(Petition to Envato) Update Author Fees

No, its not.

Buyers will continue to buy what they like, regardless of some prices going little bit up or down, and your templates will not stop selling because some other templates are priced at lowest.

I agree that there should be some limits to how high or low specific categories can be priced.

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I live in Brazil and we don’t have any tax treaty with the US, so I can relate to the pain of earning less.

Even though I think that we should do something, I have to agree with those who think that this won’t change anything and Envato doesn’t care about the authors that were hurt with these changes.

If we could somehow make a lot of authors agree to leave Envato all at once, to pressure them, I believe only then we would get a decent feedback.

I’m sure they could if they really wanted to, however… the whole idea of moving to the US was to increase sales to US buyers. Increasing the prices, just for the people they are looking to attract, probably wouldn’t achieve that.

Hi,
I’m new here, from France, i signed as a non exclusive, i started in November '15, made a few sales and now i can agree that all those complicated taxes are not fair for us, i recently made a sale for a Music Broadcast License and:

Here’s my earning… :cold_sweat:, don’t know exactly what’s happening, I earn 10 % of the original sale that was 24 Dollars, look at my Author Fee !!

I just simply really DON’T understand…

AzVO

Your author fee isn’t influenced by the taxes. Your author fees are the same now as they were in 2015. It’s only the $5.76 that relates to taxes, not the $10.56.

However, as an author from France, if you fill out the W8 with a valid Tax ID, then you won’t have any taxes withheld. There was a thread on French authors and tax ID’s, will see if I can find it. I think I read that there’s no formal tax number for French citizens, but I could be wrong.

C’est ici…

I’m in but in other way I know that - 10% of provision is -10% of Envato profit from TF. So It will be hard :wink:

i really do agree with this, in this case, at this time, u get just a refund of author fees once, but when u think about it , u help someone to get to discover and the marketplace and this person may buy tons of items afterwards , thus, if so, this is a low “compensation” that the system is giving at this time …

as for me , what i fail to understand is how some websites, reported by many guys, can continue their activity as if nothing had happened when lots of authors have denounced the infringement of sometimes hundreds or thousands of items …

besides, what is incredible is that this place which is community oriented is not allowing someone to report the infringement of another author’s rights … that doesnt’ sound too much of a community thing. the reason for that is that people suggest that u dont know if the other guy has put his work for free download … is really someone interested in putting an item for sale here and trying to give for free download on a website ? i personally do not think so …

once i told a friend to mine that he was cheated by a website , guess what they had a counter for sales there and believe it or not, the combination of all his items were making approximately 400 sales! (if he had had in GR , at the tile , he would have collected more than 1200$ …) so hard to say there’s no impact for some guys …

oh u speak french now? lol kidding lol

Wee, parlay vu French trez bon.

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oh ok lol u still need to practice a bit more, especially the spelling lol kidding lol

in fct , close but no cigar lol kidding lol

Gross -----|Taxes -----|Fees -----|Net earnings

  • $8.00 —| - $2.24—| - $3.01—|$2.75

:scream::see_no_evil:

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Bad idea. Everyone will be trying to undercut their competitors and we’ll see all marketplaces be full of $1 items in few days.

No, its not.

First, there should be some limits on how high or low specific categories should be priced.

Second, people buy what they like or need, not because its 1$ cheaper.

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I definetely agree! The fees are ridiculous and besides if there are any extra taxes added, why envato do not share them with the author if they take 50% ! I’m EU based and I wish not to pay anything to the US cause i do not deal with them, I’m EU selling to AU company so where the heck US comes in? When i buy from us I pay tax not the US seller !!!

Anyway, Envato is the biggest market, users know it and Envato know it and they also know there’s pretty much nowhere to go instead so they don’t care, there’s not a single penny they lost on it!

Before i could manage to have a 50 - 100 withdraw monthly, not much, but always, now i’m selling similar amounts and not even reached the limit of 50 withdrawal for the past month! I’m veeeeery frustrated with that !!!

Just to clarify a few things… it’s income tax, which is why the buyer doesn’t pay it and why Envato don’t pay it. Envato have their own corporation tax to worry about, and buyers have VAT to worry about as you’re an EU author. For it to be fair, if Envato was to share your income tax liabilities, then you’d have to share their corporation tax liability.

As for selling to an AU company… you’re not selling your items to Australia, you’re selling them to buyers from around the world, some of them in the US and some of them in AUS. If all of your buyers were fromn AUS then you wouldn’t have an taxes withheld, after filling in a W8.

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Yep, I’m in the game! One voice more.