Hello, I'm on CGTrader for approximately 3 years.
Sales hit the ground
Discussion started by am15
Hello!
4 months ago I had approximately 1 sale a 3 days. Now I have 1 a 3 weeks if I'm lucky. I thought of possible reasons such as : site growth (models, buyers and artists), difficulty finding my models, models in-demand category change (I'm mostly 3d print models, maybe now AR/VR is more popular), sudden realisation by buyers that I have no talent, and being jinxed because I walked under a ladder.
I must say I also took a 3 month break from modeling and uploading models here, the whole summer, and now sales are zero.
Anyone has experienced the same?
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Yes, I notice that too last weeks, although I had a fantastic August with 34 sales, I thought fall period will even be better, but September was a sudden decrease - 18 sales. I wouldn't say that sales decreased everywhere because this month I have already 3 times better sales on Turbosquid than here, even though I have a lot of models still with higher prices on TS because they didn't reduce them yet.
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If you ask me, the whole system is wrong. There is a huge devaluation of the work in place.. not only here but in the world... I had to quit all promotional initiatives and Sale offs. You find yourself paying a lot of fees only to receive money (via PayPal).
It's ridiculous and somewhat wrong to find (for example) detailed models of cars sold under 100$. It means you work almost free. I do woodworking jobs now and then and it usually pays much much more (per-hour). Doing something by passion should not become a reason to devalue work. Without considering the enormous damage that this is determining on a global level. What I'm saying is that we should stop for a moment and ask ourselves where we are going to end up with this trend.
In the immediate future, I will probably focus on developing my personal website to sell my models to a lower price for the final user and set up a payment method to avoid any fees.
I would agree. Artists soon will not be interested in creating 3d models, if their labor is evaluated at a few dollars. Today the customers win: competition among artists to lower prices, therefore, cheap 3d models. But the artists lose. And will not be interested to work.
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