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DepositPhotos has a rating of 3.1 stars from 315 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with DepositPhotos most frequently mention high quality, great selection and reasonable price. DepositPhotos ranks 3rd among Stock Photos sites.
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I have also had a bad experience with their Payment system.
I bought some Pay-As-You-Go credits and then was billed twice for it. When I queried this they say they auto renew, yet there was nothing on their site that indicated this. They have a no refund policy and would not refund the amount I was billed extra.
It seems as though they deliberately make the subscription info hidden.
What a scam!
DO NOT USE THIS SERVICE! They have a very misleading introductory offer. I am currently seeking a refund and will update this posting if they deliver on the promise of customer service.
Since writing this review, their payment provider, Segpay, has promised a refund. Seqpay delivered rapid and responsive service. They say it will take 5 business days for the refund to show up on my credit card. Fingers crossed.
Do NOT do business with DepositPhotos.com. They may have offices in Florida but you still get the third world treatment. When you chat with their personnel you can tell that English is not their first language. I've never seen a company that makes you jump through so many hoops just to give them your money.
If you want the most frustrating time of your life then sign up, othewise, RUN!
Their employees have been empowered to do NOTHING! They can't solve a problem, they can't apply a promo code etc. I should have avoided them the first time I did business with them. In a chat I asked what was the best promo code available and they told me 5%. Then they bumped it up to 10% if I would do business right then. While I was chatting I found a 15% promo code one their website. When I inquired about the 15% code? Well, let's just say "Oops!" Caught in a lie! I should have run then.
If you want 3rd World treatment DepositPhotos.com is your company!
AVOID THIS COMPANY AT ALL COSTS!
I paid for one month of their service and they charged me for three months. I called several times and emailed, but there was no response or pick up of the calls. I have finally managed to get in contact with them, but they refuse to reverse the two months that weren't used and weren't authorized.
Não faça assinatura para compra de fotos nesta empresa, fui vítima e pesquisando na net a reclamação são sobre o mesmo golpe. Ao assinar pacote para apenas baixar 3 fotos que precisava. Eles ficam fazendo cobrança automática diretamente de seu cartão de crédito mensalmente sem você ter solicitado. E no site nem tem a opção de fazer cancelamento da assinatura, você precisa entrar em contato com o sac.! Eles nunca vão parar de de bitar dinheiro da sua conta. Foram feitas 6 cobranças mensal sem utilizar o serviço. Apos negociar o cancelamento só disseram que poderiam estornar apenas 2 meses e dar 1 de crédito. Cada assinatura foi de $ 59,00 mensal de meu cartão de crédito. Foi estornado $117,30 dolares porém a cotação utilizada não foi a do dolar do fechamento do vencimento do cartão 30/06/13 nem foi estornado o IOF. Muito cuidado ao utilizar seu cartão nessa empresa. Meu prejuízo foi grande.
I LOVE DepositPhotos.com! The images are fresh & of things I need for my biz. I had started to get disappointed & nervous when searching for a good site. I kept finding all of the same exact images on all of the different sites! My competitors were all using these same, dull, stale images. I don't want to be like my competitors! I want to stand out! I got a great deal on 300 images (downloaded@ 10 a day) from AppSumo.com for $59. I had paid almost $400 for one image a designer had picked out that we of course loved & went with but needless to say that was a lot compared to what we have here now. I will continue to buy images through them even after the trial. I have had some questions & the CHAT folks are great & very helpful. I highly recommend. :) StaySmilin!
Do NOT give your billing info to this company. They will continue to charge you even after canceling the free trial. My first invoice was even double billed $59 x 2.
I deposited $100 into my account, added 200 photos to my lightbox only to discover their web site won't let you buy a lightbox like all other photo sites. One has to download each file one at a time. Tech support said that functionality, even through there are buttons on their site to do that, has never worked. Since I don't want to waste 3 hours manually downloading I asked for a refund. They declined saying credits are not refundable. I submitted a dispute with my bank. Stay away from these scam artists.
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. 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 check your invoices to find the credits that have since expired!
And the payment issue submitted by another complainant is indeed an issue. It doesn't matter if you deselect the recurring subscription with Paypal, DepositPhotos keeps taking funds anyway. The only way I could make it stop was to 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.
I signed up for the trial service and didn't end up downloading anything. I woke up this morning to go and cancel it but they had already charged for the services and the site says no refunds so I was like oh great, just paid $60 for images I don't want.
So I emailed them anyway and explained how I hadn't even used the trial and if they could refund it and they said YES! As a graphic/web designer when I DO need that many images I will certainly be back. I really didn't expect that kind of customer service so I want to make sure to give them a loving review in return for their kindness! :)
Do not give your billing information to this company! They will never stop talking money from your account -- even three months after cancelling a trial subscripting, they are still pulling $59.00 from my PayPal account every month!
Each time I have complained to the company as well as PayPal. Paypal has refunded my money. Deposit photos has refused to take responsibility, telling me to take it up with PayPal. I do not want to go through this every month.
I could not find what I was looking for on their site so this whole NIGHTMARE was absolutely not worth it. I wish I had never done a trial subscription.
I found Depositphotos 2 years ago while I was in search for cheaper stock pictures for a school that hadn't that big budget. Well, I found it! I started out as a customer and graduatly became a contributer, thanks to a great supportive community
Answer: I chose them because other websites are too expensive for the amount you get. This is not an issue if this is being done in a commercial setting as cost is part of doing business. I on the other hand am a digital artist who creates non commercially and do not profit off my creations. I create for the sake of creating. I am able to get 30 downloads for $30 a month which for my purposes is perfect. For someone that just wants to create art non commercially then depositphotos offers the best value.
Answer: Hello, Tone. Feel free to contact us anytime via LiveChat. You can also call the numbers listed here https://depositphotos.com/contact_us.html and email us. In order to cancel the account, you need to contact us and place a request. Anna, Depositphotos
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