Beware: a8scond
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artists_bewareThe issue is now resolved.
(edited to be more concise)
(edited to be more concise)
WHERE: Matters were discussed through Skype conversations.
WHAT: one (1) ref sheet and two (2) icons for tumblr. Paid $48 for the pieces.
WHEN: February 28th (discussion and payment) until now. No progress has been made at all, save for a “sketch” that doesn't come near to the price paid.
PROOF:
The agreement/payment.
I paid part of her light bill via Avista online bill pay as a form of commission.. Right now it says the url is broken for me but it's here: https://www.avistautilities.com/residential/Pages/default.aspx
I was given her login info but paid part of her bill with my card. Her roommate was the one to give me the login info.
I was given her login info but paid part of her bill with my card. Her roommate was the one to give me the login info.
I don't have a paypal because my bank account is jointed with my grandfather's and he already has a paypal account, so I offered to pay part of her and her roommate's bills when they hit an extra rough patch. Were I to get my money back I would be asking for it paid to my friend instead, as she has a paypal.
This was all at the end of February, on the 28th.
- http://i.imgur.com/ceFqyLZ.png Screencapped July 12th, 2013 (image was posted April 4th)
- http://25.media.tumblr.com/b294fbbc90c46fde0732d52466be854e/tumblr_mkrbq449xO1rapfoyo1_1280.png Image was too large to fit in the screencap, this is the WIP in its entirety.
- http://i.imgur.com/BuQ4IfK.png the transaction that states I paid Avista. It processed and went through on the fourth of the next month.
Between then and now there were idle conversations about what would go on the ref sheet
- http://i.imgur.com/T5fL5Bq.png March 6th
- http://i.imgur.com/5SFpfQU.png March 10th
Examples of such. Anything else given was clothing reference or on tumblr, which I've now lost. The last talk about it would have been approx. a week after the wip shot was uploaded (more about clothes if I remember right).
It has nothing to do with being busy, as she's done commissions for others since then. The most recent example is here:
- http://i.imgur.com/7AHHUaW.png NSFW link of a commission for someone else, screencapped July 12th
EXPLAIN:
At the time of commission we were friends and as such I didn't exactly pester her too much about this commission. There would be large frames of time when it wasn't discussed at all (weeks to a month) and the only update on the ref wasn't personally given to me, just linked on tumblr. Because of a falling out over a misunderstanding between me accidentally unfollowing her and her roommate, I feel like I'm not going to be getting my money back.
I was blocked on tumblr, and Chryssi had changed her accounts from barascar to vantae to avoid paying me back, as well as changing her skype (which I also know). I've yet to contact her again because she makes accusations that I'm harassing her, and my previous attempts to have contacted her were in vain, since she's gone ahead as blocked me. I don't want to risk her going to tumblr staff to have me IP banned.
- http://i.imgur.com/QLRhvLY.png Her talking about not being “safe” on her other blog (Screencapped July 13th)
- http://i.imgur.com/7rf2iNc.png She considers me wanting my money back as harassment and seems willing to file me to tumblr staff (Also screencapped on the 13th)
All of this came about because of a mistake on my part where I accidentally unfollowed and didn't realize until maybe a week later, but after noticing the nasty comments made toward me thru parties involved, I didn't want to follow back, nor do I want anything to do with her further once (if) I get my money back. My message to get it back, however, was ignored and I realized I was blocked as well.
Edit: She's apparently deleted her tumblr, so I have zero access to her now.
I also have a screencap of my friend's message to Chryssi on FA over the commission, where she agreed to contact me back for the lost money.
Her last response was "alright" but I've yet to receive notification from her about anything (and given the date, it's been a long time)Edit: She's apparently deleted her tumblr, so I have zero access to her now.
I also have a screencap of my friend's message to Chryssi on FA over the commission, where she agreed to contact me back for the lost money.
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Date: 2013-07-24 10:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-25 05:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-24 11:51 pm (UTC)I will never understand drama about unfollowing people on social media. Goodlick getting your art!
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Date: 2013-07-25 06:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-25 03:52 am (UTC)Getting someone's login information is a security danger and just risky; you never know what accusations could come your way. This person can easily assume or claim, from the evidence given to us here, that the roommate never told her you paid. She also can say you told her that she could work on it when she had spare time, and it looks like she had done lots of other commissions in that time, so who is to say that time is spare? She can also easily say you told her to work on it at her leisure, and then started to harass her to hurry up.
Next time:
1.) Get a price. Pay it with a money order if need be. You will have a receipt, then.
2.) Set a deadline, or get a quote for a rush order.
3.) Pay the price TO the artist. Never trade login information for ANYTHING.
4.) Be specific about what you want!
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Date: 2013-07-25 05:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-25 05:55 am (UTC)The account is also technically hers as well as her roommates, since it goes to their light bill.
I never once harassed her over hurrying up or anything of the sort. What happened was drama over roleplaying and I think (rather, know) she took my accidental unfollow as some sort of final straw to the rp thing.
I'm not sure your advice can really be used in the context of the situation, all things considering. While it is helpful, I'm normally not as lenient with my commissions (and I've had several from other people beforehand) because I wasn't close friends with them like I was Chryssi.
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Date: 2013-07-25 11:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-25 12:17 pm (UTC)When you've got this artist going to extreme lengths to NOT pay her back, or work on her commission at all ( slowness has nothing to do with it as she's done plenty of other commissions/personal drawings/etc ) then I think it's more of the artist's problem and less of the buyer's. Sure, she should have been more stern on making sure her commission was worked on ( and saying that you hope she knows how to commission people because of this experience is invalid and pointless since she had commissioned other people with no problems ), but it's obviously a problem on BOTH ends here. Carly's for not being stern and making sure Chryssi's doing her job that she was paid to do, and Chryssi for not doing her job and going through extensive lengths to continue NOT doing her job. In all honesty, if she just paid back the money then this whole thing would be over and done with.
Just my two cents.
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Date: 2013-07-26 11:05 pm (UTC)I second the notion - do not mix friends and business. It's a common piece of advice on this community.
How the money was sent is absolutely crucial, as paying off someone's bill can cause a lot of issues down the line. Getting proper payment, receipt, and contract is the best way to save yourself some trouble. The bill payment can later on be considered a "gift" or completely wiped of proof altogether because the owner of the account can simply say "I made that payment". The bill payment should have never been something that was agreed to in the first place. Both sides of this have their faults and in no way am I excusing the artist, but in the future the OP can now be more wary of these sorts of situations.
Please do not call a users comment "pointless" when it actually has very legitimate advice in it. Disagreeing is fine, but trust if there were pointless comments we mods would be on it and take care of it =).
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Date: 2013-07-25 11:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-25 09:14 am (UTC)I paid through paypal though.
I hope you get your commission or some sort of refund.
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Date: 2013-07-25 10:25 am (UTC)i'm amazed by that reaction though, really. how can you give that much of a shit about some little numbers on your dash. dang.
sucks that you lost money and a friend out of this :/ though if she's that petty, you're probably better off without her.
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Date: 2013-07-25 03:37 pm (UTC)I've been reminding her often to refund her, it's a bit difficult due to quite a bit of unrelated drama, which nade her feel unsafe to communicate with the OP.
I have been in the middle of all this and I'd really have to say I think the problems arose more from the drama, and would not have happened in your usual business transaction.
I'm not defending how long it's taken her to get to the art or refund the OP. I will say that it would have been done a lot sooner if not for some family issues that I have personally witnessed.
Edited to add: I watched her send a skype message to you from her new account, although perhaps it didn't go through? I'll have her look at it when she gets back.
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Date: 2013-07-25 04:25 pm (UTC)I personally didn't want to be involved in the transaction at that point.
As for the two of us feeling unsafe on tumblr, it isn't you who is making us feel unsafe. I really don't know how to clarify that without dragging unnecessary drama into the discussion, and I'm sorry that it looked that way at the time.
I'm sorry to everyone else if I seem cryptic or anything.
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Date: 2013-07-25 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-25 08:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-25 08:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-25 09:09 pm (UTC)If Carly had block evaded to talk to me about it, I wouldn't have been as upset.
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Date: 2013-07-25 09:09 pm (UTC)The point I'm trying to make, however, is that were I not blocked in the first place, or if these messages were taken to private, none of this would be as bad as it currently is (i.e. the whole blog moving thing, etc.). Do I feel bad about what happened? Extremely. I lost three friends out of this. Am I exasperated? Very much so, as well as my friends. I'm probably the most soft-spoken of the "opposing" team and wouldn't have contacted them at all and just let this AB sort it out (I knew they regularly checked AB and it would have sorted itself from there). That doesn't make what my friend did right, but she's not entirely in the wrong either.
I can't exactly explain the situation without bringing the drama onto the forums and I'll simply leave it as "there's a lot behind the motive." If you'd like to know what happened, really, speak to me via my tumblr (it's subjugglator), as I don't actually use Livejournal and only came back to it to post this AB.
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Date: 2013-07-25 09:34 pm (UTC)I didn't mean to drag the drama into this beware, it's just that going around blocks to harass uninvolved persons is kind of a sore issue with me.
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Date: 2013-07-25 07:38 pm (UTC)Nothing was sent to me recently, no.
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Date: 2013-07-25 07:46 pm (UTC)She'll be posting the screenshot once she gets home in an hour or two, that was our bad. Sorry!
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