How does this Royalty rate work?

It could be that some contractors are located in EU countries and additionally VAT is deduced.

may be these website keep secrets we know nothing about!!

Hey

For jobs on cgtrader i know that they

Deduct vat for eu countries or any tax that is required
Then they deduct payment processing
Then your royalty rate mine is 70% and walla thats how its done

Source if u have completed your job look at my sales.

Indeed, as others already mentioned, I always get lower payments for european sales because of VAT. E.g. if someone from the netherlands buys one of my models, I lose 21% to VAT. Someone from france, then it's 20%, according to my sales log.

CGTrader has a system where the better you do, the more you get payed. Which is funny since you need the money more in the beginning and its overall just dumb. I think it should be a flat rate for everyone and since they take such a huge chunk, they should be acting more like our agents than just a website. lol

Right now, for me, CGTrader takes 30% of my price, Paypal takes a tiny bit for processing fees and there is a section in my sales that says "after taxes" but thats just the processing fee. Maybe the processing fee includes taxes. I don't know.

So a $10 sale gives me $6.67. Both yours and mine leads to about half what the sale is. Most likely for you, the taxes and processing fees are taking a larger chunk since you have a larger sale. Or maybe CGTrader abides by each country's rules making your taxes higher than mine. Or maybe there is more at play. I don't know but those are my guesses.