Quote from: lagereek on November 30, 2011, 01:52

Im sitting here in my 2009 Range-Rover ...............

 wish you'd said that earlier, I just bought a Mercedes but I'd have got the Range Rover if I knew it had wi-fi in it 

Makes us two Sloane-rangers!  hurrah Henry and Henrietta!  we keep our stiff upperlips, yes.

I boycotted TS, until Getty forced me into the PP. I was all set to leave iStock over it, but it seemed like a futile gesture, hurting only myself while accomplishing nothing, so greed won out and I stayed. I stopped uploading there on Sept 28.

I see they have moved 3 of my images over to TS. My earnings are dropping so fast at IS that if it continues to get much worse, leaving them won't make a significant dent in my income. At that point, nothing will be holding me back from deactivating my portfolio. If you deactivate your images on IS, do they do they automatically get deactivated from TS as well?

I boycotted TS, until Getty forced me into the PP. I was all set to leave iStock over it, but it seemed like a futile gesture, hurting only myself while accomplishing nothing, so greed won out and I stayed. I stopped uploading there on Sept 28.

I see they have moved 3 of my images over to TS. My earnings are dropping so fast at IS that if it continues to get much worse, leaving them won't make a significant dent in my income. At that point, nothing will be holding me back from deactivating my portfolio. If you deactivate your images on IS, do they do they automatically get deactivated from TS as well?

i believe that is supposed to be what happens, yes.  but can take up to 30days before it is deactivated from the partner sites.

Quote from: Allsa on November 30, 2011, 12:04

I boycotted TS, until Getty forced me into the PP. I was all set to leave iStock over it, but it seemed like a futile gesture, hurting only myself while accomplishing nothing, so greed won out and I stayed. I stopped uploading there on Sept 28.

I see they have moved 3 of my images over to TS. My earnings are dropping so fast at IS that if it continues to get much worse, leaving them won't make a significant dent in my income. At that point, nothing will be holding me back from deactivating my portfolio. If you deactivate your images on IS, do they do they automatically get deactivated from TS as well?

i believe that is supposed to be what happens, yes.  but can take up to 30days before it is deactivated from the partner sites.

I sincerely hope not, since I have deactivated at least 75 of my more commercial sellers,  just for the reason of NOT going to TS.

As I posted higher up in the thread (http://www.microstockgroup.com/istockphoto-com/did-you-boycott-pp/msg230018/#msg230018), my entire portfolio appeared on TS a couple of months ago, shortly before the announcement that we would all be shipped over. 

I only realized it was there when I noticed a jump in my total and went looking for the reason. It was announced shortly after that we would all be shipped over.   Anyway, I have been getting PP royalties for a couple of months now. 

I see __ but how are you seeing your PP sales for this month (you said they were about 1/4 of your SS sales)? I thought PP sales would only appear sometime in December. Have they speeded things up?

I see __ but how are you seeing your PP sales for this month (you said they were about 1/4 of your SS sales)? I thought PP sales would only appear sometime in December. Have they speeded things up?

Oh, no, I must have misspoken.  I was talking about October sales.   The sales only started showing up middle of the following month, as you said.  

@Les - search for your name (actual, not username) in quotes on TS. 

Still almost neck-and-neck in the survey, then.

Quote from: lagereek on November 30, 2011, 12:29

I sincerely hope not, since I have deactivated at least 75 of my more commercial sellers,  just for the reason of NOT going to TS.

Presumably if they hadn't been transferred when you deactivated them, then they would disappear from the queue.

How is the transfer going for those who are being forced in? Have they managed to shift more than a handful yet?

I'm now up to 10 images transferred over.  four of them are from my most recent upload batch but the rest are completely random. 

Last week I had 9 images on Thinkstock. This week I have 10. At that rate, my whole current portfolio will be transferred over in about 7 years.

Quote from: LesHoward on November 30, 2011, 12:49

A couple of questions...

1. Should I be able to sign into TS using my iStock userid & password? I just tried and it did not let me.

2. How do I search for my own images? Using my iStock userid yields no results.

1. Nope.
2. Try your istock name and then try your real name in quotes.

Correct #1 is No Connection from IS to ThinkStock accounts.

2. Something strange, I just had a new one show with my new IS Business Name, while my old images show with my real name. Some show up "fname lname" some show "fnamelname" one new image under the "business name". The one with two names was my real name, first import. The one with the two names run together was my old account name / business name.

Also when I search on IS contributor charts the name is the one with no space and if I try the new Business Name or adding the new business name, it says user not found.

So it's possible to have two, but Thinkstock could have any of three different name for any of us, and if you change your business name, the old one will still be there, plus anything new, will go under the new business name.

This is so totally weird.   I search for images by my IS name, and get nothing.  I search with my real name in quotes and get exactly 1 image. 

I also think it's weird that they're moving our photos to TS but not giving us accounts there.  Excuse me but didn't we already walk over hot coals to get approved at IS? But we're not good enough for their new bargain-basement outlet?

Talk about being directed to the "servant's entrance" out in the alley.   

Quote from: stockastic on December 06, 2011, 17:17

...I also think it's weird that they're moving our photos to TS but not giving us accounts there.  Excuse me but didn't we already walk over hot coals to get approved at IS? But we're not good enough for their new bargain-basement outlet?...

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think anyone gets a login at TS. I was under the impression that the whole site is pulling in content from other collections, not directly from contributor uploads.

Yes, it's not weird at all. There are dozens of partner sites allowed to represent our work without us being able to log on to them. There's a list of the partner sites different agencies deal with here, somewhere