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Something seems to be going on at SX, for the first time in a year I've got 6 of 6 photos rejected by them, this for me is really out of the ordinary, I don't  have a huge portfolio with them only about 170+ photos, but up to this moment minimum rejections, is this going to be a new trend for the site? FOOLISH REJECTIONS!!!...since the only reason for the rejections they give is "we have too many of that subject", mind you, some of the pictures where of a Purple Gallinule, a native bird of the Florida's Everglades, please, how many of those has anyone seen on a picture there?...if they're going to start with foolish rejections they should also consider that most of the commissions they're paying to contributors lately are 0.30 subscriptions, so to contribute to a site that rejects for no obvious reasons and pay 0.30 for full size pictures, I'm the one beginning to feel like a fool uploading there anymore.

Thanks, stu99 for the update on pictures of the Purple Gallinule, and the lack of sales of such photos on SX and IS, but those where only 2 pictures out of the 6, the other four where already accepted at 123 and CanStockPhoto + a couple of other smaller agencies with no problem, it just seem very weird that they where all rejected...I guess I'll upload a few more and wait and see what develops, before I make a final decission about SX.

Best regards.

Apart from those "we are not looking for this type of image", I find StockXpert rejections generally very reasonable.  If they are technically good images, maybe you should write support?

Regards,
Adelaide

FYI: Checked this morning and the 2 pictures of the Purple Gallinule where accepted in 2 sites + 3 of the other ones rejected by SX...

Best regards.

Dreamstime. Looks like one person uploaded most of them, taken on the same day at the same place.   http://tinyurl.com/c37tlp

StockXpert - all four images, http://www.stockxpert.com/browse_image/search/text/Purple%20Gallinule

BS - Hey look same pictures. http://www.bigstockphoto.com/search.php?photo_name=Purple+Gallinule&x=18&y=11

FT - 27 and some nice different pictures, http://tinyurl.com/cpl53v

I'd think that StockXpert would like to have your images for some variety and offer customers more choices.

if these are your images, you already have 9 dls with that set to start at DT.
why do you worry about StockXpert?

No m@m, not just only you. A few people have already grumbled about their mass rejections lately .Atilla must be working for StockXpert nowadays   

Same thing here. Until about a week ago, they accepted almost 100% of what I uploaded. The last week, they've rejected 19 out of 20. The one they accepted was one of four similars, and they didn't even pick the best one  

Seems like the reviews are finally going the same way as sales at StockXpert. I'm amazed how they've been able to ruin what used to be a very well run agency less than a year ago. Incompetence at the highest level, but I'm sure the management will be rewarded with some mega size bonuses before they are thrown out  

for the first time i had 10/10 rejected at stockxpert, even at shutterstock 7 of those 10 were accepted. Normally it was the other way around.
I think i have to try harder in the future!

Yes I did Flemish, but they still rejected it...they said that they had enough of those too...  

You'll be surprise about that, just on DT a similar photo was DL 9 times, and on some other big sites as well...look you just never know what photo may be  needed in the design world, thats what I do for a living, so trust me I know...

BTW, I got this today from StockXpert support:

We are changing our reviewing process in order to meet different market segment demands. From now on we will have a stricter approach to various subject matters and only the best will be approved. The main reasons are that we have an abundance of the same subjects (more or less) so this will encourage our contributors to concentrate on the type of images that our clients are looking for. This will potentially help with your sales as well as image views and in the long run help with review times.

 

Thank you for your understanding,

I don't understand the "abundance" thing, unless it is very, very overabundant.  Newer images tend to be taken in newer equipment, with better quality and larger sizes (not as a rule, but we have all improven these years, haven't we?).  New images give the site a fresh portfolio - new approaches, new faces. 

It would make more sense to limit the number of images in the same series.  Not rarely we see 10 or more images with the same setup and very small differences.

Regards,
Adelaide

they took one, wow ! 
what say we all tell the now Getty owned StockXpert that we too have "enough of this subject", so we don't need them either? 

what a way to kill a once excellent site. The new anal StockXpert reviewers need an enema !