MicrostockGroup

Hi, guys,

have any of you tried to contact Albumo lately?

I have decided to go exclusive with another microstock company and wish to cancel my account with Albumo (and have all my files deleted), so I have sent my request several times over the last two weeks using their site form (three different departments). It doesn´t seem to work though, because there have been no responses, no replies... Just big scary silence...

The last news in their "News" section is from June - they apologize for not answering emails due to some server problems. It´s really strange...

Excellent, thanks for the tip!

I will try to send a few more emails directly, and if they don't respond, I will try one of the more desperate strategies implied...

I sent them about 30 e-mails without any visible effects.

I then replaced all my photo's titles, descriptions and keywords with the most offensive sentence directed to Albumo I could come up with, still no effect.

I must assume the site is either dead, or they don't mind doing what I told them to do in my offensive sentences. 

Really, the most unprofessional people ever met on the Internet.

Let me take you back to June 22nd.


Under one year and they started becoming invisible. 

Here's the tricky part of the contract everyone signed (I accept) when they started uploading to this place.

Member also forfeits the right to remove submitted and approved for sale Content for 400 days since the date of initial upload.

Yes, older first. Also, the old trick to delete more than one at a time has not been working for a while, now.

Update:

...Well, not really because there is nothing new. It seems the site is hibernating. I have replaced the titles and descriptions of all my 190 images there with a reference to DT - no reaction. My angry "no-communication" blog post is still up, another two angry contributors added their own posts - without any effect.

I wonder how long will it pay off to have the site running without any costs other than maintenance expenses (and hope it will be less than the six months - I really don't want to go there every single day for the next half a year just to delete images) - I cannot imagine any other reason why they would want to keep it up. Their reputation is worse than poor - it is so bad that they don't even post those optimistic "one-day-we-will-make-big-money" anywhere, because all those unhappy contributors would eat them alive...

If anybody knows how to leave the Albumo hell in any way other than deleting one image at a time, please share you knowledge because I bet there are many people out there who will be VERY HAPPY to know (including myself)...

Conclusion: Really!

My account has been deactivated, my blog posts deleted... I finally got what I wanted, though I wish I could agree with Albumo people in a bit more peaceful manner. It is sad that the only way to make them react is to cause trouble.

I've tried to update my profile (to add links to other sites), and got a very interesting message telling a lot about Albumo:

"* Passwords is not mismatch"

It looks like my account has been deleted at last.  Now who shall I dump next?  It gets depressing when nobody buys my photos

Mine too, finally! 

After months of trying everything in the book my account was also recently closed. What a relief.

If I think of all the time that I wasted on this site: deleting one image a day for months, sending them several requests every week asking them to close my account and eventually changing all my descriptions and keywords to direct potential buyers to Dreamstime. 

I think Leaf should consider another section on the right. Those of "Black listed agencies". Albumo should be a proud number one on that list. They deserve to go under and it is our moral obligation to warn everybody to stay away from them.