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You're not alone.  There is much anger and angst in the "rejection explosion" thread.  The threat of "expulsion" is live and well.   

That's an extraordinary accusation to make on a public forum. I've had a quick scan down my last 100 sales and I have plenty of L, XL and XXL sales. I also had 4 EL's on the trot too, 2 at 100 credits, one at 90 and another at 50.

Personally I see little evidence for this but it would have been easy enough to check your concerns by simply buying a file or two of someone you know.

Fotolia have always proved very efficient in their communication for me, plus I have more M-XXL size sales than I do S or subs.

Add to that the regular sales and they are one of my best sites.

I cannot speak like an expert on experience with Fotolia as I just decided to give them some images in Nov. 2008. All I can say is I agree with most who said that the unfair rejections and Fotolia fudging with our sales are not justified and not proven.
Mostly due , no doubt, to your frustrations of perharps, i say again perhars, as i don't know, being getting too many rejections.
But from the consensus here so far, you see it is not true. In a short time I have made sales  with only 22 images up till February. Sure, the commissions are small, but I sold a bit  for 20 images. Other sites I had to have 100 images before even getting sales. For this reason, I have  tripled  my portfolio with Fotolia in the past months  (69 files today) during the harshest winter we have here in Halifax. I feel confident that my now larger portfolio is going to get me more sales than when I started. I also took every single rejection reason by Fotolia, and took them seriously, and made sure I did not repeat the same mistake for rejections.
This day, they have accepted almost all my uploads. Of course, I am more critical with myself.  You should not take that as defeatism and negativism. Accept the reality of the rejections and shoot better pictures. You will find Fotolia is not out to get you. Believe me.

P.S.
This past weekend I have about 100 images waiting to be post processed and to be submitted for Fotolia in the next few weeks during my weekend breaks from my freelance work .

That may be so, but the only rejections I've had from Fotolia these 3 months were reasonable .
1) I missed out a part in my isolation.
2) I forgot to insert my MR
3) image with little commercial prospect. which I agree, as it was pretty crazy idea. (4) non conformity.

All else have been approved. How else would I have one short of 70 images, from 22 ?

I get ticked off at Fotolia too sometimes.  Actually at one time or another nearly all the sites have done something that worried, bothered, or upset me. 

But to accuse them of cooking the books is something you should have proof of before airing it publicly.  It is, after all, a CRIME you are accusing them of. 

Add me to the list of people that is getting all sized downloads including XXL and EL.  In fact, Fotolia was a strong number two in my sales last month and I had my 2nd BME ever there. 

I see no change in the pattern that would give any credence to this theory at all.

I'm not seeing that at all and have just about 100% acceptance in the last 6 months.  Maybe they have a rogue reviewer that I've been lucky enough to avoid.  Saying that a lot of the people that are complaining about rejections post their images in the forums and quite honestly 90% of the images would be lucky to get accepted anywhere.

in any kind of business, once you start to lose your objectivity, or drive, it's good to quit for a bit.
if that drive is extinguished, you won't come back to Fotolia or any sites here. if you do however,
it could bring you new insights like having recharged your battery.
from the way you sound, you do sound defeated, and it will do you good to take a break.

good luck.

I suggest you exercise your need to "vent" privately.  Freedom of speech does not extend to accusations that may damage someone else's reputation.  If you were submitting to a site I owned and called me a thief publicly I would be well within my rights to pull your account and might well do so.

fred

I thought I could see the same problem a few months ago but then I realised the larger size are now sold under subscription (usually or even always - not sure - L size). So I have mostly XS, S and SUBs :-(
Or maybe not - I have just sold one file for 5 credits...
But I really do not think they would sell L size and report it as XS... It would be a very stupid thing to do...

Yes, I agree with Milinz,
Fotolia is alive and well, I just sold another one this morning.

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I am not saying we should accuse fotolia of anything because it is wrong, but they always tend to do things that upset contributors..