You talk, we listen
Yesterday a user FlemishDreams at Microstock Group mentioned that Pixmac leave your images online in the gallery for too long. We didn’t expect that would be a problem, but the change can happen!
It’s great that we can hear our users and respond to them. We’ve brainstormed and now the time we’ll keep your pictures online is set to 1 year. We are currently fixing it on the Pixmac site. But if you find the old period mentioned somewhere, please let us know and we will correct it.
Vitezslav comments: “This is a first step. Remember I am always on your side! And I will try my best so you feel comfortable with us. That is my mission here at Pixmac.”
Again, we are here to give you a really good tool to sell your photos. Thanks to all of you who love the site for its ease of use. It was one of our primary targets and it seems we’re getting there.
And remember – don’t wait and get yours $500 for 500 pictures or just try to guess the number of pictures available on Pixmac on 1st March 2009 and win an iPhone!
It would even be better in addition if you allowed 5% or even less of the images to be deactivated immediately in a given period. At Dreamstime there is the option of “Sell the rights (SR-EL)”. It doesn’t happen often but that can mean thousands of $. The condition then is that you can deactivate the image immediately everywhere else. Another situation is where you want to participate with an image in one of the Dreamstime contests. You’ll need image exclusivity then.
It wouldn’t hurt Pixmac significantly since it would be maximum a few images in total, but on the other hand, it will encourage contributors also to upload their best shots, which they think could be eligible for “sell the rights”.
FlemishDreams, February 3, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
Nice thing. I’ll keep it in mind! Thank you…
vitezslavvalka, February 3, 2009 @ 6:53 pm
Even allowing to delete one image per day would be a solution, SY
hospitalera, February 8, 2009 @ 11:18 pm
Sounds fair. Thank you!
vitezslavvalka, February 9, 2009 @ 9:16 am
This is much better, I have uploaded images but not yet submitted, might do it now.. shorter period would be even better.
DamirK, March 13, 2009 @ 11:18 am