The subject pretty much covers it - 2 sales for the month, both distributor, both for 0.46 of which I get 0.14 - in the details they say RF and "China"

Maybe it is time to finally kill distributor sales - in the past they have mostly been low (< $20), but I don't think I have ever had one under $1 net before. I guess now that we only get 40% of regular sales the distributor sales aren't so much lower, but they have moved from good microstock levels to poor microstock levels.

Overall for the year they are doing about as well as any other site, but that isn't saying much anymore.

...Maybe it is time to finally kill distributor sales - in the past they have mostly been low (< $20), but I don't think I have ever had one under $1 net before. I guess now that we only get 40% of regular sales the distributor sales aren't so much lower, but they have moved from good microstock levels to poor microstock levels....

The volume of sales at Alamy (for me) is low, but funnily enough, last October I decided to opt in to distributor sales after being opted out for many years. I thought I'd see how, if at all, that improved sales volume (I'd opted out on principle because I consider it outrageous that the distributor makes more than I do).
 
Since October 2020 there have been only 2 distributor sales, the two smallest sales I've had in that time period. Gross numbers, one sale was $3.51 and the other $2.28. I am glad that the higher value sales (top 3, gross, $250, $119, $95) were direct through Alamy.

A few months isn't long enough to make any decisions, but based on what I've seen to date, opting in to distributor sales was pointless

You are lucky because I got two sales for $0.07 each.

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If it's any consolation, you have 14c more than I have this month ("so far", she added, hopefully!)

Optimism paid off. Just had a distributor sale in, $26.06 gross, $10.42: which is still a better net than quite a few 'regular' sales.

Well a macrostock became a microstock site. That's it!

I don't know if anyone mentioned, but during the month of April (and only April) you can opt out of distributor sales.

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Quote from: pancaketom on April 11, 2021, 16:56

The subject pretty much covers it - 2 sales for the month, both distributor, both for 0.46 of which I get 0.14 - in the details they say RF and "China"

14 cents would make me angry too.
How large and what use? Or does it just say RF?

1848 x 1224 pixels
and
1692 x 1125 pixels

so not full resolution.

I'm not as annoyed about this as what some of the other sites did (SS and Getty), but it is sad to see sales this low, especially if they get more rights.

You are lucky because I got two sales for $0.07 each.

Me too. Also I got two sub sales, both for 0,07 USD 

# 1848 x 1224 pixels
and
1692 x 1125 pixels

so not full resolution.#

Well, then it seems to be really something like side business:
If we further see bought in China..., well, I guess, they would not buy it for usual price - except very few one as mentioned above.
So, opt in might NOT competiting with ourselves or giving away for cheaper?
But who says, that only customer from China want to use it?

Distributers are not only in China.
I've netted <20c via distributers in Eastern Europe. These were specifically tagged as bulk discounts. The interesting thing was that there was a rash of comments about these on the Alamy forum, but after these first sales (3, presumably to different buyers, in a very short period), I haven't had any more, nor have I read about them on the forum. This month, there have been several comments about super-low sales to China.

We can apparently still choose to opt out of distribution to specific countries.

A clearify from Alamy would help. Then it might be easier to decide to opt in or opt out.

How much clearer could Alamy be?
https://www.alamy.com/contactus/local-distributors.aspx

Quote from: MicroVet on April 12, 2021, 01:06

You are lucky because I got two sales for $0.07 each.

Me too. Also I got two sub sales, both for 0,07 USD 

I mark myself lucky not to be getting these. Yes I would be discouraged and disappointed. I agree.

Quote from: kall3bu on April 13, 2021, 05:30

# 1848 x 1224 pixels
and
1692 x 1125 pixels

so not full resolution.#

Well, then it seems to be really something like side business:
If we further see bought in China..., well, I guess, they would not buy it for usual price - except very few one as mentioned above.
So, opt in might NOT competiting with ourselves or giving away for cheaper?
But who says, that only customer from China want to use it?

Distributers are not only in China.
I've netted <20c via distributers in Eastern Europe. These were specifically tagged as bulk discounts. The interesting thing was that there was a rash of comments about these on the Alamy forum, but after these first sales (3, presumably to different buyers, in a very short period), I haven't had any more, nor have I read about them on the forum. This month, there have been several comments about super-low sales to China.

We can apparently still choose to opt out of distribution to specific countries.

Quote

A clearify from Alamy would help. Then it might be easier to decide to opt in or opt out.

How much clearer could Alamy be?
https://www.alamy.com/contactus/local-distributors.aspx

I didn't know the country thing, but as someone else just added, you can opt out, during the one month period and have none of these.

True, one of my lowest distributor sales for news was Romania. 

The cameras I had rejected by Alamy were the Lumiz FZ330 and FujiFilm XF10. The latter rejection was particularly ridiculous as the XF10 has a 24MP APS-C sensor.

I assume this barrier to entry has resulted in Alamy losing ground to it's competitors.

"Almost all compact cameras, fixed lens cameras � SLR-like Bridge Cameras and all mobile phones cannot produce images that meet our guidelines."

Alamy's harakiri 

Well a macrostock became a microstock site. That's it!

Yes indeed but I guess they really have no options left but to turn Micro-stock or else they bite the dust. Like so many others!...besides Alamy have touted micro-stock photographers for ages they did it here at the MSG a few years back!