skyphyr at Binary Iris posts a scathing review of the practises of TurboSquid, the largest online marketplace for 3d creators.
… For a long time good enough remained good enough. At least from our side. Unfortunately, that feeling is no longer reciprocated and apathetic support of a monopoly we helped create is soon to shift to being tantamount to endorsement of unethical behaviour.
This assertion is supported by some pretty solid math.
First, let’s look at the income impact for going along with the exclusivity. Off the bat you’re down to 70% of your previous income. But that 70% will go up a little due to the increase from 55% to 60%. To figure it out it’s (60/55) * 70. Which is 76.4%. So going with them you’re going to take a hit of 23.6% on your previous income.
… Now let’s look at their worst case scenario. Everybody declines exclusivity and takes the pay hit. Their 100% of before is the same, now it’s just boosted by taking the cash out of their vendors’ pockets. That is (60/45) * 100. It works out to 133.3%. Interesting, huh? Perhaps they did get these numbers and do their sums.
So it seems whichever way vendors turn, Turbosquid can look forward to a 30% increase in revenue from September 1st.
skyphyr isn’t alone in his/her assessment of TurboSquid’s terms. Read more about what vendors refer to as the SquidGuild and their exclusivity program at the 3DStockTalk forums.
Also of interest, GameFlood is closed for business, citing the “[inability to] establish the commerce channels that would enable the sale of user-generated add-ons for existing titles.”
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Ban turbosquid. Their behavior is just like arm robbery. I cannot believe that the authors of content are staying with them. Listen to me, just open a paypal account or a google merchants account and sell your own stuff in your website.
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It’s really a shame that TS feels the need to treat their authors this way, the same authors that put them in business and keep them in business. It shows a complete lack of ethics and morals as I have mentioned in my own blog when we broke this news initially: http://www.the3dstudio.com/blog.aspx?id=2&search=tentacles
Great to see others reporting it, getting the word out is key and we’ve already seen hundreds leaving TS to come sell on The3dStudio.com and other sites and I am sure we will see hundreds more in the next few days and weeks.