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thanks Alex for coming here and letting us know

I couldn't care less since I stopped uploading after their latest crazy rejections spree.

All sites have periods of crazy reviews during which they either reject all or even accept all crap

I stopped asking myself if it's a new reviewer, or an official policy: I simply stop uploading for a while and then retry, situation may change completely after a week or so.

In microstock the only constant is inconstancy

True. I should have said *some* sites. IS is clearly very professional in reviews indeed. All other major sites have *short* "crazy" period at times in my opinion, but are usually fair most of the time. My previous statement could clearly give an overly negative impression, which is not what I think.

Thanks for the info, Alex! I thought the problem was my FTP program

Hi All,

Thanks for your opinions on rejections at 123RF.com. i was about to jump on the review team and get severely mad with them for rejecting the images that you painstakingly shot and uploaded to us.

But before that, it is only fair that I hear both sides of the story. And I did, I personally went through the rejections and to simply put it, I have to agree with their decision.

However, at 123RF.com we do hear out our contributors and give them an avenue for appeal if you wrote to [email protected], I understand that the contributors have been using this avenue too. Therefore, after re-reviewing the images, we also have concluded that they would continue to be rejected for purely technical reasons.

If you feel that other stock agencies have accepted your photo when we rejected them, please feel free to quote our image filename and provide us a link to the other stock agency to strengthen your appeal to us.

We pride ourselves in being a learning organization and we do learn from our mistakes and we're not afraid to apologize if mistakes have been made.

At this juncture I'd like to leave you with a request - please be objective in raising your appeal, if you feel that in all fairness, the images you took are simply not good enough, perhaps you should just leave things as it were.

Thank you very much.

Alex.
for 123RF.com

i do have one photo that was rejected elsewhere but accepted by 123 from back when i started. it sells well enough that i try to resubmit them elsewhere again.

http://www.microstockgroup.com/123royaltyfree-com/ftp-server-of-123rf/

Did you switch your FTP setting to ftp.123rf.com from submit.123rf.com?

If you'd done so but the error still occurs,

kindly e-mail to [email protected].

Thank you.

~eRic~




 
 

Alex,
I think the problem is in the fact that many contributors (myself included) enjoyed a reasonably high approval percentage up until the last 4 or 5 months. Then it flipped to a very low percentage accompanied by lame / generic dismissal reasons.

While I experience a payout every (almost) month with 123, I certainly won't pull my port. However, I have completely halted uploads since a 100% rejection of a batch that had a 100% acceptance rate everywhere else. I also tried an experiment; I took my best selling 123 image (51 sales) and submitted it again - rejected for poor lighting....that alone tells me the reviewers are, at best, not "in touch" with what sells.

An appeal process simply doubles my workload and as you said, you agreed with the reviewers, so no real reason to go through that.

I will test the "submission" waters again in 6 months with another one of my top selling 123 images to see if reason has returned.

Maybe that's because they decommissioned that server.  The new one is at ftp.123rf.com.

I found this very frustrating.  They dropped communicating on their active forum in favor of a hit and miss dependence on TWITTER.   I hate Twitter.  Why should I have to read thru all that crap to find information about 123rf. 

USE YOUR OWN WEBSITE.  It works.   

1. who are you?  why are you speaking for Alex?  common courtesy dictates a 'new member' who WORKS for an agency should identify themselves, and not start leaving  msgs with no indication of your connections

2. why are YOU telling us this rather than Alex?  Alexeady stated he AGREES with his reviewers ridiculous mass rejections