Yes LemonadeCG it seems like a valid viewpoint but also consider this view.
Matt wisdom himself told in Ts forum 80% of his kingdom are exclusive artists, so that art is not available anywhere ells. Keep in mind CGt also harbors a very large base of artist (probably also 80%) that are exclusive to CGt (its a group that distanced itself of Ts and made leap to successfully compete with the expensive Ts artists and made CGt big in that process). Just a small part are artist that linger around and also sell in other markets but they mainly provide best offers here because of the lower transaction fees, they also link to this site because they want to provide best value to their customers.
If you do not leverage this low transaction fee advantage then basically your losing out.
Bare with me explaining;
You/we are product developers and bring products to market, during the stages of development and bringing those products to market we have cost (software licenses, learning time/materials, production time and eventually the fees for bringing the products to market).
The thing is, if we want to stay relevant in the market we need to beat our competition (especially if we bring somewhat similar things to that market). An essential part in that is bringing best value for money and to do that we need to be most cost effective right?
There are several ways for optimizing and making a difference in providing more value to our potential customers. 1, we spent less on software and look for best cost effective tools to do the job, 2, we specialize in specific areas so we can get a master in it and establish a production pipeline that generates high quality content faster, 3, we look for best and most cost effective solutions to bring the products to market (Ts is not best solution and most expensive of all).
So basically some link in your production chain is not that optimized. You will probably have a problem competing successfully with artists that have similar offerings here and take advantage of the lower transaction fee (meaning they are not on Ts and compete directly with the artists over there).
Also keep in mind most customers have more then one account and they use the one or the other only if they encounter something more interesting that is not on the other or the price is different for same products, in that regard you potentially drive traffic to your more expensive transaction platform if price is the same.
You probably think yeah but those customers I need them and they are only on Ts,
You do not know that, what is certain however is that you are providing your products on the most expensive solution.