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For those of you that contact Scout to have a rejected file re-inspected, how long have you waited for a response?

And would you do it again?

I have a file that was rejected for "we did not find this file suitable as stock".  I believe that the IS inspectors made a big mistake on this one.  This image has done extremely well at other stock sites and I was wondering if it is worth the effort (and wait) of using Scout.

Four weeks?  That's good, I had one took four months.

Recently though scout has been quicker - four weeks is about what my last request took I think.

But as said, it's not any effort, so you should put it in.  What have you got to lose?

I´ve had around 90% accepted after re-inspection.  It feels like they batch-reject sometimes without looking.  It´s definitly worth it.

It always they long, sometimes a couple of months.

As people say that the age of an image affects its positioning in a search result, it's been said here that is better to resubmit and hope for another inspector to pick it.  Otherwise the image is considered "old" by the search tool and, with no/little views and sales, it is sent to the back of a search.

I think this story is older than many of the search engine changes, so I don't know if it is still valid.

I've waited for 6 months for a decision before. I think legal issues take a lot longer than technical ones to make a decision on which is understandable.

From past experience though, images overturned scout don't come in as old images, they have the same best match positioning as anything that's passed normal inspection at the same time!

The easiest thing is to read the reviewer's remarks carefully, and if you believe in the shot and you're allowed to resubmit, just process it all over and resubmit by the resubmit button. I would never reupload an image that has been rejected without addressing the issues. Sometimes those issues are very easy to correct, like an off-keyword or a brand name that wasn't cloned out. If the reviewer believes in the image, he will even attach a screenshot of the problematic area, something that other sites never do.

It takes 4-5 weeks at least in my experience. However, I checked a couple of my images in the best match search after acceptance and their position was not bad at all. They wer on the second page out of 15 or so pages of results. Later I have sold these images 3-4 times in the last few weeks.