My first VHL player did not earn a single TPE....0. I took one look at the quality of GFX and the grading and thought "fuck this".

I came back little later on and started posting a sig(that were shit) here and there and got terrible grades but I stuck with it and improved my efforts. I'm on my 3rd actual player now and have experienced an OK player, a better one and my 3rd guy is going decently too, so some of the onus needs to be on the member and the effort they put in, instead of the lack of TPE they have compared to members who have been there a while, that have earned a lot of TPE.