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Are either you exclusive to Dreamstime?

Not at all and will never ever be exclusive to any agency



well..thanks of the words. i guess i'll wait and see their response first.

So sad.

They can easily put the royalties on hold and suspend uploading privileges while they investigate.

But first the contributor should be notified.

Yes, we received nothing in advance and we are doing stock photography in a full time basis .We have been selling actively for the past 3 years, we may not have large port however we are concentrated on our niche area.

 If you think you have escaped your working life finding a better flexible life in stock business , you are  wrong. Stock photography strictly a master+slave business. Of all the agencies i thought dreamtimes would have the best policy towards contributors. Looks like you cannot build trust in these type of business

 You may be earning something to feed yourself today  but agency can do anything to you tommorow and you'll never know    

Wow, that's rough!

The Dream team are a little disappointing lately.  I used to have a fair bit of respect for them... now not so much.  They're getting too big now and don't have to pretend that they 'care' for their contributor.  They're a corporate and corporates only care about their bottom line.

That's why I can't stand the 'sucky' forums that give you a false impression of a community.

Its been more than 24 hours. no replies. yawn

well i'm from the other end of asia. the issue is calls are very expansive here to US. 

with skype is too? they should be the one to call you, I really don´t understand why they don´t respect our hard work :/
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no one will, it's microstock world , i'll wait another 48 hours then i'll use skype. thanks for the suggestion

to be honest i feel luckly to have diversified enough on micro/macro stock. submit to more angencies , and taking up photography assignments. it's not the loss of temporary income that saddened me however it's how vulnerable this industry can be especially to small contributors like us.

AFAIK DT is still dealing with account issues from their European office. Had a similar experience before.

Forget a response within 24 hours during weekends. Nobody works there. Might be different if Yuri would complain though... Who knows?

Tomorrow, Monday you should receive a response which could be: "Thank you for contacting us. Your account is under review, bla bla, we'll get back to you as soon as the investigation has finished - which means wait another 2 or more days until they actually have a proper answer.

It's sad that with a portfolio of that caliber that they wouldn't even bother to let you know what's going on.

As long as you guys used individual/separate releases (no digitized signatures) I have no clue what DT's problem is.

@yuliang11: Sorry for this happening to you, it must be quite a kick. Do keep us posted about what happens next, please. DT has a bit of a reputation of fairness in treating its contributors.

This is so ridiculous.

Suspend your accounts? For what?

Jeepers creepers (pardon my french) but I think DT has bigger problems than properly released images in their collection, no matter if it's from one photographer or two or five.

I would have removed the images in questions from both accounts just so DT can go EFF themselves regarding that shoot. Might as well not give them the pleasure at all.

Also it's unfair to you or your fellow photographer friend as one of you will be missing out on those royalties while the other images are up.

Not fair and rather stupid decision of DT.