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Exactly! Not to mention convoluted. 

About 6 years ago, I wanted to go exclusive and I had to get out of several agencies.  Most of them were courteous, understanding and cooperative. They even wished me well.  Dreamstime, however, was absolutely unconcerned that my one remaining image was hanging up my process for three months. Basically their attitide was "too bad" and "stick it". I also got a few very nasty comments on these boards as well, one person saying I was stupid to expect fair treatment.

@ShadySue

All this issue was settle. Exchange a couple of mails with DT staff. And have to say that was very well treated by them. Have made a public apology at the DT forum and will stay away from it for a while. After all the dust had gone down i could saw that ranting (@cclapper yes english isn't my native language, thank you for the correction) and reporting a copyright issue in public was not a wise move.

@lagereek  the images of the diapositives, slides, or whatever were accepted at the end, and no, the images are from a large slides collections, not scaned from slides it self (hope that i have expressed the idea correctly). Better if i post the images here:





Now that the storm is over, hope to get over all this and wish to start to participate here at this forum, in order to learn more about stock photography and share my experiences, rants (@cclapper see? i am a good learner!  ), etc..

Best wishes!

Thanks MP, that's much better  

@ Froogz - I agree with Cuppacoffee.  Well played    It's great that you've gained something from the experience and turned a negative into a positive.  I really like the top shot.

I still do not get stuff like this, fair treatment for all parties is that an agreement is adhered to in my view...  If both parties agree to a compromise it is fair enough but neither s obligated to as far as I am concerned!

If you wish tp break a contractual arrangement it is done by mutual consent and no amount of bleating changes the fact that you said that in exchange for "X" you would agree to "Y".  It does make me a little angry to be honest, I am new to this whole stock thingy but in other work spheres there is a simple answer to anyone wishing to break a commercially binding contract and usually that answer is quite simply "no"!

I can understand frustrations but to throw all of your toys out of the pram as the OP did and then say he will not tolerate "Bad Practices" and throw a whole load of accusations around only to turn around less than 24 hours later and say I have apoloigised and in the end the accepted my pictures smacks of "Brattishness" and realisitcally not anything that I consider to be either grown up or adult behaviour!

Well said!

Like you said, that i prefer to keep it to me.

You are free to have your option on anything you want. I didn't say you weren't. What i meant is that your jugdment about my person, is not important at all. I don't know you and you don't know me. So we are at a speculation ground over here.

There is a quote that i like a lot and might fit in here: "Judge Not, Lest the First Stone be Cast at Your Glass House"

I admited that i have made a mistake, public admited and public apologised, if that is not enought for you, well, i don't care. If that is childish behaivor still, well, i don't care.

pictures locked doesn´t make any sense, I do understand they had a reviewer looking at the picture and that means $

but when it come to bring level 0 and 25% royalties they don´t give us 3 months so we can get used.. again they have the fork and the cheese (portuguese expression) so nothing we can do, obey and don´t talk with reviewers or make complain, it wont take you anymore, actually might be prejudicial, there are "great" moves from both big and small agencies (we notice that quite often here)

I wonder if you could have set it to sell the rights for 1$ and bought it yourself (or paid someone to buy it).

Of all the problems existing in this industry, and the way agencies have treated contributors over the last year, I cannot fathom attacking an upstanding agency like Dreamstime. If I were them I would gladly waive the 6 month rule just to be done with the headache of dealing with someone who argues this much but has uploaded only 25 images since 2005.

"It ain't over till it's over..." And after a diatribe about diapositives, I suspect there will be more. I'll probably forget that term for slides by tomorrow, but it was interesting having it come up.

Now that you posted the images in question, I see that it wasn't the slide scan contents but the mount designs that were in question. (did I get that right?) Interesting.

I'm sure some people are very happy and do well at DT. When I closed my account, I followed their guidelines and terms, cashed out, had no problems, and possibly still have an account? I don't know, except I removed all my images because I had so many rejected as "these don't sell well" and low commercial value, when they were the same as my best sellers on DT, same as acceptable the months before. Style and general contents, not identical.

Everyone went away happy. They got rid of my CrapStock, I got my money and had one less agency to worry about. Two other sites took months of emails and trying to explain, that all I wanted to do was cash out and leave. Some how, something that simple didn't translate to agencies who claim to be based in Houston TX or NY NY?