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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: flotsom on April 12, 2013, 17:59
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Always a bad idea to do a google image search late at night ::) came across this site, which appears to be selling prints of my stuff http://pixers.es/vinilos/autumn-at-exbury-in-the-new-forest-47910195 (http://pixers.es/vinilos/autumn-at-exbury-in-the-new-forest-47910195) anyone heard of them before, are they part of a partner program somewhere?
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Fotolia (http://www.microstockgroup.com/search/ (http://www.microstockgroup.com/search/))
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Thanks.
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Yeah, I have found my stuff there before, wrote to them and they are a partner site. I cant recall it is either DT Fotolia or 123RF.
I personally think it disgusting that they are selling canvasses for over $100 and yet the site you submitted to is only paying you .50 cents if that.
They also troll the 'Free Stock' sections to profit without expense.
I have recently notified all the agencies I have work with that I do not wish to participate in third party sites and I have stopped making images available for 'free' sections as too many of these sites are abusing the 'good will' of unwitting stock photographers.
I will happily admit when I started out I signed up for every partner program out there thinking it would boost sales, but since I have opted out I have noticed no real loss in revenue.
I have no objection to any company making $100 from a canvass of one of my images but I feel I deserve quite a bit more than a lousy .50 cents and I thoroughly disagree with them making profits from 'free' image sections.
Just my opinion.
Good luck.
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Darren Green, Shouldn't those prints at least be a EL? I dropped most of the places with Partners like this, enough is enough. I'd rather make nothing than get 50 cents for something the sell for $100!