This February 2014 email chain records BuzzFeed picture editor Matthew Tucker discussing a buying arrangement with CEN shortly after BuzzFeed had been added to the CEN distribution list. Tucker says BuzzFeed would be interested in “potentially buying” from CEN and asks whether a rate of GBP 50 per story set for online use could be agreed. After CEN indicates that this would be acceptable, Tucker confirms that BuzzFeed would like to take the “Forgotten Chinese City” story set, says he will mark down the purchase, asks whether the 12 pictures on the alert are the high-resolution images, and requests an invoice addressed to BuzzFeed UK. The document is significant because it records the concrete commercial terms of BuzzFeed’s early CEN relationship: direct access to the CEN distribution list, a negotiated story-set rate, selection of a China-based picture story, purchase recording and invoicing. In the wider evidence chain, it should be read alongside the later BuzzFeed/CEN buying, licensing, alerts and rights-clearance documents, because it helps show that BuzzFeed’s use of CEN content was not accidental or marginal. BuzzFeed was actively setting up a regular buying arrangement for the same type of unusual international visual material that later became part of its critique of CEN’s output.