Alamy レビュー 

Do not waste your time contributing to Alamy. It used to be a fair 50/50 split, that has now changed to 80/20 to them and you get stuck in this split zone, it is nearly impossible to go up to a 60/40 split. The prices that they sell the stock for is so low you end up with nothing for your time and effort. I have sold quite a few images the past few years but am closing my account, they now are the only people making any money on my efforts and I'm unimpressed. I might add, I spent a month living in West Africa during the ebola crisis - with all the dangers that involves, and the images that they sell from that are sold at the same price of a picture of a bag of chips at a UK seaside.

Latest images rejected as "soft and lacking definition".
The same images were immediately accepted by 2 other reputable photographic agencies and a calendar printer ! ! ! ? ? ?

Amazing, great images

Ordered two different historical photos for a family research project on November 22. I did receive the invoices as an attachment, but no instructions on how to download the photos. All I was able to do was download the invoices.

I did try setting up an online account with Alamy on November 25 with some difficulty. It took half a dozen tries before I was finally able to creat an account from the customer service link they sent me. I think the problem was (1) that I did not set up an account before ordering, and (2) I did not download the files upon ordering because I thought they were attached to the order confirmation.

Quality Control are complete lazy bunch, the refuse to review if you upload more than 10 images a day or 20 a week with akward explanation. You get paid only 10% and only after you sold your content for £500. This is abuse to photographers and artists. Management needs to be changed there fundamentaly.

You buy a photo of 18mb and you discover later on it s 1mb that you can resize on photoshop!!
I don't recommend.

This business is a fraud, bought an image last year for £10. Used it on my website.

Got an email from their solicitors to say you don't have the licence to use that image on your website and to pay them £400 for breaking the agreement.

Its not clear on their website if you buy an image from them that you cant use it anywhere you like.

Surely trading standards need to be looking at this companies practices, they are clearly tricking the customers into buying a image and then sending them legal letters to get £400 out of them.

I would challenge this in court but due to limited time and to save myself from the negative energy and headache I just paid them the £400, but never ever again I would use them again.

If you really must use them, please please check before buying to see where and how you can use their images, otherwise they will send you a bill for £400.

Simple, clear and good price to find a image pack with extensive selection. great help from customer care team. Ideal for my creative project

Credendo di acquistare un relè elettronico ho acquistato in realtà una foto,
Mi sono accorto dell'errore solo quando ho ricevuto la fattura.
Sicuramente sul sito sono stati poco trasparenti, ma sinceramente chi ca.... acquista una foto di un relè. Ho chiesto un rimborso per l'errato acquisto ma mi è stato risposto che non era possibile.

How can I remove it from my portfolio / take it off sale?

“Go to Alamy Image Manager, optional, go right down to the bottom right and there is a delete button. The image stays on sale for 6 months though after marking for deletion.”

What a SCAM!!!

These are Indian call center scammers with a new scam

Fraud in capital letters.
Cheaters 1st class. They give you the idea that you book a tour. After payment you bought an image of the tour you wanted to make.
Why doesn't the United Kindom take any action against this criminals?

i have 3 submissions (with 3 pictures each) that has been in quality control for over a week. It used to take one day at most, but after 3 succesful submissions it seems like they're not checking my submissions anymore.
I'm a beginner photographer who thought selling stock images could be a fun hobby, but after this experience, and after reading some other rewievs i will be changing the website i upload my images to.

Alamy had a very good sales person who arranged good prices and was very friendly, always approachable and very nice to work with. Suddenly contacting her was no longer possible and the arranged prices changed without notice. The fees have more than doubled. Neither sales nor creditcontrol nor any of the given phone numbers work... no one answers or after a wainting loop the line is suddenly dead.

As a contributor they used to be decent. Now they just steal your images for their own gain. Last sale I had they took over 80% of! And they do 'deals' which you get virtually nothing for, yet the lowest way of buying on their site is vastly more than the the tiny percentage they give you. Obviously they are struggling to survive and using the hard work of photographers to stay afloat. Avoid!

I just bought a photo from the website. The photo could be downloaded in HR, 28.8Mb. The photo cost me 15.72 euros. The download contains a photo of only 1,871 Kb. Much smaller than promised and too small for what I want to do with it. The other lower resolutions that can be downloaded are also much smaller than stated on the website. Worthless!

Our local Charity received an email from fairlicensing@alamy demanding payment for unlicensed image use on our website. The associated screenshot showed images which are not, and have never been, used on our website nor elsewhere. There is, deliberately, no way of contacting the email sender.
Is this a scam? As we cannot contact any part of Alamy other than Sales, should we just ignore this?

14 JULY UPDATE Things have become a little clearer. Alamy objected to our Charity website posting a link to a July 2017 Guardian newspaper article...an article which included an image which had not been licensed for us to use (although presumably had been for the Guardian). If a tenth of the 27,000 UK parks and open spaces had posted this very relevant link, as they might well have done, Alamy would be seeking over £1 million in unlicensed use fees...

21 JULY UPDATE nearly three weeks after first emailing all available (of not many) Alamy email addresses about this issue we received no response. Nor to a subsequent request seeking "fair use" permission to post another image on our Charity's FB site's 1,200 followers.

Scammers. Selling photos of products not the actual product.
Refusing to refund.

Although if you are lucky once in a while you may sell for a decent price, the biggest issue is turn around time. Some of their customers have turn around billing time of 3 months. So they start using and publishing your materials but it will not even show up on your Dashboard as sold. Worse, once the customer send the billing, it will show up as sold and you will have to wait for another 2-3 months to get your BALANCE cleared. This is worst among all the stock photography platforms.