expgains.com, is anyone familiar with it?

[Lebowski]

I received a message earlier regarding the above named website about selling my livery editor skills. Is anyone familiar with the site or have any knowledge of it? I can't say i've ever heard of it.

 

[daan]

I got one too but I've not looked at it yet.

 

[Lebowski]

Had a quick look at it but not enough time to take in how it works or indeed if it's legit.

 

[ARTAsean]

It’s just a simple marketplace, like eBay - you commission a service and the website takes a cut of your payment. Of course it’s legit, since the transaction takes place between 2 individuals, as a company they’re not at all liable for fraudulence.

Though your message/invitation is undoubtedly a ‘cold call’ likely by the site founder himself. You’d probably be better off advertising in your signature / profile.

The crazy part of all this is the guy thinking he can make $20 for a single Forza livery - lol. 0 Reviews, naturally.

 

[Expgains]

Hi everyone,

Glad that I was alerted about this thread, Lebowski our site essentially is a marketplace analogous to the comparison that ARTA brought up to eBay. However, regarding liability there are restrictions given the imperfect and asymmetric information that we deal with. We do our utmost to protect both buyers and sellers, hence have a disputation framework in place, as well as acting as a true intermediary between payment transactions. Thus, payments made by buyers go directly to us, such that sellers only get their payment after successful delivery of their service. This has been an effective tool to stop those looking to make money without actually providing any service.

Regarding the message you received, we had a Gran Turismo player interested in getting a livery done from a successful livery artist hence we reached out. Our ultimate aim is to have various sellers in the most popular games that could provide services that might otherwise be difficult to attain.

Let me know if you have any further questions!

 

[LaSupra]

A bit sceptical at first but after looking at the site and the explanation, it does seem like a breakthrough idea in terms of GTS for the more talented livery creators, being able to finally make money using these kind of tools. I'd probably have to brush up on my design skills myself but I'm curious about the amount of interest the site has regarding Gran Turismo Sport and livery creating, along with what a sensible pricing would be for such services?

 

[Lebowski]

Makes no sense to me when they are free to use within the game and we have a request forum here.

 

[Jump_Ace]

Shouldn't the E and G in your avatar @Expgains be switched?


Jerome

 

[D-Max]

My question is how big is the demand for PlayStation services? Given that when I looked, only one PS4 service sold once (from the information provided). I know it wouldn’t take much to just throw a page and up and forget about it until someone requests but is it worthwhile? I can’t imagine this is a massively requested thing? @Expgains