I’ve just seen a thread from our fellow author Giallo -“Rejected Item becomes Best of th Web November 2010!! LOL ”
I’ve experienced a similar story. To be honest, my item, that’s #1 top-seller for this week, was rejected when I first submitted it. Reason being too many similar items existing in the marketplace. However, I resubmitted the file explaining the reviewer what makes it distinguishable from the rest and how much work I’ve put into it to provide it unique features.
Luckily enough, I had a reviewer who was ready to listen and even better, understood me. So the item was accepted for sale. 
What I’d like to share is, you need to understand that reviews have a really short time allocated on each slot for an item to be reviewed as you know our marketplace is ever-growing. Hence, it might not be instantly obvious/apparent to the reviewer what’s makes your file unique and worthwhile to be included for sale. Spare a few minutes listing out some pointers that justify your file as ‘additional notes’ to the reviewer message in your declaration/acceptance section and it shall yield more approvals for you 
imultime said
I’ve just seen a thread from out fellow author Giallo -“Rejected Item becomes Best of th Web November 2010!! LOL ”
*from our fellow author
- Community Moderator
- Won a Competition
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Author had a Free File of the Month
- Item was Featured
- Grew a moustache for the Envato Movember competition
- Author was Featured
- Bought between 100 and 499 items
- Referred between 200 and 499 users
Fixed! 
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Envato Staff
- Reviewer
- Community Moderator
- Exclusive Author
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Beta Tester
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
You said it mate!
If one has created a very similar item to a top-seller or a popular item, make sure to let us know what’s different from the one that’s already been approved. Makes our job so much easier and who knows, we might even avoid a rejection if the difference is noticeable and good enough!
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Author had a Free File of the Month
- Author was Featured
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Contributed a Tutorial to a Tuts+ Site
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Interviewed on the Envato Notes blog
- Italy
Absolutely true… Better to explain to the reviewer since he probably doesn’t have the time to make a deep comparison.
Probably that’s the trick and that’s how we can help the reviewers during the process: to give an explanation!
Happened to my last item too, it’s not a top seller but it’s selling good
great post imultime
Thanks for the support and appreciation guys 
