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After some fiddling around and testing by a core artist team, the big change is finally here! We are opening the market up for artists to take USD commissions for pet designs and HA artwork.
The new Commissions Platform is where artists are permitted to post ads and make transactions for their USD art services. Want to take commissions? Post your ad there! Want to sell a unique design or a set of designs? Post your ad there! How about PSD uses? Go for it! It's available for the USD sale of any derivative artwork made from Aywas pet bases or HAs.
Unlike the Paintbrushes, which essentially charged a 50% fee for taking USD commissions, use of the Commissions Platform only requires a 15% fee of all finalized receipts. Fee Collection days are on the 1st, 7th, 14th, and 21st of the month. The next fee collection day will be on the 14th due to the timing of this release.
A Knowledge Base article has been released with rules regarding using the Commission Platform and a description of the Fee Collection.
It's only natural that artists will start shifting over from Artist Paintbrushes to accepting commissions through the Commission Platform. As a result, we have raised the Paintbrushes payout to 75% of the original price of the brush (for instance, the Gold Paintbrush, which costs $20, will yield $15 payout).
Paintbrushes will still likely be in use by players who cannot use PayPal accounts themselves, and have to buy brushes from other players with GP or services. But they will yield more now, so they won't be entirely phased out by the Commission Platform.
Please note that this change in payment amount may result in some delays with redeeming Paintbrushes initially. Also, please be aware that the description states that Paintbrush information should be sent to account #15 now.
The Terms of Service has been updated to reflect our new rules regarding USD sale of pet designs under the section "USD Sales of Designs By Artists". In addition, we have decided to add a new site-wide rule:
"You agree that you will not spam or send unsolicited advertisement or commercial messages to players through the PM system."
One final note: these changes (the Commission Platform, especially) are going to be in trial period mode for three months. This is a big change and will undoubtedly have a lot of effect on the economy of the game. We reserve the right to remove the Commissions Platform at any time, but we will make our best effort not to do so before the three month trial period is up so we have time to examine the effect it has.
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Fri Jun 5, 2015 2:03am
- JAK
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 3:17am
Jiangxi (#39262) invoices are sent on Fee Collection days, so just wait until the invoice comes in!
Namine + Marluxia (#702) it depends on whether they gave you permission to sell for PBs. if they did, you can use it here.
- Zaria
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 3:17am
I was really excited about this change and now I am just supremely disappointed. But at least sevryn's are next on the coding list and maybe we will get a new explore area soon. But still thank you for the hard work put into the site.
- Sadistic Kokoro
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 3:18am
Gwennafran (#22320), Oooh o.o Didn't notice that!
- wirt
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 3:25am
Are people required to declare this income on their taxes?
- Raina
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 3:26am
Does this count scc species we own the rights to?
- Giraki
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 3:27am
I am hoping the Predict Caps thread will be updated to reflect the new BC/HBC ceiling with new USD based information now.
- finches
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 3:27am
Hiyame (#54061)
if you make more than 400$/year on commissions, yes. check out the irs page - https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc554.html
- JAK
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 3:28am
Hiyame (#54061) most governments require you to declare all of your income on your taxes.
Raina (#35959) if they gave you permission to sell it for PBs then yes
- wirt
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 3:28am
finches (#51347)
Thanks <3
Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 3:16am
Oh also, obviously, I think a lot of people will be very, very happy for this change. :)
Thank you.