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...
![](http://www.dreamstime.com/generic-slide-cell-phone-thumb21048297.jpg)
...and rejected this one because it's similar...
![](http://t2.ftcdn.net/jpg/00/35/18/33/400_F_35183383_L0qmzyAvAZUqgPV6vkdbgZVgE2wRC1wN.jpg)
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.
![Tongue :P](https://www.microstockgroup.com/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)