{"id":732,"date":"2008-02-16T23:45:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T07:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=732"},"modified":"2008-02-17T01:01:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T09:01:13","slug":"too-much-of-a-good-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"Too Much of a Good Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve subscribed to a stock photo site for a month. It’s one of those sites that have only subscription packages available; they don’t use credits. It’s fairly expensive, so I went for the shortest, cheapest package they had. I figured that at a maximum 25 downloads a day, it was not a bad deal, so long as I downloaded those 25 everyday. That’s 750 images for the month, at less than $4 each.<\/p>\n

Well, it’s a lot harder than I thought to download that many stock photos a day on a consistent basis.<\/p>\n

They count on you to get tired of doing it after a while, which means you skip an image or a day, and pretty soon the deal isn’t as good as you thought it was. Even if you’re diligent, there might not be that many photos you want from the site, and there you are stuck with photos you might never, ever use.<\/p>\n

It’s like subscribing to the Columbia House CD of the Month Club.<\/p>\n

After Columbia House sent me the fifth or tenth CD by an artist I didn’t even recognize, I bellowed, “Never again!”<\/p>\n

Likewise, that’s the last time I subscribe to that<\/em> stock photo site.<\/p>\nShare this post:

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I’ve subscribed to a stock photo site for a month. It’s one of those sites that have only subscription packages available; they don’t use credits. It’s fairly expensive, so I went for the shortest, cheapest package they had. I figured that at a maximum 25 downloads a day, it was not a bad deal, so long as I downloaded those 25 everyday. That’s 750 images for the month, at less than $4 each. Well, it’s a lot harder than I…<\/p>\n

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