klod Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Hello: I wonder if other canadian Alamy contributors experience the same thing. I am in Canada and when I look at photos, prices are in pounds. When I noticed that a while ago, I created a buyer account and prices from that one appear in canadian dollars. I get the same behavior from different browers and computers. I forgot about that technical glitch until a few days ago. I received an email from Alamy concerning the Lightroom course and the fee is displayed in pounds. You certainly received it as well- was the price in pounds or dollars? Really not an issue at the moment but I would like to know if fellow canadian contributors experience the same thing to determine if its systemic or an attribute of my account so that Alamy technical team can fix this before I am set to receive my first $100,000 payment. (-In a previous life I was an IT analyst and I suspect its my account profile that is corrupted. Your feedback will greatly help to pinpoint the problem. I communicated with tech support a few months ago I want to include the info in a follow up email) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MandyD Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 12 minutes ago, klod said: Hello: I wonder if other canadian Alamy contributors experience the same thing. I am in Canada and when I look at photos, prices are in pounds. When I noticed that a while ago, I created a buyer account and prices from that one appear in canadian dollars. I get the same behavior from different browers and computers. I forgot about that technical glitch until a few days ago. I received an email from Alamy concerning the Lightroom course and the fee is displayed in pounds. You certainly received it as well- was the price in pounds or dollars? Really not an issue at the moment but I would like to know if fellow canadian contributors experience the same thing to determine if its systemic or an attribute of my account so that Alamy technical team can fix this before I am set to receive my first $100,000 payment. (-In a previous life I was an IT analyst and I suspect its my account profile that is corrupted. Your feedback will greatly help to pinpoint the problem. I communicated with tech support a few months ago I want to include the info in a follow up email) my photo prices are shown in pounds. email was in pounds too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klod Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 57 minutes ago, MandyD said: my photo prices are shown in pounds. email was in pounds too. Thanks Mandy. This means that its systemic. And also specific to contributors accounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Could it be `because you have a British Queen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Morgan Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 I'm in Ontario and mine show in US dollars. Jill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 My image prices show up in USD, as do the prices of all other images on Alamy. I've never seen any prices quoted in Canadian $, but I don't have a buyer account. The e-mail that I received about the online LR course showed the price in pounds. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 5 minutes ago, John Mitchell said: My image prices show up in USD, as do the prices of all other images on Alamy (for me, anyway). I've never seen any prices quoted in Canadian $, but I don't have a buyer account. The e-mail that I received about the online LR course showed the price in pounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MandyD Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 15 minutes ago, John Mitchell said: interesting why mine would be in pounds then...my earnings are in USD. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 5 minutes ago, MandyD said: interesting why mine would be in pounds then...my earnings are in USD. Yes, that's weird. Time to contact Buckingham Palace perhaps. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MandyD Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 3 minutes ago, John Mitchell said: Yes, that's weird. Time to contact Buckingham Palace perhaps. the Queen is my Grandmum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariaJ Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 When I look at images, the prices are in pounds. But my earnings are always reported in $US. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klod Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 3 hours ago, Niels Quist said: Could it be `because you have a British Queen? Maybe, her photo appears on every single piece of money. I've been wondering how much we pay for copyrights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klod Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 1 hour ago, MandyD said: the Queen is my Grandmum Then try to use your influence to convince her to skip one generation so that we get a fresh face on or money. The prince of whales offspring would look much better on our coins and give a fresh look to monarchy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klod Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 2 hours ago, John Mitchell said: Interesting that there are differences. The website is coded to diplay prices of the country you are in. But since you've been here for a long time and received payments, I gues you would have noticed by now if this glitch creates problems in the calculation of amounts due - which is my only concern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 5 hours ago, klod said: Interesting that there are differences. The website is coded to diplay prices of the country you are in. But since you've been here for a long time and received payments, I gues you would have noticed by now if this glitch creates problems in the calculation of amounts due - which is my only concern. Haven't noticed any problems, but then I haven't really checked this out either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdh Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Going to https://secure.alamy.com/myalamycustomer.aspx#Payment-options should allow you to change the displayed currency. This has worked quite a few moons ago, posted in this thread and I have not tested it myself again. Please let us know if it worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyn Llun Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Klod said: 'Then try to use your influence to convince her to skip one generation so that we get a fresh face on or money. The prince of whales offspring would look much better on our coins and give a fresh look to monarchy.' Prince of 'whales'? Is that a new title because of his wildlife protection credentials? Last Prince of Wales died in 1282 of course. Pete Davis http://www.pete-davis-photography.com http://peteslandscape.blogspot.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domf Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 From memory when you set up your account you nominate which currency you would like to paid in and prices paid reflect that, and that the only currency options are US dollars, UK pounds or Euros. Things may have changed since then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine M Baker Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 I have been working with England trying to sort out payment. After 3 attempts and multiple changes from my banking information Alamy they still have not sent any money. Did anyone have this issue ? Christine Baker BC Canada 2239 images Joined Alamy 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 2 hours ago, Christine M Baker said: I have been working with England trying to sort out payment. After 3 attempts and multiple changes from my banking information Alamy they still have not sent any money. Did anyone have this issue ? Christine Baker BC Canada 2239 images Joined Alamy 2019 I switched to PayPal years ago. I recommend that you consider doing the same. International banking is a huge pain. Best of luck. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Morgan Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 I'm with John, I use Paypal and it works very well. Jill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine M Baker Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 Thank you all i never thought of that. And a have a Paypal account. I have never received money from pay pal. What information do i have to give to Alamy so that the account is correct. Thanks again ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rico Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Christine M Baker said: Thank you all i never thought of that. And a have a Paypal account. I have never received money from pay pal. What information do i have to give to Alamy so that the account is correct. Thanks again ! Go to your dashboard, then under Account settings you will find Payment info, click on edit. It should be easy to change over to PP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 I am being careful with PayPal these days. I try not to leave a balance there.. just transfer quickly to my bank account. There have been recent instances of people having accounts suspended because of their opinions. If you Google you will probably find stories. I'm hoping this will all be corrected because I have found it to be very convenient and I get some payments that way (though I'm able to use my US bank account for Alamy). Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekVallintine Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 I live on Vancouver Island, I am with PayPal and I just received a payment from Alamy in US dollars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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