I just got a rejection that I really don't understand:

"There are obvious hairs."

Anyone know what this means?

A loose hair on your subject or background?

Regards,
Adelaide

Stupid rejections, rude reasons for those rejections, a long time to get your images review, extra low sales, extra extra low commisions...in my books, a waste of time now days to upload to Crestock...it's a shame, but hey, as someone mention in this thread, if they keep it up, they will have to change the name to NOSTOCK!!! 

I feel very rejected by Crestock. I was an inspector for them for a year or more and now when I post on their forums, my posts are deleted. I am quite upset about it. I was not giving away any key secrets or "disclose details of personal employment with Crestock on a public forum" as stated. All I said is I wish I was inspecting still for Crestock as it was a good job to have. They let me go and I never got a reason why. Afterward I emailed several times asking why and got no response to why. My post can not be deleted on this site by them or many of the other microstock forums. I guess I am not welcome to post on Crestock forums without good reason. Not to mention my images that I uploaded are just dissapearing during their reviewing. They are not in my rejection folder or in my portfolio. I am sure this is just a coincidence that I am uploading and they are dissapearing.
After uploading, it shows they are pending then the same day I get a email saying they have been reviewed. Then they are simply NOT there.

Quote from: NewImage on November 28, 2008, 20:45
I feel very rejected by Crestock. I was an inspector for them for a year or more and now when I post on their forums, my posts are deleted. I am quite upset about it. I was not giving away any key secrets or "disclose details of personal employment with Crestock on a public forum" as stated. All I said is I wish I was inspecting still for Crestock as it was a good job to have. They let me go and I never got a reason why. Afterward I emailed several times asking why and got no response to why. My post can not be deleted on this site by them or many of the other microstock forums. I guess I am not welcome to post on Crestock forums without good reason. Not to mention my images that I uploaded are just dissapearing during their reviewing. They are not in my rejection folder or in my portfolio. I am sure this is just a coincidence that I am uploading and they are dissapearing.
After uploading, it shows they are pending then the same day I get a email saying they have been reviewed. Then they are simply NOT there.

Wow... And we in the funny matter used to call some other agency 'nazi' site ROFL!

I am reading about Crestock in hope that my decision to stop any business connection with them has to be rethinked. But, after I read this what they did to their own reviewer then I am sure my decision is final - no matter if Crestock becomes the hugest and most popular agency in the world. But, that is not even science fiction - that is quite impossible.

So, BYE BYE Crestock... I hope we'll never do any 'business' again!

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Quote from: vanias on October 26, 2008, 04:19
You are very kind Josh, but something is wrong with Crestock! They do not pay and do not answer!
Please tell me Crestock is not going down!
vanias.

Josh is continually on the forums here answering questions, on the forum on crestock, and also answers emails at josh at crestock dot com ...
I got my money a few days after requesting it.

What is your statement based on?

I dunno why, but a lot of people here like to dump on Crestock.

They complain about low acceptance rates when they know beforehand that Crestock can be quite particular about their imagery. They complain about 25c subscription commissions when the reality is that even if sub pricing was increased to (an industry high of) 40c, it wouldn't amount to even $100 in additional income per year for most people.

Crestock is not a high-volume agency, and your sales there are not going to significantly affect your income. Get over it already.

I'm not someone who complains on rejections infact I'm not going to complain even after I got 208 out of 208 rejected here. I've been doing this for just 10 months, i have lots to learn, so I can't really complain if a shot taken at f/11 with focus at infinity is rejected for "out of focus". Well, not one, a hundred of them. It means to me I have to learn to focus better, at infinity.

My only suggestion to the team is to  give more info on your rejections, some of them really don't make much sense, but at least I had a couple of good laughs

Thanks for your help and good luck.

I know, it sounds like I'm complaining... but... come on... out of focus... ah ah ah

Quote from: sharply_done on November 30, 2008, 00:42
I dunno why, but a lot of people here like to dump on Crestock.

They complain about low acceptance rates when they know beforehand that Crestock can be quite particular about their imagery. They complain about 25c subscription commissions when the reality is that even if sub pricing was increased to (an industry high of) 40c, it wouldn't amount to even $100 in additional income per year for most people.

Crestock is not a high-volume agency, and your sales there are not going to significantly affect your income. Get over it already.

like sharply_done says, Crestock is not the easiest site to get acceptance. in fact, i think it's more picky than IStock or even SS. 
I only send the best images to them. but with so little downloads, i don't even upload to them anymore.  You have to ask yourself if it's Crestock you really want to work with.
If you cannot get accepted by the other Top 6 , I think Crestock is best to stay out.

Again all rejects and I know for sure they are not bad .........
But hey they have another reject reason...... I'm not satisfy with this line.
"Due to a large amount of submissions of this nature, we can only accept those of the highest quality."

Why not say I like your pictures but if your not going exclusive with us we reject everything!!!!!!!
this is not fair...........
I think I will no longer upload here

Quote from: Fran on December 02, 2008, 18:51
I'm not someone who complains on rejections infact I'm not going to complain even after I got 208 out of 208 rejected here. I've been doing this for just 10 months, i have lots to learn, so I can't really complain if a shot taken at f/11 with focus at infinity is rejected for "out of focus". Well, not one, a hundred of them. It means to me I have to learn to focus better, at infinity.

My only suggestion to the team is to  give more info on your rejections, some of them really don't make much sense, but at least I had a couple of good laughs

Thanks for your help and good luck.

I know, it sounds like I'm complaining... but... come on... out of focus... ah ah ah

Well I have just stopped uploading to them, after having two batches almost completely rejected for "OOF" nonsense. Those photos were accepted by ALL the Big 6 and they are definitely NOT OOF! I have had enough of them. Although I had pretty frequent sales there, the sales were almost only subs and so I have decided CR are not worth my time and energy.

Just had a test, 100 % on my last batch, 2 weeks to process
don't really see their point they should switch to macro and increase $ if they have so high standards  !

Quote from: ldambies on December 12, 2008, 18:59
Just had a test, 100 % on my last batch, 2 weeks to process
don't really see their point they should switch to macro and increase $ if they have so high standards  !

100% accepted or 100% rejected ?

100 % rejected 

At least it sounds like there actually ARE someone who's reviewing images - at least ocassionally LOL

- As for the rejection percentatges of 100%, that must be becaurse they must have all categories fully covered by now. How much is thair current stock?  5-10-20 millions of images? 

I just noticed today, that todays best / worst images has not changed since I think it was last monday...  So it seems that there's more or less no one to look after the store....

The more I read and the more I wait for my first batch to get reviewed, the more I get the feeling that it's not worth the effort. A pitty though, becaurse the site and the concept seems pretty nice.. It's hard to understand why they are so determined not to get it up and running...

/Flemming

5-10-20 millions of images?  are u kidding me ??

That about 5-10-20 was sarcazm ;-)

They are handling their microscopic image base as they own the world market of stock images and that will kill their position there as well as many of us would not upload images on these standards with quarter of dollar revenue per download... As well as they sell microstock images then they should act as they are microstock... But, I think they would like to become the best agency with the best images in the world and selling them for $1... Your call, but there are agencies with much more buyers as well as with more standardized review where you are able to know which image will or will not pass that... On Crestock I got only frustration and feel of my inferiority as I am someone who is not even amateur... No matter that I am living form imagery production quite a while and I have quite nice and numerous portfolio on most agencies which is growing... Crestock gave me just full hand brake and frustration with quite a lot of lost time... I don't need that at all!

Hi,

same here. Uploaded a batch of 77, most of them among my bestsellers at the Big 5. Result: 100 % rejected. Ridiculous.

Hi all,

I just reciewed a nice rejection percentage of 100%   

105 images uploaded, all of them rejected. Many of them are in fact good enough for all other agencies, including Alamy. But aparently not for CRESTOCK!  L O L !! 

At the very least, it proves that there actually ARE some one working, even on weekends..

Must admit that I did'nt waste time on reading all of thair reasons for rejection... This I do know, I won't upload to crestock any time soon 

/Flemming

Just had a 100% rejection as well. 
If they re-reviewed all their accepted images under these standards, they would prolly have less than 1,000 files left. I know all of mine would be rejected.

LOOOL!

Well, maybe they actually ARE trying thair best to close down the site and scare all the contributor away LOOL   

I have 96 of 96 files,  100 % rejected today. My files are not so good but they are not so bad that other sites accepted them.

Crestock the 100 % rejection microstock agency:)

And there I was feeling defeated by my 90% Crestock rejection yesterday. I hadn't realised that a 10% acceptance rate had suddenly become something to aspire to! 

Sent one batch in. All accepted except 2, sent another batch in a couple of weeks later, all were rejected. 100% rejection is absurd. Not wasting my time with such a pathetic outfit.