Author Topic: Annoyed (Read 4033 times)

bobkeenan · « **on:** May 16, 2010, 09:33 »

I have been doing this long enough now that I have seen this a few times, but it always bugs me.

I did a recent shoot and had about 50 images that I thought I would upload. I picked the 10 best and uploaded them to the big 4 and some others.

Shutterstock took all of them within a couple days and I had a few sales of of them withing a few days.

Same set at Fotolia took about 8 days to review. ALL were rejected?@#$%$#@ Most due to poor quality?

At Shutterstock I sell 1-6 images a day. Fotolia about 1 every couple of weeks.

Hmmmmm may be time to give up on this site. I will probably stick with them till I get my first payment and then pull out.

FD · « **Reply #1 on:** May 16, 2010, 09:55 »

They rejected this one and this one (on iStock) today. It took only 1-2 hours to get the red bullet. I have no idea why, I never managed to find the reject reasons on their site. I have no intention (any more) to quit them. If they want it, it's fine. If they don't want it, that's fine too.

lagereek · « **Reply #2 on:** May 16, 2010, 11:52 »

ever stopped to think that it might be poor quality. In any event, having files reviewed over a weekend at SS, you for sure get their weekend staff and boy! theyre not too creative or rather "dont know"

stockastic · « **Reply #3 on:** May 16, 2010, 13:15 »

For whatever reasons - Fotolia always accepted 90% of my stuff, but my sales there very low compared with IS, SS and DT. I recently closed the account - too many weird things going on with credits and prices, and I don't trust all the shady "partners".

cascoly · « **Reply #4 on:** May 16, 2010, 13:24 »

Quote from: lagereek on May 16, 2010, 11:52

ever stopped to think that it might be poor quality. In any event, having files reviewed over a weekend at SS, you for sure get their weekend staff and boy! theyre not too creative or rather "dont know"

many people have reported the same pattern:
SS, DT accept images AND they sell - FT & 123 reject those images for oor quality and don't sell as many of the ones they do accept

which agency are you going to believe? the one that rejets en masse and sells little, or the one who accepts and actually produces results? individuals will have different anecdotes, so it's worth a try, but the weakest conclusion is that the rejectors know better

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ap · « **Reply #5 on:** May 16, 2010, 13:37 »

Quote from: bobkeenan on May 16, 2010, 09:33

Shutterstock took all of them within a couple days and I had a few sales of of them withing a few days.

Same set at Fotolia took about 8 days to review. ALL were rejected?@#$%$#@ Most due to poor quality?

i think this has to do more with subject matter and style rather than the quality of the pictures. my acceptance at ft has risen from 30 to almost 100% once i hit some subjects that they liked, but which were rejected by other places like ss. in fact, i have some photos rejected everywhere except at ft.

lagereek · « **Reply #6 on:** May 16, 2010, 14:16 »

Frankly, I would trust the IS reviewers far more then the others, longer in the game and more experienced. The Fotolia inspection is pretty good as well, IMO.

Microbius · « **Reply #7 on:** May 16, 2010, 15:12 »

I would never be led by what is accepted or sells at SS. Never forget that they market the site based almost exclusively on the total number of images and that the marginal cost to the customer of downloading an image is nil.

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