I�m now quite sure my photos are no longer reviewed by a human but by a digital programme.
I uploaded about 40 pictures over the last week, all in batches of 3 or 4 pictures, and they were reviewed within one (ONE!) minute or two minutes, but never waiting for more than two minutes for review.
And all got rejected.
Several reasons, always the same reason for the whole batch.
I�m quite sure no human was involved in that process.
So I now stopped uploading. A rejection rate of 100 % makes me step out now.
And the other agencies (Bigstock, Dreamstime, Adobe, iStock, deposit) all had no problems with those pictures and accepted them.
That�s GOODBYE Shutterstock for me.

Oh I nearly forgot: I uploaded 4 editorial pictures (same settings as the non editorial, but with tourists in it I have no release for). Those pictures took about 3 days to be reviewed and were all ACCEPTED!!! - so there a human was involved I guess).

I defenately give up with SS for now.
My 95 % approval rate changed to 95% rejection rate over the last 10 days.

Most images were rejected for "lens dust" and I removed every oh so small spot I could discover, uploaded the images for a second time and then got a rejection for poor quality instead ( "using auto-focus or poor camera sensor"). Well , I work with a Sony A7RII with a 42 MP full frame sensor. If this is a poor sensor I simply give up with SS.

Can�t say anything about CANstock since they rejected my application 
My pics have no potential for sale they told me. *rofl*

The only agency that ever rejected my application.

So they must have quite different buyers compared to ADOBE and SS cause my pics sell quite well with those two agencies....

I always loose a few keywords with SS.
I tag my pics with exactly 49 keywords each (in LR).
After uploading I often discover that my SS pics only have 45 oder 46 keywords.
Seems a normal policy with SS.

As long as the copyright holder (photographer) himself does not tell us the pic was misused without buying a license I assume the license was paid for and there is no misuse.

As we all (hopefully) understood this is NOT an iStock image but a plain picture (hopefully bought) which later on was altered with a watermark assuming it was an iStock picture.
And buyers have the right to alter pictures as we all know....

Write a mail to costumer service desk - and you�ll get another mail with the code from them. I lost mine as well.

I had files on the Deposit uploading account (which I uploaded via picworkflow) queueing for ages and not beeing moved further to the inbox.
I then started uploading to Deposit with an FTP uploader (File Zilla) and that works perfect. Files go smoothly to the uploaded box nearly the same minute I upload them.

I had 300 accepted and never received the code

I never got mine (or it went into SPAM). i just sent them a mail at customer service and got my code. Was very easy to use on my existing account.

I earned the unbelieveable amount of 59 Dollars for one picture in december on Deposit!!! (so the buyer must have paid around 166 Dollars for my picture).

I had only a very few sales with less than 3 $ altogether on Deposit before and couldn�t believe my eyes when the mail came in telling me I earned 59 Dollars

Made the payout right away and got the money just before christmas 

I�ve been submitting pics directly to microstock agencies like SS, Adobe and Alamy for a year now.

I recently signed a contract with easyfotostock (part of agefotostock) in Spain and now discovered they sell my pictures on Alamy using their own pseudonym as photographer to be credited. Meaning my name will not be credited on those sales, although I have the copyright.

I didn�t know they use affiliate programmes and I couldn�t choose any of the affiliates as well. I also can�t delete my pictures on their site.

I want to sell my pics directly not through that agency and I will terminate my contract now.

Is this common? Do agencies sell pictures they don�t have the copyright on under their own name with no credits or mentioning the copyright holder?

I always thought I own my copyright and have to be mentioned when selling through stock angencies.... Am I wrong?

I wrote to Alamy about that subject but they responded I have to talk about that with agefotostock, they use the pseudonym given with the photo.

http://www.selling-stock.com/Article/age-launches-easyfotostock

Example:
my picture with my name
https://www.alamy.de/panorama-der-alpinen-seebersee-see-mit-dem-hohen-anstieg-der-berge-der-texelgruppe-im-hintergrund-in-der-nahe-der-timmelsjoch-alpine-strasse-in-image331811536.html

And this is how they sell it
https://www.alamy.de/panorama-der-alpinen-seebersee-see-mit-dem-hohen-anstieg-der-berge-der-texelgruppe-im-hintergrund-in-der-nahe-der-timmelsjoch-alpine-strasse-in-image338042263.html

I started submitting to EyEm and discovered that problem after two days as well. I was able to upload all kinds of pics of other useres making a screen shot.
I then decided I do not want this for my pictures- deleted all my pictures and left EyEm for good.