IMHO the issue isn't really the low prices per se, 

For me it is. I'd rather not sell an image at all, instead of earning 4 or 5 cents for it - especially if this sale is for printed magazine with an unlimited print run, which would have been an extended licence sale on Shutterstock.

In all fairness to Alamy, in January the lowest sale I got was $1.20 (for me, $3 gross) average sale for me was a little below $25 and they were my highest earner for the month. Plus I got another 26.7 ASCRL payment.

I will definitely complain about the drop from 50% to 60% and even lower for distributor sales and I will complain even more about getting pennies for sales to China (or anywhere else) and I think the 20% is even crappier (but I made enough in January to avoid that for this year), but they also deliver some bigger priced sales and those are what matter. SS used to deliver those, but I think I made more bigger sales on Alamy in January than I did at SS from 2018 until I turned them off after the ~50% drop in RPD and RPI.

Like most of the business I think they are moving in the wrong direction, but they haven't gone as far in that direction as some places with initials like SS and IS/Getty.

I do agree that the super low sales - especially from so called distributors are pointless as far as contributors are concerned and I wish they wouldn't pursue those "exciting" opportunities but at the end of the day the bigger sales are what matters, and although they are not very steady at Alamy, at least for me they deliver them more often than anyone else does, at least since 2016 or so.

In all fairness to Alamy, in January the lowest sale I got was $1.20 (for me, $3 gross) average sale for me was a little below $25 and they were my highest earner for the month. Plus I got another 26.7 ASCRL payment.

I will definitely complain about the drop from 50% to 60% and even lower for distributor sales and I will complain even more about getting pennies for sales to China (or anywhere else) and I think the 20% is even crappier (but I made enough in January to avoid that for this year), but they also deliver some bigger priced sales and those are what matter. SS used to deliver those, but I think I made more bigger sales on Alamy in January than I did at SS from 2018 until I turned them off after the ~50% drop in RPD and RPI.

Like most of the business I think they are moving in the wrong direction, but they haven't gone as far in that direction as some places with initials like SS and IS/Getty.

I do agree that the super low sales - especially from so called distributors are pointless as far as contributors are concerned and I wish they wouldn't pursue those "exciting" opportunities but at the end of the day the bigger sales are what matters, and although they are not very steady at Alamy, at least for me they deliver them more often than anyone else does, at least since 2016 or so.

I think anyone who goes from 40% to 20% and then also has such low sales is not positive about Alamy at all. As long as you sell well, those low sales are of course less annoying.

Some of these low sales are subscriptions ("750 Bilder per Monat").   It would mean 0.2 x 750 = 150$ per month for 750 downloads.   Did Alamy offer subscriptions before?

Not as such, but they had bulk deals to UK newspapers, and some experimental bulk deals to some Eastern European distributors two or three years back. I don't know if the latter were intro deals, or if they weren't renewed, but I had a few at the time, but none since.

Distributor sales and discounting for bulk-buyers is unfortunate and has changed Alamy into a gutter microstock agency but I had a 5-year RM sale today for $0.50 for �personal use�. Surely, by definition, a �personal use� (advertised as �9.99) cannot be to a bulk buyer entitled to a huge discount?

So I don't like these cent sales either (actually i hate them  ), but this year I've already had (plus other nice sales in two digit range) a $200 and a $118  sale come in gross that makes some other small agencies look pretty bad.

I would therefore never shut down a portfolio, but just let it run, you never know. But everyone must know that for themselves.

I sold 7 pics on 500PX all on the same day. For one cent each! A real profit

I'm 0 sale since 2022 until now why?

It's a quite different market from the micros, in general.
Were you selling well before six weeks ago?

Quote from: zebra007 on February 14, 2022, 05:18

I'm 0 sale since 2022 until now why?

It's a quite different market from the micros, in general.
Were you selling well before six weeks ago?

Summary for 01 December 2021 to 01 January 2022 ( 28 item(s) totalling $7.35 )

I'm 0 sale since 2022 until now why?

For me: "Summary for 01 December 2021 to 14 February 2022 ( 11 item(s) totalling $57.57 )"

That's better than your situation, but according to Alamy, I should be over $250 with that many sales and clearly, that's just not the case with all the recent low-ball sales.

I suspect Alamy as a business is struggling and that we're seeing lower value and more intermittent sales as a result. They've never been high volume (for me) but they were always better than in the last 8 months or so.

For me: "Summary for 01 December 2021 to 14 February 2022 ( 11 item(s) totalling $57.57 )"

I also have 11 sales between Dec 1st 2021 and Februrary 14th and made stunning 76 cent (!!!) with those sales.

I really can�t bear those 4 cent sales anylonger. They hurt. Every single sale hurts.

I have asked Alamy to delete my account. According to their own statement, they need 45 days for this. I don't know why it takes so long.

It's in the contract/agreement we signed up to.
And apparently your pics can be sold for quite some time after that (but you'll still get paid, FWIW).

It always has been feast or famine at Alamy. In January 2021, I had three licenses for $169 each. By comparison, my best license so far this year is $3.90 for an RM image licensed for perpetual use. Views and zooms are climbing but so many of my sales for the past few months have been single-digit. Yet in 2021 sales rebounded earning me nearly as much as back in 2015-2017, my strongest years there. I really don't know what to expect. I've been with Alamy since 2008 so I'm not pulling my portfolio but I'm not uploading anything new at this point.

It's so frustrating. I have a handful of images from 500px on Getty and get pennies whenever they are licensed.

Sad that the more traditional agencies have become microstock.

While writing this, an email popped up from Fine Art America that I sold a puzzle that was discounted 50% due to their Google Ad campaign. With the discount I earned $4.48, a trifle, but better than my most recent full size RM license on Alamy. Earnings on FAA last year blew away all my stock earnings by a mile, as they have for the past few years, even though most print sales were smaller sizes than my average pre-Covid. Why can the average person from places like Tennessee afford to pay more than large corporations for our work? Because places like shutterstock and Getty have given the big guys a tremendous break, at the expense of individual artists. And now Alamy is following suit.