Hi,
I have got this email from Shutterstock ([email protected]) with this topic and text:
Do you know what is it or did you get the same email with the same question about your content?


Topic: Shutterstock: Asset Inquiry
Email: We've recently received a customer request to verify information regarding this content in your portfolio: (link to my image)
At your earliest convenience, please let us know the following:

What is the exact location and date of where this image was taken?

We thank you for your prompt response.

Shutterstock Sales Support Team

Thank you for you reply.

I understand, that this question is relevant for image with some outdoor scenery, castle, village etc... and it is for customer sometimes important to know the right place and the date where the photo was taken.

But I have got this question regarding my image, which content photo of product on unidentified general place.

Happened to me on SS and other sites, the client sometimes need to know 100% that this is the right location (readers trust).


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I had that asked, looked at the image and never responded.  The next thing I know is that the buyer contacted me directly and I sold the image to them for $450.

Quote from: Mantis on October 01, 2021, 07:09

I had that asked, looked at the image and never responded.  The next thing I know is that the buyer contacted me directly and I sold the image to them for $450.

Hehe... I wish I did that with those requests that I got before

Don't we all! 

Happens to me before with footage sale , and if I remember is ending great with around $200.00 sale income from me
and SS are very helpful with all assistance around


 

Did the client buy the photo for 75 USD or did you get a royalty of 75 USD? Just curious

"It was probably sold for 200-350$."

Was he exclusive then and sold all the rights of the photo to the client? (if that's possible with SS anyway).

Otherwise, I can't imagine, on any subscription, the client would pay that amount. 75 USD is possible under extended license but then you as a contributor get a small portion of that. So that's why I asked

I never got more then about 12 USD with SS but then again I'm non-exclusive there and don't do RM's.

I have got royalty 75 USD .
It was sold under Single&Other

"It was probably sold for 200-350$."

Was he exclusive then and sold all the rights of the photo to the client? (if that's possible with SS anyway).

Otherwise, I can't imagine, on any subscription, the client would pay that amount. 75 USD is possible under extended license but then you as a contributor get a small portion of that. So that's why I asked

I never got more then about 12 USD with SS but then again I'm non-exclusive there and don't do RM's.

There are regular sales in range of 90-120$ for many contributors, without exclusivity. These are probably sold for few hundred $ to the client. I'm sorry you haven't had any of these yet, but you surely will, keep working!

Quote from: SVH on October 04, 2021, 14:15

Was he exclusive then and sold all the rights of the photo to the client? (if that's possible with SS anyway).

Otherwise, I can't imagine, on any subscription, the client would pay that amount. 75 USD is possible under extended license but then you as a contributor get a small portion of that. So that's why I asked

I had customers paying as much as $300 for a single photo without any exclusive rights. (And the photo was not even anything special). Admittedly this high amount was a one-time occurance, but sales where the customers pay at least over 100$ for a single photo happen somewhat regularly. Not as often as I would like (obviously), but it's not that rare. For people with high quality photos and much bigger ports than I have that's probably a regular occurance.

I had one sale last year on SS for $1,000 and one sale this year for over $600.  Helps make up for the sharp decline in other commissions.

Always problems and when SS dramatically dropped commissions on subscriptions did not help.

But it is what it is.