MicrostockGroup

I'll stay with them 'til next payout (and I'm lightyears away from it) and then delete everything. Dp is one of the biggest disappointments in stock this year. Definitely not worth uploading, only wasting time.

That's the reason I also uploaded on DP back in January. Since then, 2-3 sales / month, mostly .3$ subs. Not good!

also had one minutes ago, same nice royalties

Decent sales or not, I won't get into bed with a site that is related in any way to a site that deals in pirated images. I've had to send many requests to DepositFiles to remove my work from their site, so no way will I willingly submit images to DepositPhotos.

Very disappointing site....I had a $0.22 sale yesterday, first time in almost 2 months. I'm done!

Gee and just like Albumo no one said?- Don't do it! - Oh yes a bunch of people did, but the same scam ran again, just like it did before.

Deposit photos is the 2010 version of the same game and next month another promising new site will be paying for uploads and doing nothing after all the promises and hope.

Wake Up. These people with the upload for cash agencies are just using you. For all we know they collect everything and sell it to partners for pennies, and now everything you ever shot is out in the wild on CDs. Are people that desperate for 25c uploads that they will risk their whole collection on some new agency with some questionable affiliations?

Stop supporting fly by night sites that compete with your sales on the legitimate sites by doing nothing but offering the same images and price cutting.


Do you really believe the poll on the right, that they are #9 in sales?   Or better yet, if they are #9, what the heck are the rest of them, #10 and down, doing per month?

Lots of info on this forum

e.g.

http://www.microstockgroup.com/depositphotos/who-has-had-sales-at-depositphotos/msg172364/#msg172364

I've deleted my paltry offerings.

I'm primarily a seller but I do buy too and I have to say deposit looks like a good place to buy - easy, huge collection. At the moment is brand new site to me but I will definitely be using it in 2011 to buy images for my design business. As a seller I hope more people are thinking this too! 

Started uploading about a year ago.
Currently 411 images in my port.
14 rejections.
Total sales : 58
By credits : 19
By subscription : 34
By SMS : 5
Easy upload. Easy to navigate. Fast inspections.
They are related to a free hosting site called 'Deposit Files' (similar to 'DropBox'). And just like 'DropBox', they do not control the files uploaded. It's a free service.
I like them enough to keep on uploading.
These are my stats, the decision is yours

DepositPhotos and DepositFiles are backed by the same people, and based on some research by folks right here in this forum it appears that the sites are hosted in the same place and are probably even more related than we could ever prove. At the very least, we know that the same people behind DepositFiles are behind DepositPhotos. And some matching IP addresses suggest that the sites are hosted together.

For those unfamiliar with DepositFiles, it's a file sharing site. Sites like HeroTurko rely on sites like DepositFiles to blindly host pirated files, including stock images, so that pirates can illegally and freely download them. I've had to contact DepositFiles directly in the past to ask them to remove some of my images from their servers, images that were linked to from HeroTurko for free and illegal download.

So in short, the same guys who have been profiting from the illegal distribution of our work decided to set up a more legitimate shop called DepositPhotos so that they can directly profit from the sale of some of the exact same photos that they help distribute for free illegally.

On top of that, when questioned about all of this, DepositPhotos became very hostile in this forum and threatened people who brought up their questionable practices.

There have also been questions of the actual location of the offices of DepositPhotos, which as far as I know has yet to actually be determined and representatives of the company wouldn't divulge their location.

They're known to support the piracy of our images, and they are super shady in their dealings. Piracy aside, I'm not sure I'd want to deal with a company that is so secretive about their actual location. But add in the piracy connection and you've got a company that should be avoided completely by any self-respecting stock artist. I would almost guarantee that there are people who have images for sale on DepositPhotos and don't know that some of those same images are being shared illegally via DepositFiles. Odds are pretty good that that's happening.

"I would almost guarantee that there are people who have images for sale on DepositPhotos and don't know that some of those same images are being shared illegally via DepositFiles. Odds are pretty good that that's happening. "

Any tangible evidence for that or just a paranoid trip ? In all the badmouthing about DP till now I've seen only assumptions fuelled by the cold responses of the agency . Just for example  - the one and only image "stolen" from me for the moment and posted on HT and the likes was bought from Dreamstime , not DP .

Oh btw I heard some rumors about Getty buying Rapidshare  .

New member, one post, praising dodgy agency. Hmmmmm