like to assume that it was a mosaic of many images on one cover. But even then... Could very well be. It would be helpful if Alamy could include something like "mosaic" or "collage" use in the usage terms when this is the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 I had assumed collage as a possibility . . . still it's way too little money. Listen up, young people: there used to be a time when scoring a magazine cover meant something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nacke Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Yes Ed I remember those days well. Concerning the OP's original post, it may well be as part of a group of images. I will say that until this month I've been annoyed with the license fees I've been seeing from Alamy, FYI I do not blame Alamy for those low fees. I've suggested many times that there should be a way for the photographer to set a minimum license fee for specific images, but it does not seem to do much good. I've also written before that with the fall of license fees for stock I've returned to commissioned work and I'm making more in a morning on commission than I do in a month on Alamy. Again, I do not blame Alamy for what has transpired, but I would like to see Alamy doing something to get the fees for an image license up ASAP. I also believe that it is up to the photographers (contributors) to raise the level of images and the captions and keywords on work being submitted. Happy New Year.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbimages Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 What I really get "peeved" about is a low sale to a self biller, then waiting for 3 months for the sale to drop in and then waiting another 3 months or so for the sale to clear. And, having to keep records and check them to make sure the sale actually does finally appear. I'm still waiting for MS to get back to me for a non appearing sale on an image zoomed and subsequently appearing on a web site a couple of days later in August. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 I've one of those 5.15 tiddlers waiting in the wings too. My image was used back in May, in Italy, about the Italian recession............... Yup, it's Italy. Just showed up in my sales history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nacke Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Just joined the club as well and am not pleased to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MircoV Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Any comment from Alamy perhaps to justify such a low figure.I am just starting out but this is just discouraging. Sorry to say, but you missed the boat (Titanic) 7-8 years ago. 2015 is the first year where I have to add thousands of images just to keep the same income as the year before. Says a lot about the health of the stock business. Cheers, Philippe Just to add a comment. The stock business is not dying in the perspective of the agencies. The revenues are growing every year for them. I look at the american ones that are publishing the results. Many of them are opening new offices every year to keep track of the demand. There is more and more images needed. The dark side of this is that many of the contributors will not feel it since the competition is growing. Mirco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 I have one of those $8 IQ sales today also. It is a duplicate of one I had in July for $40 with the only difference being the dates. I know IQ was supposed to have various advantages for the buyer and perhaps this may have something to do with that. By the way, my image is RM. Paulette Checked back and found that was also the case with my sale, i.e. a duplicate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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