$1 Stock Images

[Skinner]

I was just browsing on facebook and this came up in the adverts, normally glaze over or I modify by tampermonkey script to strip out the ads, but I'm kinda glad this one got through...

http://www.dollarphotoclub.com/

I haven't looked yet, but 26m images for $1 each seems quite good value compared to get-f#$k-ty images.

Going to sign up now

Edit: Not as good as I thought, you have to sign up for $10 a month which includes 10 images, images roll over month to month if not used and its $1 per extra image, so still quite good, but not as good.

 

[murph]

Still damn cheap. Cheers for the link!

 

[Skinner]

I'm going to sign up, $99 for the year and includes 100 images, some of the images are really nice just based on the few searches I did.

 

[diablo]

Great find - many thanks.

 

[Edwin]

You may want to read Section 5 of their disclaimer a few times to make sure you're comfortable with it. I'm not suggesting there's anything at all wrong with their product offering, but it's worth knowing what the liability limitations are and how you can lose your right to be defended.
http://www.dollarphotoclub.com/Info/RoyaltyFreeLicense

 

[Skinner]

Unless I've missed something isn't that pretty much the same as most others ?

 

[martin-s]

If you can download 25 images a day, a £150ish subscription at Shutterstock is much better value (20 pence each). Normally find a 25-30% voucher code too.

 

[retired_member33]

Photodune also has images for a dollar.

 

[PaulGregory]

The $99 deal does look the best. It also side-steps some "are you the kind of person we want as a member" test. Funny how money can do that.

It's worth knowing that the amount of quality images may reduce over time - basically it's run by Fotolia, and it's started off with images from Fotolia, but some photographers aren't happy about having their top-licence high-res files being sold for $1 and have started up this boycott:

http://boycottfotolia.org/

which will currently see 84 photographers pulling 509,360 images on May 1st. If you look at the petition comments you can see many images have already been pulled and some guys plan to pull images over time.

I would guess that over time the better images will go and DollarPhotoClub will just have images on a par with other cheap stock agencies.

What this means for us is that if you are persuaded to join by the nice images, it's best to go for the $99 deal and grab the ones you like (particularly ones you've seen for high $ elsewhere) when you see them, rather than letting them linger in a lightbox.