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Reading this thread that Crestock didn't change its habitual weird rejection policy at all, I wonder about the same. When Thinkstock came up with its 0.25$ commissions, there seemed to be a consensus not to upload there. Yet they (or at least some) are (re-)considering Crestock with... 0.25$ commissions.  

I mean, it's probably OK for the big guys (and gals) that can have significant earnings by the mere size and quality of their port (on condition it's accepted), but not so for us regulars with 1K images or less. At least the wise Elena won't hold her breath... 

  I submitted a request to remove my account and got a long letter back supposedly from the CEO, asking me to keep my images there and give them a chance. I wrote back that I would be willing to keep the few images that they had there for a while, and see what happened, but if the same inspection team was in place, i would not be uploading any new images. I got a reply back from the same guy a few hours later saying that the same reviewers will still be reviewing, and defending the prior reviews. They went so far as to say that i had a better acceptance rate than most. Since I had only sent images that had been approved all all the other sites, this sounds more like an acceptance rate that leads the review process, not the other way around.
I think these guys must have no idea what a damaged and hated brand name crestock is by the contributors.

How do you find this stuff? You've got too much time on your hands!

I don't hate Crestock at all. They have been a good little earner for me. I think I've only had like a couple of rejections from them.
I can understand why they are disliked by people getting more rejections, but I also understand why they are trying to keep the collection focused, as one of the main buyer complaints is the amount of stuff they need to trawl through to find what they want.

The only thing that really improved to Crestock is their review time, considerably shorter than 1-2 years ago. I started to upload a few images recently just to test the waters but their random rejections are still the same. Not worth (yet?)!

Yes and pretty ugly one (in my opinion).

I just came here to mention their logo! I liked their old one! The new one is so amateur-like!

Wow... that logo... I'm stunned (and not in a good way).

I havent looked around crestock in ages and was bored at work did find some interesting things

quote from changes for contributing artists

Pricing for vector images and subscriptions
By stevepigeon on Tuesday, 21 September 2010 4:41 PM
In response to the "guest" query on Sep 18, we are reviewing all the pricing on Crestock and, among other things, have determined to increase the price for vector files. This should take effect within a few weeks as we are making a number of changes to the website.

Additionally, we are looking at subscriptions both in terms of the prices charged to clients and the royalties paid to contributors.

Steve Pigeon, Chariman - Crestock Corporation, Toronto

a change in subs would be nice hopefully make it worthwhile to start uploading again and although it was rare that I got the mass rejections when I was uploading there

from their forum

As you probably already know but just in case you are unaware, Crestock was purchased by Masterfile Corporation on July 1, 2010.  Please review the following announcements from the Crestock blog.
The new management is currently reviewing the editing protocol and the rejection reasons that the previous owners were using.  The editing team was recently instructed to stop using the rejection reason you pointed out and others that we find unsuitable.  We hope to make many improvements to the editing process in the near future.  The images you have pointed out are images that were rejected in 2009.

Susan Morissette - Crestock Content Management

although Steve Pigeon does say at a couple of points 'our standards are high and we intend to keep them that way'.

I'm still waiting for them to raise subs commissions.  It doesn't take a genius to work out that $0.25 for a site with low sales and high rejections isn't enough.  It would be so nice to re-activate my portfolio and get some sales going there but until they raise subs commissions, I would much rather subs buyers went elsewhere.

I sold a few images by credits. But there are 3 or 4 images maximum. The 20% commission they pay us is waaaay too low.