Your Paypal Info Page For Sellers

that's really hard to read in all caps.

you can't reject paypal, only a few of us here can use checks, i think that option was shut off.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

You are in the USA, please enter your SSN in the area meant for the SSN

The SSN and EIN have nothing to do with your Paypal area being filled out. Go to PAYMENT INFORMATION and put in the email you use with Paypal/ We do not issue cheques now so that area cannot be filled out

Please do not use all caps in the forum. It is considered to be the we equivalent of shouting and is therefore against forum policy

Thank you

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It is not an insult at all to have Tech Support by email or forum only. Most of support for members is by link or image and that is just impossible over the telephone. Also, with emails and forum posts, we can see exactly what you have een told already and what you have tried. That is impossible by telephone also

Is it a full moon? Why is everyone so angry today?

My apologies to all that responded. I assume I will not get an answer from the "owners" of the service. I was impressed by the site and its features. No longer so.In fact I am really ticked. FAA loves to support buyers but has nothing to do with sellers and relies on nice folks like you to attempt to fix issues with new sellers. As an aside, on the page that asks for the US EIN, guessing that you are a Canadian or some other country company, why bother asking me for the EIN. I will not provide my SSN for other non-FAA employees to get hold of. And to confirm the lack of responsibility on THAT page, the "frequently asked questions" link at the top right side of the EIN page..does not work. How long as this FAA been in business? Dont answer that.

To the person that suggests entering my SSN...I will assume that you may have more power over the people running this web site service. As such have them create a page which asks what country you are in and presents a page that is appropriate for the tax system in that country. Nice people like YOU should not have to hold hands with new sellers. It is not your responsibility. FAA appears to be a for profit company. I already have my own photos/artwork web site. I already accept PayPal.

I just found THIS web site so nice. And now find it a massive pain. Perhaps tomorrow, I will calm down.

Also I can understand the use of "members" assisting other "members" but only for helping them understand keywords and other aspects of promoting their work. Even so, the web site should be able to have that kind of content. Perhaps, artists have nothing to do when they are not inspired by handling the brush, pencil, or camera and just like to chat with newbies. OK THANKS for being MUCH NICER than the folks who run the site.

"FAA appears to be a for profit company."

FWIW, faa has never proclaimed itself to be a non-profit charity organization. -W

I am sorry to hear you are unhappy. This is a fine company with a great marketing website. I have been quite happy with their terms of service and the service they provide to me as an art photographer. Payments are made as agreed upon in those TOS, are accurate and on time. While I would prefer direct deposit, I can certainly deal with using PayPal.


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listen if you want to get paid, you have to put your SS number there. it asks for both, fill the one that applies to you. it has to do with tax reasons as they send it in to the IRS. the info is private. this site has been in business for like 7 years now maybe more i think. some links are broken, report em, it happens.

of course this is a for profit business, what else can it be?

its not that hard, its not a scam. enter the number in. the owner of the site sees it. otherwise you don't get paid. and if you had the check option - you still have to enter that number. you in fact have to enter it on most sites.

we can only help you so far, be happy with the faster answer asking it here.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

and just an FYI - most of your images are far too small or soft to print as anything.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Kevin,

Looking at the few images you have posted, it appears there are only two that are large enough to work on the duvet cover and pillow products.

Edit: Looks like Mike posted it already while I was typing.

If you sell an image we will refuse to print if the image shows.......

Pixellation
Blockiness
Bad cropping
Blurriness not in keeping with the image (ie not meant to be there)
normal font signature (Arial, Times New Roman etc)
signature cropped half off the image
large watermarks
noticeable camera flash
Upsized images

We do not do quality control until you sell so, it is your responsibility to quality control your images carefully before uploading. You do this by zooming in a photo editor to 100% and then carefully going over the image, checking for the above defects

We require Adobe RGB or sRGB and do not accept CMYK or ProPhoto

I hope that helps

Anytime you work or contract to work for a company, they require you to provide your social security number for tax purposes. If you're not willing to do that, that's fine, but you can't sell through very many online vendors without doing that. I have been here selling for years and no one has done anything nefarious with my social security information.

An EIN is a number assigned to you when you incoroporate or become an LLC. The EIN is used by the IRS to identify business entities. If you do not operate as a corporation, then EIN doesn't apply to you.

Of course this is a for-profit company. Non profit companies are things like charities and churches. Organizations that conduct business with no expectation of profit. The only way a print-on-demand site could operate without expectation of profit is if all the artists donated their work. This is a store. A store that gives you tools and space to display and sell your artwork for a very low yearly fee. A store that sells things, for money, with the expectation of profit for both the participating artists and the store owner.

We try to be helpful here not because it's expected, but because we all were just starting out at one point too and we're choosing to help others. We don't get paid, or coerced, into being helpful. Some can and do, others participate here and don't offer advice. It's a community of individuals.

The fact that you didn't understand these things isn't the fault of this website, it's owners, or any of us. You're blaming your lack of understanding on others. So stop it and take some time to understand the details before you flip out.

I really do not want any of my works to be on shower curtains or pillows. But that is up to the consumer. Any photo that I have or to be posted has or will be tested since I also use various professional photo printing labs as well as COSTCO. You see I already go to shows and am in galleries with hard copy. I must also comment that I am very impressed with the fantastic range of talent as I peruse the site. Gosh, I wish world wide that same kind of talent was running the governments. We would have a much nicer world.

you can take the prices off of those and you won't sell them. but they are so small anyway, the stretching the site does will make them look terrible. if you want to sell posters however, you'll need to upload much larger pieces.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

"Kevin",

I see you've removed all the images that you initially had loaded. Just got through reading your bio in the "About" tab. Interesting stuff, with the writing reminding me of a previous member, just can't recall the name at the moment. Quite a varied background:

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/kevin-carbone.html?tab=about


"...I was very innovative, even received a US Patent for converting dot matrix printers into scanners. At that point, I was an expert on digital imagery..."

Some of your PhD work?

changing your message after you post it is rather rude.

no a 1.5 meg image is not like a 20 meg color - there is no color to compare with. the size is in dimension and before you erased it all they were like 600px across or smaller. even the thumbnail had a hard time making them large enough to view.

only put your SS number in. that's all they want. everything else is pointless argument.


jean its simple, if they don't want dashes, then don't put in dashes. you will have a hard time selling in any store online however because your images are too small and they all require an SS number

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

yeah that's some bio.

how does one convert a dot matrix printer into a scanner? what's the patent number? wouldn't the pins damage the paper?


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

As Mike said. put ion your SS number no dashes. When you hit submit it will only show the last 4 digits. Simple!

I have no idea why you think my photos are too small. I just had a 1.25 mb black&white printed on a 30 x 30 inch canvas at Costco withut any issues. Also had it printed on a 12 x 12 with the same excellent quality. What bothers me is probably stupidity on my part but the images displayed for user viewing are crippled so that attempts at printing ae thwarted. If YOU have access to my "raw" jpg's, then something is wrong. If you can gain access to my photos, then anyone can and this site is supposed to be protected from that. I did note that my one FENCE photo is color at about 2.5 Mb. Most of my color work is in the 20Mbyte area. Perhaps that's because the tif or camera direct is a hugh file and the 2.5 mbyte is a JPEG. In any case, you may have a valid arguement about size. I will not know until I test. If not mistaken, the user can select an output medium of a certain ize and see WYSIWYG and make their own decision. If some idiot wants one of my works on a shower curtain, there's no accounting for taste.Yes, interior decorators probably use this site. Taste is rare. Most galleries have prints about the size of an 11 x14. I thought I read somewhere on this site that there are features that allow me to predetermine what the max size or format I might permit. I have some works with are and must be square. I will not or hope to not permit such works to be printed in some wierd format.

When one views your image here with the loupe square, the full size square portion of that image shows up and the image's actual resolution is labeled. So whatever resolution size info you have for an image is shown to the public, just not the actual full image itself. -W

First of all, you have no images at all so unless you choose to put them back on here the argument is mute.

Second, the size of the file has nothing to do with print size that has to do with the pixel count.

Third, no one can see your RAW file for a couple reasons. 1. People cannot access your actual images here. 2. Even if they could, you cannot upload raw files.

Lastly, you already have a thread open and this seems like nothing more than another venue to argue so I am closing this but leaving the other open, for now.