I'm celebrating because this morning, I awoke to discover that I had reached payout on DT for the first time! I've been uploading there since April 9 of last year. If you're interested in my stats:
Uploaded files: 641
Total sales: 112
Acceptance ratio: 47%*
*I think they go way overboard on rejections because of the "too many similar images" thing. For example, they approved this one...
...and rejected this one because it's similar...
I'll be the first to admit that they're similar because I used the same cell phone image, but one says "Christmas," and the other says "Phone." I would say that they're
dissimilar enough to approve both. The friendly folks at Fotolia are of a "similar" mindset (bad pun intended) because they approved both.
Oddly enough, the inspectors at SS didn't approve any of the cell phone photos I sent to them because of copyright violation issues, even though I removed every vistige of brand names and logos. They're the only ones.