findtim
Top Contributor
i'm sure maybe this has been addressed before but here is what is happening today !
http://screencast.com/t/ufm5lHTuC
http://screencast.com/t/9nurheIzPi
i got the image from a free stock photo site yearsss ago, i've now removed the image but if you read the letter they of course say they don't they just want money.
i rang them and told them it was a ridiculous price for an image i can find for $1 of heaps of stock sites, they all look the same.
the person immediately said, " oh well, i can give you a 65% discount " , !!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a scam, it still means @ $450+ .
i said i was using it at 200px wide at 72dpi so it hardly was massive use. + i have an istockphoto account so i do purchase images but this one is so basic.
so then she just said " well put it in an email and i'll send it to Seattle for processing. "
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i think this is a load of crap, no warning, just an invoice, i did a reverse search on google and found it on over 500 websites, there was more but i stopped checking, you can't tell me 500 people paid for that image, OOHHH, yeh i forgot, even after paying her bill that would only bring me square to today, i'd then have to pay $596 quartely as " thats what it is worth" , so i threw a "snoopy" back at them and said " something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it , so i will give you $1 "........ she didn't like that.
i wonder how much luck they are going to have getting money out of all the russian, indian, Chinese sites using that image ?
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anyway, just a heads up, perhaps better to pay a few bucks and totally stop with free stock, she told me that the free stock websites have a disclaimer that says something like " we take no responsibility for original ownership "
i talked a mate of mine who works for them as a photograph appraiser and he said the photographer could have placed it there before joining them, but i have no proof but nor do they.
tim
http://screencast.com/t/ufm5lHTuC
http://screencast.com/t/9nurheIzPi
i got the image from a free stock photo site yearsss ago, i've now removed the image but if you read the letter they of course say they don't they just want money.
i rang them and told them it was a ridiculous price for an image i can find for $1 of heaps of stock sites, they all look the same.
the person immediately said, " oh well, i can give you a 65% discount " , !!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a scam, it still means @ $450+ .
i said i was using it at 200px wide at 72dpi so it hardly was massive use. + i have an istockphoto account so i do purchase images but this one is so basic.
so then she just said " well put it in an email and i'll send it to Seattle for processing. "
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i think this is a load of crap, no warning, just an invoice, i did a reverse search on google and found it on over 500 websites, there was more but i stopped checking, you can't tell me 500 people paid for that image, OOHHH, yeh i forgot, even after paying her bill that would only bring me square to today, i'd then have to pay $596 quartely as " thats what it is worth" , so i threw a "snoopy" back at them and said " something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it , so i will give you $1 "........ she didn't like that.
i wonder how much luck they are going to have getting money out of all the russian, indian, Chinese sites using that image ?
-----------------
anyway, just a heads up, perhaps better to pay a few bucks and totally stop with free stock, she told me that the free stock websites have a disclaimer that says something like " we take no responsibility for original ownership "
i talked a mate of mine who works for them as a photograph appraiser and he said the photographer could have placed it there before joining them, but i have no proof but nor do they.
tim