Welcome. I don't know how you would fare in TS, but if you are an honest person as you seem, willing not to give your work away, don't expect many sales here. I hope I'm wrong, because your models look good and are well presented, well licensed, with a reasonable price ... I'm sorry to be so negative, but my opinion is, that only the cheats succeed here, with the approval of CGT. For example, according to statistics, searching with the keyword car, and ordering the search by number of models, the first is sport car, with 3,103 models. Only 32% of those models are priced above $ 40 and the sales percentage of those models is 22%. Of that percentage (22%), some of the sales are phantom sales such as the audi sold 3 times in 15 days for $ 400, or the stolen cars from Squir for sale for $ 2,000 that I mentioned in this thread:
https://www.cgtrader.com/forum/general-discussions/unbelievable-sales-of-stolen-models
The belief that CGT is determined to end fraud is just that, a belief, because the truth is, that while they sometimes rush to eliminate cheats, they allow them to come in a few days again. There are several threads in the forum about this, for example:
https://www.cgtrader.com/forum/general-discussions/cheater-removed-4-hours-ago-is-already-back
As I already demonstrated in another thread, CGT earns more, eliminating a cheater who has already made several sales, (at low prices), of stolen models, (because he keeps 100% of the sale when he eliminates the cheater), which if sales had been made by the original author at a higher price (because in that case you would only earn 20% - 25% of the sale, depending on the reputation of the seller). As long as stolen models continue to be offered at prices below their value, the authors of those models are less likely to sell them, and the statistics confirm this.
Trimitek is right that prices are normalizing. Thieves now sell their models at a more reasonable price, hoping to go unnoticed, such as this one:
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/car/luxury/fiat-2800-torpedo-1939-3d-model
or this one, published (and reported), 1 month ago:
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/car/luxury/chevrolet-confederate-4-door-phaeton-1932-car
The cheater is likely to make sales even if the price has risen, because it is still cheaper than the original. So
CGT, (when I eliminate the cheater) and the cheater (until I am eliminated), will earn more, but the author will continue to lose sales and for so much money.
Other cheats who succeed in CGT are precisely those who break the exclusivity agreement with TS, such as this one:
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models?author=Pradipta-D
It is logical that it has numerous sales here, because it sells the models at half the price than in TS, (it has almost 11,000 reputation points). It also uses pirated software and some models are even from DAZ. CGT is also aware of these infractions, reported for months and easy to verify, but the cheat is still here. This user has scammed TS thousands of dollars, not only with the sales he has made here (of which CGT has taken his part), but also with the percentage that he has overcharged TS for exclusivity, which he does not comply with.
Another important part of CGT sales are counterfeit jewelry and models for all kinds of uses, (without editorial license), which infringe the copyrights of third parties. CGT does not control the licenses of the published models and says in its regulations that it is the sole responsibility of the sellers, but the truth is, that allowing this, harms their reputation and by extension honest sellers, because it attracts unscrupulous buyers and over everything alienates quality buyers, which also affects sales of the other models.
On the other hand there are the mountains of junk models and the many tricks that some users use to highlight their models. That together with the painful search system, they remove visibility to other quality models and therefore sales options.
This it is the sad reality.
