Has anyone ever experienced, or know of anyone who has experienced this? I am just wondering. It has not happened to me but as I am going to be investing more into my microstock efforts, I want to just investigate if there is any possibility of this happening, thanks.

Always a possibility if you violate the terms of service.  Upload stolen work for example.

Other than that why would they close your account?

Being domiciled in Iran, probably.

Thanks for the info thus far. Seems as long as you're operating straight, they will treat you straight. So no one has heard of anyone being booted for no real reason?

I know it seems like a silly question, but I come from an industry where such things do happen when there is no contract.

Thanks for the info thus far. Seems as long as you're operating straight, they will treat you straight. So no one has heard of anyone being booted for no real reason?

I know it seems like a silly question, but I come from an industry where such things do happen when there is no contract.

I haven't heard of that happening with them.  I would also say that in as much as possible be reasonably respectful when you speak about an agency. I think SS has shown a strong resolve with some of the posts in here and I TOTALLY commend them for that. However, agencies like FOTOLIA WILL boot you if you speak poorly of them. While they are an agency known for their unfair (and I am being nice here) business practices, they don't like to be criticized and will close your account for no reason other than they can't take the heat.  I assume if you are going to go with SS that you'd also upload to other micros, that's why I forewarn you on this.

One last thing. I would read their TOS or at least breeze through them to see the do's and don'ts. For example, if an image is rejected and you resubmit it without a note informing the inspector it is a resubmit, you can be cited. This means you could get a formal warning on your account. Three warnings and you are out. I have one warning for bickering in a thread.....I told some dude that I thought he might wake up with Liberace on New Years Day and that's all it took for a forum ban and an account warning. I've been squeaky clean ever since. Also, SS does not like contributors discussing royalty specifics in forums. You need to be relatively generic in your posts. I suppose that you could get a warning for that, too, but I don't know of anyone who has.

SS isn`t FT

Or DP

Never leave any raster layers in EPS files when uploading, regardless of whether they're related to the vector itself or not.
I know a contributor who got banned for that without a chance to even discuss it.

I know one spanish person with photos of gift box images with "ferrero Moncheris Desingn" who Shutter close his account an get his money.

He take make first and last mistake an in one day his account was closed... did not act in bad faith but forget erase original box design

So there are a couple of things going on here.

1. SS reviewers don't catch every copyright. How can they?
2. You say what he/she shot. How many other copyright designs did this person have. I suspect there is more going on here than one image that squeaked by. Perhaps he was knowingly and intentionally trying to pepper his/her work with copyrighted material and if so that is a violation of TOS

I know one spanish person with photos of gift box images with "ferrero Moncheris Desingn" who Shutter close his account an get his money.

He take make first and last mistake an in one day his account was closed... did not act in bad faith but forget erase original box design

"ferrero Moncheris Desingn" as editorial is allowed i thought?
Or not?

stealing other ppl's work is definitely the fastest way. using them as a whole or composite into your own work.
i remember also having read that consistenly getting rejections could be another one.
re-submitting a previously rejected image is yet another .

as already mentioned, why would any agency want to lose you? not unless u are not making $ for them.

the point re uncle yuri, IKEA,etc.. may be true, may not. but it's yes, then the previous point i made (if u make $ for them) holds even more water than ever.

Whatever niggles folks may have from time to time SS is far and away the most professional agency out there.

Totally agree.

@disorderly @roede-orm

just do a selftest

Roede-Orm, you are european, right?
And do you sell also over other agencies?
Do these other agencies ask for a credit like "[email protected]" or something similar?

These three things are the requrements to make a sucessfull self test.
If you dare to do one, let me know and i will tell you what to do.
Then you will have the proof very soon ....

Do you think i am so stupid to give SS  the chance to check my identity if they threatened me several times with getting booted if i dont shut up and still work on their "cotton-fields" for peanuts?

Sounds like you need to avoid SS at all costs then.

SS has always dealt with me professionally - they take their contributors - small or large - seriously. (Yes, they license our work for peanuts but that's they deal we agreed to up front and those peanuts do add up). They run their business like a business, and they are growing and are the strongest of the micro sites so if you're going to shoot for the micros, they should be on your list of agencies.

If you're selling on SS and uploading properly, I wouldn't worry about them closing your account.