Casey Barden (No responses since October 22nd) to date.

[lugiacollector.livejournal.com]

Please Note This seller appears incredibly legitimate and completely honest, I do not expect them to be attempting to be scamming me. However, at most I would love to get contacted more often as soon as they are able to be doing so. This is not meant to be posed as a threat or a warning to you if you find this post at all, I would just love to follow through with the transaction in a much more timely fashion and I hate reporting anything bad about anyone for any reason. I wish to update this as soon as later updates show up but there's no signs of any updates for a long time.

WHO: Casey Barden

WHERE http://fursuitauctions.livejournal.com/2620266.html

WHAT: ursuit Commission (Partial Mienshao OC)

WHEN:
August 1st, 2012 - We contacted on details and eventually contacted through Email.
August 31st, 2012 - call for payment; payment made via Paypal

October 22nd, 2012 - "Hey sweetie! I'm so sorry it's taken a while to get back to you! We're having computer troubles right now & should be getting our computer back soon in about a week. It's over-heating really bad & we had to send it back to get it fixed. I will have tons of pictures for you then! Just dropping a quick note to let you know I'm still here & still working on suit."

No further contact received on their end after sending emails to them and to their Facebook account. It's December 26, 2012 now.
Their facebook account has SOME activity on it https://www.facebook.com/casey.barden?ref=ts&fref=ts
and I cannot tell if their other account does https://www.facebook.com/Fuzztasticfun?ref=ts&fref=ts

Comments

Old thread, I know.

[chesshiress.livejournal.com]

This was my first time doing a commission for someone who was not a friend I already knew. I learned my lesson that just because I -CAN- make fursuits for others, doesn't mean I should. Not when life has potential to get in the way and delay, and not when I am so forgetful about responding. Not when it causes so much disappointment.

I have apologized, and while I finished the head, except for furring the jaw, I sent them everything. I sent the items I had completed, the incomplete gloves, the fur that had been ordered, and extra fursuit props. I also refunded back half of their payment, as the other half had been spent on materials (which, as I had added had all been mailed).
The commissioner was very happy with what had been completed.

I could not make the padded gloves that were requested. I tried and tried, and could not figure out how to make the pattern over them.

For the record, I would like to say that I had only made 5 fursuits at the time and all were personal except for one which was for a friend in Florida.

If I ever get a wild hair to sell fursuits (unless prefabricated), someone slap me, and don't take me up on it.

I have made one fursuit since then for a local friend that lives near me. She was able to be present through the process and assist in making it (she did the machine sewing, I did the hand sewing and made the head).

My sincerest apologies. I won't ever take fursuit comissions from people I don't know ever again. It's not worth the disappointment it causes them.