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Shutterstock.com / Shutterstock ID
« on: October 08, 2015, 11:52 »
I know what the answer to this is but would like to let off a little steam......
I have had my 10 images accepted by Shutterstock, no problem. However, I cant meet their ID requirements. I live in the UK. We don't have ID cards. If you are as old as I am your British Government driving licence doesn't have a photo because we old folk have old style paper licences that, in Britain are accepted everywhere as ID. I don't have a current passport because I no longer travel abroad. It would cost 70 / $107 to buy one, just to register with a website. Every other microstock site has happily accepted my paper, no photo, driving licence.
I have offered to send them birth certificates, marriage certificates, have suggested that their policy is 'ageist' and generally tried to point out that I am who I say I am. They agree that I am who I say I am, but still won't budge re photo ID. I have dealt with some inflexible organisations over the years but Shutterstock wins hands down. And yes, I know, I will have to give in and spend 70 if I want to upload photos to their site, but I just had to get this off my chest.

Any other aged British photographer had the same problem?

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