Depositphotos Review
There are 4.5 millions of royalty free stock images and photos at Depositphotos. Relatively small image gallery is caused by little age of this microstock, it was founded in 2009.
Depositphotos don't have an opportunity to compete with other stock photo agencies by number of images, so this microstock makes an emphasis on offering convenient services and affordable images.
Images can be purchased either on an individual or on a subscription basis.
Single image purchases are done using credits (see "What are the credits and what are they for?"). The price of 1 credit is always $1 not depending of the credit package you bought. So you can easily consider "credit" as "dollar". Minimal credit package is valued at $10.
Price of images varies from 0.5 credits for the smallest size to 9 credits for the largest size. Every vector image costs 9 credits. So just for $10 you can get 20 images of minimal size, which is suitable for Internet usage.
For every image bought for credits you can get another JPEG-image as a free bonus. But this doesn't apply for the smallest size of images.
Those who want to purchase images using subscription have a lot of choices. If other microstocks offer subscription period starting from 1 month, Depositphotos offers extremely short period of 3 days. Such subscription costs $19 and allows to download 30 high-resolution images ($0.63 per image). Also there are subscriptions for periods of 7 days, 14 days, etc. (see "Depositphotos Profile" on the right pane).
It's worth noting monthly subscription for $59 allowing to download 5 images per day with a cost of $0.39 for each of them. It's the best offer for those who doesn't need many images. Other subscription packages for one or more months are also relatively cheap.
If you're not sure use subscription or not then you can use free trial subscription for 7 days. You can download 5 free images per day. After 7 days free trial subscription upgrades itself to one of the standard subscription plans. Unless customer have cancelled it earlier.
Also it's important to say that there is a possibility to purchase images using SMS. Using this payment method you can buy image packages. Minimal cost of SMS depends on your region and mobile operator, but in average it costs $1-$1.5. For each SMS you can get 1 image of any size or 1 vector illustration.
So if you buy high-resolution image for credits then it will cost $4-$9. If you use SMS then image price will be around $1. Also there are options of SMS payment for buying several images at once.
For customers who need just 1 image there is a possibility to buy 1 image without preliminary registration or credits/subscription purchasing. But in this case image may cost little higher than usual, it depends on the payment method.
As our visitor you can get special discount offer for buying credits or subscription plan at Depositphotos. So to get 15% discount on credits use promo code DC1123, to get 15% discount on subscription use promo code DS9835.
To register on Depositphotos click this link.
Сomments
I had difficulties with this company a year earlier, but the issue was eventually resolved and I decided to give them one more chance, so I signed up for a monthly subscription of 5 image downloads per day per month. BIG MISTAKE!!! Every few days I have no access to my download allotment of images. If you don't download your allotted number of images, you lose them, no matter whose fault it is. When it happened once, I let it go, but it continues every few days. When they do give you extra credits to make up for the loss, they don't notify you so you don't know you have those credits until you happen to notice your total number of invoices has increased. Thinking there were unauthorized purchases on my account, I was surprised to find additional "free" credits, but that were already expired because I didn't know they were there!!!
And the payment issue submitted by another complainant is indeed an issue. It doesn't matter if you deselect the subscription with Paypal, DepositPhotos keeps taking funds anyway. The only way I could make it stop was to either let the credit card expire, or shut down use of that credit card with PayPal completely to keep DepositPhotos from taking funds. The idea that stopping a subscription is the subscriber's problem is ludicrous! I have other subscriptions through Paypal and the companies bill one month at a time. There is always an option to renew automatically or manually, which is good business. DepositPhotos is still in business only because their subscribers have no way to stop them from stealing their money without a whole lot of grief and frustration. Rip-off IS their business model. BUYER BEWARE!!
