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What a joke
They refuse to refund my money because it has passed the 14 day period and no delivery
Cowboys and rogues
Money stealing gits, robbers

Pubblica cose fake sui kimono cinesi e giapponesi, per esempio fa vedere kimono giapponesi e dice che sono kimono cinesi(che in realtà si chiamano hanfu) e viceversa, vende cose fake sempre sui komono e hanfu

Eine schlecht konzipierte Plattform, auf welcher man als Künstler in die Röhre schaut. Wenn man neue Bilder hochlädt, braucht die hier eigentlich sinnlose Überprüfung mal einen Werktag, in der Zwischenzeit kann man diese Bilder nicht mal beschriften, dies ist erst nach Freischaltung möglich. Dann muss man noch 1-2 Werktage warten bis die Bilder tatsächlich auffindbar sind. So dauert es gerne mal 3-5 Tage bis ein Bild tatsächlich verfügbar ist.

Die Suche selbst ist schrecklich. Abgesehen davon dass die Suche per Kategorie besser versteckt ist als Omis Keksdose, werden Anfragen ziemlich fragwürdig ausgewertet. Man geht schnell unter zwischen 300M Bildern, welche mit unpassenden Keywords vollgeballert wurden.

Nja abgesehen davon dass die Plattform an sich unintuitiv und Benutzerunfreundlich und verkäuferverabscheuend ist, wird man eh auch noch ziemlich ausgenommen.

Wenn man dann vl mal was verkauft, kümmerts einen kaum, weils wshl nur die paar Cent Anteil sind ^^ Und diese kann man dann erst ab 100€ auszahlen lassen.

Kurz und knapp: Die Plattform ist in der 2000er hängen geblieben & die einzigen die profitieren sind Alamy und Kunden die günstig Bilder von paar wenigen kaufen.

The people managing this website are completely stupid and racist, like everyone else in this hell of a country called England. Country of pirates and thieves!

TL;DR: the quality of the image I downloaded is not nearly as good as could be expected based on the information provided.

Alamy delivers images as "compressed downloads" (e.g. 1 MB) - this is not specified further before sale. The website states that one can decompress the image to full size (e.g. 25 MB) using software such as Photoshop.

Only after the sale one finds out that Alamy only offers .jpeg-files for download. The problem is that jpeg-compression is a one-way process: whatever information gets lost during compression can never be retrieved. Opening in Photoshop does not retrieve any more information. Alamy sells a 1 MB image as a 25 MB image.

In short: I find the information on image properties and file size (hence quality) to be bordering on misleading.

As I photographer, I started with Dreamstime, added ShutterStock that recently committed suicide.

Kept only Dreamstime, Adobe Stock, and tried Alamy for editorials.

8 pictures sold, they collected $224, and paid 38$ ROFL. One day, I wanna do nothing, and collect money.

Alamy still paid more per picture than others. If someone steals your pics, as happened to me once...no pic stock company will do anything anyway.

If you wanna be a successful "phototographer", you have to shoot lots of popular crap that is in demand/easy to sell.

You will be rewarded for quantity of crap - sadly, that is where we got in last 40 years ever since every kid can buy camera, and is great "photographer".

For some unknown reason, people love to only destroy the nature instead of be mesmerised by its beauty.

AVOID, DON'T USE THESE PEOPLE FOR YOUR BUSINESS.

They will contact your clients whom you have licensed an Alamy photo for and accuse them of theft of the images and demand an exorbitant amount of money from them without even being reasonable or simply asking for the licence proof.

Customers end up calling non stop in a panic and accusing you of theft of images when in reality it's all licenced.

They use heavy handed tactics from the outset and will rattle any customer you have regardless of whether the image is licenced.

These people will cause you serious problems, avoid this company at all costs if you care about your business.

Scrivo in qualità di ex contributor. Ho iniziato la collaborazione nel 2018 con un contratto che prevedeva provvigioni del 50% sul venduto. Nel 2020 il contratto è stato modificato unilateralmente e la mia percentuale è stata abbassata al 40%. Nel 2022, sempre unilateralmente, la percentuale è stata abbassata al 20%. Quindi, secondo la logica di questi "signori", è cosa normale vendere le foto fatte da altri e riconoscere all'autore della foto il 20% trattenendosi l'80% per la loro attività di marketing. Ovviamente ho immediatamente chiesto ed ottenuto la risoluzione contrattuale ma il tempo che ho impiegato per caricare circa 15.000 foto sul loro portale, con le descrizioni e i metadati ecc non me lo ripagherà nessuno, e sono un fotografo professionista. Non lo consiglio a nessuno, ma di certo tanto meno ai professionisti.

I ordered what I thought was the actual product for 49.99 sterling only to discover it was for a photo.... It was an order for medicine. I'm disgusted by this practice, now they will not answer my emails.
Do not use them.
Janne Kerr

Using WW2 reenactment photos, than greyscaling them and advertising them as "German combat unit in Normandy 1944". Getting an absolute 1 star for advertising wannabe's as the real deal.

Ruim. Tentei várias vezes anunciar minhas imagens e nunca deu certo

As a photographer who has used Alamy since 2017 I am absolutely disgusted by this company now. The prices paid through their website show a total lack of respect for photographers and their work. For example a few days ago three images sold for 5 CENTS each. One of those alone cost me $300 in hiring a helicopter to take the shot. I have now had six photographs sold for a few cents. I will NOT be putting any more photos on Alamy.
I was told by them the reason for the low cost was because they were sold by a third party. In April I cancelled the agreement to sell via third parties - yet a few days ago I find that on their website that they have me still listed as selling via third party.
Not the same company I started using five years ago.

Very misleading when it comes to usage rights....would not ever use again!!!! (if there was no star option I would click this.)

Alamy rely on inexperienced user making slipping up so they can cash in with VERY aggressive legal tactics!

If you have a camera just take you own images and don’t bother with Alamy!...if you need stock images go elsewhere and really make sure you fully understand what licence is being sold if it expires etc...one wrong move there won’t be a warning just VERY aggressive legal tactics!!!

Hello everyone, I was robbed, don't buy here, I paid for an image 69.99 and I couldn't use it, because the licenses are very limited and expensive compared to other sites.
I found another site that sells you $5 per image with unlimited lifetime licenses. You can use it anywhere. Run before you lose your money.

C'est vraiment pas une bonne banque d'images ne recommande pas.

I ordered one of their products on 10/12/21.
Payment taken and order confirmed and received no confirmation and product, 1 month later....Nothing
Then after 2 Emails i received an email on 10/1/22 from
Fazil in the finance team assuring me my refund is being actioned. Now after 2 more emails no refund and no reply. I'm so glad i done an initial small purchase as i did have intentions of placing much bigger orders.
I've give up now and hope other customers learn by my example. Waste of time and money 😎

I love the monthly Fresh picks collections. It's my new go-to when I'm looking for inspiration.

Yet again, I am very concerned about the copyright practices of this company.

They are selling images of 19th Century paintings that I own the original of (by my ancestor). I own these paintings, yet they are on the Alamy website emblazoned with the Alamy logo, as if they own them! The same with museum paintings. The artist may have passed away over 70 years ago and the painting itself may be out of copyright, but the photographic image itself must have been taken more recently and distributed for monetary gain without permission of the owner of the painting. I am sure most photographers and contributors are decent, honest folk, but there is a minority of contributors who are submitting images that they have no right to submit as their own work. They know who they are.

Images of historic paintings such as these may well be in the public domain, but should be "All rights reserved" i.e. used for non-commercial research and private study use only. Not for commercial gain by unscrupulous people. It is not right that someone is anonymously making money in a dubious manner from my family heirloom.

I run a website for a charity for the elderly in our local area that was built over 4 years ago, and I get a demand letter that I pay for copyright infringement on a single image. The charity gets no funding and relies on their charity shop and donations with the help of volunteers. When we pay the fee that means some of our elderly customers will have to go without. We have already had to close our computer help due to lack of donations due to covid. So they hire a company to chase copyright claims at every instance of the image on the web hoping they pay the settlement.