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I intentionally stayed away from the subscription service. I opted to buy 11 credits for 1 image I wanted. After I made the purchase I'm sent a message saying the 11 credits will auto renew in 24 hours. I navigate deep into the account section and find where to turn this feature (which i didn't as for) off. The cancel button is like 50% grey while the "stay and play"is all green and "lit up." But I press cancel and intentionally remove my credit card details as i'm smelling a rat... Next day my bank calls me to confirm a few "Dreanstime" debits... firstly the legit 11 credits one... then two more obscure amounts that miraculously add up to the cost of 11 more credits! If they hadn't called me I would be none the wiser and I believe there are probably thousands of people out there that have been caught by this and have simply not noticed. So glad I caught on and also googled "Dreamstime" complaints and found many many people who have been tricked into subscriptions and been ripped off a lot more money than me... Stay Away they seem unapologetic in their dodgy ways.

Well, I am on the other side of the coin here, as a stock contributor not a buyer. Overall, I have had a good experience in dealing with Dreamstime. I worked hard for years submitting images and earned pretty good money. Sadly, nothing ever stays the same in life. My main guess is that the quantity and quality of micro stock photography available has increased, and combined with the subscription model has decimated my earnings. Anyway, I am sorry that so many of you find your free stuff not really free. Obviously Dreamstime need to clarify their "free" images deal. Dreamstime is a business after all and I love doing photography and actually getting paid for it. Someone once told me "There is no such thing as a free lunch"...

I work in web building, and I was looking for superhero images on my usual stock photo subscription sites, but coming up empty. Went to Dreamstime, saw they had a free trial for 5 high-resolution images--what luck! Downloaded them, and they all have watermarks. I contact customer support and they say the free trial IS for watermarked images. If that's the case, what's the point of a trial? I can screenshot whatever I want, guys. Client already approved the images, so I'll buy them, but I'm not buying anything else. What a joke.

I originally signed up for a free trial. I was supposed to get 5 images for FREE. Then I decided to change it up to 10. SOMEHOW, I was charged $103! When I called to straighten it out, she ARGUED with me and told me that she would refund some amount but that I would have to not use that last image that I downloaded. In MY opinion, I should have only paid $39 and received 5 images for free. Instead, I didn't get ANY images for free and paid for 15. Run, far and fast... there are other resources with better images and MUCH BETTER SERVICE.

My images disappeared from their site. No one contacted me first to let me know in advance why they were doing this.

I messaged them 4 time and eventually they responded saying I infringed copyright and removed all my images

The correct way would have been to contact me to say they were removing one image and ask for my input. If I was found to be at fault then either remove that one or all. I spent hours doing the keywords to get a good ranking

A scan of original slide is attached and a photo of it on my wall at home.

Now told them I dont want to use them any longer and going to just deal with Adobe who treat you with respect and sell a lot more of my images

AVOID DREAMSTIME

Terrible marketing gimmick! Signed up for the free trial (even had to input credit card details) which advertised that i could download 5 free photos. I downloaded my first photo and it was covered in watermarks. I downloaded another. Same thing! I emailed customer service and was told that I need to upgrade my subscription to a paying version to remove the water mark. I need these photos, but I will buy them somewhere else as I refuse to do business with a company with such shady sales practices.