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Tonygers:
After getting sick of pond 5's petty rejection reasons i'd decided enough was enough and asked them to clear my balance into my paypal account, remove my images and close my account.
After their pathetic 'we just want the best for you and our customers' excuse I reiterated my desire to leave them.
So they paid my balance into my account. I then got news of a sale for $10 followed by news my account had been closed.
I then contacted them about the unpaid $10 sale (no reply)
I then out of curiosity went to the site and looked for my images as a customer would and lo and behold they were all still there available for sale, so I contacted them again asking how this was possible? (no reply)
Went to bed and awoke to see another sale email coming through this time for $7, so checked again and indeed my images were/are still there available for sale even though my account is closed.
Contacted them again about this (still no reply)
This to me is nothing other than fraud and I would recommend for others that might have left Pond5 to check that their images/sounds/videos have indeed actually been removed.

I myself will be making inquiries as to were I legally stand on this.

Semmick Photo:
How long was between the request and the sales?

To have an account closed make take a while. What is in their T&C about that?

Semmick Photo:

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Tonygers:
My point Ron is that they shouldn't be closing the account until all images are removed regardless of their TOS.
When I search the site for individual items I can easily buy my own images but links to my portfolio are disabled even though my images are clearly still up there.

KnowYourOnions:

--- Quote from: Tonygers on February 20, 2015, 04:40 ---After getting sick of pond 5's petty rejection reasons i'd decided enough was enough and asked them to clear my balance into my paypal account, remove my images and close my account.
After their pathetic 'we just want the best for you and our customers' excuse I reiterated my desire to leave them.
So they paid my balance into my account. I then got news of a sale for $10 followed by news my account had been closed.
I then contacted them about the unpaid $10 sale (no reply)
I then out of curiosity went to the site and looked for my images as a customer would and lo and behold they were all still there available for sale, so I contacted them again asking how this was possible? (no reply)
Went to bed and awoke to see another sale email coming through this time for $7, so checked again and indeed my images were/are still there available for sale even though my account is closed.
Contacted them again about this (still no reply)
This to me is nothing other than fraud and I would recommend for others that might have left Pond5 to check that their images/sounds/videos have indeed actually been removed.

I myself will be making inquiries as to were I legally stand on this.

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 :o
Before you make any inquiry, make sure you've got the screen grabs of images you found as a proof!
I hope you will get to the bottom of this and get a compensation too.
Keep us informed.

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