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Anyone on Agefotostock?
gemmy12:
--- Quote from: mtkang on September 20, 2012, 11:35 ---i remember one needs to mail them a copy of contract with signature instead of apply online, is it still the same way?
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yes you need to send signed contracts along with a copy of your ID proof through any courier or registered post. They are now paying through paypal also. And you need to send mail and then have to send original W-8BEN form and a copy of your residential certificate of your country to their Spain office to get any concession in tax. And to get EIN number to fill in W-8BEN form you need to fill W7 form. Bit complicated but Age people are good and quite supportive.
Morphart:
Been there for 6 months and had 2 sales of 75$ each but that's about all for now
arkadia56:
Agefotostock is an old, small, inefficient, badly managed and not very nice stock agency.
Same here, no sales compared to others (micro and macro with RF and RM stocks).
Not a wonder, the only thing they seem to want is to grab your pictures to increase their collections. They have been there since quite a long time, a bit like these old fashion shops that are completely outdated, they never make any sales. Everybody wonders how they survive....
The uploading is horrible. The contract binds you for 3 years (and under Spanish law...!), plus you have to send it by post to Spain (great). And you have to send a formal letter by snail post to make sure this contract is not renewed automatically for 3 years !! Again, the goal seems to be to grab your pictures.
To top it all, you can't remove your pictures once they are uploaded, there is no online mechanism for it (the website is archaic at best). When you ask them to remove pictures, the invoke the contract not to do it (nothing mentionned in this very dubious contract about images removal).
In short, if you make the mistake to sign with them, not only you'll sell nothing but you will have to check thoroughly what they really do with your images. Avoid the trap :)
Ed:
Hmmm...I'm with AGE directly. Yes, you aren't going to license 5 or 10 images per day at 38 cents each, but you will get an occasional sale.
I'm not sure why you say uploading is horrible. It's very simple to me....I upload my images to my website, then I click two boxes and they are FTP'd directly to the collection ready for review. I'm done from there - no more work to do. It's very simple. If you have a model release just change the file name to end in _MR and it's accepted. If you don't have a website you can do this from, then save the images to a folder on your desktop and use an FTP client like FileZilla - it's really easy to do. I have a similar experience with a small traditional agency I work with in Austria - just FTP the images over and it's done. With a workflow like that, I'm not sure why you wouldn't upload to them.
A contract is a contract. I have contracts with some agents that are 5 years in length, I have contracts with some agents that are 3 years in length. If you don't like the terms, then don't sign the contract. If you want out of the contract, then stop uploading and when it expires, then cancel.
arkadia56:
Hi Ed,
Sorry but, well, when you explain how the upload works there, it looks even more complicated ;) Who needs to download filezilla or use its website to upload pictures to a stock agency website in 2014 (except small Austrian agencies of course) ?
Welcome to the 21st century and electronic forms and contracts like other do (Alamy, Getty, Shutterstock etc...).
besides, how many "occasional" sales have you made compared to the time you have been with them and number of images online ?
Also, sales with other agencies who have a little more exposure are more around 50 to 300 $ than 38 cents, but again we have to compare apples with apples.
The only qualities they have are: they do RM, they don't ask for exclusivity (how could they, nobody know them). It's not a lot.
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