I believe there is an agreement with iStock/Getty

Thank you, I appreciate the feedback. I figured that may be the case as I get a lot of partner sales through iStock.

Well, the 10 I uploaded today are now showing up, but the other 40 I had in queue still needing data are not.

Also nothing shows up under the "accepted or rejected" tabs at all, even though there are photos in my portfolio. /facepalm.

This is what my page looks like:

Just checked again, 2am EST, and I can now access the site... though now I am off to bed. =/

I was uploading last night and again earlier today, but atm I can't connect to the site.

I'm getting a long delay in attempting to connect and then

"This webpage is not available
ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT"

Other than the issue I posted yesterday about having half of my FTP uploaded files not show up on the site, another issue I have noticed - no e-mails regarding inspected files. I have had 65 photos accepted and 3 rejected, but the only reason I know is because I logged in  to the site to check to see if they had been reviewed.

There is no explanation on the site why the three were rejected and since I didn't receive an e-mail explaining why, I can only assume... and that in itself confuses me, since two of the rejected files are decent sellers elsewhere, one of them has sold over 65 times.

I have also had a few photos rejected by the system (both FTP and site upload) for being too small a file size... again an issue that baffles me. The files are from a 10mp camera and sell as a large file on other sites.

Is there something I am missing or since I don't have much invested here yet, should I not waste my time?

Thanks for any insight more experienced folks with this site can give me!

Can you select the range you want the stats from under 'My Statistics' and click the Export CSV file to export the data into a spreadsheet?

Bob,

Thanks as always for the reply and the great add-on. I don't blame you for waiting, with all the changes going on, you would end up spending all your time making updates to it.

Now, do you think you could come up with a nice little app to push updates to my Blackberry whenever I get a sale. In hindsight, I wish I would have bought a andriod phone over this BB.

Quote from: Blufish on August 24, 2010, 09:56

I'm not saying that either is correct or wrong. I'm just adding in the info of what I've  read on recent rejections, along with the seemingly lack of communications with the contributor by IS. I think I would be a lot less reasonable than who posted this if this happened to me.

Yeah, I've read some of these horror stories too, but I've also been treated fairly in my dealings with IS. So, it makes it hard to know whether these stories are entirely accurate. I can't speak to this particular contributor, but it's definitely a scary thought if they really did nothing wrong.

I am with cthoman on this one. I have been on iStock since Aug. 2007, but just got serious with my portfolio last summer and made exclusive a few months ago. I have had to contact support a ton of times over the years and have only ever been treated fairly. They aren't always as prompt as I would like, but with the number of people on the site it could be worse too and I do always get a response.

As for the accusations, I too would love to hear both sides of the story (which I am sure will never happen) before judging. I was curious why the OP hasn't returned with his images/illustrations. I just checked his profile and he hasn't been on since the 24th, which is the same day Microbius posted asking if he would post them.

Warren,

Base Level contributors can upload 18 images during a 1 week period.

Is this IStock you are referring to and if so, have they recently changed something? It was always 15 uploads per week for base level/non-exclusives. I don't recall reading a change, though it wouldn't have effected me now any way.

Eireann ...

Yes, I'm definitely going to hold off... I thank you for your advice.  And no, I never did submit the aloe vera one.  Maybe I will use that for my isolation.

Oh, and I found the official wait times for reapplying, I guess if I get rejected this time it will be 90 days.. then 180.. then 1 year !  I'm gonna post below for anyone wanting the info:

attempt 1:  3
attempt 2:  7
attempt 3:  14
attempt 4:  30      ---- ( I am here)
attempt 5:  90         3 months
attempt 6:  180       6 months
attempt 7:  365       1 very long year

Good luck the 808state. Just keep in mind, it could have been worse in the beginning. It could be like Shutterstock where every time you are not accepted it is a 30 day wait to try again.

The best advice I can give is what I used, read the critique forum as much as possible and bounce ideas and your images off the folks in that forum. There are some very helpful people in there.

I am still relatively new with just hitting 100 uploads and 64 downloads, but I just recently added a few lightboxes and links to the lightboxes withing my photos.

I am curious to see if it helps or not. Only time will tell.