Comstock Gives $3,500 Monitor to its 50,000th Customer; Camille Van Den Broeck Surprised to be a Milestone Customer For Comstock's Royalty Free Image Division in the U.S.

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MOUNTAINSIDE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2003

Camille Van Den Broeck of Reactor Marketing wasn't expecting a call from Comstock Images, a leading international provider of premium quality professional stock photography.

"You're our 50,000th new customer in the U.S. for our royalty free image division," she was told, "and we just thought we'd like to do something nice for you."

According to Traci Torres, director of marketing for Comstock: "We were doing some routine monitoring and noticed that Camille had just become the 50,000th person here in the U.S. to place an order for our royalty free products. It wasn't a sweepstakes or some kind of promotional thing, but we decided, heck, let's make her day."

Comstock has sent her, free of charge, a state-of-the-art Apple 23-inch High Definition LCD flat-screen display that retails for $3,500.

Van Den Broeck said: "I couldn't be more thrilled, on both counts. On the one hand, I was delighted to discover Comstock. They have a terrific Web site and fabulous images, and I found just the right one for my project and ordered it easily. The next thing I know they're calling me to tell me about the free monitor they're sending me."

Torres explained that Comstock's royalty free image division is relatively new and growing by leaps and bounds. "We've gone from zero customers to 50,000 in this division in two and a half years and that's just our U.S. business. A huge amount of these people buy from us over and over as well -- we're their image provider of choice, generally.

"The way things are taking off, it's likely that we'll reach our 100,000th customer some time in 2003: whoever that person turns out to be, I have a feeling we'll make their day, for sure."

About Comstock Images

For more than 25 years, Comstock has been a world leader in the production and distribution of premium quality professional imagery to the advertising, graphic design, publishing, multimedia and corporate communities. Comstock's award-winning Web site (www.comstock.com) is one of the highest-trafficked image Web sites in the world, highly regarded for its fast, intuitive search system and ease of transactions.

Offering images in three licensing models in three divisions -- Royalty Free, Flat Rate and Rights Protected -- Comstock provides graphics professionals with the full range of image options in a friendly, intuitive and professional environment.

Declared an invaluable resource by creatives of all levels, Comstock's "College of Photology" at www.comstock.com/college offers designers inside tips, how-to's and helpful industry information.

Unique to the industry, Comstock's Web site incorporates unrivaled image search capabilities with "Ask Angela," Comstock's patent-pending search system with revolutionary, visual-based image search capabilities.

Comstock operates from three digitally connected distribution centers throughout the world (Unites States, Canada and Europe). Full information on Comstock and its products can be found at www.comstock.com or by calling 800/225-2722.