Anyone looking to buy an agency! Received this today from Stockbo:

Hey everyone!

Hope you are having a great day today!

In keeping our promise to inform you all about any major developments in the business, today we have some news that we would like to share with you.

After a recent meeting between the directors of Stockbo, we have decided that we will offer the business for sale. The reason for this is due to a lack of time between all of us to take Stockbo to where it deserves to be. This was a difficult decision to make for all of us but we believe it is in the best interests for Stockbo moving forward, for the vision and for our beloved members and photographers.

We are currently in talks with some parties in Perth that may be interested in acquiring the business. Regardless of who acquires the business, we plan to ensure that the current terms and conditions that we have set out during this amazing journey will be upheld. Our number one priority has always been providing a platform focused towards fairness for our valued photographers, something that we hold dear to our hearts.

If any of you would be interested to take command of this business, please get in touch with us via email or simply send us a private message on our Facebook page.

We would like to express our gratitude for all of your efforts in making Stockbo what it is today. Without your fabulous contributions, Stockbo would just be a plain stock platform like many that exist today.

Enjoy the rest of your day.


Best Regards!

The Stockbo Team

Eugene, Hung, Kevin, Ranjeev

I had a few photos there. Made one $5 (Australian) sale.

Another one bites the dust.

"We would like to express our gratitude for all of your efforts in making Stockbo what it is today. Without your fabulous contributions, Stockbo would just be a plain stock platform like many that exist today."

Really and what is it that's not a plain platform and what is it today? Oh yes, "the directors" say it's for sale. LOL Darn these people have a great sense of humor.

Another one bites the dust.

When I see a newborn 'agency' with a "board of directors", structure kind of Microsoft or Apple and pompous presentation, mostly I ignore it and check again after half a year are they still alive.

Anyway, good luck to "the directors".

You do know, this is perfect for all the people who say, they want an agency that pays fair? Get together people and buy this one. The software is mostly done and ready to run. Turnkey your own photo agency, enjoy the money for simple marketing of others hard work... isn't that what people say?

It's so easy. Here's your chance... see what it's really like from the other side.

Why can't they be at least honest and write as it is . It's not worth it. It was not successful! Wonder, who should wanna buy this site?

Being from Perth (Stockbo is based here), I met two of the "directors' just once. Nice young guys, full of enthusiasm and positive attitudes. But I had my doubts regarding their business strategy, which I told them. We couldn't agree on that. Fair enough. Nevertheless, I offered them my support, even as a reviewer. Never got back to me. But I guess, that our understanding of what is acceptable or not would have been too far apart, anyway.

Instead, my images were left in the queue for ages, some of the few accepted ones received a postponed NO and had been removed from the portfolio after all. Confusing, annoying, disappointing. That was the last time I logged in back again. Maybe I should� there might be some sales I don't know off�

Wow! "The Directors" might have had Mom ask for her corporate space back, in the basement?  It's a K-Tools site?

Buy it Leaf, you're the one who could run Stockbo for all of us. Or get investors from the people here who think they can get rich easy, by running an agency. Start at 50% commission... threaten people who spam keywords. (accounts will be locked or closed) You would have the killer agency, buyers would love a reliable search, artists would start to get something approaching a fair return.

And the owners and the new directors could see what it takes to run a business. They can be the reviewers too, so it's done right.

It's certainly modified a bit but the site is based of the ktools software.  So, you'd be buying a license to ktools, and a modified site - certainly something of value but not a specifically built back-end.  That said, you'd also have support going forward for the software... 
The downside is whenever ktools updates their software, if you update your install it breaks all the customization

Looks like it. Glad I deleted the images I had on there.

Thats a good point, I never deleted my images even if they were rejected. Hmmm, now what? DMCA? Maybe I need to email them and see what gives.