quitting cgtrader

Hello Jaako,

First of all, could you tell me why do you want to leave us? Could we do something to change your mind?
Every feedback is always welcome and it would be appreciated.

If you are sure about leaving us, you can send an email to info@cgtrader.com or write a message at the left bottom corner called 'Chat with us'. They will be able to grant your request.

All the best,
Eduardas

Probably another victim that falls for squidguild.
Sad to see these things happen.

If so then there's nothing you can do for these people Eduardas.
CGtrader is already delivering the best job, that is not the problem.

Most of these people will not even answer your questions because it would force them to think, even worse maybe tell the truth. In most cases the answer would be, just make me some money and do it fast I don't want to think and spent time on it. Most of them know this would not sound to good so they just keep silent.

These are just the kinds of people Ts wants, people hoe don't really want to think and just keep silent.
Because Ts basically says, we will make the money, you just keep doing your stuff and don't mind about a thing. It's sad to see so many great artist are ok with this, because that is the basic strength of Ts monopolistic status.

Well to those hoe are leaving here to join squidguild, we will make this place great, you don't have to do a thing, you can just come back later.

Well, I am not sure at the moment because I have bunch of other stuff going on. However I made only one sale in what seems to be the highest selling month of the year, one 9 dollar model here in CG trader. Having almost zero sales doesn't really encourage me to continue. Mostly people only download free models.

Hello Jaakko,

It's true that sometimes sales are slow for some users. However, you sure have some great models at your disposal. If you don't have too much time at the moment, I would still encourage you to stay here, because we're hopeful that the highest selling months will keep on coming.
There are times that great things come with some patience.
Have you tried promoting your own products via socials, our forum (3D model showcase thread) or in other ways?
I hope we can keep you here and if you don't have time at the moment, you still don't have to delete your models in here just yet - hey, maybe the sales will come when you least expect it?

All the best,
Eduardas

There are also these reasons for not leaving.

Seeing people leave could have some additional demoralizing effect on other people hoe are perhaps pending to give up on this place (especially when you announce it on the public forum here).

So if you rely want to leave folks then do it quietly, on the other hand I'm glad you made it public Jaakko because now we can have an open discussion about it that maybe opens up some space to change minds.

If you are not going exclusive somewhere ells then there rely is no reason to leave, if you just leave things as they are and spent no time on uploading new stuff then you don't lose a thing. You actually have some free backup of your work.

Also see this thread about model pricing, (https://www.cgtrader.com/forum/topics/promoting-cgtrader)

If you make a slight competitive difference of your offerings compared with your offerings somewhere ells, then you have more chance that people hoe find your models over here will actually buy them here. It makes no sense to have same pricing everywhere, especially when the host platform does everything it can to bring you most competitive service and lowest operational cost.

That lower operational cost is something you have to use to your advantage, otherwise we have no real competition in this world (and you will have data that is not representative to base decisions on).

We want the best to win don't we?

So before you go to squidguild to be owned and grow the mindless monster please try to use the competitive advantage and then evaluate.

lastly I would strongly encourage you to never sign up to be fully owned and instead help grow the most democratic community/selling platform on the net, and never give up on the idea that it will actually get to become the biggest.

Just keep at it as if you are the only man responsible for it, because if we all would do that we will be the biggest without no doubt.

or you can put your models that you have here also on turbo without the guild and then subtly suggest in the description that they are cheaper on cgtrader :). actually i have three accounts on turbo selling different genre and one account is non guild which i will also sell here and on other sides plus also eventually on my own site. I think sellers need to start advertising their own models here which are cheaper then turbo, of course they should do only when the models are of high quality standards otherwise it will have to opposite effect.