market.surrealmarket.com resels our models?

OH MY... i found my account and some of my models too. It loooks like they're scammer's, there are few models that were never sold, so i don't think they get files, unless there was leak at cgtrader and we weren't told about it.

Anyway, i hope that cgtrader will investigate that and will take immediate actions against them.

Yup, they have stolen some of my models as well! But, i don't think they have actual models, since there are also some i never sold. They are scammers which can potentially hurt our reputation. Imagine someone buy and don't receive nothing, then they think it's your fault. CG Trader should report them to google to remove them from search results. Or even better if some legal actions are possible.

Hello guys,

Evaldas, leading account manager at CGTrader here. Thanks for bringing this matter to our attention.

Just so you know, we are investigating the situation. It's highly likely, as tomislavveg noted, that they don't have actual models. In any case, it's unacceptable and we will definitely take immediate actions.

Will keep you updated.

Evaldas @ CGTrader

Ok.
What can we do?

Hi all,

First of all, I want to assure you that we at CGTrader are invested in solving this issue together with you, our designer community. We have already contacted the website owners and asked them for immediate and full cooperation in removing your models from their listings. You can also do this via contacts they have on their website.

In the meantime, I would like to invite all the potentially infringed designers to fill a copyright claim to Google here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-notice?pli=1& . As you, the designers, are the owners of Intellectual Property, your claims are more valid than ours.

I, Evaldas and other members of our team will keep you updated in this process. I would also like to encourage you to share the suggestions to your fellow designers on how to tackle this issue.

All the best,
Zilvinas Lesinskas
Product Owner at CGTrader

https://creator.surrealmarket.com/contact/

so they responded to my questions on facebook - here is their response:
"Hi
we are not stealing anyone models
models are not even exists in our pages
it links to cgtrader
unless you personally upload the models.
and verify your account
to be honest, We want to create a new marketplace where designer can take %90
we would love you to verify your account so you can also sell surrealmarket "

Hi @zlesinskas, thanks for reach out.

Hi @Mantas-Talmantas,
The logins are safe with encryption, we can assure that. We are well respected Silicon Valley site.

We also don't get anyone models without permissions and all the models are linked to cgtrader.

@LemonadeCG
We are not spammer. We are well respected Silicon Valley company.

@DUST, any can reach out from contact, or email, we would love to remove any profiles or models or get you claim.

Thanks.

You alarmed CGtrader :-)
Ok, now I can see the transition to the CGtrader by clicking the download button.
You could notify the artists and there would be no problems.
Alexander

You could have simply contacted us and offered to upload our models on your site. But if click leads to CG Trader i'm fine with that.

Respected company? Really? Since when creating fake accounts, lying and stealing is considered respectful actions?
I'm asking immediately remove all my models from your website and delete fake account registered with my nickname, otherwise i will be forced to fill copyright claim to google as suggested by zlesinskas.

Same for me, account and model stolen

https://market.surrealmarket.com/supercigale

It's not stolen. All links lead to your models.
Consider this an additional free advertisement.

Thanks Mantas for notifying us!

Eduardas adviced to use Google DMCA: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-notice

Their site is hosted by Cloudflare, please also use this form: https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/form

We decide for ourselves which sites we join. Let that be clear.
Mark

"They are hijacking traffic from CGTrader. " - realy???
when i put link on my model on youtube, or FB, or flickr - i hijacking traffic???

Yes, yesterday I talked with them for a long time. They corrected the transition from the registration request to the normal transition. It suits me.
Of course, they will not be able to compete with large players in this way. This is their attempt. They will understand.
If you notice - CGtrader advises to share links to your model.
There is even a button for this.
If someone advertises my model for free, I will say thank you.
It is important that the model is not sold without my knowledge.

I'll keep it under control. I even know who these people are.
I see no reason for panic. All diseases from nerves.
And yes, your right to demand removal of references to models.

They stole our identities, how someone can defend them after that, it's out of my comprehension. They're not advertising my models, they pretending to be me. It's one thing if they'd say "hey, take a look at this model by LemonadeCG" and completely another when they sai "hey, i'm LemonadeCG, take a look at my model". At very least it is immoral and i believe that it is illegal too.

They're stealing traffic from cgtarder and hurting reputation of whole market, so i want to believe that cgtrader will take serious action to stop that. In the meantime i'm going to fill google DMCA. Such behaviour can't be tolerated!

Everyone has a point of view on the concept of "advertising"
https://sketchfab.com/paperscan
https://www.flickr.com/photos/market-3d/
https://www.instagram.com/skydream3d/
Even the TS convinces to advertise its models everywhere. And if someone shares links to your model - it's silly to blame him for stealing, even more so if your nickname is specified.
Just a fresh look at the problem...
I'm too lazy to prove more.
I am calm
CG does not sell traffic, but sells models.
If all the ways lead to the CG - is it bad or good?
Let СGteam express his theory. I wonder how they separate advertising from theft of traffic.

Update: They finally removed my profile and models. Said I was overreacting. But this was me, acting calm. Be warned.

What a joke, i press on contact button and it brings me to another fake account with a name "contact". Very serious business, i swear! Cgtrader should banish all its chinese pirates to that place - would be perfect match!

I´ve found that some of my models are also in the site, and even if the buy button leads to CGT, I´ve not given any permission to anyone to advertise nor sell my models.
But they have the aim to steal designers from CGT, since they are just waiting for you to register and upload your models .
This all is not clear, and smells like a scam, I, too will take actions.