I got  the same reason today ....  unsuitable background .... it isolated on white!!

well in terms of use on every single one rf agencies DOES NOT say: "images that are approved on our competitor - sites/agencies are automatically aproved here" , but it DOES SAY: " every image is going to be inspected by our inspectors, and once approved will be online for selling" (not these words, but this point ).
 for example i am in most active users on StockXpert. and my approval ratio on every site that i upload is between 75% and 95+%.
 yes a few days ago i gad rejection with "please upload better quality images" - should i be angry with that? - no. should i consider that explanation personally? - no. should i complain to site admins?(with booo-hoo-hoo text? )? - no.
 so, what did i do? - i smiled and said "o.k. - i'm going to make some better images" (and i did )
 so ... cheer up my fellows, get a smile on your faces, and... work.work.work...

well in terms of use on every single one rf agencies DOES NOT say: "images that are approved on our competitor - sites/agencies are automatically aproved here" , but it DOES SAY: " every image is going to be inspected by our inspectors, and once approved will be online for selling" (not these words, but this point ).
 for example i am in most active users on StockXpert. and my approval ratio on every site that i upload is between 75% and 95+%.
 yes a few days ago i gad rejection with "please upload better quality images" - should i be angry with that? - no. should i consider that explanation personally? - no. should i complain to site admins?(with booo-hoo-hoo text? )? - no.
 so, what did i do? - i smiled and said "o.k. - i'm going to make some better images" (and i did )
 so ... cheer up my fellows, get a smile on your faces, and... work.work.work...

Usually, I don't have any problems with rejections. I get a few, and they are mostly easy to understand. With StockXpert, it's different. A batch of very similar images, taken at the same time with more or less the same parameters, can be rejected for completely different reasons. They probably have a purpose with the rejections, but so far, I haven't found out what direction they are going, since they seem to go in all directions at the same time.

I don't expect StockXpert to accept photos because they are accepted at other agencies, but when they are accepted at other agencies, and selling well several places, it's at least an indications that the photos in question are good stock material.

As an industrial photographer, I submit industrial shots regularly, and some of it sell well. StockXpert mostly rejects those photos, for all kinds of different reasons. Maybe they aren't interested in industrial customers, which has to be their decision, but it leaves me wondering what they want.

* if there's one thing I can't stand is a grown adult crying.

This is an excerpt from a user on another forum:
"The other day I received a "please upload better quality images" in one upload.  These wordings made me mad, as they are very rude,...."

We are creatures filled with numerous emotions.
Then there are needs we feel have to be met in order for us to "Feel Good".
One of those needs which is tied closely to our emotions is the need for acceptance.

Acceptance gives us a feeling of belonging, and to be "a part of". It's a critical point
in any social animals make up.

So what happens to us when we get rejected? How does that affect us emotionally?
Anger, disappointment, jealousy, and depression are critically tied into being rejected
by a group, individual, or organization (Stock Site).

How well we accept rejection is totally Dependant on our spiritual, and emotional maturity.
To dwell on rejections is just gonna screw your creative capabilities and just slow you down.

Listen I'm speaking from my own personal experience, and not just running off at the mouth.
If you can, just put the rejections behind you and move on with your life .

I just took a count, and found out there are still 345,867,920,034,245,021 pictures left to take in this world.
.....Go out and grab a few.

This is an excerpt from a user on another forum:
"The other day I received a "please upload better quality images" in one upload.  These wordings made me mad, as they are very rude,...."

I wrote that and it is not a matter of "emotion" or "need for acceptance".  It's a matter of business, of spending time working on images, submitting them and selling them.  Both sides win in the end if both sides do their job.  I insist that this wording does not fit if a contributor has a consistent record of acceptance, and it doesn't give any hint of what was bad in the image. 

In my case, this is the image, which was accepted in other sites and is an edited version of the one at right, accepted in StockXpert.


So if they didn't like the colours (explained as intentional in its description), they should have said so.

Regards,
Adelaide

@medaleide: yes. i understand your point. but we here do business (for money). and one of first things about doing business is - not to deal with "emotions" but with "cold brain" (don't know english word, but you got the point).
 even when this business needs both creativity and emotions as photographing is - that's "creation" part (concept, faming, composition, which lens... wb.. etc...). but this is not business part of it.  business part is - rejection or acceptance. try to imagine that you want to sell your used car in "used cars" store. - the seller is going to say : yes, i'll re-sell your used car with this price ( on example 5$ for "L"ong car - and i'll take 2.5, and  you got your 2.5$ - arter the selling, your car wil stay on my parkplace..) - or he can just say : "sorry sir, we are not interested " - with no further explanation - does it mean anything about you or your car? (or photos) - no - that is just as said: he is not interested in that specific model or whatever. - are you going to sell that used car in some other store? - i'm sure you will (at least if it has 4 wheels  
 
 p.s. last night i uploaded a batch of photos, and some 4 or 5 were rejected with subject too blurry. - should i cry? - no. if i "believe" in that my work -  next time i'll increase power of flashes, and will close apperture - so i'll have bigger dof , and those kind of images will be accepted (if i believe in my work - and i do!). (yes, those are accepted elsewhere, and is already selling).

 yes i could "cry" to admins to review photos again, and those might be accepted. but if someone thinks that 5,  (or 105) photos are going to make some big changes in his portfolio, than rf micro business is not for him i would say.

 i can expect some "wide" explanation about rejection if i am the only or one of a few photographers that site works with - but i am not - i am one of hundreds or more likely -  thousands, - i believe that would not be fair me to expect any rf site to write a "story" to me about rejections. - easier way is me to read "stories" that are already wrote - in photography (and photoshop) books

dbvirago....dude...  I get the impression you just recently uploaded to StockXpert  .....   -tom

I had an entire upload of 22 rejected today for a new reason "please stop re-uploading these images"

Void --   Hey, that's a new one!!  I never got that one!!  You must be one of the elite!!  The VIP Photogs!!!    LOL    So where'd the original 22 get to if you sent them in earlier like they claimed?  Perhaps you were caught up in a 'time vortex'...  maybe you forgot being shot into the past, uploading the 22 and wisked back to the here-and-now with no memory recall and then subsequently uploading them again.....  Yeah, that's got to be it...that's the only reasonable explanation... ha ha haha ha....  afterall, a reviewer couldn't  be wrong... could they?          ROFLOL!!
   Maybe someone should start writing a book about rejection experiences.... probably bring in more money than stockphoto.. LOL      -tom

come on people. cheer up    today i hat 10/14 rejected (all approved on some other site). - should i cry for this? no...  ...take our cameras, get a nice smile on our faces, and..... ....let's work

pictures of the massachusetts state house now need property releases!
yup, that one came in from them this morning.....since when did the outside of a public US state government bulding need a release....
I could understand it if maybe I got some shots of UFO's over at area 51 but....
;-)

Canstock was on a "too blurry, rejected "kick recently, we just figured they needed a new monitor...

pictures of the massachusetts state house now need property releases!
yup, that one came in from them this morning.....since when did the outside of a public US state government bulding need a release....

 I just had a reject from IS: It was an image of the Hua Lampong Railway station in Bangkok. Like all public buildings in Thailand, it has an image of the king on the facade. Removing it from a photo would probably be a criminal offense in this country. Still, IS needs a property release for the image. I wonder who to ask, the king, since the copyright of the image probably has been transferred to The Royal Household, or the photographer? Or maybe I should just be happy that the photo was accepted at 12 other agencies... LOL

well, i just applied to stockxpert - am not expecting to get in after reading this thread!

Well, 9 of the 10 submissions have been accepted.

And in double quick time - submitted at 04.40 this morning, and accepted at 12.00 mid-day on the same day.

That's pretty impressive.  Let's see if they can make the sales.......