mmm. Sounds more like a sales-tactic to me than anything else.

There are other sites which can provide the same services for less.

I have some pics hosted by http://www.favouritepictures.com and it
didn't cost me a cent !

Give it a try :)

Mark

I don't know anything about them, but I would think it's more of a
money maker for them than for you.

I once did some computer work for a really big international
stock photo agency.  The way they worked was like this:

They only accepted photos from photographers they had vetted as
being top quality.

They gave those photographers contracts.  The contract gave the
agency the right to sell specific rights to the photographer's
photos - as specified by the photographer.  For example, the
photographer might be under contract to an auto company or
a calendar publisher and would specify that none of his photos
could be sold to any auto or calendar company.

The photographer sent in whatever he wanted, no charge.  The
agency would sell the images when they could, keep half the money,
and give the other half to the photographer.

It was a no risk proposition for the photographer.

The company you are dealing with puts all the burden of risk
on you.  At the very least you should ask them for information about
how many images they sell for how much money each year.

However since you are not a well known professional, you won't
be able to get a contract from the big agencies that can really
sell your work.  So you have to decide if these people actually
have customers or whether they are just another website that
nobody knows about and no photo buyers ever visit.

   Alan

No, I have never heard of them & and if Google has not heard of them either,
they can not be much of a force in the marketplace.

If they are asking for money, from you,  you can be fairly sure it is a
rip=off.

Roy G

As a general rule if they charge you up front to represent you they are to
be regarded with suspicion.

Cautionary tale.  I used to date a girl named Morrissette who looked a Hell
of a lot like Alanis and sang a lot like her and had about the same
attitude (note, Alanis was about 2 years old when this was going on) and I
would not be at all surprise to find was related.  She had paid some guy
purporting to be an agent $5K to represent her.  One day somehow it came to
pass that Carly Simon heard one of her songs and wanted to record it.  This
jackass had her music so tied up that even he couldn't figure out a way to
sell Carly the rights to perform that song.  If he had been any kind of
competent agent quite possibly both they would both be zillionaires right
now but as it sits the last I heard of her she was waiting tables and he
was still trying to get people to pay him 5 grand a head to represent them.

Do _not_ let your work get tied up in that kind of mess.

Sounds like the same idea as a "vanity publisher" - you know, those
outfits that will gladly accept and publish a book for you... for a
price.  If it sells, great for you... if not, they've got nothing to lose.

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Gee "Eugene" I wonder if "Peter" has a last name?

They are just trying to sell you web space.

If you want to deal with real stock agency, contact Alamy.

They don't charge you for the basic service but you have to provide
large images for quality testing.

http://www.alamy.com/contributors/stock-photography-join.asp

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I'll bet that if I sent blurry, poorly composed photos of my dog and kids
I'd get the same response letter.

They just want your money.

ds