Quote from: Ed on January 24, 2014, 19:49

Nobody know them?  LOL....I suspect this is a personal vendetta of some sort.  You do realize that Alfonso (CEO of AGE) is president of CEPIC?

I agree with Ron, if they are so well know, why don't they appear nowhere ? According to Wikipedia, the president of the Cepic is    Christina Vaughan not Alfredo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEPIC

Wikipedia is incorrect - it's a crowd sourced portal...crowd sourcing doesn't always get things right 

http://www.cepic.org/news/cepic_news/2013/07/alfonsos_introductory_speech_cepic_congress_barcelona_2013

http://www.cepic.org/about_us/cepic_committee

AGE is good agency. One of the last mom and pop run agencies out there. I wouldn't worry about their credibility. As for how your images got there. Likely a sub agent agreement with one of you other agencies.

What you explain sounds odd but sure has an explanation or a reason. I have been with age fotostock for more than 20 years (they have been in the business since 1973...) and never have had any problems. I have had good years and not so good ones too, but they are solid and do their work with a lot less fanfare than most of these newbies. There are different people there but Raquel is their Photographers Liaison, she is great, professional, and very knowledgeable in photography (more than most photographers actually), and knows the business really well. Write to her, newbielink:mailto:[email protected] [nonactive]. Good luck!!   

Have had ok sales with Age.  The good point is that when you get a sale return is better than MicrostockGroup per sale.

Easy to upload so keep on uploading.

very old thread alert...... last post before this was 2016 and it originally started 2011!

I've been with AGE since 2010.  They were my best sellers when I started out, making $200 per month with less than 1000 photos.  Then, sometime around 2014 it came to a grinding halt.  Now I have close to 3000 photos, but make 1 or 2 sales.  The money is better per sale (average $20 persale), but the sales are fewer.  If I make 2 sales per month, that is good.  Though in 2018, I sold a photo that appeared in a national auto ad and netted $1000!!!  Crazy, is that they could have bought the same photo on SS or IS or DT for much less.

I still contribute, as the upload process is a breeze, just copy and paste into their ftp.  Their acceptance practice is...odd.  When I started out, they accepted over 90% of my work.  Now, I'll be lucky is they take 33%.  And they don't give a reason for the rejection.  IDK if the quality is bad or if they are oversaturated in a subject.  I would like to know so that I don't upload similars, or re-examine my photo, as it may be a correctable mistake.

Crazy, is that they could have bought the same photo on SS or IS or DT for much less.

Guess, crazy is how other agencies dropped the high earning operation to chase the countless asset libraries or the get as more as you can dl subscription schemes...