Alamy レビュー 

Service cher pour des images de qualité médiocre à cause d'une compression à outrance. Ils ne fournissent pas les fichiers non compressés et prennent leurs clients pour des pigeons.

Opted out of novel use and the other extras, yet a photo sold for $13 despite the actual use (Editorial Website) being listed for £30- Alamy stole my photo and sold it for less than was advertised, and gave £5 in return, despite my having opted out of other options that would allow such a sale.

Don't sell stock with them, or in general- it's an entire scam. Not the first time I've been done over by stock, but it will be the last- hobbyists avoid Alamy and other stock sites, and know your worth- these ones certainly don't.

I was a contributor for years with thousans of images. I did work a lot. Hours and hours uploading. After all those years I ask them a question "Why I did only 45$ after all that work?" And they said it not their style of images. They deleted my account and all my work. I don't recommed you to be a contributor or buying from this site. What they did to me is unforgivable.

Banque d'images à fuir absolument ! Les fichiers soit-disants "HD" sont en réalité des images de piètre qualité redimensionnées et tellement compressées (en JPEG) qu'elles en sont inutilisables, ou alors au quart (au mieux) de la dimension indiquée. Le service après-vente propose d'ouvrir lesdits JPEG compressés dans Photoshop et de les exporter en TIFF pour obtenir la taille initialement annoncée (sic), puis s'excuse à moitié que la qualité de certaines photos puisse varier selon leur origine (photos anciennes ou reportages)... mais qu'ils ne rembourseront pas.

Do not buy anything from this company shocking to deal with and an absolute rip off

Two images were sold for£0.10 each (How that happens is a mystery when the cheapest images on the screen are £9.99)
After Alamy commission and a distributors commission there was a payment to me of zero.
Photographers, beware you are being ripped off.

J’ai l’habitude d’acquérir des images de « stock art » de diverses sources en ligne mais avec Alamy, c’est la première fois que le produit que j’ai acheté s’est avéré être une photo à basse résolution d’une… autre photo… encadrée ! Lorsque je me suis rendu compte que ce fichier graphique était inutilisable pour l’impression, j’ai demandé un remboursement qui m’a été refusé. Je ne recommande pas du tout cette compagnie.

A couple of months ago we received a copyright strike that seemingly came from Alamy. It looked a bit suspicious as (a) we were contacted by email and (b) the person only used her first name to identify herself. She went by the name of Michaela. She used Alamy’s Abingdon HQ address in her email signature, and indeed the email appeared to have come from an Alamy domain, however we later found evidence that suggested it originated from a third party site called fairlicensing.com, which is essentially a playground for independent copyright trolls endorsed by Alamy. We immediately removed the offending image as requested (which was only a thumbnail from a reposted educational news article on a partner site). We pleaded fair use of the image but there was no sympathy, even though we are a non-profit organisation. "Michaela" still insisted that we had to pay hundreds of pounds in damages, a large part of which she would have received herself as commission no doubt. On further investigation, we proved that the image in question had been in circulation in the public domain years before it was copyrighted on Alamy! At this point the Alamy agent/troll disappeared and we haven’t heard from her since.

Le pire site de banque d'images de tous, extrêmement malhonnêtes. Ils vendent des images qui sont souvent redimensionnées à partir d'images de très mauvaise qualité ultra compressées, donc la qualité est horrible, souvent non utilisable. Le service client ne veut rien savoir et ne fait pas de remboursement. À FUIR

Ho acquistato un'immagine da stampare su tela. Ho deciso di acquistarla proprio per avere la garanzia di ottenere un'immagine in alta qualità. Mi hanno mandatocun'immagine da 430 kb che non metterei neanche come foto profilo sul peggiore dei social. Contattata l'assistenza ma nulla, non rispondono

These guys would get a zero if possible, stay away terrible company to deal with.

Money left account, service paid for, no product, no download no nothing. Apparently you don't have an account either.

24hours later still no resolution after speaking to 3 people via email???

Honestly you might as well just throw you money down the drain. Least you would know where it went!!!

24 hours later...

No site não tem informações precisas .sem tradução confiável pro português . Não tem local pra devolução caso vc se arrependa ou não goste do produto . Os.contatos não respondem . Se respondem com informações mecânicas e evasivas . Por robos .
Não e confiável . Vou procurar os direitos de consumidor do Brasil e registrar uma queixa contra essa empresa . Pois não usei nenhum produto deles . Comprei por engano achando que era um produto e era apenas um foto imagem

British newspaper editorial rooms laugh at this company's naivety. Negotiating ever decreasing fees and frequently not notifying use or sending payment, even the august times of Lordon. With no staff or checking of use the paltry fees negotiated by their agents sees little incentive for contributors to report a misuse. Said contributors now sell from their own sites direct to papers for eye opening full rates with no avoidance of payment.

I closed my contributor account with Alamy a year or so ago as I was unhappy with changes to their Contributor Agreement. At least one "legacy" sale took place, of which I was notified December 2022, with a request for up to date bank details so the small payment could be made.

I provided these the same day and here we are 21st March 2023 and I still have no payment.

From correspondence I doubt payment would ever have been made, so sent a written complaint to Alamy CEO - no acknowledgement even as yet. Incidentally - when requesting his contact details they refused to give them and suggested I get them and communicate with him on LinkedIn! Is this really a serious company you have to ask?

I was today told "Our team has now reinputted the funds for you and you will receive the outstanding payment next month."

That would make five months, so well overdue by any business standards.

I have told them that in view of their gross incompetence they should be making an immediate manual payment today, which any accounts department can do, but Alamy clearly can't be bothered.

Small amount or not, my next step will be to sue under the Fast Track procedure. I somehow doubt the embarrassment factor would bother Alamy one bit, but you never know! Word gets around and it may save others the time and effort trying to get payment from them.

Life is tough enough for professional photographic contributors as it is, but Alamy have really gone the extra mile to trash their once good reputation and make it even tougher. Avoid like the plague.

Very bad operators - DO NOT USE.

These people are scammers!

I purchased an image for newsletter use and then used the image for a website, I changed the licensing to upgrade as the use had changed to website.

I was then contacted by their lawyers saying that I had misused the image and thus broke their rules, even though I had purchased the upgraded licences.

A case with their lawyer was then created and myself and the client were hounded to pay extremely high fees for the late change in licensing the image.

Je ne comprends pas qu'on autorise une société à prélever des images dans des ouvrages pour ensuite se les approprier. Je trouve cela malhonnête : c'est de l'argent "facile"

Das Unternehmen verlangt Lizenzgebühren für die Bereitstellung gemeinfreier Bilder, die man woanders meist kostenlos haben kann.
Außerdem werden Lizenzen für private Nutzungen verkauft, die grundsätzlich nicht lizenzpflichtig sind (§ 53,1 UhrG).
Hier wird mit der Unbedarftheit von Nutzern Geld gemacht.

Don't buy classical painting photos from this company! They upload tiny-sized JPEG files and charge you an enormous amount! I actually checked Wikipedia and saw exactly the same size and type of images. And Wikipedia is completely free. It's a rip-off company, I wrote them and they replied, that they have written a note near the paintings, that they are old and can have imperfections. That usually means high-resolution photos, but visible stains or painting cracks. But no, I got a blurry image for 13 euros, that I could download from Instagram and it would probably look the same.
Do not recommend this to anyone!

Ich habe versucht einige Bilder bei alamy anzubieten die ich bereits auf anderen Plattformen erfolgreich verkaufe. Nachdem meine ersten 3 Bilder akzeptiert wurden habe ich 20 Bilder hochgeladen. Die Überprüfung dauerte 3 Tage. Ein Bild ist durchgefallen. Warum? Weiß man nicht. Alle anderen werden mit abgelehnt. Eine Kontolöschung dauert 45 Tage. Habe versucht meine ersten 3 Bilder zu löschen. Der Löschbutton ist im letzten Eck versteckt. Trotzdem gefunden. Jetzt steht dran dass die Bilder Ende Juli gelöscht werden. Das sind 6! Monate! Das ist eine Frechheit und eine ziemliche Abzocke. Ich habe jetzt alle Tags und den Titel entfernt damit diese Bilder niemals gefunden und verkauft werden. Ich empfehle shutterstock.

Biete über die Plattform Bilder an.Ich bin ein abitionierter Fotograf bis Profi .Leider wurde schon mehrmals Bilder von mir nicht angenommen.Der Grund ist nicht nachvollziehbar.Anscheinend hat alamy ein Testprogramm,das schlicht und ergreifend Mist ist,oder die Leute die die Fotos prüfen sind nicht vom Fach.Auserdem weiß man nicht wenn man unter 50 Euro im Monat liegt,wie viel man dann Alamy in den Hintern schiebt weil man erst ab 50 euro bezahlt wird.Die Zeit die Alamy zum "überprüfen" braucht ist sehr lange.
Wenn ein Bild oder mehrer Bilder nicht angenommen werden,wird der komplette Upload nicht angenommen.
Auch wird immer nur ein Bild markiert das laut Alamy nicht ok ist.Sind es mehrere im Upload, hat man pech gehabt.Das bekommt man nicht mitgeteilt.
So wurde zb ein Upload von mir aus 80 Bildern komplett verworfen,weil ein Bild angeblich schlecht war.
Zudem kann man in der Wartezeit die Bilder nicht beschriften oder den Bildern Tags geben.Auch hat Alamy etwas gegen künstlerischere Aufnahmen.
Das Wort "Freihstellen" zb. kennt wohl die Firma nicht.
Wenn der Fokus an einer anderen Stelle ist als gewohnt (weil man es halt so absichtlich und bewusst Fotografiert hat weil das Motiv so besser zum Ausdruck kommt) wird es von Alamy nicht genommen.
Absoluter Mist ist sowas.
Alles im einem ist die Webseite sehr benutzerunfreundlich und sehr unprofessionell.
Vor allem die Überprüfung sollte man lieber Profis überlassen oder zumindesten Jemanden der sich mit Fotografie auskennt