PW4GDF

I just saw this in a magazine, upload pictures from your cell phone to sell for $5. each. Just wondering abut his, has anyone have experience of it?
Thanks.

Rongnongno Loc: FL

Good luck with that. This is a photo bank like many other. If you think they are paying you $5.00 per picture uploaded you are mistaken. It is only when these things are sold at who knows what real price that you get 'paid' with a slingshot.

It is a $$$ making for the company(ies - as there are more than this one promising fame and fortune), not for you.

bdk Loc: Sanibel Fl.

There was a story about foap in a newspaper or magazine, not sure which. They sell your pic for $10.00 and you get $5.00. I just now checked on line Im reading it takes up to 2 weeks to getyour photo approved
and if you decide to remove your photo, they say there is no way to do that or to delete your account. You are stuck with it.

ON the plus side, $5.00 for a pic is a hell of a lot better than 25 cents paid by shutterstock.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

It's a great business plan for the company making the offer. They're not going to pay you for each one you upload. They'll try to sell them - maybe.

salmander

Correct me if I'm wrong, but uploaded photos to an image bank have no value unless they are of professional, commercial quality. Most cell phone pictures no doubt are not good enough for commercial use, so there would be no payment. They certainly are not going to be giving away money for unusable pictures. Also, sites like this usually require the photographer to give up all rights to the photo, so, aside from it perhaps never being used (sold), the photographer loses all possibility of future commercial or public use of the photograph. Were you to use your own photo in some article, magazine, or online, they could conceivably claim copyright on your own picture and demand payment for the use, of your own photograph. Presumably, you would not pay, and it would be too trivial for them to take you to Small Claims Court...but still.... Unless, of course, your photograph was of very high quality and value, in which case you might feel like a loser, having lost all potential use of it yourself.