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How is PressFoto ?
Uncle Pete:
--- Quote from: alexandersr on October 30, 2020, 11:37 ---
--- Quote from: tpack on October 28, 2020, 23:03 ---No one in their right mind would use Russian agency for their portfolio.
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Well Shutterstock is an American company and they are scam company!
If you don't believe me check this out! https://es.trustpilot.com/review/www.shutterstock.com?languages=all
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Except there's no reason to trust trustpilot who makes money from manipulating the reviews. But you want to join an agency that gives this result? "Sorry, we couldn't find "pressfoto"" LOL
Images by subscription from $0.26 and on-demand from $1.00 And as Jo Ann mentioned, thousands of FREE images on Freepik. You want to support someone that encourages free pictures and free downloads and hides what they will actually pay you, if you should sell something for 26¢ Not for me.
alexandersr:
--- Quote from: Uncle Pete on October 31, 2020, 09:01 ---
--- Quote from: alexandersr on October 30, 2020, 11:37 ---
--- Quote from: tpack on October 28, 2020, 23:03 ---No one in their right mind would use Russian agency for their portfolio.
--- End quote ---
Well Shutterstock is an American company and they are scam company!
If you don't believe me check this out! https://es.trustpilot.com/review/www.shutterstock.com?languages=all
--- End quote ---
Except there's no reason to trust trustpilot who makes money from manipulating the reviews. But you want to join an agency that gives this result? "Sorry, we couldn't find "pressfoto"" LOL
Images by subscription from $0.26 and on-demand from $1.00 And as Jo Ann mentioned, thousands of FREE images on Freepik. You want to support someone that encourages free pictures and free downloads and hides what they will actually pay you, if you should sell something for 26¢ Not for me.
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With Jo Ann warning to me, and i have some doubts about Pressphoto, for that reason i asked to someone here. I will not enroll in Pressfoto. I told to tpack that a company for being Russian it is not necessary a scam company. But Pressfoto looks like a scam company. Peace! 8)
Uncle Pete:
--- Quote from: alexandersr on October 31, 2020, 17:28 ---
--- Quote from: Uncle Pete on October 31, 2020, 09:01 ---
--- Quote from: alexandersr on October 30, 2020, 11:37 ---
--- Quote from: tpack on October 28, 2020, 23:03 ---No one in their right mind would use Russian agency for their portfolio.
--- End quote ---
Well Shutterstock is an American company and they are scam company!
If you don't believe me check this out! https://es.trustpilot.com/review/www.shutterstock.com?languages=all
--- End quote ---
Except there's no reason to trust trustpilot who makes money from manipulating the reviews. But you want to join an agency that gives this result? "Sorry, we couldn't find "pressfoto"" LOL
Images by subscription from $0.26 and on-demand from $1.00 And as Jo Ann mentioned, thousands of FREE images on Freepik. You want to support someone that encourages free pictures and free downloads and hides what they will actually pay you, if you should sell something for 26¢ Not for me.
--- End quote ---
With Jo Ann warning to me, and i have some doubts about Pressphoto, for that reason i asked to someone here. I will not enroll in Pressfoto. I told to tpack that a company for being Russian it is not necessary a scam company. But Pressfoto looks like a scam company. Peace! 8)
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Yeah, good points. Let me say, just to make things easy, I don't think any new company is worth the time or effort, until they have proven they are. I went through the early years of this and that agency, we're new, we promise you... and not one ever turned out anything close to the hype. Some people may have done better, but after being a member of at least 20 agencies, I decided to high point market and only work for the proven value places.
At this point, personally, even Bigstock, 123, Canstock, DP, DT and many more, just aren't worth the time. Maybe if I was high volume and cared about small places making a small return? Even worse choices that I belonged to and left, Panther, FOAP ,Mostphoto, Lucky Oliver, and some others that have come and gone? Total waste of time.
I don't want to be that hard on FeaturePics, there's someone who tries and is fair. Just not enough earnings to be interesting to continue.
Then after all that, there's a nice longer list of places that I said, I'll wait and see, and they turned out to be nothing but "just another cheap agency" Graphic Leftovers, Yay, 500px, crestock, anyone look at Mostphoto lately?
Short and simple, don't look for something new. Work on what's working now. The industry is contracting, not expanding. We'll see more and more of these startups, going under.
alexandersr:
--- Quote from: Uncle Pete on November 01, 2020, 10:49 ---
--- Quote from: alexandersr on October 31, 2020, 17:28 ---
--- Quote from: Uncle Pete on October 31, 2020, 09:01 ---
--- Quote from: alexandersr on October 30, 2020, 11:37 ---
--- Quote from: tpack on October 28, 2020, 23:03 ---No one in their right mind would use Russian agency for their portfolio.
--- End quote ---
Well Shutterstock is an American company and they are scam company!
If you don't believe me check this out! https://es.trustpilot.com/review/www.shutterstock.com?languages=all
--- End quote ---
Except there's no reason to trust trustpilot who makes money from manipulating the reviews. But you want to join an agency that gives this result? "Sorry, we couldn't find "pressfoto"" LOL
Images by subscription from $0.26 and on-demand from $1.00 And as Jo Ann mentioned, thousands of FREE images on Freepik. You want to support someone that encourages free pictures and free downloads and hides what they will actually pay you, if you should sell something for 26¢ Not for me.
--- End quote ---
With Jo Ann warning to me, and i have some doubts about Pressphoto, for that reason i asked to someone here. I will not enroll in Pressfoto. I told to tpack that a company for being Russian it is not necessary a scam company. But Pressfoto looks like a scam company. Peace! 8)
--- End quote ---
Yeah, good points. Let me say, just to make things easy, I don't think any new company is worth the time or effort, until they have proven they are. I went through the early years of this and that agency, we're new, we promise you... and not one ever turned out anything close to the hype. Some people may have done better, but after being a member of at least 20 agencies, I decided to high point market and only work for the proven value places.
At this point, personally, even Bigstock, 123, Canstock, DP, DT and many more, just aren't worth the time. Maybe if I was high volume and cared about small places making a small return? Even worse choices that I belonged to and left, Panther, FOAP ,Mostphoto, Lucky Oliver, and some others that have come and gone? Total waste of time.
I don't want to be that hard on FeaturePics, there's someone who tries and is fair. Just not enough earnings to be interesting to continue.
Then after all that, there's a nice longer list of places that I said, I'll wait and see, and they turned out to be nothing but "just another cheap agency" Graphic Leftovers, Yay, 500px, crestock, anyone look at Mostphoto lately?
Short and simple, don't look for something new. Work on what's working now. The industry is contracting, not expanding. We'll see more and more of these startups, going under.
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Thanks!
Uncle Pete:
--- Quote from: alexandersr on November 01, 2020, 17:22 ---
--- Quote from: Uncle Pete on November 01, 2020, 10:49 ---
--- Quote from: alexandersr on October 31, 2020, 17:28 ---
--- Quote from: Uncle Pete on October 31, 2020, 09:01 ---
--- Quote from: alexandersr on October 30, 2020, 11:37 ---
--- Quote from: tpack on October 28, 2020, 23:03 ---No one in their right mind would use Russian agency for their portfolio.
--- End quote ---
Well Shutterstock is an American company and they are scam company!
If you don't believe me check this out! https://es.trustpilot.com/review/www.shutterstock.com?languages=all
--- End quote ---
Except there's no reason to trust trustpilot who makes money from manipulating the reviews. But you want to join an agency that gives this result? "Sorry, we couldn't find "pressfoto"" LOL
Images by subscription from $0.26 and on-demand from $1.00 And as Jo Ann mentioned, thousands of FREE images on Freepik. You want to support someone that encourages free pictures and free downloads and hides what they will actually pay you, if you should sell something for 26¢ Not for me.
--- End quote ---
With Jo Ann warning to me, and i have some doubts about Pressphoto, for that reason i asked to someone here. I will not enroll in Pressfoto. I told to tpack that a company for being Russian it is not necessary a scam company. But Pressfoto looks like a scam company. Peace! 8)
--- End quote ---
Yeah, good points. Let me say, just to make things easy, I don't think any new company is worth the time or effort, until they have proven they are. I went through the early years of this and that agency, we're new, we promise you... and not one ever turned out anything close to the hype. Some people may have done better, but after being a member of at least 20 agencies, I decided to high point market and only work for the proven value places.
At this point, personally, even Bigstock, 123, Canstock, DP, DT and many more, just aren't worth the time. Maybe if I was high volume and cared about small places making a small return? Even worse choices that I belonged to and left, Panther, FOAP ,Mostphoto, Lucky Oliver, and some others that have come and gone? Total waste of time.
I don't want to be that hard on FeaturePics, there's someone who tries and is fair. Just not enough earnings to be interesting to continue.
Then after all that, there's a nice longer list of places that I said, I'll wait and see, and they turned out to be nothing but "just another cheap agency" Graphic Leftovers, Yay, 500px, crestock, anyone look at Mostphoto lately?
Short and simple, don't look for something new. Work on what's working now. The industry is contracting, not expanding. We'll see more and more of these startups, going under.
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Thanks!
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You're Welcome, reminder the usual warning label applies. OPINION :)
Based on my personal observations. Not law or absolute fact. There are some people who still work the smaller agencies and still make some reasonable returns. But they have really good, high quality and high quantity, top level images and video. I think the average person, new people, those searching for alternatives, don't have the same collections. Or maybe I'm just looking at what I do?
Short version of what I do is this. I work where the money is, the easy marketing, and ignore the places that take a lot of effort for little return. If I had more "good" images and higher quality, maybe Stock Submitter would work. In which case, instead of basically two agencies, I'd have 25.
Example of my latest upload, one image for the day. This is why I'm not high quality or volume and just earning from Microstock as a hobby.
One and done, that won't make me rich. Iron Pyrite that was sitting on the hutch shelf.
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