No matter what I do I just cannot post a thread in the LO forum - want more sticky words - more sticky words, more sticky words,gave it about 50 and then it said "tags is invalid" - whatever that means

So I will post it here instead where English is the normal language:

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Is there any chance that LO could give us an early Christmas present and change the payout level to $50 instead of $100

It is taking ages to reach a payout level and currently the dollar-pound rate is so poor that if I convert the dollars to sterling I actually have less in my account than I did probably at the beginning of last month a few sales ago

Christine
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LMAO, Christine y o u h a v e g o t t o b e j o k i n g m e !

Would that be Christmas 2010 you're talking about, because you're definitely not getting any prezzie's from LO this year :-D

I think Laurin started a thread about this a while ago but nothing happened. I would rather they attracted more buyers so we could reach the $100 more quickly. $50 is less than ?25, so it is hardly worth bothering with.

I am just 7 downloads away from being able to use the sideshow and it seems that the people using that are doing well.

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I've started deleting my stuff on LO. I would leave it be but their less than adequate watermarking on what are probably the largest post purchase images in the industry has finally frightened me off.

Oh that and the fact that I've amassed a grand total of $14.70 in the last year. Even if they did drop the threshold to $50 I still wouldn't be seeing a payout before Christmas 2009. As things are, it would be more like 2014.

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It is annoying that they can't give us the choice of a decent watermark. I just delete the photos that would be easy to steal but it is a waste of time uploading them.

It is going to cost them a lot of time and money if they put people off uploading there and give them a reason to delete their portfolios.

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To be fair, they should drop the payout amount to 30.-.U$. Seems to me they rather spend (our) money going to these conferences chewing the fat, instead of investing in solid marketing. I have stopped uploading for a number of months already.

Just when I was going to chime in on how bad LO is and how in the last month and a half I've made all of $0.90 I get a $3.00 commission a few minutes ago. I've still been stuck in the $90 range, now $96.50, for a few months. So the first payout will be about $3.40 away. I guess that'll be good but incredibly slow to this point.
To me it seems like an endless quest. Sort of like getting a half-the-distance-to-the-goal-post penalty each time. Never quite getting there. A good Twilight Zone episode.

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I'm going to join you as soon as I find the time. My grand total for 14 months is $6.10. I have the same images there that I have on the other sites where I've made about $600 in the same time frame. I was really hoping they would succeed (I guess they are for some), but it's just not worth my time any more. I guess you have to play the "comment" game to get your images noticed. I just don't have the time nor inclination to play that game.

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It feels reassuring to read exactly the same observations I made myself over the past months. The LO's Flying Circus is all over California having fun at parties, but where is the meat for the contributors (sorry Carnies)? At a 100$ payout, I'm just financing their fun, and when payout times comes in 2013, I feel they will have been gone to the Eternal Hunting Grounds of the "beginning" stock sites.

I stopped uploading some months ago. Even if the upload process is seemles, I'm on very narrow bandwidth in the tropical jungle. I'd rather concentrate on sites like Dreamstime where I made 3 extended license sales in a row 3 days ago (boy that feels good).
The commenting game is a total waste of time. Sure, it might drive Google, but the resulting traffic is picture tourism, not sales-driven. For commenting and hugs, there is always good old Flickr.

I'm slowly starting to delete my portfolio for those shots where the watermark is still deficient. I converted my whopping 13.3$ earnings to credits a week ago. At least I can make somebody happy with a "sale".

Finally, I get slightly irritated by the hype and the hurrays of the Chief Investigator who keeps promising sales heaven next quarter. That game is going on for almost a year now. March 2007 would be the final breakthrough, so he said last January. Where is the meat?

.......... all I wanted was MY money and I really seem to have started something off again.

I am curious to know why some pictures have decent watermarks and others are just about invisible - it will be a pain go through and delete the invisible picture marked pictures but might have to do it.

Is there a box somewhere you tick to get a decent watermark?

Christine

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