Ok, thanks very much for your reply. 

I am very low on DT this month as well - so far they have been outsold by Fotolia, Deposit, CanStock and even BigStock.  Last month was not good either.

Hi there and welcome to stock,

If you have a look at my blog you will see a link to all my income stats since I started in 2008, with the portfolio size given next to the income. 

http://stockcube-stockcube.blogspot.co.uk/

ps - I have not updated October's stats yet, will do that tonight.

There is no rhyme or reason for it - it is just poor decision making.  When I look back through my Veer rejection list it is full of images that are best-sellers elsewhere.  Veer could have had those images, could have been making money from them, but have chosen not to.

Hi - I have not been able to access lightburner for a couple of days now - the login page is badly formatted in a '1997' sort of way and although the 'login' button changes colour when I press it, nothing happens ie the info isn't sent and the next page doesn't load.
When I could access it I found that some of the channels that used to work don't anymore - the ones that don't work for me are Veer, Deposit, Fotolia.
Cheers

I gave up on iStock for ethical reasons.  I haven't uploaded there since I dropped exclusivity and have been deleting some so that they don't get sent to Thinkstock against my will.

I recently closed my accounts at 123RF (again for ethical reasons - the way they handled the recent commission cut was appalling), and also Crestock, for the reasons others have said - they seemed to wish to teach me how to be a stock photographer via their inspection process, when I am doing just fine elsewhere thanks very much.  And they only made me $6 in two years.  Only good thing in fact was that they offered to pay me the $6 when I asked to close the a/c without me having to ask.

But Sean, he can't have!  He is the guy with no overheads - duh!

So you have no money whatsoever with which to market the site?  If you think you will passively sell images from your site without marketing it then you are very mistaken.  I am sorry, but you are wasting our time and your own.  RF stock is very big business now - you missed the boat on amateurs making a killing a long time ago - that one sailed with Bruce Livingstone.  Perhaps you saw what his old company sold for the other day?

If you think about the system then it encourages these sort of rejections.  Reviewers are not going to be called onto the carpet for rejecting something they shouldn't have, whereas they might well if they accept something that is later ridiculed publicly (thinking of the famous toilet door lock shot fiasco at iStock Agency Collection). 

Nine times out of ten we don't even complain when a perfectly good image is rejected - a lot of us won't even bother resubmitting as it is too much trouble.  Shutterstock aren't bothered - they have far too many images to be able to present them properly to the buyers as it is - if your models don't have that toothy 'Yuried' look then why wouldn't they just hit the reject button?

And I agree, I think the reviewer will make up their mind with the first image in a batch and reject/accept accordingly.  It is quicker that way.  I doubt they are paid much and are probably on what we in the UK call 'piece rate' ie the more they review the more they get paid.

Dashboard is still broken, I haven't been able to see how many sales I haven't had for many days either.  It is very poor that this hasn't been addressed yet.

I would agree with what Lisa says - I don't want to upload a lot of images of the same model at the same time - it is far better to stagger these out over time, but the photodune method of handling releases is very frustrating and prevents that uploading system.  On other sites the releases are uploaded via a separate stream to a holding area.  When you upload there is an option to link the image to a release held in your releases folder.  A simple click and it is done.  Any chance you could change the photodune system? 

I would make good use of the 'comments' box when submitting to explain this as fully as you can.  I have found SS inspectors to take a very reasonable approach when in full possession of the facts - otherwise they are bound to be cautious - just because they don't recognise a mobile phone doesn't mean it has been 'made up'