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Agency Based Discussion => iStockPhoto.com => Topic started by: ichiro17 on July 26, 2006, 08:16

Title: iStock Dollar bin?
Post by: ichiro17 on July 26, 2006, 08:16

What is it?  How does it work?  Why are some of the photos so bad in there?

Title: Re: iStock Dollar bin?
Post by: Erdosain on July 26, 2006, 08:34

Hi! The Dollar bin was created to clean the site of old images with technical problems, thats why the most are bad images. Currently Istock select the images that goes there and they cost 1 credit no matter what size you download. If the image don´t get any download in 28 days is erased of the site.

Title: Re: iStock Dollar bin?
Post by: fintastique on July 26, 2006, 10:26

Remember iStock was founded in May 2000 when digital cameras weren't so good and they weren't so may micro stock photographers about so I suspect they weren't quitre so fussy about images to build up their imagebase.

Now they realize they have a lot of dodgy pictures so are trying to clear them out or sell 'em cheap

Title: Re: iStock Dollar bin?
Post by: leaf on July 26, 2006, 17:31

just got 4 images booted in there today :(

I will perhaps post links tommorow.. it is late.

Title: Re: iStock Dollar bin?
Post by: admart01 on July 27, 2006, 05:07

how did you find this out?  did you get a message or did you suffer the public embarassment and see your photos in the bin  ;) ?

Title: Re: iStock Dollar bin?
Post by: leaf on July 27, 2006, 06:10

i got an email from them, with links to view the image, and links to delete them from istock if i want to.