Client has refunded after I sent a preview 3d model

Personally i think it was successful attempt to get the model without paying a penny. In other words - theft. I wouldn't blame designer for giving the final file to the client, because the project was prepaid and designer should feel safe and confident that he will be paid wor his effort. I always send intermediate and final files to the clients when project is prepaid, otherwise it would be very hard to work. In my opinion, the most to blame for the outcome of this situation is to cgtrader - they SHOULD NOT issue refund without hearing from both sides. This is very ill practise and it should STOP! @uber-illusionist i really hope that you won't leave it like this and will demand explanation and compensation from cgtrader. Please do this for your own and for all your fellow designers good.

There are multiple scenarios for this kind a case I'll just mention some of those. 1. Maybe customer didn't provided enough reference for the stuff he/she want's so that led to misunderstanding between artist and customer, the result is for example model that can't be fixed with adjustments and can only be "fixed" by building new model from 0 and customer doesn't have enough time to wait for new model to be build so he/she refunded project. This case in my opinion is customers fault because you need to be precise and realistic about what you want because we are not psychics we are artists. 2. Maybe artist is not up to task but he took project anyway wich result in a model that is far from customers wishes, again customer maybe doesn't have time for new model to be built or just simply got the "picture" on wich "level" is particular artist and based on that customer doesn't want to waist time with someone who can't fulfill expectation. 3. There are peoples who don't know what they want, nothing is good for them and their expectation is far beyond what is realisticly posible. 4. All kinds of scammers. I think in this case someone saw oportunity (stl model) for scam and he/she took it and that's all. Your error uber-illusionist is sending stl. But I understand why you did that. Cgt must review those kind of cases thoroughly as Lemonade said it's really a bad trend is getting more popular.

I think you should contact the support and press them to review decission to refund the project. If it's true that you agreed to make significant changes to the model and the client didn't give you a single chance to improve the outcome, then cgtrader shouldn't have to issue a refund, without attempting to communicate between each side. This is not the first time when i see designers complaining about how cgtrader issues a refund without trying to review situation and are basing their decision solely on request of a client. This trend makes me worry.

Hi there,

The reason why buyer decided to refund your model can be found here: https://help.cgtrader.com/en/articles/2402278-refund-policy.

If you have any other questions, please contact us via support@cgtrader.com and we will provide you more information about the situation.

Kindly,
Austėja from CGTrader