Never mind commission rates, which stock agency is best and so on - as far as my 'career' as a stock photographer goes, it's a non-starter. Shutterstock doesn't even allow me to register, never mind getting past QC and actually selling anything. I completed the first part of the application, filled out the usual details and requested a confirmation email to be sent but the 'confirm registration' email never arrived. I checked I'd not made a mistake with my email address and tried again and again but still no email. I tried Alamy but never got past QC so after several failed attempts (and each failure means the next batch will take weeks to be assessed), I gave up. The last rejection reason was 'orientation' - I was a bit mystified by that so had a scout around to see if anyone else had suffered a similar rejection and came across an Alamy forum where it was alleged there was a problem with the CS5 orientation tag not being read by Alamy software - something like that. I can't remember the exact details. Time to move on I think.....