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« Reply #225 on: February 20, 2014, 05:53 »
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I only just discovered this topic, and read all 9 pages, hoping for 1 reply/explanation/excuse/anything by DP themselves.  Nothing.  Nihil.  Can't believe this.  This topic is more than a week old.

they do have 2 accounts here at MSG but they don't log in for quite a long time (years!)


« Reply #226 on: February 20, 2014, 06:41 »
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I only just discovered this topic, and read all 9 pages, hoping for 1 reply/explanation/excuse/anything by DP themselves.  Nothing.  Nihil.  Can't believe this.  This topic is more than a week old.

they do have 2 accounts here at MSG but they don't log in for quite a long time (years!)
Bad, very bad public relations, like a big pile of dog s..t. Hopefully as many as possible of artist will be aware about this scam in the future!

« Reply #227 on: February 20, 2014, 09:52 »
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They just plain piss me off.
No clear answers to questions asked through e-mail, and even though I am sure they know about this thread and the shitestorm that it has caused with their contributers, no one to show up here and provide explanations, apologies, etc. to their contributers

You suck DP


AND.....What about the many contributors who don't know this is happening and don't participate here? DP will continue to screw them and their content still probably makes up 99 % of the dp collection. So in my mind it is only peanuts to dp by removing the few of us who know the truth.

« Reply #228 on: February 20, 2014, 10:03 »
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Just for info:
I emailed them 5 times.
After well known reply and promise about "we will remove..."
THEY STOPPED TO COMMUNICATE.
No more replyies.
Of course, all my files are still online on PP and API... sites

« Reply #229 on: February 20, 2014, 14:43 »
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Please ask them here.  I tried last week but no response.

https://www.facebook.com/DepositPhotosEN

Not on Twitter but maybe someone else can post their contact info.

« Reply #230 on: February 20, 2014, 15:04 »
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Like others here I have told them to remove my images from all partner and reseller sites including Shotshop.

My only question to DP would be did they receive compensation from Shotshop for the access to all of DP's images. My guess would be yes.

« Reply #231 on: February 20, 2014, 15:09 »
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BTW, who are the owners of Shotshop.. I am just thinking.. some very bad scenery..

« Reply #232 on: February 20, 2014, 15:28 »
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https://www.facebook.com/DepositPhotosEN/posts/10151986576072992?stream_ref=10

I added a comment to a post on Deposit Photos FB page made last week. These sorts of posts are a bit hidden, but I thought it worth broadcatsing this thread a bit

« Reply #233 on: February 20, 2014, 15:45 »
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BTW, who are the owners of Shotshop.. I am just thinking.. some very bad scenery..


See here and here and here.

Privately owned company in Germany (it's a GmbH which is - AFAIK - simlar to a LLC).

Beppe Grillo

« Reply #234 on: February 20, 2014, 15:52 »
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https://www.facebook.com/DepositPhotosEN/posts/10151986576072992?stream_ref=10

I added a comment to a post on Deposit Photos FB page made last week. These sorts of posts are a bit hidden, but I thought it worth broadcatsing this thread a bit

I think we should flood of negative comments their Facebook page every day and several times a day

« Reply #235 on: February 20, 2014, 15:52 »
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Here's a little nefarious thinking...

If this kind of deal is ok for them to do then what is stopping them from setting up a new agency, sub licensing all of DP images to the new agency and selling the images for whatever price the want (like $99) and just giving the artist their 25 sub license fee?

« Reply #236 on: February 20, 2014, 16:08 »
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Here's a little nefarious thinking...

If this kind of deal is ok for them to do then what is stopping them from setting up a new agency, sub licensing all of DP images to the new agency and selling the images for whatever price the want (like $99) and just giving the artist their 25 sub license fee?

exactly

stocked

« Reply #237 on: February 20, 2014, 19:55 »
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puh halfway through :)

stocked

« Reply #238 on: February 20, 2014, 20:48 »
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done  :D

as they played deaf to my requests to close my account I now deactivated my 3800 files manually by hand took me about one and a half hour, reasonable fast but still an incredible waste of time as I shouldn't have uploaded to them in the first place.
I also noticed how incredible low the actually earnings are there I had sales that only earned me 0.15 and none over 4.00 let alone a two-digit earnings. You would guess with several hundred of sales that you would have at least one that should have you earned a two-digit sum but none nada!
I feel so much better know :D  :D :D
« Last Edit: February 20, 2014, 20:51 by stocked »

Uncle Pete

« Reply #239 on: February 20, 2014, 23:06 »
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DPs libraries are updated daily through contributor uploads that are closely scrutinized for quality and originality

Has anyone ever had a rejection at DP?

Yes, back when I first signed up. Dec. 2012:

When viewed at full size, the image has obvious, unnatural quality issues. This could be caused by a high ISO setting at the time the photograph was taken. Printed images that have been scanned can inherit flaws such as scratches, dust and/or other foreign matter during the scanning process. In addition, a low resolution scan setting can lead to image quality issues, preventing your photo from being accepted.

It's not a scan? I'd have to go back a couple years to find the original and see what camera or how I took it.

Oddly enough it's one that sells on SS from time to time.  :) Now there's one for the book. Accepted on SS but it's refused on DP? Amazing!


« Reply #240 on: February 20, 2014, 23:22 »
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« Reply #241 on: February 21, 2014, 03:43 »
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done  :D

as they played deaf to my requests to close my account I now deactivated my 3800 files manually by hand took me about one and a half hour, reasonable fast but still an incredible waste of time as I shouldn't have uploaded to them in the first place.

Omg! 3,8k uploaded files? So much work for nothing?  :-\
This is really sad. This is how it ends when there is no fair play, honest cooperation with agency...

And, that's great moment for other agencies to take a lesson and draw conclusions of that example...

« Reply #242 on: February 21, 2014, 08:56 »
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done  :D

as they played deaf to my requests to close my account I now deactivated my 3800 files manually by hand took me about one and a half hour, reasonable fast but still an incredible waste of time as I shouldn't have uploaded to them in the first place.

Omg! 3,8k uploaded files? So much work for nothing?  :-\
This is really sad. This is how it ends when there is no fair play, honest cooperation with agency...

And, that's great moment for other agencies to take a lesson and draw conclusions of that example...

And like I've said above think about all those 99% of contributors who DON'T know this is happening.  And that DP isn't about to inform them of opting out and that they will be cheated BIG TIME.

« Reply #243 on: February 21, 2014, 11:24 »
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When I look at transactions, I have sales that are "Subscription" and sales that are "Subscription Plan".  I wonder if this is anyway to differentiate between real subs vs sleezy subs?

« Reply #244 on: February 21, 2014, 11:58 »
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Thats possible. I just sold a file on "subscription plan" that had no views. Must have been a partner sale.

« Reply #245 on: February 21, 2014, 12:27 »
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When I look at transactions, I have sales that are "Subscription" and sales that are "Subscription Plan".  I wonder if this is anyway to differentiate between real subs vs sleezy subs?

there isn't any differentiation in Portuguese

« Reply #246 on: February 21, 2014, 12:30 »
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set it to English

For me the majority of sales are normal subscriptions, so if these are indeed partner plan sales, i dont have that many.

« Reply #247 on: February 21, 2014, 12:33 »
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set it to English

For me the majority of sales are normal subscriptions, so if these are indeed partner plan sales, i dont have that many.

now I can see them, from the last 20 sales (13 Sub, 3 Sub Plan, 4 Credit)

« Reply #248 on: February 21, 2014, 14:08 »
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Yes, I also looked at that that there is Subscription and subsciption plan and was wandering what the difference is ....
It is such a shame that most of the contributor will not even find out about this horrible scam... ;(

StockPhotosArt.com

« Reply #249 on: February 21, 2014, 14:58 »
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One thing is for sure, no matter which subscription is which, I still get both even after the deactivation of the partner program and all other types of schemes was confirmed a few days ago.

This means that, either the withdrawal of our portfolio from the other sites takes more than 4 days, or that they didn't do it despite the mail confirming it, or even if they did do it there are other schemes that are not contemplated in the so called partner programs.

The last two options are particularly serious since we seem to have no control over our work and if this is happening I think that the honesty of the agency may be questioned, and very serious questions may be raised about what else they may be doing with our work.

One thing is for sure, until now I have no answer to the questions mailed about our images still being online on SweatShop (Shotshop).

At this moment we're uploading hundreds of images to other sites, but DP won't see any until things are clarified, if any time...

One question that is bothering me is if sites like SweatShop (Shotshop) are obtaining our images with licenses that they can later continue to sell even if we leave DP and in an extreme case submit to other agencies and compete with ourselves with our own images!

After all if they have an agreement that they can resell our images (which is different from distribute I think)...


 

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