I don't know how it is in Norway. But in Germany the witholding of remaining balance is illegal. ( There are some court decisions from the time when the first mobile operators came on the market.)  This probably will not be different in the Scandinavian countries.

What could be the reason for customers to buy from Shotshop, when they can buy them cheaper via DP (credits or subs) ? Is DP not accessible to German markets ?

Of course, they are available and they offer an interface complete in German. Wondering the same, so I don't have an answer! But it must be lucrative in any way.

Quote from: farbled on February 22, 2014, 13:14

Quote from: roede-orm on February 22, 2014, 12:43

I'm afraid, even if you would send a request, they don't close your account. My account is till active, never got an answer when I asked for closing of my account.

I'm leaving only one image up for now and keeping my account. My concern is that since they don't delete the images (even if they are disabled) that someday/somehow they'd change their TOS and reactivate them. I'd prefer to keep what access I have to my images, even if they are not for sale.

Being too lazy to check, if I were to deactivate images, could I reactivate them myself unfettered?

No problem at all, because your pictures are still there.

Usually Shutterstock always goes well for me. But this week was a disappointment, only $ 35. It's already Christmas again? 

FT don't appear to have been investing much in their site for ages, in contrast to most others. I wonder if the price increase could be the first step towards an exit strategy?

Could you explain that in more detail?

A member of the german based Stock Photography Forum asked Deposit Photos, how he could delete his pictures. The answer is that this is not possible and DP will keep the images for statistical purposes even if the pictures are disabled!
They keep each photo! That means - close your account and your images are without any control! I never thought that this would be possible once!  http://stockfotografie-forum.de/discussion/813/shotshop-loescht-bilder#Item_172

I am wondering, has no one noticed that Fotolia has increased the prices? Starting with the Silver level and above. Hopefully it is not a fault?

Thank you, Robert!

I wonder what is the selling potential of photos modified with such filters?

I doesn't use Topaz Filters, but NIK-Filters (which a very close to Topaz). And these filters makes a great job, there are so many possibilities. And yes, pictures I have edited with NIK filters sell well. Of course, all effects you can achieve with a lot more work even in Photoshop. But they save time.

"Depositphotos reserves the right to determine the conditions of its cooperation with Partner companies. We sell those files by subscriptions (under the standard license), but it is up to our partners to set their prices and the way to sell them as long as they stick to license terms."


Regarding the mail of Deposit that would mean that Shotshop is a Subscriber. That's nonsense!

If deposit pays out the normal commission instead of a subs sale, I really don�t see how people can complain. After all deposit is just trying to sell the content with their own price system in other countries. And because they offer files cheap they can probably close these deals. I am sure many agencies offer reseller deals and getting in is also a competitive challenge.

If you are sending files to deposit you accept their price system. Which again shows how important it is to divide ones work by price point and quality and feed the agencies selectively with your content.

I don't agree. The point is- the revenue for subs you get paid for any sale on Shotshop has nothing to do with credit sales. Shotshop offers no subscriptions.  And there is another point. The prices of the deposit-pictures at Shopshop are higher than the "original" ShotShop Pictures.

this is terrible practise, thanks for pointing it out to us all.

Just slightly off topic - a few have mentioned that their images are already on ShotShop - do you guys mean you sell there direct? I've never heard of these guys. Do they sell much?

ShotShop is a Agency based in Berlin, Germany. They are known for their terribly cumbersome upload process that takes much time for the indexing. But they have acceptable prices. Look here (but it's in German!) http://photographer.shotshop.com/page/briefing. I have a small port there and made some good purchases during the last years.

Who knows, how stable the euro remains in the future. Perhaps the best exchange is in Swiss francs or open an agency yourself