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Originally posted by HarlotCash Dyker
I too have recently been contacted by a Russian showing me an impressive portfolio and made me an offer of producing unique content only for me at a price way below the content value -
I would like to cut a deal with him - But - I wonder how many "deals" this guy has for this "unique" content? Of course, it could very well be genuine -
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Be careful when dealing with Russians. Well, I'm Russian myself, and I hope noone can say I cheated him, but I can't refuse that Russians are often cheaters.
Once I bought an "exclusive" content from one of the Russian photographers for reselling, and it was not that cheap at all - $1 per an image (solo). Afterwards I discovered that some of that content was very hardly used on FHGs and actually overexposed. I did not go fighting with him, because total amount was not that essential, just ceased any relationships with him.
Or I remember that story when one of the Russian producers started screaming on AWM board that webmaster who bought his content exclusivelly is not carefull and let it to be stolen and spread widelly. Webmasters then checked the sites he was pointing at and turned back on him, because they found out that actually "exclusive" he sold to all of them was shot during the same session, just by 3 photographers from 3 different but close points. In other words, those "exclusive" sets was so similar that he himself could not tell that they were not actually stolen, those just were "different" sets he sold to several different people as exclusive.