Not that it matters but I think if they are up front about what can be printed for free vs what can be printed after whatever reward/fee/payment it’s scummy (just IMO) but may be ok.
Ultimately this place is Bambu’s to do with as they choose. Mongo just pawn in game of life. 
The photo option can be found under Report print profile.
However that will only result in profile being taken down, not the model. The appropriate option for invalid model for reporting seems to be “model doesn’t match the description” in case geometry in the stl differs from one in photo/render.
Ah! So it was my bad on spotting it. Thanks!
No problem, gladly again 
There are other platforms to sell, so if you make a model on makerworld make sure it has no other purpose! I think this, if I want to sell a model I put it on other platforms that have that purpose.
You are correct it disappeared a while ago, leaving just the version for the profile.
It occurred when the requirement to provide a photo for the model itself was removed.
Both decisions were dumb (aka ill conceived).
The closest option now on the model specifically is “Mismatch between the model and the description”.
If the photo shows a cat and the print should generate a tank, use that to report it.
Nothing worse than having an “impulse” download ruined by this practice.
If I see something clever, but I don’t really “need” it, I’ll check it out and maybe download and print just for the fun of it. Let me stress that I am not in the market for the item and would never pay for it, It’s just for fun.
When I hit this tactic, it ruins the experience for me.
If I NEED the item, I will pay for it if I don’t want to spend the time in Fusion360 to create it myself.
All I ask is that you DO NOT WASTE MY TIME! It’s the most precious commodity I have.
One potential solution is to build a payment service into makerworld, let people make paid models, but require a parallel free version. Then, people can filter out paid models when they search, and if they find a free one with a paid variant, they can get to it from there. Seems like everyone wins: makerworld gets a small fee of the payment, makers get more sales since it’s more convenient for buyers, and people looking for models don’t get bait-and-switched, they either only see free posts or know that it’s paid
What killed music and movie piracy is good streaming platform like Spotify and Netflix.
Printables and Thangs recently added paid model on their platform. So I guess is just a question of time before MW does something similar
Spotify did not kill piracy, not at all. They provided a way for people with money to buy stuff, and got rich off that, and they showed a way for Sony and the likes to still make some money. But artists don’t get money from records even now, that stopped when internet was born, nothing changed since then; the reason they don’t get money now may be spotify and not pirates, but that’s the only difference. They still don’t get paid for their stuff and have to sell their souls to ticketmaster to barely survive on merchandise sales. Not sure it’s applicable to 3d printer models, I guess it is.
Netflix initially made it cheap and convenient so those who did pirate content had a reasonable alternative.
Then Netflix kept increasing the price and removing valued titles and those who pirated, felt emboldened again.
Piracy never stopped, it made a small dent until it didn’t. Netflix has large revenues, they get those from people who never pirate.
I have no knowledge of Spotify as I never listen to music.
Killed is a figure of speech guys. I’m not making a deep dive article on the history of piracy ^^’
Of course piracy will never die for X and Y reasons.
My point was, if you have a good service, more convenient than piracy, people will use it. Paid or free services. But one is legal the other is not.
And platforms like Spotify and Netflix had a HUGE impact on piracy by highly reducing it.
In the 2000’s, it was the far west for the movie and music industry. I think we all remember this XD
And who’s getting paid the most is an entirely other topic ^^`
The more there are middle men, the less you get paid. That was true before the internet age and will remain as long as money runs the world.
But one thing is for sure, if your work is stolen, you wont earn anything from it. And that is my point.
You know more law-abiding people than I do apparently. I was naive. My friends were keeping their mailboxes full of DVDs to rip them and put the movies on home network storage.
I said it was an option, no one said people took it.
Lazy is a great winner, when it is easy and cheap, lazy is that, when that changes - it isn’t.