I've been using Dreamstime for a number of years. I buy the credits as I need them. I notice it states that I'll get so many images with a certain amount of credits, but in my experience it's false information because I will pay $21 for 16 credits and any photo I buy requires a min. 10 credits... so how am I getting "5" images with the credits when it's not so?

asked by Lori F. on 5/13/15

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Thumbnail of user gianfrancos

Images of level 0 or level 1 are a lot and many of these are quite good and original. If you need small size for web use you will pay 1 to 3 credits. You can order the images by price. I both more than 100 image at an average price of 1 €. Than I needed an image of high res and exclusive licence and I paid 100 € but this is another business.

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Thumbnail of user suzannef4

Their pricing structure always ensures that you pay for more than you need because of the way the packages are costed. This encourages you to return and use up your credit. But be warned they charged me four subscription payments when I returned to use up credit they'd refunded to me, ignoring the fact that I had cancelled the auto renewal within the time frame of their free trial.

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Thumbnail of user caram9

You have to go through the pictures and pick one that only costs a few credits if you need a couple of credits. I have used the small pictures and they have looked fine online. I have had a recent bad experience with them about them setting up a payment scheme I didn't know I was signing up for, thought I was buying credits. I did get refunded through paypal when I opened up a case.

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Thumbnail of user jacks376

I would look at the images you want first and see how many credits they would be. However, their prices changes a lot.

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