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Syates:
--- Цитата: dolgachov от Декабря 26, 2007, 03:26:17 pm ---but as long as this Infinite Сollection requires them to be sold for no less money elsewhere,..
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That would be price fixing and therefor illegal, see this article SY
dolgachov:
wouldn't. price fixing is agreement BETWEEN BUSINESS COMPETITORS.
khz:
as long as i know,
this collection belongs to fotolia,
some of infinite images' quality is very low, so they wouldnt be accepted to many of micro's if a single contributor uploaded,
and this make me feel that,
fotolia try to draw traffic with microstock contributors, and try to get some nice income with these low quality images in the first pages of search results
dont know what will the future brings with this collection, but i hope i am wrong and it will be good for us all
domencolja:
I don't know who's the forum moderators up there, but I just had a thread deleted. It was obviously censored.
The reason? I wrote about my sales being disastrous (comparing them to "other sites" (never mentioning any in particular) and saying they were 50 times worse than on the best one (and this was an approximation, 'cause they're even lower)), BUT I paralelly asked for help. Konstantin Sutyagin mentioned to me that it (my bad sales) might be because their search engine works with the seven "most important" keywords and since I never reorder them, this could well be the reason why my numbers are so, oh so low.
Anyways: my post wasn't attacking anyone and I sincerely asked for suggestions and advices. But some jerk thought this was obviously "bad publicity" and they removed my thread.
It might not sound such a big deal, but I highly value the freedom of speech and thought and this act is a big letdown for me. Big minus to Fotolia on this one!
fred:
--- Цитата: domencolja от Декабря 30, 2007, 02:43:16 am ---I don't know who's the forum moderators up there, but I just had a thread deleted. It was obviously censored.
The reason? I wrote about my sales being disastrous (comparing them to "other sites" (never mentioning any in particular) and saying they were 50 times worse than on the best one (and this was an approximation, 'cause they're even lower)), BUT I paralelly asked for help. Konstantin Sutyagin mentioned to me that it (my bad sales) might be because their search engine works with the seven "most important" keywords and since I never reorder them, this could well be the reason why my numbers are so, oh so low.
Anyways: my post wasn't attacking anyone and I sincerely asked for suggestions and advices. But some jerk thought this was obviously "bad publicity" and they removed my thread.
It might not sound such a big deal, but I highly value the freedom of speech and thought and this act is a big letdown for me. Big minus to Fotolia on this one!
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I have had sites censor my messages in their forums for exactly the same reason. Apparently if you are bashing other sites it is ok but if you compare them favorably to the one you are posting at it is a no-no.
One site actually recommended that I take my complaints to a public forum - like this one. I think this policy can be very counterproductive. Damage to their industry-wide reputation is certainly more at risk at a public site than on their own forum and that is what they should be concerned about. fred
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