MicrostockGroup

A working link to your terms?

http://www.imagegate.com/english/RoyaltyFreeUsageAgreement.html

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this page can not be found!

Took a quick look at the site. In addition to seeing the details of the license you're offering, I don't understand how the pricing works. On the images I checked they said "Royalty Free & Rights Managed" for the license type. They had some size based prices from 1.25 to 20 euros - I assume that's royalty free.

If there's a rights managed option, how does a buyer go about that? And is that similar to what the microstock sites sell as an extended license (e.g. unlimited print run or printing on products for sale)? Without seeing what rights you get for the prices posted, it's impossible to say if it's a good or bad price.

Then I did a couple of searches and I can see why you're looking for content. The search for "tropical beach" produced one murky black and white shots of silhouetted people on a crowded (non tropical) beach. Searching for "woman office" produced five results: 4 women, not in an office and one iphone with a stethoscope on it, no woman. I guess the search does an OR not an AND but I think most places use AND as a default.

Not sure what the FTP "upon request" is about - do you have criteria for being permitted to use FTP? I can't imagine anyone with a sizable portfolio (including me, and mine's relatively small at 2,500 images) would even think twice about uploading without FTP.

The biggie, however, is why you're starting this agency and why you expect buyers to shop with you versus any of the other agencies already out there. How will you bring buyers to the site? 50% is appealing, but only if the number you multiply it by is large enough

Many thanks for your feedback.
We are offering Royalty Free and also Rights Managed images. Rights Managed images are based on different usage types, regions, and duration. If you click in Rights Managed, you should be seeing the rights managed image calculator.
Regarding the searches, we just started a week ago and are looking for opportunities to add new content. I am therefore not surprised that you got few results. FTP of 2500 images is not a issue - it just hast to be requested so we can create a personal and safe FTP for the photographer. All stock agencies want more buyers, but being small also has its advantage - less photographers competing for the same buyer

I wonder why you claim to be UK-based while all the images on the site are from one Danish contributor, onefrogmedia (Carsten Moeller Thomsen)? Perhaps it would be good to put some real (name, street, business, legal) info on the site to gain trust.

Your whois info is covered up:
Private, Registration  [email protected]

Who are you?

Sorry, I had missed the rights managed tab when I first looked - I saw the words but didn't realize it was a tab.

I checked on the price for a couple of advertising uses and direct mail uses - for North America and for one year. Everything I checked came up at 429 euros. As I can (with the microstock agencies) print an annual report using an image with a regular license - no extended license required from most agencies unless the print run is over 500K - why would I pay 429 euros for an RM license from Imagegate? Why wouldn't I just buy your own royalty free license for 20 euros? When the rights in the RM tab overlap what is typically permissible with a standard royalty free license, I can't see how offering both for the same image makes any sense.

If I put an image in the cart for royalty free and check the box to agree to the terms and conditions, I get a EULA displayed, but it doesn't say anything about the details of what I may do with the image (beyond the typical stuff about ownership of the file and not stripping copyright). Where can we find the terms of your royalty free license?

good news for contributors, Imagegate has become a very easy submission agency, all we need to to do is upload by FTP and all other work will be made by them, looking like all small players now, looking forward to it, if you have a fast connection don´t see a downside to not contribute

team told me that they are working now on terms and some other stuff

We just spent a while cleaning up site messages to iRockStock contributors inviting them to submit to imagegate following a complaint. I would suggest a different way to market your site.

Contributors can contribute where they like, however using the contributor list of another site as a source for your spamming is poor form.

We are talking four contributors here. Hardly considered spamming.

It says here that the domain imagegate.com is up for sale?
http://whois.domaintools.com/imagegate.com

How serious can you be as an agency which is willing to sell the domain?

Don't see that. This was probably some advertising or an outdated site.