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Send them an email and ask for them to be reviewed again.  I think they are sometimes far to strict with this.  As a contributor, I have a hard time working out which image will appeal most to the buyers.  The other sites seem more lenient and let the buyers decide which image from a series suits their needs.  That seems sensible to me.

Not only far too strict, but also far too inconsistent. As we've seen in examples posted here at MSG, there are tons of examples where you would be hard-pressed to even be able to spot the difference between images, where a contributor uploaded (and got accepted) a dozen or even two on the very same subject.

Perhaps you're right; I hope so. But, based on the OP, it seems they need to find some "happy medium" between the two extremes. Hopefully they will get there.

I just had a couple of images rejected for the same reason, very annoying. The image has the same prop as in some of my earlier photos, but the concept and composition of the images are different. Can't they understand the concept of "similar"? It's not similar if the concept and the composition are different. And I'm not talking about moving the camera an inch, I'm talking about radically different compositions.

I already nagged earlier when they wouldn't accept a horizontal and vertical composition of the same subject, now they want me to shoot just one image per concept/prop. I can't afford to get me a new prop for every  picture. 1000 photos - that's 1000 props and 1000 new ideas!

I don't like the way DT is going. They lack the earlier relaxed atmosphere, they sell less than before and their pricing structure is so confusing that I don't even try to understand it anymore.

I'd agree. I don't think I can even be bothered to upload to DT anymore. It has simply become more hassle than it is worth for the ever-dwindling returns and the frustration of having perfectly good stock images rejected simply because there was more than one or two from the same shoot.

I'd love to be able to spot the one image from a series that will be most popular but the truth is that nobody can and indeed the performance of individual images varies hugely between agencies. My business model pretty much relies on getting 3-6 images from a shoot to be economically worthwhile. A couple of years ago I remember Serban actually expressing disbelief on the forums why anybody who has a Downloads-per-image of 4 or higher wasn't uploading as many images as they could.

Same thing .

11 images  of a collection of related objects - not a series, or similar, but actually a set that I'd carefully put together so they could be bought in groups and tiled together as desired.  And the descriptions explained that.   DT accepted the first one, just to mess with my head I guess. The remaining 10 sat in the queue for another day, then were rejected.  

SS accepted all 11 and has already sold a few.  

As a follow-up, I was told that I had too many images incorporating my little wooden men as human-stand-ins (regardless of concepts), and that I needed to diversify into other areas. 

So, in summary, I'm in the same boat of being able to use one prop for only one image ... good grief.  Not very realistic, but apparently this is their reality.  I feel sorry for the poor chap that has to cross-reference everyone's files to see if they've submitted any photo with that particular prop.  I try not to use similar names for files (object+date), but maybe I should start naming them via concept instead of subject.

I think I'll submit my images again, but I'll remove exif data and keyword a bit weakly so the other images in the series won't pop up. Alternatively I could remove some keywords from my earlier images and add them afterwards.

Thanks so much! 

As for the exif info, these shots weren't taken in the same series, or the same date, or anything the same other than my wooden guys.  Shrug, the loopholes we need to jump through just to get a few images approved to get our .05$... Well, at least I understand this loophole a little better. 

And Gostwyck, I was wondering the same thing as there are several contributors out there that only use one or two main figures for their images.  I guess I just need to get more creative. 

This doesn't seem like a good policy for the contributors or the buyers.  DT must be losing a small fortune doing this.  I just can't understand why?  They might want to make DT different from the other sites but I think this makes them much worse, not better.  They could accept series of images and only put one in the main collection, with a link to the other alternatives.  Taking the choice away from the buyers and making it frustrating for us isn't going to work.  If they want to keep their position as one of the top sites, I think they need to make changes quickly.

same here, they are being pretty strict but in fact I agree a little with them..! In my case was a picture of two signs (accepted), then I upload not a crop but just 1 of those signs, so they said that the designer can crop from the other previous photo, but honestly he won't have a "big" size, instead of 10megas it would have like 5...

Thanks Randy for the feedback!  At least now I know they're not banned forever, lol.  So, they're off to a nice vacation, and I'm off searching in my creativity box for my next idea.  I can certainly understand why the reviewers could be tired of seeing the same props over and over; it didn't occur to me that only one or two people might be reviewing my photos.  I'll try to mix it up better in the future.