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Title: Cheap Company---Stockphotosecrets.com
Post by: nobody on October 28, 2018, 09:05: Does anyone know this company? They pay really low rates to contributors- They must be a partner to a larger company since I see a lot of images on their site.

https://shop.stockphotosecrets.com/productpage-photos.html
Title: Re: Cheap Company---Stockphotosecrets.com
Post by: ShadySue on October 28, 2018, 09:09: According to their Facebook about page, they've been around since 2011, and there's a connection to an Amos Struck, who I believe used to post here*.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/StockPhotoSecrets/about/?ref=page_internal (https://www.facebook.com/pg/StockPhotoSecrets/about/?ref=page_internal)

*and is apparently still 'active': http://www.microstockgroup.com/profile/?u=712 (http://www.microstockgroup.com/profile/?u=712), though apparently not having posted since 2015.
Title: Re: Cheap Company---Stockphotosecrets.com
Post by: nobody on October 28, 2018, 09:12: Quote from: ShadySue on October 28, 2018, 09:09
According to their Facebook about page, they've been around since 2011, and there's a connection to an Amos Struck, who I believe used to post here*.
[url]https://www.facebook.com/pg/StockPhotoSecrets/about/?ref=page_internal[/url] ([url]https://www.facebook.com/pg/StockPhotoSecrets/about/?ref=page_internal[/url])

and is apparently still active: [url]http://www.microstockgroup.com/profile/?u=712[/url] ([url]http://www.microstockgroup.com/profile/?u=712[/url])

never joined Amos Stuck or Stockphotoscrets. Now I wonder if we are even getting paid by this company? Bottom line- once we upload an image to the cloud we lost control of that image...
Title: Re: Cheap Company---Stockphotosecrets.com
Post by: ShadySue on October 28, 2018, 09:13: Quote from: nobody on October 28, 2018, 09:12
Quote from: ShadySue on October 28, 2018, 09:09
According to their Facebook about page, they've been around since 2011, and there's a connection to an Amos Struck, who I believe used to post here*.
[url]https://www.facebook.com/pg/StockPhotoSecrets/about/?ref=page_internal[/url] ([url]https://www.facebook.com/pg/StockPhotoSecrets/about/?ref=page_internal[/url])

and is apparently still active: [url]http://www.microstockgroup.com/profile/?u=712[/url] ([url]http://www.microstockgroup.com/profile/?u=712[/url])

never joined Amos Stuck or Stockphotoscrets.

????? Neither have I, but your point was ... ?
Title: Re: Cheap Company---Stockphotosecrets.com
Post by: PhotoBomb on October 28, 2018, 10:55: At the bottom of their page:

Stock Photo Secrets / Ingram Image Ltd.

Which includes: Ingimage.com ; signelements.com ; vectorstate.com
Title: Re: Cheap Company---Stockphotosecrets.com
Post by: nobody on October 28, 2018, 11:04: I am a member of signelements :-[

Thanks for the info...
Title: Re: Cheap Company---Stockphotosecrets.com
Post by: Fairplay on October 28, 2018, 14:29: I would stay away from all Ingram sites!
Title: Re: Cheap Company---Stockphotosecrets.com
Post by: DiscreetDuck on October 28, 2018, 14:56: Really? why such a statement?